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Enabling the Digital EnterpriseEnabling the digital enterprise and developing business analytic solutions are the key to understandingchallenges and responding to them proactively. To develop successful strategies in today’s challengingenvironment, you need more access to critical enterprise insights than ever before. That fact is validatedby a 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda survey which revealed BI/analytics as the top CIO priority. In addition,Forrester estimates that 70% of data in the enterprise goes unused.And because data volumes are growing exponentially, your technology solutions must easily scaleperformance, manage huge volumes efficiently and operate reliably. At the same time, your solutionsmust enable greater application performance. These are complex demands. But breakthroughtechnologies can help you meet all these difficult demands now, while still accommodating for futuregrowth.Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA® provide outstanding capability for SAP HANA to drive enterprise-critical insights in real time. Powered by a wide range of ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers, thesolutions are designed to improve your SAP HANA data foundation and help lower total cost ofownership.SAP's Next Generation Data PlatformSAP HANA is a comprehensive data platform. It enables real-time business by converging transactionsand analytics on one in-memory database platform for application development, data integration, anddata quality. Running on-premises or in the cloud, SAP HANA empowers decision-makers with newinsight and predictive power. Manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data efficiently,leveraging the value of your business data while improving total cost of ownership (TCO). SAP HANAprovides a single, secure environment for all your mission-critical data assets, supporting compliancewith the latest security standards and data protection regulations.

Highlights:Gain insights faster with real-time input and analysis of mission-critical data assets whilesupporting compliance with the latest security standards and data protection regulationsLenovo Solutions for SAP HANA support a wide range of server platforms to fit any environmentSolutions available in appliance and TDI (customized) designsLenovo server and storage components are listed in the Certified and Supported SAP HANAHardware Directory

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Key benefits include:Gain new insights from advanced analytics forbusiness, text, spatial, graph and series dataObtain a complete and accurate view of yourbusiness by accessing data from any source –internal or external. Process transactions andanalytics data wherever it resides using datavirtualization, integration or replication.Develop next-generation applications thatcombine analytics and transactions, and deploythem on any device, with best-in-classdevelopment toolsTake action in the moment by using in-memorydatabase services to process high-speedtransactions and analyticsKeep your communications, data storage, andapplication services secure with robust identityand access management controls

The SAP HANA platform is the next-generation datamanagement foundation for all SAP businessapplications, with SAP announcing its businessapplication suite will only support SAP HANAstarting in 2027. SAP customers currently on SAPR3 or ECC will need to migrate to SAP S/4HANA bythat date.Simple, Seamless and Scalable ArchitectureLenovo offers a wide range of SAP HANA solutions– from appliances to custom Tailored DatacenterIntegration (TDI) offerings. The solutions includebare metal ThinkSystem and software-definedThinkAgile servers, supporting Scale Up and ScaleOut configurations.All Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers arehigh performance systems, consistently holdingnumerous SAP world performance benchmarks.Engineered for always-on productivity, ThinkSystemservers are ranked high in x86 server customersatisfaction and #1 in x86 server reliability .3

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SR950 Up to 12 TB Up to 6 TB Up to 94nodes

SR650 Up to 3 TB Up to 1.5 TB

Appliance SolutionsSAP HANA appliances combine preconfigured SAPsoftware optimized on proven Lenovo ThinkSystemhardware. This approach offers you a solutionoptimized for the performance needs of an in-memory data platform with fast implementation andfull support from both SAP and Lenovo. Lenovooffers SAP certified appliances with ThinkSystemSR950 and ThinkSystem SR650 servers.SAP HANA appliances with mission-critical LenovoThinkSystem SR950 servers help you make fastermore informed decisions, even with escalating dataloads. The solution is designed to maximize yoursystem performance to provide a smarter, moreefficient approach to resource management. Thisresults in excellent SAP HANA application value.The ThinkSystem SR950 is a 4U rack servercapable of supporting up to 8 processors. Itfeatures a modular system with all componentsaccessible via the front or rear of the server helpingto simplify server management and service. TheSR950 supports up to 12 NVMe drive bays forincreased storage at lower latency and up to 24hard disk or solid-state disk drive bays forincreased storage capacity. Support for 256GB 3DSRDIMMs enables up to 12B of memory in a four-socket configuration and 36TB of memory in aneight-socket configuration.Used by SAP for next generation SAP HANAdevelopment, the powerful ThinkSystem SR950mission critical servers are ideal for your mostdemanding SAP HANA deployments, providingsuperior capability and greater business value.The SR950 currently hold the world recordperformance for the SAP Business WarehouseEdition for SAP HANA benchmark for both 4-socketand 8-socket systems. These system configurationscontain Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors andIntel® Optane™ persistent memory and are verifiedby Intel as Intel® Select Solutions for SAP HANA.

