SOLUTION PROFILE Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver Solutions for Real-Time Business Drive Real-Time Decisions With Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform Enable growth, resilience and time to value. n Incrementally grow from small to very large scale systems, leveraging the same infrastructure. n Enable the highest reliability and availability with resilient architecture. n Minimize capital and operating expenditure (capex and opex) with rapid deployment and superior consolidation. Organizations are increasingly relying on business intelligence and analytics to make smarter decisions. However, the growth in data sources has hampered the delivery of timely results. Knowledge workers often have to wait hours if not days to get reports. Worse UCP for SAP HANA Video VIEW yet, traditional data warehouse limitations often result in aggregate or sample data to perform analytics, which can lead to inaccurate or best-guess results. To solve these challenges, Hitachi Data Systems and SAP offer an integrated platform that drives real-time reporting and analytics. Whether striving to create personalized customer experiences, optimize operations or launch innovations, the combined Hitachi Data Systems and SAP solution supports smarter decisions at the speed of business. Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver Real-Time Analytics and Actionable Information Hitachi Data Systems and SAP have built upon their strategic partnership formed two decades ago to deliver analytics solutions for the enterprise. Now, your organization can eliminate barriers to fast, informed decision processing with SAP HANA software running
SOLUTION PROFILE on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform (UCP for SAP HANA). Representing the power of Hitachi engineering, Unified Compute Platform for SAP HANA combines outstanding enterprise-class reliability and scalability to deliver the highest value for SAP HANA environments. We believe UCP for SAP HANA is a rapid, reliable and easily scalable solution, which will be able to consistently handle our dynamic workloads, no matter what. Andreas Kranabitl, SPAR Information & Communication Service GmbH With SAP HANA platform s innovative in-memory database enabling analysis of massive data sets, you can rely on Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA to accelerate reporting and query responses. Your business users will have instant access to knowledge at their fingertips to make more informed and timely decisions. Realize Faster Time to Value With a Factory Tested and Integrated Platform Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is a comprehensive deployment environment for SAP HANA contained within a single enclosure. The combination of enterprise-class storage systems, compute blades and networking components simplifies deployment and helps ensure predictable results. Today, there are two models available, Hitachi UCP 4000 and UCP 6000. UCP 4000 is based on Intel Xeon E7-8880 v2 and the UCP 6000 is based on Intel Xeon E7-8880v3. The solutions combine Hitachi Compute Blade server technology and enterprise-class storage, Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), with leading network components from Brocade. The solutions are factory tested and integrated (rack and stack) and shipped from Hitachi data center ready to be deployed in your organization s environment. With end-to-end hardware and software integration helping to streamline complex tasks, your organization will be able to unlock answers and enable breakthroughs, faster than ever before. Two deployment models are available for UCP for SAP HANA: scale up and scale out. The scale-up offering is ideal for running SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA, proof of concept, and development and test environments. Scale-up configurations are supported in bare metal as well as virtual environments with VMware vsphere. Hardware partitioning with Hitachi Compute Blade logical partitioning (LPAR) is also supported. HDS offers extensive flexibility and scalability with over 25 scale-up configurations. Tables 1 and 3 highlight the range of scale-up configurations offered today. To scale out, Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA supports up to 48TB of platform memory, which makes it ideal for larger missioncritical SAP HANA implementations. Tables 2 and 4 provide UCP for SAP HANA scaleout specifications. Hitachi is certified for support for up to 56 active nodes (112TB for UCP 4000 and 168TB for UCP 6000) and standby nodes. Gain Freedom and Flexibility With Tailored Data Center Integration The SAP HANA tailored data center integration (TDI) program offers another approach to deploying SAP HANA. With TDI, you have more freedom and flexibility in configuring the layers for SAP HANA, depending on your existing data center layout and your design requirements. You ll be better positioned to stay within your IT budget, shorten implementation cycles, and enable improved consumption of hardware innovations to drive the adoption of SAP HANA. Organizations using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), VSP G200, VSP G400, VSP G600, VSP G1000 and HUS VM can gain these benefits. All storage systems are certified for deploying SAP HANA via the TDI program. By re-using any of these Hitachi storage systems in the deployment, organizations can leverage established operational processes, reducing capex and opex, and mitigating risks. Benefit From Mainframe-Class Performance and Scalability The SAP HANA platform was designed to deliver instantaneous business insight from extremely large data sets, along with rich functionality to conduct hypothetical what if analysis. While critical for making decisions at the speed of business, real-time analytics can place significant demands on the host. Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is ideally suited to address those hefty demands. Delivering futureproof scalability and investment protection, the infrastructure allows for easy expansion of processing and storage to accommodate additional SAP HANA end users and larger SAP HANA data volumes. The processing engine behind Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is Hitachi Compute Blade, an enterprise-class blade server platform equipped with two Intel Xeon processors E7 family per blade. With features such as symmetric multiprocessing and native logical partitioning commonly found in mainframes, the platform delivers outstanding, enterprise-class performance. Highly cost-effective in terms of capex and opex, Hitachi Compute Blades integrate network, power and server resources into a single, space-efficient, flexible solution. The rack-mountable chassis houses blade modules and provides for I/O versatility with internal switches and connectivity to enterprise solid-state flash storage and persistent data storage. Ensure 24/7 Availability of Demanding and Data- Intensive Environments Companies that rely on SAP HANA to more intelligently run business require data to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. SAP and Hitachi are satisfying these requirements by ensuring uninterrupted operations with backup, recovery and disaster tolerance solutions. Hitachi provides high-availability technologies in both its server and storage components of UCP for SAP HANA.
