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- 1. Delivering value to the SAP Market Cisco and NetApp Ralf Klahr October, 2015 Erik Lillestolen
- 2. 2© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential • Introduction • SAP HANA Appliance on modified Flexpod • SAP HANA TDI Implementation on Flexpod, with HA DT/Biz continuity • SAP HANA with Cisco ACI • Use Case: SAP HANA and Big Data • Call to Action Building SAP Infrastructure on the Flexpod Foundation
- 3. 3© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential FlexPod Business Continues to Accelerate More than 100 Countries $5.6 Billion Revenue6300+ FlexPod Customers 1100+ Partners
- 4. 4© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Built on groundbreaking technology from NetApp and Cisco, FlexPod simplifies and modernizes IT with continuous innovation, delivering unmatched application performance, the broadest support for any cloud strategy, and improved operational efficiency to accelerate data center transformation and business evolution.
- 5. 5© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential UCS-based FlexPod Expanded Portfolio Differentiated architecture and scale points for various deployments For smaller, less dynamic requirements & VAR velocity Target: Primarily MSB Target: Enterprise / Service Provider Massively scalable shared virtual data center infrastructure Dedicated app infrastructure Target: Specialized environments within enterprises Entry level UCS, Nexus, FAS UCS, Nexus, FAS UCS, E-Series, FAS
- 6. 6© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Optimized applications Start with FlexPod! Reduce deployment time and improved performance for SAP, Microsoft and Oracle applications ! Run applications 20x faster with All Flash FAS while leveraging Cisco UCS and over 100 world record benchmarks ! Achieve software-defined, policy-based automated deployment of enterprise apps with Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure! Hybrid cloud Starts with FlexPod! Embrace the benefits of private and hybrid cloud with confidence ! Control how you manage, secure and move data across cloud resources! Simplified IT Starts with FlexPod! Make simplicity a competitive advantage !
- 7. 7© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential FlexPod Next Generation Capabilities All Flash FlexPod Full Stack Design and Configuration Tools Post Implementation Validation Tools Lifecycle Management Policy-Based Application Architectures with Cisco ACI (Microsoft, SAP, Oracle) Unified ROBO/Edge Solutions Single SKU Frameworks Automated Provisioning Support for any Cloud Strategy Data Center Automation with OpenStack, ACI, FastTrack, UCS Director Factory Integration Pre-Rack Half and Full Racks
- 8. 8© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA Appliance
- 9. 9© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential What’s Wrong with Traditional Approaches? • Too many nodes and switches • Complicated management • Higher risk of failure in HA situation • Latency introduced by daisy chaining or additional network layers • Another networking layer required to scale beyond 6 TB (4x1.5TB) • Complex standby node configuration
- 10. 10© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco NetApp FlexPod Approach • Simple scaling up to 32 nodes = 48TB • Simple standby node configuration • Simple network design • No additional networking layer nessesary
- 11. 11© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco UCS Architecture XML API STANDARD API’S Rack Form Factor Fabric Extenders (I/O modules) Industry Standard APIs FABRIC INTERCONNECTS Cisco UCS 6248 XP UCS Manager COMPUTE Blade Form Factor
- 12. 12© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Powerful and Flexible Storage Foundation NetApp FAS8040 • Simplicity • Scalability (plug-and-play storage) • Multiprotocol, multipurpose support • Advanced efficiency, management, and protection software • High availability (non-stop operations) • Disaster recovery support
- 13. 13© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential 4 Socket Nodes - Scale-Out concept with UCS NetApp FAS8040 Cisco N3K Series Switch Cisco UCS 6248 FIs Legend- All VLANs FCOE traffic Admin/Mgmt traffic Inter-node and IP storage traffic Up to 8 UCS B460M4 / FAS8040HA Customer S/W OR UCS C220M4 Management Server ESXi 5.5 Up to 8 UCS C460M4 / FAS8040HA