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SAP HANA appliances withLenovo ThinkSystem SR650provides extensive flexibility to fitalmost any customerenvironment.The ThinkSystem SR650 is a 2Urack server capable ofsupporting up to 2 processors. Itis designed to handle a widerange of workloads, providingscalable performance, storagecapacity, and I/O expansion. Itsupports up to 4 NVMe drivebays, and up to 24 hard disk orsolid-state disk drive bays forstorage capacity. Support for128GB DIMMs enables up to 9TB of memory.The flexible ThinkSystem SR650is ideal for most SAP HANAdeployments, providing a highperformance and cost-effectivesolution with scalability.TDI SolutionsSAP HANA TDI solutions offermore flexibility when integratingan SAP HANA system into yourexisting data center layout.

This approach enables areduction in hardware andoperational costs through thereuse of existing hardwarecomponents and operationalprocesses. With TDIimplementations, you areresponsible for organizingsupport with the variousvendors.Supported Intel SystemsA wide range of Lenovo serversare available for SAP HANA TDIsolutions. Many rack-mountedThinkSystem servers and FlexSystem server nodes areCertified and Supported SAPHANA Hardware for TDIimplementations.Certified HCI SystemsThe Lenovo ThinkAgile HX(Nutanix-based) and VX(VMware-based) hyperconvergedservers enable you todramatically simplify your server,storage and virtualizationdeployments and pool yourresources into a single virtualizedinfrastructure for more flexibleand efficient utilization andmanagement.

Certified Enterprise StorageLenovo offers certified solutionsthat leverage external SANstorage or maximize internalserver storage for your SAPHANA data needs.The ThinkSystem DM Seriesimproves customers TCO andtime to value with their advanceddata management featuresoffered through ONTAP. TheUnified Architecture of block andfile workloads allows customersto reduce their hardwarerequirements and utilize onemanagement system for bothNAS and SAN deployments.Users will benefit from backupand recovery based on storageSnapshot copies using ONTAPSnapCenter. The built-inAsynchronous and Synchronousreplication provide storage-based Disaster Recoverycapabilities. When running SAPHANA on the DM Series All FlashArrays, customers are protectedfrom unexpected events bysimply utilizing the includedfeatures on DM Series.

SAP HANA is the first major database platform optimized for Intel® Optane™ persistentmemory in the appdirect mode. SAP HANA automatically detects persistent memoryhardware and adjusts itself by placing data structures that would benefit the most onpersistent memory, while all others remain in DRAM. The result is an eye-popping 12.5xfaster system restart time for a 6 TB system. This means less downtime when implementingmaintenance or security updates. Intel Optane persistent memory also provides an averageof 2X more data in memory and 56% lower memory cost in SAP HANA scale-upenvironments than the previous generation .

