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- 1. Transforming SAP Landscapes Leveraging EMC Technologies Cenk Ersoy Sr.Technology Consultant EMCCAe - Cloud Architect, ITaaS Expert EMCDCA - Data Center Architect EMC Turkey © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1
- 2. EMC Overview EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information Technology as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. EMC at a Glance Recognized Partners • Revenues (2011): $20B Leadership Services and Consulting • Projected Revenue (2012): $22B Full range of complementary services; • #1 external storage examples: Accenture, BearingPoint, and CSC • Fortune 500 Rank (2011): 152 • #1 external RAID Global Alliance • Employees: ≈ 53,500 • #1 networked storage Jointly define, test, integrate, deliver, and • Countries with EMC operations: 85 support; examples: Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and • #1 NAS • R&D investment (2011): ≈ $2B Cisco • #1 total storage software • Total cash and investments Service Providers • #1 storage management software Access to innovative, scalable infrastructure (2011): $10.8B • #1 device management software services; examples: Fujitsu Services, Bull, • Market capitalization: ~$45B (12/30/11) Dimension Data • Founded: 1979 Channels Specialized expertise to build unique solutions; examples: Fujitsu Siemens, Unisys © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 2
- 3. Global Market Presence—Worldwide Market Share Storage Hardware Q1 2012 External Disk Storage EMC 29.0% External RAID EMC 30.2% Networked Storage EMC 32.2% NetApp 14.1% NetApp 14.7% NetApp 16.4% IBM 11.4% IBM 11.7% IBM 11.0% HP 10.2% Hitachi 9.7% HP 9.4% Hitachi 9.4% HP 8.9% Hitachi 8.5% Dell 8.3% Dell 7.6% Dell 7.9% Fujitsu 2.7% Fujitsu 2.8% Sun/Oracle 2.6% Storage Software Q1 2012 Storage Software Replication Infrastructure EMC 24.0% NetApp 34.3% EMC 44.2% IBM 15.7% EMC 28.9% Symantec 16.4% Symantec 14.8% IBM 12.9% Hitachi 11.2% NetApp 8.9% Hitachi 7.0% IBM 11.0% HP 5.5% HP 3.2% NetApp 5.0% Hitachi 4.6% Data Prot. & Recovery Storage & Device Mgmt. Archiving Symantec 26.1% EMC 46.9% IBM 25.1% IBM 17.3% IBM 13.1% HP 17.9% EMC 13.1% Hitachi 9.1% Symantec 13.4% CommVault 6.7% NetApp 8.3% EMC 5.7% CA 5.5% HP 4.0% CommVault 3.4% Source: IDC Q1 2012 WW Disk Storage Systems Tracker Jun 2012; IDC WW Storage Software QView, Jun 2012 Note: EMC does not play in the File System Software market segment © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 3
- 4. 15 Year Partnership 20,000 Mutual Customers 16 Joint Solution Centers © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 4
- 5. More SAP Deployed On EMC Storage Than Any Other Vendor In 2010 – IDC Source: IDC, Storage User Demand Study, 2011 — Spring Edition: Unlocking the Minds of Storage Users, Doc # 230148, Sept 2011 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 5
- 6. SAP Landscape Challenges Today Physical Infrastructure Limits SAP… Different SAP Environments Time To Deployment Application Performance Multiple SAP Infrastructu Quality Of Service re Silos Versions Management Efficiency © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 6
- 7. Cloud – New Architecture A ―Must‖ Old World – Physical New World – Virtual Dedicated, Vertical Stacks Dynamic Pools Of Compute & Storage © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 7
- 8. Virtual Storage Requirements Cloud Infrastructure Managemen Applications Platform t Virtualization Platform Integration Automated Storage Tiering Dynamic Pools Of Flash SATA Compute & Storage © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 8
- 9. EMC Is The Most Integrated With VMware EMC Ranked #1 In All Three Categories Of Storage 100 80 60 VNX VNX VNX VMAX VMAX 40 20 General Storage Unified Block Only Source: Wikibon Analysis & Survey 2012 Other Vendors © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 9
- 10. Virtualize SAP Move To A Modern, Dynamic Virtual Infrastructure More than 50% Of SAP RFPs are Requesting Virtualization 2011 SAP COE Lab Application Transformation Infrastructure Automated Hybrid Transformation Cloud Infrastructure Private Public © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 10