- 14. 14© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco and NetApp: Scale-Out for SAP HANA • Bare Minimum Components • Cisco UCS (6248 FI, 5108 Chassis and B460M4 blades) • NetApp FAS8040 with 3x DS2246 • One Cisco Nexus 3524 or Nexus 5548 or Nexus 9304 • 2 Management Server for PXE Boot • Scalability from 1+1 min. up to 32+1 blade by blade • Build-In High-Availability • SAP HANA DT with SAP HANA Replication Service
- 15. 15© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Solution Components Cisco Network Fabric 1 Cisco Nexus 3524 Switch For Failover capabilities only C220 Management Server ESX Cisco UCS Platform 2 Cisco UCS 62xxUP Fabric Interconnects 2 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis 4-16+N Cisco UCS B460 M4 Servers plus Cisco Virtual Interface Cards NetApp FAS Series Storage 1-2 NetApp FAS8040Storage Systems
- 16. 16© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco and NetApp: Build to Scale • Simplify switching and networking layers • Streamline management • Add compute capacity, node by node • Add storage capacity or scale throughput • Scale to 40+ nodes and 160+ TB (with 8-to-1 compression) • Best in class ratio compute to storage 8 nodes to one storage unit
- 17. 17© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA TDI
- 18. 18© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA Appliance vs. Tailored Data Center Integration Source SAP AG
- 19. 19© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration - Storage • SAP HANA tailored data center integration is an additional option to the existing appliance model • Well defined packages of Server, Network and Storage • Established IT operation processes have to be adapted slightly • Well defined HW and performance KPIs • End-2-End Solution Support Tailored Datacenter Integration „Appliance“ Model • Reduce hardware and operation cost at installed base • Mitigate risk and optimize time to value by taking more responsibility • Break-Fix Support only from the hardware vendor • Gain additional flexibility in hardware vendor selection * * Please contact for joining pilot phase: [email protected] or [email protected] Source SAP AG
- 20. 20© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Potential Cisco–NetApp Options for TDI Storage • Cisco C460/B460 with • NetApp E-Series • Cisco C460/B460 with • FAS 8040 – FAS8080 • Existing Customer FAS Storage Cluster
- 21. 21© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration - Network • Well defined packages of Server, Network and Storage • Established IT operation processes have to be adapted slightly • Well defined HW and performance KPIs • End-2-End Solution Support • Dedicated Network Switches per HANA SID • Re-Use the Data Center Network for SAP HANA • Mitigate risk and optimize time to value by taking more responsibility • Break-Fix Support from the hardware vendor • Gain additional flexibility in hardware vendor selection * Network HANA Server HANA Server Datacenter Network HANA Server HANA Server Tailored Datacenter Integration „Appliance“ Model * Please contact for joining pilot phase: [email protected] or [email protected] Source SAP AG
- 22. 22© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Network requirements for SAP HANA TDI • HANA Node to HANA Node communication – 10 GbE or better, redundant • HANA Node to Storage communication – 10 GbE or 8 Gb FC or better, redundant • HANA Node to Application or User communication – 1 GbE or better, redundant Optional Networks, can be on a shared 1 GbE / 10 GbE interface • Management Network • Backup Network • others
- 23. 23© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential pre- configured pre- configured pre- configured pre- configured How does Cisco offer Virtual HANA? 42 31 UCS C460 M4 ! Intel Inside XEON 42 31 UCS C460 M4 ! Intel Inside XEON Operating System SLES / RHEL Hypervisor VMware vSphere Hardware UCS C460 Physical Appliance scale-up Virtual Appliance scale-up The bill of material of the physical and virtual appliance is identical! Cisco OEM ESXi 5.5 TDI scale-up and scale-out CVD Cisco provides several "Cisco Validated Designs" for SAP HANA. Implementation can be done by Cisco Advanced Services.