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The ThinkSystem DE Series provides excellentperformance at an affordable price, making it theideal solution for cost-conscious businesses. TheDE Series deliver up to 1.0M sustained IOPS andresponse times measured in mere microseconds.They also generate up to 21GBps of readthroughput, enough for even your most bandwidth-intensive workloads.The DE Series also sport the following availabilityfeatures:

Fully redundant architecture with automatedfailoverIntuitive storage management withcomprehensive tuning functionsAdvanced monitoring and diagnostics withproactive repairSnapshot copy creation, volume copy, andasynchronous mirroring for data protection.Data assurance for data integrity and protectionagainst silent data corruption

Lenovo also offers the Distributed Storage Solutionfor CEPH (DSSC) for those seeking an open sourcesolution. The Lenovo DSS-C offering uses SUSEEnterprise Storage™ and provides:

Block, file, and object data access capabilities ina single cluster, simplifying administration andreducing operational costs.Multi-site object replication and asynchronousblock mirroring providing uninterruptedserviceability.New open source management framework forsimplified management and improved costefficiency

DSS-C serves up to 64 nodes with four redundantDSS-C engines. Lenovo offers three DSS-Cconfiguration options – (all) HDD, Flash and (High)Capacity.

“The Lenovo solution offered theperformance and scalability weneeded, backed by the highest levelsof SAP HANA expertise and supportthat we saw in the market,”Michael Nevlida, Sr. Director, Global ITInfrastructure & Support Services, Callaway GolfCompany

IBM Spectrum Scale™ software allows you to movebeyond simply adding storage to optimizing SAPHANA data management. Spectrum Scale allowsseamless capacity expansion in order to handle theexplosive growth of SAP HANA data.When Spectrum Scale is coupled with theworkload-optimized ThinkSystem SR950 server,you can combine multiple server models to createmulti-node, scale-out configurations. Multi-node,scale-out configurations enable you to achievelarger SAP HANA memory sizes by simply addingserver compute nodes.These multi-node, scale-out configurations supportup to 94 nodes for SAP Business Warehouse anddata mart workloads as well as up to four nodes forSAP S/4HANA workloads.The result of these TDI storage offerings is choiceand simplified infrastructure for your SAP HANAapplications.

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Resilient Enterprise PlatformSpeed and scalability are vital to your system’s success. Yetunplanned or excessive system downtime can neutralize performanceand agility advantages, so system availability and dependability areequally important. That is why you need a highly available solutiondesigned to keep your system up and running and your businessthriving.Lenovo servers offer superior reliability, availability and serviceabilityfeatures for SAP HANA customers. Self-monitoring, error detection,self-healing, and predictive failure analysis help protect the systemagainst consumed errors that could reach critical applications.Lightpath diagnostics, corrupt data containment and Fault ResilientBoot help predict and quickly identify issues which helps decreasesystem downtime. The result of built-in system protections isoutstanding system resilience.When Lenovo servers are combined with ThinkSystem DM Series,DSS-C, or Spectrum Scale, the resulting Lenovo solutions for SAPHANA help:

Ensure business resiliency through integrated high availability anddisaster recovery capabilities to/from the cloudPerform maintenance and serviceability fasterEliminate restarts by minimizing the number of system “touches”Reduce downtime with self-healing architecturesMaintain high availability by eliminating production outagesSecure information with comprehensive data protection capabilities

Deploying SAP HANA in a modular, multi-node scale-out configurationallows a high availability (HA) approach that is exclusive to Lenovo.Including an additional HA node in your configuration, enablesSpectrum Scale replication and automatic failover capabilities usingthe additional stand-by node to protect against unplanned outages.

“With SAP HANA onLenovo systems, wecan providedecision-makerswith the real-timeinsight they need tomake the bestbusiness decisions.”Anwar Raafat, SolutionsDirector at IntegratedDiagnostics Holdings