3 TABLE 1. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 4000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: SCALE-UP Small Medium Large Hitachi Compute Blade 500 1x Hitachi CB520X B1 2x Hitachi CB520X B1 4x Hitachi CB520X B1 CPU Family Intel Xeon E7-8880 v2 CPUs/Cores 2/30 4/60 8/120 128GB 512GB: Data Mart, Business Warehouse on HANA (BWoH) and Suite on HANA (SoH) 768GB 1.5TB: SoH Only 128 GB 1.0TB: 1.5 TB 3TB: SoH Only 256GB, 512GB 2TB: 3TB 6TB: SoH Only Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) Disk Storage Ethernet Networking Host Bus Adapters Software Virtualization Log: 8 x 600GB Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) (Log) Data: 24 x 600GB SAS 10k Data: 24 x 600GB SAS 10k 3TB: 24 x 600GB 4TB: 32 x 600GB 6TB: 48 x 600GB 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Onboard CNA 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel VMware vsphere 5.5: 4-Socket 2-Blade 1TB Single VM per Physical Server (Production) VMware vsphere 5.5: 4-Socket 2-Blade Multiple VM per Physical Server (Nonproduction) Hitachi Compute Blade logical partitioning (LPAR): Multiple VM with 1S or 2S and different memory options can be configured per Physical Server for production environments (Controlled Availability) 2-Socket 1-Blade: Up to 2LPARs 4-Socket 2-Blade: Up to 4LPARs 8-Socket 4-Blade: Up to 8LPARs TABLE 2. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 4000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: CONVERGED SCALE-OUT With 1TB Nodes SAP HANA Platform: Nodes Quantity 2 16 With 2TB Nodes Processors/Cores Up to 64/960 Up to 128/1920 Up to 16TB; support beyond 16TB possible Up to 32TB; support beyond 32TB possible Storage Hitachi Unified Storage VM Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Ethernet Networking (gigabit Ethernet: GbE) SAP HANA High Availability Disaster Tolerance High-Speed Backup Operating System Redundant and bonded 10GbE 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for inter-cluster and 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for HANA customer uplink Management: 1GbE LAN pass through modules, 1 x Brocade ICX 6430
SOLUTION PROFILE Hitachi Compute Blades reduce the risk of unplanned downtime of the SAP HANA platform with its sophisticated, built-in reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features. For reliability, the chassis is fully redundant, including two management modules for redundancy. Each module supports an independent management LAN interface from the data network for remote and secure management of the chassis, and blades and components are hot swappable. In terms of storage high availability, backup and recovery, the scale-out architecture employs Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), Symantec NetBackup and CommVault Simpana. Using HNAS as a staging area provides high speed in system backups (up to 500MB/sec) without performance impact to SAP HANA. Hitachi also supports the SAP HANA Backint API with Symantec NetBackup. This solution provides your company with an option to leverage your existing backup infrastructure to protect against data loss due to failure or corruption. Hitachi solutions for SAP HANA support both synchronous and asynchronous disaster tolerance. The synchronous solution is based on Hitachi TrueCopy and the asynchronous option is supported with Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR). The Hitachi storage replication software delivers 24/7 mission-critical access to the SAP HANA platform if the primary SAP HANA system becomes unavailable. Because your employees, vendors and customers are relying on constant availability, SAP and Hitachi are committed to ensuring your IT environment never lets them down. Use Case Study for Real-Time Business Analytics Challenge While business growth can present new revenue-generating opportunities, it can also present challenges on how to best manage the simultaneous growth in data. Asia Capital Reinsurance Group (Asia Capital Re) faced this situation as its data grew from about 500GB in 2007 to 30TB. Data volume was projected to grow to 200TB within the next five years. Therefore, Asia Capital Re needed to ensure that its data management capabilities could provide seamless and uninterrupted support as the company continued to evolve. The Singapore-based The combination of SAP HANA and Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA delivers the compute and storage performance and high throughput that we need to make smarter business decisions, faster. By dramatically reducing the traditional delay between operations and analytics, it enables us to gain near-real-time insight and information. Alvin Lim, Senior Vice President Information Technology, Asia Capital Reinsurance Group