- 11. Cisco And EMC Transform SAP Virtualized SAP Replicate SAP 9X Faster Provision 30–50% 70% More New SAP Less Database Instances CISCO UNIFIED CISCO UNIFIED UNIFIED Hardware IOPs FABRIC COMPUTING MANAGEMENT in Minutes EMC VFCache 80% Faster Storage Provisioning EMC FAST Cache and FAST VP 3X Faster Application Processes 25% Lower Storage TCO Cisco and EMC Infrastructure © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 11
- 12. CALLAWAY GOLF Re-Platforming SAP on EMC & VMware Challenge SAP organic growth was outpacing IT resources Needed better storage utilization Aging tape-based backup systems Solution Applications Refresh to EMC VMAX SAP EMC FAST VP for SAP Oracle RDBMS database Virtualized SAP server EMC Data Domain Microsoft® SQL Server® Results Provision New Servers in <30Min ROI Of 289% Over 3 Years Increased Performance >60% $1.8m+ In Savings © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 12
- 13. SYNOPSYS Re-Platforming SAP on EMC & VMware Challenge Aging IT platform which caused SAP to underperform High performance and high availability were key requirements Solution Applications EMC VMAX for SAP SAP Utilized all Enterprise Oracle RDBMS Flash Drives (EFD) database server Results SAP Production runtime throughput improved from 36% to 300% for mixed workloads Database response times improved by 470% Improved quality of service to achieve high levels of customer retention © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 13
- 14. SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Software The Big Picture Extended by EMC Future! SAP Solution Manager LVM software EMC Functionality Possibilities Application Virtualization and Cloud Management Connect •Performance Monitoring Applications … •Real time •History SAP Solution •Storage Tiering/VLUN SAP Solutions Manager •Clone Mgmt Pull SAP Information •Datacenter Abstraction •Post to SMC Application Connect •VPLEX •Post to other EMC GUIs •Cluster Awareness •Share SAP information with FAST VP Virtual Appliance Management Open API Frameworks •AutoStart APIs •Enhanced DR •RecoverPoint Non-SAP Partner Framework Storage Virtualization Storage Connect OS Connect Connect Cloud Connect Custom Exit … Connect Attach/Detach Clone IT-Infrastructure Physical Network Virtualization Storage Resources Isilon, RM, and Elab; Unix and RecoverPoint Switches / SRDF Windows ESD and USD VMware and VPLEX This slide and SAP‗s strategy and possible future developments are subject to change and may be changed by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This document is provided without a warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 14
- 15. Three Paths To The Cloud Build Your Own VSPEX Vblock Systems Best Of Breed Proven Converged Infrastructure Infrastructure Infrastructure Components © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 15
- 16. Accelerating SAP Deployments VblockTM Infrastructure Platforms • Pre-configured SAP infrastructure – Virtualization: VMware – Compute: Cisco UCS – Network: Cisco Nexus and MDS switching – Storage: EMC Symmetrix VMAX or Unified • Seamless Growth – Scale-up (add more resources to VMs) – Scale-out (add more VMs to applications) • Non-disruptive P2V or V2P Migrations © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 16
- 17. Columbia Simplified Infrastructure With Vblock Solutions Challenge Difficulty resolving IT problems when multiple vendors were involved Needed to scale flexibly with business needs Solution Applications Vblock Systems SAP Flash Drives Oracle RDBMS database server Results Simplifying IT – converged infrastructure and simplified administration through UIM Scale at the pace of business – pre-configured, pre-tested infrastructure easily scales IT © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 17
- 18. EMC Project Propel Technology Overview • Best of breed technology components • Over 470+ Virtual Hosts built to Legacy Applications support 9 SAP Landscapes 50+ Applications AIC – Application Integration Cloud • New AIC architecture reviewed and Contivo iWay Adapters validated by VMware Actional Hyperic Sonic MQ Spring-based WS Spring Integration Spring Batch Gemfire Data Fabric • Performance: SAP Applications ERP Central Business Supply Chain – Simulated end to end transaction testing Planning and Component Consolidation Management (SCM) at 2.5X peak volumes (ECC) (BPC) Supplier Business Financial – Successfully processed 3,000 orders in < Relationship Supply Chain Management Warehouse Management 10 hours (10X throughput vs. today) (SRM) (BW) (FSCM) – 448,000 SAPs in Prod – 1,000,000 SAPs capacity per Vblock Databases • High Availability/ DR Testing: Cloud – Architecture validated for HA at Single Platform Points of Failure – DR - zero data loss – RTO < 4 hours © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18