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Complementary OfferingsThe Lenovo solutions for SAP HANA offers a choiceof operating system support allowing you to choosethe operating system that best fits your datacenterrequirements. You can choose SUSE LinuxEnterprise Server for SAP Applications or RedHat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, and theappropriate subscription and support. In addition,you can choose the Spectrum Scale or SUSEEnterprise Storage software license that matchesyour configuration requirements along with theappropriate software maintenance and supportneeded to enhance the availability and resiliencyrequired for large production environments.Single node configurations use the XFS file systemincluded with the Linux operating system. Scale-outcluster configurations use the Spectrum ScaleServer and File Placement Optimizer licenses orSUSE Enterprise Storage licenses.Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a centralizedsystems management solution that helpsadministrators quickly deploy, monitor, and managetheir data center infrastructure. This solutionintegrates easily with Lenovo x86 servers,appliances, certified nodes, Top-of-Rack Ethernetswitches, and storage systems. When integratedwith SAP IT Operations Analytics, the combinationoffers the best way to monitor data centers withSAP applications running on Lenovo servers.The Veeam Availability Platform combined withbest-in-class Lenovo data center infrastructureenables businesses to accelerate their digitaltransformation: simplify their IT environment,reduce risk, and lower costs with one completesolution for SAP HANA. This includes the SAPHANA certified Lenovo compute platforms, LenovoHCI platforms (ThinkAgile VX and HX), Lenovostorage platforms (DM and DE Series) and theVeeam Availability Suite. This integration providescustomers with the level of data protection theyreally need and end-to-end availability across allSAP certified Lenovo platforms.

“What impressed us most aboutLenovo was that they offer pre-configured server models speciallycertified for SAP S/4HANA. Because allthe hardware components camepackaged as a single solution, it took alot of complexity out of what is a majorbusiness transformation project.”Andrés Jiménez, CIO of Aquaservice

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Comprehensive Solution Services and SupportTo speed deployment and simplify management of your SAP HANAsystem, Lenovo offers comprehensive solution services and supportwhich include:

Assessment Services and Design ServicesHardware installation and deployment services

In addition, Lenovo can provide advanced services including:Integrated solution supportOn-going maintenance and updates to hardware, operating systemsoftware and Spectrum Scale, ThinkSystem DM Series or DSS-CContinuous monitoring of key SAP HANA solution componentsSimplified support processes, with expert consultants assistingwith troubleshooting and problem-determinationAssistance to help improve availability and reduce problemresolution timeProactive IT planning and preventative support advice and services

Lenovo Professional Services have an extensive services portfolio toimplement your unique SAP HANA solution. Lenovo SAP HANAexperts can install, validate hardware and software stack (OS, PFS,SAP), configure networking, basic skills transfer, and provide post-install documentation. You can also ensure your solution is optimizedthrough choosing SAP HANA health-check to assess yourenvironments.Agile. Scalable. Reliable.It is no secret your business depends on technology. Therefore, yoursuccess depends on how well your mission-critical technologyperforms. The Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA provides the seamless,scalable and dependable performance needed to extract strategicinsights from exploding information volumes helping deliver thebottom-line business results you demand.

“Our experience ofLenovo ManagedServices has beenexcellent. We alwayswork with the samededicated team ofconsultants, so wehave a greatrelationship withthem and they knowour systems and ourbusiness very well.”Raul Revilla, SAP BasisAdministrator at CheneyBrothers

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Why LenovoLenovo is a leading provider of data center solutions. Lenovo offers afull range of compute, networking, storage, software, solutions, andcomprehensive services supporting business needs throughout the ITlifecycle. With options for planning, deployment, and support, Lenovooffers expertise and services needed to deliver better service-levelagreements and generate greater end-user satisfaction.For More InformationTo learn more about the Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA, contact yourLenovo Business Partner or visit: www.lenovo.com/sap/hanaWhy Intel Select SolutionsKey benefits of investing in an Intel Select Solution from Lenovoinclude:

Simplified evaluation. New workload integration and the transitionto software-defined infrastructure are two areas where IT managersspend more and more time and money sorting through endlessoptions, searching for optimal solutions. Intel Select Solutions aretightly specified in terms of hardware and software components toeliminate guesswork and speed decision-making.Fast and easy deployment. With pre-defined settings and rigoroussystem-wide tuning, Intel Select Solutions are designed to increaseefficiency in IT's testing process, speed time to service delivery,and increase confidence in solution performance.Workload-optimized performance. Intel Select Solutionconfigurations are designed by Intel and our partners to deliver to aperformance threshold for the workload and are built on the latestIntel® architecture foundation including the recently-launched IntelXeon Scalable platforms.

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