SAP HANA on VMware Customer Success Stories

Bill Reid Senior Director EMC IT

“SAP HANA on VMware is delivering tremendous value to our company. We have increased capacity of SAP HANA 5x without growing headcount, are experiencing 99.9 percent uptime, can deploy new SAP HANA instances in minutes and are realizing significant OPEX and CAPEX reductions.”

EMC IT: SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) •  Business Challenge

–  SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC) technically an OLAP engine

–  Runs on SAP BW stack, and is certified to run on SAP HANA

•  EMC IT Runs BPC ‘Standalone’ –  Rather than a BW add-on –  Additional flexibility –  Original database size 430GB

•  Solution SAP HANA on vSphere –  Migrate BPC to Virtualized HANA –  100GB of data in SAP HANA –  On existing Vblock create single node “TDI” instance on Cisco

B440 (512 GB total)

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Putting It All Together

EMC Deployment Strategy •  SAP TDI Model •  Leverage Existing Vblock •  Reduced OPEX & CAPEX

Results: SAP HANA on vSphere •  400% performance gains •  Data loads 40 minutes to 1 minute •  Leverage VMware Technologies

EMC Sizing Summary •  Total Size = 430GB •  Data Only = 100GB •  2x Data – 200GB •  Candidate for vSphere

EMC IT: SAP HANA Platform & IQ on vSphere 5.x

•  SAP HANA Information Lifecycle Management –  SAP IQ for Near-Line-Storage

•  Off-load Cold Data to SAP IQ

–  Since Go-Live EMC IT •  Archived over 3 billion records

•  Strongly Recommend Tiering Solution –  Oracle 7 TB to 4.8 TB with NLS –  Final SAP HANA on BW Sizing 800 GB –  Control in-memory footprint

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Win XP

SAP BPC SAP HANA

vSphere 5.5

SUSE SUSE

SAP IQ Any App Any App

vSphere 5.x

Any OS Any OS

NLS

Certified Hardware Standard x86 Hardware

vMotion

Hot Data Cold

“AMG-Mercedes is now live in production with SAP HANA and VMware vSphere 5.5 with a 1TB memory configuration, accelerating our move to a software-defined data center. We believe virtualized SAP HANA with VMware’s vSphere could be the key to our future, as we move to cut operational costs and simplify our data center operations”. Reinhard Breyer CIO AMG-Mercedes

Daimler AMG-Mercedes: SAP Business Suite on HANA •  Business Challenge

•  A typical engine test runs 50 minutes; uses up to 300 sensors

•  Generates 3,000 to 30,000 data elements per second

•  Integrated real-time platform for engine testing, development and quality assurance

•  Solution: Business Suite/SAP HANA •  Deploy SAP HANA Using Existing IT Standards

–  Tailored Data Center Integration –  100% Virtualization on VMware

•  Additional 6 weeks for vSphere testing

•  Live: SAP Business Suite 1TB on vSphere 5.5 •  ERP Central Component 6.0 •  Enhancement Pack 7 •  SAP HANA Optimizations Enabled

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AMG Used VMware HA To Protect SAP HANA Databases

SAP HANA VM

SAP HANA VM

Reinhard Breyer, CIO, AMG-Mercedes …“We believe virtualized SAP HANA with VMware vSphere could be the key to our future, as we move to cut operational costs and simplify our data center operations.” ..No loss in performance!