- 19. EMC Project Propel SAP Technical Environment Architecture Technology Highlights Legacy 50+ legacy systems Physical Environment: Apps • Vblock with 14 Cisco blades, each with 20 physical cores and 256GB RAM - total 280 Common Contivo iWay Adapters cores with 3.5 TB RAM Hyperi Action Integration Sonic MQ Spring-based WS al c Cloud Spring Integration Spring Batch (CIC) Gemfire Data Fabric Virtual Deployment: (vSphere 5) • 100 Virtual Hosts (CIC, SAP, DB), with 672 Business vCPUs across 103 VMs ERP Central Supply Chain Planning and Component Consolidation Management SAP (ECC) Supplier (BPC) (SCM) Financial Clients : 18K users leveraging ThinApp Business App Relationship Management Warehouse Supply Chain Management (including 4K power users) (SRM) (BW) (FSCM) Storage: 304TB for All Environments Database • Production: (SAP+ Oracle SQL • SAP 42 TB CIC) Non-RAC server • CIC - 8 TB • NAS – 7.7TB Virtualized • Microcode - 5875.249 on Vblock © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 19
- 20. Structured And Unstructured Data Transactional Data Big Data Cloud Infrastructure Compute Tier vMotion Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) Storage Tier © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 20
- 21. SAP HANATM Architecture • Multi-Purpose, Data-Source Agnostic, In-Memory Appliance • SAP In-Memory Software + Cisco UCS Blades + EMC Storage Infrastructure (VNX) • Real-Time Analysis on Big Data Files for Real-Time Decision Making © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 21
- 22. Scaling HANA with EMC Infrastructure Certified Cisco/EMC: HANA1 HANA2 HANA3 HANA4 • 4, 8, 12 or 16 Nodes • up to 640 Cores MPFS MPFS MPFS MPFS • NFS up to 8TB Memory • 1, 2, 3 or 4 VNX5300 FILE Data1 Data2 Data3 Data4 Other configs are possible but Bin require separate certification by Log1 Log2 Log3 Log4 SAP BLOCK 20GB 20GB 20GB 20GB 20GB 2TB 2TB 2TB 2TB 600 GB 600 600 0G 60 GB GB B 100GB Boot Boot Boot Boot GB GB GB GB 30 30 30 30 VNX5300 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 22
- 23. Balance SAP across data centers Non-disruptive SAP migrations and relocations Share, access, and relocate data • With between sites over distance MICROSOF – EMC VPLEX Metro/Geo SAP T – VMware vMotion over Multi-site Cluster distance VPLEX WITNESS • Validated with mission critical applications: SAP, Microsoft SQL, SharePoint Active ACCESSANYWHERE Active Migrate and relocate VMs, applications, and data with support for VMotion over distance KEEP Transparently share and balance resources between data centers APPLICATIONS © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RUNNING 23
- 24. Integrated Disaster Recovery Production Disaster Recovery vCenter Site Storage Storage vCenter Site vCenter Server Recovery Manager Replication Adapter Replication Adapter Recovery Manager vCenter Server Protected Virtual Machines Protected Virtual Machines SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP Automated SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP VM failover VMware Infrastructure Nondisruptive disaster VMware Infrastructure recovery testing Servers Servers EMC RecoverPoint EMC RecoverPoint SAN WAN SAN Heterogeneous LUN storage LUN LUN Production LUNs Remote Remote CRR journal replicas Near-Sync replication over async distances © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 24
- 25. VPLEX + RP 1+ 1 = 3 Active/Active Active/ActiveContinuous Data Protection Continuous Date Protection Automated Restart Automated Restart Continuous Remote Replication Continuous Remote Replication Application Mobility Heterogeneous Replication Application Mobility Disaster Avoidance Heterogeneous Replication Flexible Disaster Avoidance Flexible CDP,CRR,CLR Data Data Center Center Virtual Storage © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 25
