Sizing mySAP

Business Suite

Susanne Janssen
Performance & Benchmark Group

Contents

Sizing Approaches
Preconditions and assumptions
SAP Quick Sizer

Examples
Sizing CRM

Sizing Employee Self Service

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mySAP Business Suite Deliverables at a Glance

Company/
Organization
boundary
mySAP
Workplace

Marketplace

Business
scenarios

Communities
Hosted
Application

Information and services within

company context
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Web Services
Information and services outside
company context

Sizing Approaches
Based on proven scalability

Performance tests, benchmarks, customer feedback

Applications used

Users

Different user behavior

Throughput (Dialog and Batch)

Quantity structure

Peak times

Load profile during the day

Multiplied by weight factors

Based on

Benchmarks

Performance measurements

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Side step: Other Factors that Influence Sizing

Considered to a certain extent

Load profile

mySAP Business Suite edition

Business processes are

Comparable to tested SAP Standard Application Benchmarks

Optimized for high throughput

Sizing doesn't consider

SAP and Partner

Customer

Special data constellation

Reporting

R/3 Version

Number
of users

Customizing

DB Version

Amount of
Reporting /
Batch

Customer add-ons

Platform, RDBMS

OS Version

Performance /
Sizing

Load profile
Hardware
Customizing

Throughput
Response times

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Reporting
Dialog /
Batch

Example for Load Factors (Release 4.6)

7,00
6,00

Platform & Release dependent

5,00

Rel. CPUUsage /
Dialog
step

4,00

79%

3,00
80%

2,00
81%

1,00

88%

Dialog
Update

6%
6%

0,00

FI

Database

74%
10%
16%

WM

8%

77%
11%
11%

MM

10%
9%

SD

9%
11%

PP

13%

ATO

SAP Business Component (Standard Application Benchmark)

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Characteristics of the Quick Sizer

Available

On the Service Marketplace

24 hours a day, 7 days a week

For customers and partners

For free

Easy-to-use web interface

In the framework of ASAP Road Map
Linked to GoingLive Check

Monitored by monthly Sizing Meeting

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Factors that Influence Sizing

SAP and Partner

Customer
Number
of users

R/3 Version

DB Version

OS Version

Performance /
Sizing

Amount of Reporting
Reporting /
Dialog /
Batch
Batch
Load profile

Hardwar
e
Customizing

Throughput
Response times
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The Sizing Process

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Participating Technology Partners

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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Some Results of the Quick Sizer

Categories

Memory, CPU, disk

SAPS (see published results)

Largest contributors

Helpful to verify business process

Functionality

Largest Indexes

Load profile

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Quick Sizer and Benchmarks

Published Results

http://www.sap.com/benchmark

SAPS

Find an exemplary configuration

Number of
Platform
benchmark
Partner
users

IBM

IBM

255

225

mySAP
Average
Business
dialog
Suite
response
Component time (sec)

SD

SD

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Dialog
steps/
hour
Line
items/
hour

1.95

77,000
(1,280
SAPS)
25,670

1.94

68,000
(1,130
SAPS)
22,670

Operating
DBMS
system Release
Release

WinNT
4.0

WinNT
4.0

Oracle
8.0.4

DB2 UDB
V6.1

R/3
Release

4.0 B

4.0 B

Benchmark
Database &
was
application
conducted
server
in
(Central Server)

Raleigh,
USA

Netfinity 7000
M10, 4-way
SMP, Pentium III
Xeon 550 MHz, 2
MB L2 cache

Toronto,
Canada

Netfinity 7000
M10, 4-way
SMP, Pentium III
Xeon 500 MHz, 2
MB L2 chache

Central
server
memory
(MB)

4,096

4,096

Central
server
CPU
utilization

Date of
publication
(dd/mm/
yyyy)

99%

22/10/1999
Certification
No.
1999033

97%

30/07/1999
Certification
No.
1999020

When Should the Quick Sizer be Used?

Quick
Sizer

Project
Preparation

Prep to Go Live

Blueprint

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Realization

Go Live &
Support

Sizing Beyond the Scope of the Quick Sizer

Analysis in Single-User-Mode

Development or correction system

Performance review

Measurements

CPU, database, memory

Linear extrapolation

Multi-user behavior

Sizing

Multi user load tests

Verify calculations

Verify scalability, parallelization

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Summary and Information

The design of the mySAP Business Suite architecture is the

basis for high scalability

Sizing mySAP Business Suite is possible through sizing the

various mySAP Business Suite elements while ensuring
scalability.

Transparent and consistent sizing methodologies

mySAP Business Suite is well prepared for high volume internet

transaction rates

Useful adresses:
http://service.sap.com/quicksizing
http://service.sap.com/performance
http://service.sap.com/benchmark
http://service.sap.com/sizing

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