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SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems:

Update and Specifics
Dietmar Amrein
Senior SAP Solution Architect for MEA and AP
IBM Germany

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SAP HANA Announcement at SAP SAPPHIRE at May 2015

www.news-sap.com/sapphire-now-sap-hana-cloud-platform-digital-economy
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SAP HANA on IBM Power – From Start till To-Date
History - Development activities
 August 2013
SAP initiates Product Development Program for HANA on IBM
Power technology
 December 2013
HANA code optimized compiled/linked (HANA SPS08, SLES11SP2)
 February 2014
All HANA Servers running, IBM code checked in, full function testing
commencing, Power 8 optimization agreed
 June 2014
SaphireNow/Bernd Leukert announces “Test and Evaluation Program” for
selected customers in 3Q 2014
 October 2014  August, 2015:
SAP TechEd && d-code/Bjoern Goerke announces HANA on POWER
GA SAP HANA BW on IBM POWER
SAP Ramp-Up Program” beginning 1Q2015
 December 2015
 November, 2014
BW 7.31+ TEA code ships to customers Support for SAP Suite on HANA and
 March, 2015: HANA Platform Edition SPS 11
SAP Ramp-up opened for customer applications  May 2016
 July 2015: Support for SAP S/4HANA and
SAP Ramp-up successfully closed HANA Platform Edition SPS 12

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 May 2016: SAP S/4HANA is available on Power

2015 / 2016
https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap/support/notes/2218464

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SAP HANA Development: Fully integrated process to ensure
availability on POWER and x86 at the same time

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The Next Generation SAP Business Suite – S/4HANA

SAP customers are here today

New Product
New Data Model
New GUI Fiori

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• One system for operational and analytical transactions:
ERP, SCM, CRM, SRM, PLM …

• HANA has 10 times smaller data footprint

–Split of historical and actual data (4:1)

• Simplified data model with

significantly fewer tables
• No technical data overhead
– No data updates,
inserts instead

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SAP strategy for S/4HANA is to have one DB per landscape
Today: Future with S/4HANA:
• One DB per application • One DB per landscape
• Point-to-point integration (e.g. ETL) • No integration necessary
• Long running queries, e.g. in batch mode • Real time execution – BW included

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 The Motivating Idea: Management Meeting of the Future

Information in Realtime
Anything
Anytime
Anywhere

Source: In-Memory Data Management: An Inflection Point for Enterprise Applications. Hasso Plattner Alexander Zeier ISBN 978-3-642-19362-0

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S/4HANA On Premise – How to get there …

More than 9 years support for AnyDB

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What Customers should do in the next Years

Renew existing IBM Infrastructure

POWER8
Flash Systems

DB2 BLU for SAP BW

or
Orcale 12c In-Memory for SAP BW

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SAP S/4HANA Architecture – 1511 FPS 02

The Digital Core

The Digital Core

“SAP Business Suite”

Source: SAP AG

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Architecture SAP HANA

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SAP HANA (High Performance ANalytic Appliance)
• An in-memory Database
– column oriented
– compressed
– most beneficial for OLAP read queries

• An „Appliance“ ???
– available only on Linux/Intel servers today
– standardized and certified solution stacks
deployable on selected Intel based servers
– TDI  tailored data-center integration
re-use existing IT assets (storage)
– HEC  HANA Enterprise Cloud
subscription based cloud services

• A Platform
– SAP Analytics and ERP applications
– Non-SAP environments
Source: SAP SE

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Traditional x86 HANA Stack Plus HoP Adaptions

Business Applications

GBS
SAP HANA®
ITM

GTS / ITS / STG LS

GPFS
POWER compliant TSM
(scale-out filesystem)
IBM compl. SW
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
RedHat Enterprise Linux

HW Platform
(Server+Storage)

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HANA Components on IBM Power Systems

HANA Production HANA DEV HANA QA

OS SUSE OS SUSE OS SUSE

Power + PowerVM

CPU RAM Storage Network

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 IBM POWER8 Enablement with SLES 11 for SAP Applications SP4
full support for IBM POWER8 (SMT8) and all SAP HANA use cases

Source: SUSE, 04/15

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 Support SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP4

Benefits of Long Term Service Pack Support LTSS

 Additional 12-36 months of service pack support for a total of 3-5 years
 13-year core server platform support plus access to previously released patches
 Extended time for security patches for critical vulnerabilities & maintenance for critical non-security issues

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Technical Details about SAP HANA and IBM Power