- 26. Protecting the Cloud: Mobility, HA and Disaster Recovery Boston Hopkinton Las Vegas SRM Distributed Virtual Volume RecoverPoint Virtual Replica Volume VPLEX Metro VPLEX Local VMAX 10K/20K/40K VNX © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 26
- 27. EMC End-to-End Intelligent Cloning for SAP • Enables business to reap the benefits: Storage SAP administrator – Bring new applications online sooner administrator – Improve maintenance ability for SAP environments – Automate cross-functional processes • Automatically discovers, manages, schedules, and tracks replicas Automated data replication software • Masks the complexity of managing Source host Target host replication technologies: – Entire process automated, including discovery Tiered storage – Awareness of applications SAP environments • Eliminates the need to build complex scripts SAP SAP SAP Prod Dev QA • Ensures consistency for SAP databases Array-based technologies • Supports mixed environments; physical and virtual coexist © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 27
- 28. Benefits • Eliminates manual errors and custom script maintenance • Empowers SAP Basis and Database Administrators to quickly create additional SAP database instance copies — where and when needed • Improves flexibility with tiered storage replication • Lowers total cost of ownership • Accelerates time to value for new SAP projects Recovery • Makes IT efficient and more productive Backup On-demand Testin cloning of SAP g production Reporting datasets without disruption Storage SAP Administrators Basis Administrators © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 28
- 29. Boost SAP Backups with ―DD Boost‖ • Distributes parts of DD Boost DD Boost deduplication process – Increases backup speed – Reduces network traffic NetWorker Data Domain • Clone controlled replication – Schedules replication – Catalog awareness of replicated copies • Ease of use – Automated configuration – Monitoring and reporting © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 29
- 30. RSA enVision Solution for SAP (Centralized Log Management) © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 30
- 31. Summary - 1 Cloud Architecture is Ready For Mission Critical SAP – More Performance, Utilization And Quality Of Service EMC and SAP Developing Improved Cloud Management – Integration With SAP LVM empowers SAP Administrators EMC and SAP Optimized For Big Data Analytics – SAP HANA On EMC provides scalability and persistence Improve business continuity for SAP – Active/Active datacenter © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 31
- 32. Summary - 2 Improve Disaster Recovery for SAP – Near-sync replication to remote distances Intelligent cloning of live SAP systems – Automation eliminates errors Meet backups SLAs – Proven deduplication technology Security and central log management – RSA suite © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 32
- 33. Getting Started With EMC Consulting Services And EMC’s Partner Ecosystem Strategize • Advise • Architect • Implement • Manage • Support Transformation Automated Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Private Public © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 33
- 34. THANK YOU PLEASE VISIT https://community.emc.com/community/connect/everything_sap © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 34
- 35. SAP Certified Cisco, EMC HANA Solutions Real-Time Data Access • SAP HANA software with SLES OS preinstalled • Cisco UCS B440 M2 HANA HANA HANA HANA Blade servers HANA HANA • 4 x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870 CPU HANA in Memory Database • 512 GB 1066 MHz RDIMM Cisco UCS Scale Out • EMC VNX 5300 Unified Storage block and file access EMC VNX Block and File Access • Scales 4 to 16 blades across one to four EMC VNX SAP HANA Infrastructure platforms © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 35
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- And why EMC? Because EMC & SAP have enjoyed a long-standing relationship for over 15 years, with approximately 20,000 mutual customers, and over 16 joint solution centers where we continue to collaborate and demonstrate our solutions.