- 24. 24© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA TDI – Use Case #1 • Support for multiple SAP HANA production systems within one UCS • Support for SAP HANA and other Applications in the same UCS • Sample: Run the SAP Application Server together with SAP HANA • Cisco will provide Solution Support • All components are same as listed on the PAM Data Center Network
- 25. 25© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA TDI – Use Case #2 • Remove the Network components from the Solution • Use existing 10 GbE Network devices shared with other applications • Cisco will provide Solution Support if: * • The used network components are from Cisco Data Center Network LAN and SAN * Please contact Cisco for more information [email protected]
- 26. 26© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA TDI – Use Case #3 SAP Applications Microsoft Outlook Sharepoint Desktop Virtualization SAP HANA Microsoft SQL Server Shared Infrastructure to run all Applications
- 27. 27© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential NetApp Technical Report 4290 http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4290.pdf Storage configuration requirements and recommendations for integrating FAS Systems with NFS into an SAP HANA TDI environment
- 28. 28© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA with Cisco ACI
- 29. 29© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential ACI: Translates Application Needs to Network ? • VLAN • IP Address • Subnets • Firewalls • Quality of Service • Load Balancer • Access Lists • Application Tier Policy and Dependencies • Security Requirements • Service Level Agreement • Application Performance • Compliance • Geo Dependencies APPLICATION LANGUAGE NETWORK LANGUAGE APIC
- 30. 30© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Application Centric Converged Infrastructure ACI ready application environment on Flexpod systems Network Compute Storage Hypervisor FlexPod Systems Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Security Network CloudApplication Compute Storage APIC Infrastructure Automation UCS Director Partners Reduced Time to Deployment Simplified Operations Reduced Risk Policy Based Programming Advanced Secure Multi-Tenancy Broad Visibility and Dynamic Responsiveness to Real-Time Events
- 31. 31© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Common Application Network Profile Any Application Anywhere – Physical and Virtual ADC APP DBF/W ADC WEB SLA QoS Security Avail. BalancingAPPLICATION NETWORK PROFILE VIRTUAL NETWORK ACCESS NETWORK LEAFS (9396) API INTEGRATION FlexPod 3FlexPod 5FlexPod 1FlexPod 4FlexPod 6FlexPod 2 APIC
- 32. 32© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential FlexPod Ref Architecture for SAP Solutions • Provide an end-to-end implementation of SAP HANA utilizing the capabilities of the unified infrastructure for Cloud solutions • Provides architecture for SAP HANA solution efficiently virtualizing various compute option from Cisco UCS servers for varied customer use cases • Provide a reliable, flexible and scalable reference design • Integration of Compute, Network and Storage solution. • Rapid provisioning of SAP HANA using UCS Service Profile, Storage clone using NetApp Flexclone • Scalable NetApp storage using cluster Data Ontap, using dedicated cluster switch • Integration of vSphere 5.5 for virtualized HANA support • Multiple HANA instances on shared infrastructure, and application server connecting to HANA DB • Implementation of mixed HANA use case. Scale-Up with BareMetal and Virtualization Option, Scale-Out for BareMetal and Suites on HANA • Scalable architecture with new Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches in standalone mode • Scalable Unified storage for iSCSI and NFS traffic. NetApp FAS 8000 Series • Supports multiple OS RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 & 12
- 33. 33© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA with Cisco ACI Architecture NetApp FAS 8000 Series Storage HANA Scale Up RHEL HANA Scale Up SLES HANA Scale Out Server1 Server2 Virtualization vHANA vHANA vHANA vHANA App Server App Server Cisco UCS Compute Cisco ACI Management Pod UCS B460/B260/B200 UCS C460 M4 UCS C240 M4 UCS C220 M4 Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect Cisco ACI Leaf 01 Cisco ACI Leaf 02 Cisco ACI Spine 01 Cisco ACI Spine 02
- 34. 34© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Application policy simplifies workload mobility and visibility Latency Health Score Isolation Systems Telemetry Tenant 0 Packets dropped Latency Health Score Isolation Systems Telemetry Application 25 Packets dropped APP VISIBILTYAPP MOBILITY
- 35. 35© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA TDI Cisco ACI Flexpod Big Data Use Case
- 36. 36© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential How to collect, transport, store, and analyze the data? © 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential – Limited Use36 AnalyzeStoreCollect Transport Big Data and SAP Data Center IoT
- 37. 37© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Big Data and SAP Collect Rapid Reaction with Fog Data Services © 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential – Limited Use37 ShopFloor Data Rapid Reaction Collect Analyze Reduce React Forward Fog Data Services Data AnalyzeStoreTransportCollect