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Certified SAP HANA Hardware Directory: IBM Power Systems
http://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/ibm-power-systems.html

For Non-Production:
All POWER7+ and
POWER8

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2188482 - SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: Allowed Hardware
Overview – all you have to know about SAP HANA on POWER
SAP BW on HANA Scale-Up
per POWER LPAR:
S822: 640 GB (1:32)
S822L /BW on HANA
S824x: per
768 GB LPAR:
(1:32)
POWER 8 Model Minimal Core per LPAR Maximal Cores per LPAR E850: S822: 640 GB
1000 GB (1:32)
E870: S824: 768 GB
4000 GB (1:50)
S822 4 20
E880: E850: 1000 GB
4800 GB (1:50)
S822L / S824 / S824L 4 24 E870: 4000 GB
E850 4 32 E880: 4800 GB
E870 4 80
SAP SoH / S4H per POWER
E880 4 96 LPAR Ratio 1:96
S822 / S822L: 1000 GB
S824 / S824L: 2000 GB
E850: 3000 GB
E870: 7680 GB
E880: 9000 GB

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2188482 - SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: Allowed Hardware
Nodes / Sockets Cores and GHz per Maximal Maximal MIN Cores per MAX BW HANA SoH and S/4HANA
System Memory GB Cores per LPAR Cores Memory in GB Memory in GB per
per System Production per LPAR / Ratio C/M LPAR / Ratio C/M
System (NON Prod: 2) LPAR

S822 1 node 3.89 GHz (6) | 6 or 12 1000 20 4 20 640 / 1:32 1000 / 1:96
2 sockets 3.42 GHz (10) | 10 or 20
4.15 GHz (8) | 8 or 16

S822L 1 node 3.42 GHz (10) | 20 1000 24 4 24 768 / 1:32 1000 / 1:96
2 sockets 3.02 GHz (12) | 24
4.15 GHz (8) | 16

S824 1 node 3.89 GHz (6) | 6 or 12 2000 24 4 24 768 / 1:32 2000 / 1:96
2 sockets 4.15 GHz (8) | 8 or 16
3.52 GHz (12) | 24

S824L 1 node 4.15 GHz (8) | 8 or 16 2000 24 4 24 768 / 1:32 2000 / 1:96
2 sockets 3.52 GHz (12) | 24

E850 1 node 3.7 GHz (8) | 32 4000 48 4 32 1000 /1:32 3072 / 1:96
4 sockets 3.35 GHz (10) | 40
3.3 GHz (12) | 48

E870 1 or 2 nodes 4.02 GHz (8) | 64 16000 80 4 80 4000 / 1:50 7680 / 1:96
4 sockets per node 4.19 GHz (10) | 80

E880 1,2 or 4 nodes 4.35 GHz (8) | 128 32000 192 4 96 4800 / 1:50 9000 / 1:96
4 sockets per node 4.19 GHz (10) | 160
4.02 GHz (12) | 192

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 IBM Power Offerings SAP HANA

9T E880

7.68T E870
SoH

3.072T E850

2T S824 / S824L

1T S822 / S822L

1 x 4.8T 16 x 4.8T E880

Analytics

1 x 4T 16 x 4T E870

1 x 1T 16 x 1T E850

1 x 768 16 x 768 S822L / S824L / S824

1 x 640 16 x 640 S822

640 768 1T 2T 3T 4T 8T 16T 32T 64T 80T

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SAP HANA on IBM POWER Virtualization advantage with LPAR
S H H A i L S H H A i L
A A A I 5 i SAP SAP SAP A A A I 5 i SAP SAP SAP
P N N X / n HANA HANA HANA P N N X / n HANA HANA HANA
A A O u DB DB DB A A O u DB DB PROD
A S S x PROD PROD PROD A S S x PROD PROD
P Q D A P Q D A
P A E P P A E P
L V L V

Shared LPARs Dedicated or Ded. Donating LPARs Shared LPARs Ded. Or Ded. Donating LPARs

PowerVM Hypervisor PowerVM Hypervisor

E870 or E880 system E850, S824, S824L, S822,

S822L
VIOS LPARs may be optionally installed and are not being counted towards the LPAR counts above
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2230704

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PowerVM in combination with MDC (SAP Multiple Database Container)

App X App Y

S L H H A i
A i A A I 5
P n N N X /
u A A O
Tenant DB Tenant DB
A x S S SAP HANA SAP HANA
P Q D A
P A E P
DB DB
L V PROD Cross-tenant access PROD