- So we can RESTORE BALANCE on the HARDWARE SIDE…But what about the SOFTWARE SIDE?Here the CLOUD CHANGES THINGS as well.ALL CLOUDS are built AROUND VIRTUALIZED SERVERSThe OLD PARADIGM of managing SLAs STATICALLY AND MANUALLY is LONGER WORKS<CLICK>In a VIRTUALIZED CLOUD applications are DYNAMICApplications MOVE AROUND in a virtualized pool of compute resourceIt is NO LONGER POSSIBLE to GUESS HOW MANY DRIVES are needed to MEET SLAs In the CLOUD, the STORAGE SYSTEM must DYNAMICALLY tune the DATA SET to meet ONGOING CHANGES in DEMANDHOT DATA is moved to HIGH PERFORMANCE SSDsWhile COLD DATA is moved to HIGH CAPACITY DISKSAnd of course which data is HOT and which data is COLD changes all the time.The storage system must be SMART ENOUGH to figure this out and DO THE RIGHT THING!That is why VNX has - at its core – the concept of SELF OPTIMIZING STORAGE POOLSALL 100% AUTOMATED!<CLICK>
- So we can RESTORE BALANCE on the HARDWARE SIDE…But what about the SOFTWARE SIDE?Here the CLOUD CHANGES THINGS as well.ALL CLOUDS are built AROUND VIRTUALIZED SERVERSThe OLD PARADIGM of managing SLAs STATICALLY AND MANUALLY is LONGER WORKS<CLICK>In a VIRTUALIZED CLOUD applications are DYNAMICApplications MOVE AROUND in a virtualized pool of compute resourceIt is NO LONGER POSSIBLE to GUESS HOW MANY DRIVES are needed to MEET SLAs In the CLOUD, the STORAGE SYSTEM must DYNAMICALLY tune the DATA SET to meet ONGOING CHANGES in DEMANDHOT DATA is moved to HIGH PERFORMANCE SSDsWhile COLD DATA is moved to HIGH CAPACITY DISKSAnd of course which data is HOT and which data is COLD changes all the time.The storage system must be SMART ENOUGH to figure this out and DO THE RIGHT THING!That is why VNX has - at its core – the concept of SELF OPTIMIZING STORAGE POOLSALL 100% AUTOMATED!<CLICK>
- Study BackgrounderWikibon analyzed 12 different arraysStudy was based on a weighted average total of features across different integration areas – data protection, performance, management, network support, security and other. The results were normalized to 100This was integration with vsphere 5ResultsEMC Products Were Ranked Best In All 3 CategoriesAbout half respondents picked EMC as #1 choice for storage – This is 3X the nearest competitor and more than all the rest combined (48% choose EMC, 16% NetApp and the rest was 36%)
- The application layer is also undergoing a transformation. Existing applications are transforming to run in virtual machines within cloud environments (i.e. SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.).
- Cisco and EMC have a set of well documented Solutions and integration points with SAP that leverage EMC and Cisco technologies at each layer of the SAP stack to add tremendous value to SAP applications:At the storage layer – EMC fully automated storage tiering allows us to provision storage 80% faster for scaling SAP applications while the use of flash technology allows us to increase SAP performance up to 3X At the compute layer – Cisco UCS provides a more efficient, easily scalable blade server architecture requiring less hardware components and driving up to 70% more database performance. Cisco UCS also has the ability to use Service Profiles to deploy new SAP applications in minutes vs. hours, avoiding the need to repeat steps each time.At the SAP application layer, SAP has developed a product called SAP Landscape Virtualization Manager or “LVM”. SAP LVM uses APIs to integrate to underlying infrastructure and give SAP administrators control of underlying infrastructure functionality. EMC has integrated to SAP LVM to allow the use of EMC replication to enable SAP administrators to provision, clone or refresh SAP applications in minutes using disk-to-disk copy speeds avoiding the hours it takes to copy SAP data over the network. Note to Presenter: Below please find more detail on the metrics used specific to the EMC technologies listed: The Metrics In Blue Are Metrics Associated With Cisco UCS Server (the foundation of Vblock Solutions): 9X Faster Replication:From 90 minutes to 6-7 minutes to clone SAP using TimeFinder – h7409 – page 53Note: SAP LVM integrated to use EMC replication technology – h10820 3X More Performance and 25% LowerTCo: 3X more performance using FAST Cache – h8143 – page 1946% more performance using SAP on FAST - h8220 – page 1927% better response time and improved utilization (VMware DRS on EMC For SAP) – h8048 – page 37
- Let’s look at a customer example of Callaway Golf.With VMware, Callaway can now deploy new servers in under 30 minutes leading to extremely high levels of growth of their SAP applications. As a results Callaway was outpacingthe IT infrastructure resources (servers and storage) they had in place to manage the workloads. This lead to over-provisioning of storage infrastructure and poor utilization rates. Callaway moved to the new EMC Symmetrix VMAX together with EMC FAST VP to automate storage tiering and the use of VMware to virtualize their SAP application environments. With VMware, Callaway can now deploy new servers in under 30 minutes leading to extremely high levels of growth of their SAP applications. This resulted in 60% increase in performance, while also reducing storage infrastructure cost through tiering resulting in large savings. Go to: http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/20111108-sap-customer.htmto hear customers Talk About Benefits of Virtualizing SAP
- We’ve also actually seen some customers move to an all flash drive storage environment for maximum SAP performance. Synopsys, the world leader in electronic design automation, is another joint SAP and EMC customer. As a company that needs to provide high quality services to their customers, they decided to embrace re-platforming to a cloud-based landscape.Synopsys selected EMC’s VMAX storage platform including the decision to utilize all Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD). The results were impressive: SAP’s production runtime throughput improved from 36% to 300% for mixed workloads Database response improved in the range of 350-470%These new levels of quality of service have enabled Synopsys to achieve high levels of customer retention and increased revenues.