- 38. 38© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Transport Secure and Reliable with Cisco Technology © 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential – Limited Use38 LAN/WAN Datacenter Secure and Reliable Data Transport High Redundancy High Resiliency Fast Convergence Cisco Industrial Ethernet Switching / Routing / Wireless / Firewalling Cisco Catalyst Switching / Routing / Wireless / Firewalling Cisco Nexus Technologies AnalyzeStoreTransportCollect ShopFloor Big Data and SAP
- 39. 39© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Use BI and Analytics Software © 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential - Internal Use Only39 BI and Analytics Hadoop Cluster SAN Store AnalyzeStoreTransportCollect FlexpodSelectforHadoop Physical servers UCS Director Express for BigData Big Data and SAP
- 40. 40© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Analyze Integration with SAP HANA © 2015 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. NetApp Confidential – Limited Use40 Hadoop Cluster UCS Director Express for BigData FlexpodSelectforHadoop SAN / NAS Physical or virtual servers SAP SAP Landscape Virtualization Management SSC for SAP LVM Snap Manager / Creator Smart Data Access SAP Mobile Device SAP Lumira HANA Studio FlexpodDataCenter E-Series FAS Hadoop Connector SAN Physical servers AnalyzeStoreTransportCollect Big Data and SAP
- 41. 41© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential HANA VORA - SPARK architecture 100 C240 M4 Servers (Hadoop) <------ HDFS ------> YARN Spark VORA Spark VORA HANA smart data access Benefits: - Open Development Interface and Mashup APIs: facilitate better data science by providing ability to merge/co-relate corporate data with Hadoop/Spark, Spark R/ML data easily. - Compiled queries for efficient data analysis and distributed application performance - HANA-Spark adapter delivers enhanced performance and distributed data processing. - Simplify Big Data Ownership: Take advantage of multiple data processing engines for deriving new insights from business and contextual data across Hadoop and HANA tiers. Application Centric Infrastructure
- 42. 42© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential SAP HANA and Hadoop 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! SLOT 1 SLOT 5 SLOT 3 SLOT 7 SLOT 2 SLOT 6 SLOT 4 SLOT 8 ! UC S 5108 OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL SLOT 1 SLOT 5 SLOT 3 SLOT 7 SLOT 2 SLOT 6 SLOT 4 SLOT 8 ! UC S 5108 OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL OK FAIL A03-0300GA2 10K SAS 300GB N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 UCS B460 M4 N20-BBLKD A03-0300GA2 10K SAS 300GB N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 UCS B460 M4 N20-BBLKD A03-0300GA2 10K SAS 300GB N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 UCS B460 M4 N20-BBLKD A03-0300GA2 10K SAS 300GB N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 N20-BBLKD UCS EX M4 UCS B460 M4 N20-BBLKD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 CISCO UCS 6296UP STAT ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 CISCO UCS 6296UP STAT ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 CISCO UCS 6296UP STAT ID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 CISCO UCS 6296UP STAT ID 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! 4 1 5 2 6 3 7 8 UCS C220 M4 Intel Inside XEON Console! .. 6296 FI APIC Controllers APIC 9396PX 9336PQ FAS 8000 B460 C220 Spine Layer Leaf Layer SAP HANA SAP Application Hadoop ClusterStorage Controllers
- 43. 43© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Call to Action
- 44. 44© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential Cisco at NetApp Insight Las Vegas Highlights Monday, Oct. 12 Tuesday, Oct. 13 Wednesday, Oct. 14 Thursday, Oct. 15 Cisco Booth with Meeting Room 5:30 – 7:30 pm 10:00 am – 3:30 pm 10:00 am – 3:30 pm 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Briefing Center Cisco Meeting Room: M10 Keynote Cisco Keynote Speaker 4:15 pm Boot Camps 3223 Building Private and Hybrid Cloud with Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite: Monday at 8:45 am – 10:45 am 3124 FlexPod Portfolio: Monday at 1:30 pm – 3:45 pm Breakout Sessions 3125 New FlexPod Solutions: Tuesday at 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm 3126 FlexPod & ACI Overview & Use Cases: Wednesday at 10:30 am – 11:30 am 3027 FlexPod with SAP HANA and SAP Applications, Wednesday at 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Co-Presenting Sessions 2204 FlexPod Configuration Best Practices for VDIA for All Flash FAS 2197 FlexPod® Solutions with UCS Mini & FAS25xx for Small Data Centers & ROBO 2194 FlexPod with Cisco ACI Deep Dive Meet the Engineer FlexPod Powerhouse 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm NetApp with Cisco Cloud Architecture for Microsoft Cloud Platform 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm FlexPod Management 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
- 46. 46© 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Confidential NetApp FAS Series Storage Cisco UCS C240 Cisco UCS C220 Cisco UCS C460B460/B260/B200 Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects Cisco UCS Compute for SAP Applications Cisco UCS C880 Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch Managed by Cisco UCS ManagerManaged by Cisco UCS Director or other tools MGMT-ESX1 Cisco UCS Performanc e Manager VMware vCenter Server MGMT-ESX2 Cisco UCS Director VMware Update Manager NetApp OnCommand Cisco N1Kv VSM (secondary) UCS Central Required Optional Cisco Nexus1000 V VSM CVD Published UCS Integrated Infrastructure with NetApp