5 TABLE 3. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 6000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: SCALE-UP Small Medium Large Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 1x Hitachi CB520X B2 2x Hitachi CB520X B2 4x Hitachi CB520X B2 CPU Family Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3 CPUs/Cores 2/36 4/72 8/144 128GB 768GB: Data Mart, Business Warehouse on HANA (BWoH) and Suite on HANA (SoH) 1GB 1.5TB: SoH Only 128GB 1.5TB: 2.0TB 3.0TB: SoH Only 256GB, 512GB 3.0TB: 4.0TB 6.0TB: SoH Only Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G200 (VSP G200) Disk Storage Ethernet Networking Host Bus Adapters Software Log: 8 x 600GB Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) 1TB: 8 x 600GB 1.5TB: 16 x 600GB 1TB: 8 x 600GB 2TB: 16 x 600GB 3TB: 24 x 600GB 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) on PCI-Express 16Gb/sec Fibre Channel 1TB: 8 x 600GB 2TB: 16 x 600GB 3TB: 24 x 600GB 4TB: 32 x 600GB 6TB: 48 x 600GB TABLE 4. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 6000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: CONVERGED SCALE-OUT With 1.5TB Nodes SAP HANA Platform: Nodes Quantity 2 16 Processors/Cores 2 node 8/144 Up to 16 node 64/1152 Up to 24TB; support beyond 24TB possible With 3TB Nodes 2 node 16/288 Up to 16 node 128/2304 Up to 48TB; support beyond 48TB possible Storage Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G800 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Ethernet Networking (gigabit Ethernet: GbE) SAP HANA High Availability Disaster Tolerance High-Speed Backup Operating System Redundant and bonded 10GbE 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for inter-cluster and 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for HANA customer uplink Management: 1 x Brocade ICX 6430
SOLUTION PROFILE independent reinsurance group turned to two established partners, SAP and Hitachi Data Systems, for a solution. Solution With the goal of consolidating its data warehouses, reducing data duplication and establishing a big data analytics foundation, Asia Capital Re refreshed its IT road map. The company centered on the SAP HANA platform to gain a single integrated environment for accessing current information for near-immediate analysis. To optimize performance and scalability of its consolidated analytics platform, Asia Capital Re selected Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform. Benefits Scalability: Whenever Asia Capital Re needs to scale, they simply upgrade by adding blades instead of having to replace the entire compute and storage appliance fabric. Performance: By dramatically reducing traditional delays between operations and analytics, the company is gaining nearreal-time insights and information within 45 minutes versus days. Efficiency: With less manpower required to manage its infrastructure, the company can reassign resources to higher value tasks. The deep integration of SAP HANA software and Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA gives your organization the basis to implement realtime business intelligence across your enterprise. Summary: Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA Powers Real-Time Business The era of real-time analytics is here. Now your organization can trust SAP and Hitachi to more effectively manage your massive and ever-growing data stores. The deep integration of SAP HANA software and Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA gives your organization the basis to implement realtime business intelligence across your enterprise. Offering a highly scalable SAS architecture that grows with your business needs and delivers superior reliability and availability, UCP for SAP HANA is ideally suited to help your company turn data into actionable information. By delivering a precertified combination of SAP and Hitachi components, we help your organization to realize a streamlined implementation and stay focused on your business goals. Whether your organization is striving to deliver more personalized customer experiences, optimize operations or bring new innovations to market, choose SAP and Hitachi. We can empower your stakeholders to make more informed, faster decisions. We help you get real-time data into their hands, exactly when they need it most. Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver the Platform for Real- Time Business Go to http://www.hds.com/go/sap to learn more. Corporate Headquarters 2845 Lafayette Street Santa Clara, CA 95050-2639 USA www.hds.com community.hds.com Regional Contact Information Americas: +1 866 374 5822 or info@hds.com Europe, Middle East and Africa: +44 (0) 1753 618000 or info.emea@hds.com Asia Pacific: +852 3189 7900 or hds.marketing.apac@hds.com HITACHI is a trademark or registered trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. TrueCopy is a trademark or registered trademark of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks, and company names are properties of their respective owners. SP-175-G DG September 2015