- Many customers however want to take a step further to simplify and accelerate deployment, using a single, pre-configured platform.Let’s look at one example of standardization with the Vblock Infrastructure Package– it’s designed for ultra-standardization right from the start. Vblock is the converged infrastructure of Cisco servers and network, VMware and EMC from VCE. Vblocks are designed not just to provide predictable SLAs to the business, but also predictable levels of power and cooling, capacity, scalability. You can think of IT in terms of floor tiles or sq meters. This simplifies and brings data center planning up to a strategic business exercise.Infrastructure costs are lower because high utilization rates can be maintained across many applications – provisioned, returned to the pool, and reallocated.Operating costs are lower because of standardization and more complete management, streamlines operations - and many of the tasks your staff is doing today are automated.The real payoff is the speed and ease in responding to new business needs and changes to their requirements.However, the Vblock ends at the application layer. It is not pre-packaged with Oracle, or Microsoft, or SAP. While it is designed to help you standardize, it is also designed to help you maintain flexibility, control and choice to deploy whatever applications you need or have today or in the future.
- Columbia Sportswear is a global leader in the manufacture and wholesaling of sports apparel and outdoor clothing. Based in Portland, Ore., the company serves a global market with 3,200 employees and offices in 45 countries worldwide. The company recently selected SAP to run its most critical business applications, including financial, product development, manufacturing, and shipping. Given the importance that SAP would play, Columbia also took the opportunity to evaluate its underlying infrastructure. Michael Leeper, Columbia Sportswear’s senior manager, IT engineering, explains, “Our new SAP solution will be the heart of our company. So, we needed to make sure that the infrastructure supporting SAP was rock solid and the very best of what’s available in the market today.” One of the IT challenges Columbia faces today is resolving problems when multiple vendors are involved. Often the source of an issue is unclear in a complex environment that spans servers, storage, and networks. Dan Hein, Columbia Sportswear’s director, global shared services, says, “It could take a long time to coordinate with all our vendors when a problem arose. We needed a way to mitigate some of that static to resolve these issues more quickly.” Leeper adds, “Another challenge was finding a platform that can scale flexibly and efficiently to meet our business requirements. Like all growing companies, we struggle at times with forecasting what our future needs will be, especially in IT. We needed an infrastructure that could respond, often quickly, to new-business requests.”SolutionTo support its business-critical SAP environment, Columbia Sportswear chose Vblock Infrastructure Platforms which combine industry-leading compute, network, storage, virtualization, and management technologies in prepackaged units of converged infrastructure. Columbia Sportswear's two Vblock Series 700 platforms are comprised of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers, Cisco MDS networking, EMC VMAX storage, as well as VMware vSphere virtualization and EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) solutions. One of the Vblock Series 700 platforms is configured with Flash drives for maximum I/O performance to support Columbia’s production SAP environment. The second VCE Vblock Series 700 platform, configured primarily with Fibre Channel storage, would be used for failover, as well as for the company’s development and quality assurance (QA) environments. “We have a fairly mature infrastructure,” notes Leeper. “So when we considered which platforms we’d choose to host SAP, we wanted to evaluate only the best in the industry. After a thorough evaluation of potential solution providers, we found that the VCE converged infrastructure offered the most robust solution available.”ResultsSimplifying IT—Because Columbia already was familiar with Cisco, EMC, and VMware technologies, they are able to build on existing knowledge and experience while gaining the advantages of an integrated platform and a single line of support. “The integration of compute, network, and storage into a single stack is transforming the way we, as IT professionals, view these environments,” states Hein. “We anticipate a significant reduction in the overhead required to manage the Vblock platform environment, because we’ve taken three separate disciplines and combined them into one.” Leeper adds, “Using the UIM solution as a single pane of glass to manage all the compute, networking, and storage layers should not only save us a lot of administrative time, but help optimize our systems and enable us to respond to the business in a much more holistic way.” “With VCE, there’s just one support