System DB

SAP HANA

Shared LPARs in Pools Dedicated or Dedicated Donating LPARs

PowerVM Hypervisor
Example: Power Systems E870 or E880

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Powerful Flexibility in Virtualization with IBM Power

Donating:
HANA LPAR can give unused CPU
cycles to the Shared LPAR´s

S H H A i L
A A A I 5 i SAP SAP SAP
P N N X / n HANA HANA HANA
A A O u DB DB DB
Resizing:
A S S x PROD PROD PROD HANA LPAR can resized by Cores or any
P Q D A size of Memory (increase or decrease) *
P A E P
L V

Shared LPARs Dedicated Donating LPARs

PowerVM Hypervisor Dynamic LPARs:

LPARs can share CPU cycles and Memory.
Manged by the Power Hypervisor *
Example: E870 or E880 system

*) Due missing functionality in SAP HANA, Memory and Cores changes required a restart of the HANA application

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Certified SAP HANA Hardware Directory: IBM Storage
http://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/enterprise-storage.html#categories=International%20Business%20Machines%20Corporation

New supported 06/2016:

DS8800, DS8870, DS8880, DS8890

A9000, A9000R

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http://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/enterprise-storage.html#categories=International%20Business%20Machines%20Corporation

New supported 06/2016:

IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS)

with
56GB Infiniband
10/40 Gbit Ethernet

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SAP HANA: SAP BW Scale-Out in a Power-Box
• Increasing the number of cores and SMT-threads per LPAR progressively
favours contention and locking/sync overhead within an LPAR.
E880
Max. 192 cores
• For SAP BW on HANA the segmentation of large Power Systems into LPARs xx TB mem.
alleviates these negative effects
48c/2,4TB
–With a CTM of 1:50 and max 4 PROD LPARs per E880 we can support 9,6TB scale-
out HANA system on single box.
48c/2,4TB
 on large servers collocate and consolidate non-PROD HANA workload in Shared
Pool (3+1+2*VIO) 48c/2,4TB

• For other SAP modules not yet supporting HANA scale-out, we have a support 48c/2,4TB
statement of up to 96cores and 9TB phys. Memory per LPAR (E880)

–Lab tests are ongoing to shift this to a higher limit

–Huge data volumes require extensive infrastructure and time to perform tests.

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SAP HANA: Example SAP BW Striped-Scale-Out

E880 E880 E880 E880

Max. 192 cores Max. 192 cores Max. 192 cores Max. 192 cores
xx TB mem. xx TB mem. xx TB mem. xx TB mem.

48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB

Prod Prod Prod Prod
48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB
QA QA QA QA
48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB
Test Test Test Test
48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB 48c/2,4TB
Dev Dev Dev Dev

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IBM Spectrum Protect for ERP is certified for SAP HANA

Current version is IBM Spectrum Protect for ERP 7.1.3

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Support for Symantec NetBackup

NetBackup Connector for SAP HANA has been certified

since 31.05.2016 for HANA on Power
Note that the HANA connector for Veritas NetBackup is
provided by Mindtree Limited (it is a business partner of
Veritas and IBM).

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 Map SAP Sizing
HANA on POWER Technical Manuals results to IBM
• Planning Guide HoP specifics
–features Configuration/Process/Support
and Services guidance
• Implementation Guide
• IBM supplemental Guide to the
"SAP HANA Server Installation Guide“
• All by IBM, supplemental to SAP HANA docs

• All are available through identical TechDocs Link

for IBMers and on www
–Search for Document ID WP102502

• SLES 11.x for SAP Applications Configuration

Guide for SAP HANA (x86 and POWER)
–Attached to SAP Note 1944799 –
“SAP HANA Guidelines for SLES Operating System Installation”

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SAP HANA Documentation & Notes
SAP HANA documentation
SAP Help Portal: http://help.sap.com/hana_platform
 SAP HANA Master Guide
 SAP HANA Installation Guide
 SAP HANA Administration Guide,
 SAP HANA Technical Operations Manual (TOM)

SAP Notes

 2055470 - HANA on POWER Planning and Installation Specifics - Central Note

 2188482 - SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: Allowed Hardware

 2230704 - SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems with multiple - LPARs per physical host

 2235581 SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems

 2218464 - Supported products when running SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

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Dietmar Amrein IBM-Allee 1
Leading SOLAR 71139 Ehningen
(SAP Infrastructure Germany
SOLution ARchitect)
Phone/Mobile
for MEA and AP +49-172-7337273
Dietmar.Amrein@de.ibm.com

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