number to call, which is also important to us,” remarks Hein, “especially since the people on the other end of the line understand the entire technology stack. We’re already realizing efficiencies from having a single place to go with our questions.”Scaling at the Pace of Business—As the SAP deployment begins, the company anticipates that the Vblock platform will deliver the robust performance needed for its critical business applications. However, the exact technical requirements are difficult to predict, making the Vblock system an especially good match. Dan Hein explains: “Because Vblock is preconfigured and pretested by VCE, we can move forward with our SAP deployment quickly and with confidence that the infrastructure will deliver the robust performance and availability we need out of the gate. As the deployment unfolds and our business users begin to request new services, the platform's built-in agility also will allow us to easily scale to meet the evolving needs of our SAP environment, and the needs of the business.”Next StepsColumbia’s vision for the Vblock platform is to create a private cloud where developers and users alike no longer need to concern themselves with the underlying details of the infrastructure. Instead, all they need to do is define a set of business requirements and the system will respond with the right IT services. “Vblock is enabling us to move away from individual pieces of gear such as CPUs, switches and RAID arrays, and into an era where we just have an environment for delivering all types of IT capabilities and business applications as services,” says Hein. “It will allow us to be much more proactive and efficient in responding to the growing needs of the business.” Michael Leeper concurs: “Columbia has its goals set on growing significantly in the next five years, and we believe that Vblock Infrastructure Platforms will allow us to meet any requirement the business gives us—quickly and efficiently.”
- SAP environments are most commonly thought of the structured transactional data for SAP ERP or CRMproduction applications for example. However, every SAP landscape contains unstructured data which cancome in large volumes requiring high levels of scale-out computing. This includes things like media files ordocument imaging in support of production applications. These big data applications are large in volume butless transactional in nature and require a different infrastructure as a result to ensure optimum performance.Ultimately you as SAP users do not want to have to worry about your infrastructure being optimized forstructured/transactional data vs. unstructured big data environments. Through EMC virtual infrastructurewe’re able to have infrastructure self-optimize storage (FAST VP) and compute (VMware) resources to theSAP applications where and when they are needed.
- SAP’s in-Memory High Performance Analytical Appliance which combines SAP software components, optimized on certified hardware from SAP partners, like EMC & Cisco, and allows the processing of massive quantities of real-time transactional data in the main memory of the server for both structured & unstructured data.Today’s version of SAP HANA represents the next wave of SAP in-memory technology that will form the foundation for future SAP applications. SAP is continually evolving its in-memory technology and is committed to placing the technology at the heart of all of its applications, including SAP BusinessObjects Data Services for ETL capabilities from SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW). Using applications that leverage low-cost in-memory technology for improved speed and performance, organizations can enable an informed workforce to react quickly and effectively to changing market conditions. And with automated tiering EMC’s infrastructure will allow HANA to be a highly available and secure analytics appliance to ensure our customers have continuous access, and can enable real-time business decisions.Capabilities EnabledAnalyze information in real-time at unprecedented speeds on large volumes of non-aggregated dataCreate flexible analytic models based on real-time and historic business dataFoundation for new category of applications (e.g., planning, simulation) to significantly outperform current applications in categoryMinimize data duplication
- As we look at the concept of the cloud the ability to have read/write access to information anywhere in your environment – whether it is a data center in Hopkinton, Mass or Waldorf, Germany, you want to be able to access that information as if it were local. Now in phase 3 as we look to virtualize more, it is now critical to have a completely flexible infrastructure active-active where we can share and move and relocate virtual machines and their corresponding applications and data over distance. EMC has brought VPLEX to market which gives you active-active access to information. So no longer is a replica active on one site and passive on the other. With VPLEX, you can have local or remote read/write access, and or read/write on one side and read/write on the other to local copies and keep them in sync. We call this distributed cache coherency or federated data storage infrastructure. Now a mission critical application can run in one location or in another location and access the same data.In combination with VMware and vMotion over distance, it allows users to transparently move and relocate virtual machines and their corresponding applications and data over distance. This provides a unique capability allowing users to relocate, share, and balance infrastructure resources between data centers.With VPLEX, you’re also getting an architecture that is 100 percent non-disruptive for all hardware and software upgrades—forever.VPLEX allows instant access to information in real time, eliminates operational overhead, reduces complexity, and reduces the time required to copy and distribute data across locations.EMC delivered a Reference Architecture demonstrating a VPLEX Metro configuration in combination with VMware and VMotion over distance to non-disruptively migrate application between EMC systems and Vblocks within your application environment. Note to Presenter: The Reference Architecture is in the “White Paper: VMotion Over Distance for Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP—Enabled by VCE Vblock 1, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, EMC CLARiiON, and EMC VPLEX Metro—An Architectural Overview.”
- The NetWorker Module for SAP benefit from DD Boost integration. Clients can route data through the NetWorker storage node that is running DD Boost and benefit from the deduplication process.The new integration optimizes the interface between the NetWorker storage node and the Data Domain storage system, and distributes part of the deduplication process across the NetWorker storage nodes. The Data Domain replication process will be managed by standard NetWorker cloning, ensuring that NetWorker can recognize and manage a replicated (remote) copy of data and assign unique retention policies to it. This can all be set up to run by schedule at the times chosen as most appropriate by the administrator.NetWorker Management Console (NMC) will provide wizard-based tools to simplify the deployment of the new solution and simply the configuration of backups to Data Domain.NMC uses SNMP traps to capture status information and alerts and has customized panels and reports that reflect the uniqueness of Data Domain.
- Thank you for your time today. To summarize we see three major trends in IT for our customers today: Cloud Architecture Is Ready For Mission Critical Apps – we can ensure More Performance And Easier Management with higher quality of service. Big Data Requires New Approach To Infrastructure – EMC Isilon = Scale Out Infrastructure Standard For Big Data with seamless scalability through a single file system. VMware = Platform For Cloud + Big Data enabling Seamless Mobility And Control Across Applications
- Thank you for your time today. To summarize we see three major trends in IT for our customers today: Cloud Architecture Is Ready For Mission Critical Apps – we can ensure More Performance And Easier Management with higher quality of service. Big Data Requires New Approach To Infrastructure – EMC Isilon = Scale Out Infrastructure Standard For Big Data with seamless scalability through a single file system. VMware = Platform For Cloud + Big Data enabling Seamless Mobility And Control Across Applications
- EMC Consulting Services has SAP knowledge and expertise to help you take a first step on the journey to your cloud. Specifically we can help you break down your SAP software technologies and infrastructure into targeted discussion areas to focus on the priorities for your IT organization today. SAP planning and implementation services for:Analyzing current performance levels and evaluating the use of automated tiered storageUnderstanding where and how virtualization of your SAP Landscape makes senseBusiness Continuity & Disaster Recovery for SAPSAP Resource ManagementAutomated System CopySizing, Landscape Design and ImplementationFinally, how to re-evaluate your infrastructure to be cloud ready migrating your SAP landscape so it is optimized on an x86 virtual infrastructure. EMC Services also provides:Technology deployment services to help plan, design, implement, and optimize our customer’s EMC information infrastructure. Training and certification to help our customer’s staff develop the most up-to-date skills to implement and manage new and more complex IT infrastructures and increasing storage demandManaged Services to fill knowledge, expertise, and resource gaps, and Support services to ensure business continuity and a highly available data environment.Our ecosystem of highly qualified partners extends the breadth and depth of these services across the globehttp://www.emc.com/collateral/services/consulting/h8524-emc-sap-svo.pdf (EMCC Overview for SAP)http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/solution-overview/h8788-sap-flm-so.pdf
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