aws re:invent 2016: technical tips for helping sap customers succeed on aws (gpssi402)
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© 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Bill Timm, AWS Solutions Architect
November 29, 2016
Technical Tips for Helping
SAP Customers Succeed on AWS
SI Technical Track: GPSSI402
SAP overview
SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software. 76% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system
€20.8 billion annual revenue (IFRS) in FY2015
More than 82,400 employees in 130+ countries
335,000 customers in 190 countries
87% of Forbes Global 2000 customers are SAP customers
44 years of history and innovation
AWS SAP partnership
- SAP has been an AWS customer since 2008 -
- SAP Global Technology Partner since 2011 -
- First on-demand cloud platform certified by SAP -
Strong partnership with a history of
collaboration and rapid innovation
SAP Customers
SAP solutions supported on AWS
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA
SAP Business Suite
SAP NetWeaver
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Business All-In One
SAP Business One
SAP BusinessObjects
SAP Business
Solutions
SAP HANA
SAP ASE
SAP IQ
SAP Replication Server
SAP Mobile Secure
SAP Mobile Platform
SAP Database &
Mobile Solutions
IBM DB2
SAP MaxDB
SAP HANA
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle Database
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Windows Server
Supported OS &
DB Platforms
SAP Note #1656099 contains the latest information regarding
SAP product, landscape and platform support on AWS
SAP customer AWS use cases
All-in PRD/QAS/DEV migration
Hybrid architecture
DEV & QAS migration to AWS
New solution implementation
BW HANA
Trial / Training / POC systems
SAP DR on AWS
On-Demand infrastructure for…
Upgrades and OS/DB migrations
Proofs-of-concept
Implement and host new SAP
environment on AWS
AWS for SAP DR
Trial SAP solutions on AWS
Existing SAP Customers New SAP Customers
Services for SAP customers
SAP migrations
All-in migration to AWS
SAP HANA migrations
AWS onboarding
Cloud Readiness Assessment
SAP data migration
SAP data replication
AWS managed services
SAP hosting / managed services
Consulting Services Managed Services
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Managed Services
SAP services stack
SAP Hosting /
Managed Services
OS admin / Patching
Storage / file system administration
Backup / Recovery
Infrastructure Monitoring
Infrastructure Security
SAP BASIS / technical admin
SAP patching
SAP upgrades
SAP performance and tuning
SAP monitoring
Post-Go-Live Application Management
Application / Functional Support
Application / Functional Help Desk
SAP user admin / authorizations
Application Implementation
Industry Specialization
Application Configuration
Application Customization
Resell SAP Solutions
Infrastructure Migration
SAP OS/DB Migrations
SAP System / Infra Migrations
Application Customization
Build solutions based on and/or
integrated with SAP technology and
platforms
SAP Application Managed
Services
SAP
Consulting Services
Build, Extend & Develop
SAP Solutions
Implement
SAP Solutions
Sell
SAP Solutions
Managed services models for SAP
Infrastructure
AWS
Managed Services
SAP Hosting /
Managed Services
Infrastructure
Managed Services
for SAP Customer
SAP
CUSTOMER
Infrastructure
AWS
Managed Services
SAP Hosting /
Managed Services
Infrastructure
AWS
Managed Services
SAP Hosting /
Managed Services
Infrastructure
Managed Services
for SAP Partner
SAP Hosting /
Managed Services
Determining possible SAP use cases
Current OS platformWin /
LinuxUNIX
SAP all-in migration (PRD/QAS/DEV) . *
SAP DEV / QAS migration .
SAP DR .
Implement / host new SAP solution . .
SAP data & document archiving . .
SAP legacy system migration . .
SAP training, project, POC, SBX type systems . .
* OS migration required
SAP customers of all sizes, running a wide range of
SAP solutions can benefit from the AWS Cloud
*
Amazon EC2 compute instance families
M4
General
purpose
Compute
optimized
C4
C3
Storage and I/O
optimized
I2
G2
GPU
enabled
Memory
optimized
R3 & X1D2
M3
P2
EC2 compute
Intel ® Xeon E5-26xx v2, v3 & v4 CPUs
• Up to 2.9 GHz, Turbo enabled up to 3.6 GHz
• Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX2)
Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (X1)
• Quad Socket configuration / DDR4 Memory with high memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
• Support for Intel® AVX2 & TSX
• Single Device Data Correction (SDDC +1)
• Up to 128 vCPUs, up to 2TB RAM
Memory Optimized
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
x1.32xlarge 128 1952 20 Gigabit 131,500
x1.16xlarge 64 976 10 Gigabit 65,750
r3.8xlarge 32 244 10 Gigabit 31,920
r3.4xlarge 16 122 High 15,960
r3.2xlarge 8 61 High 7,980
r3.xlarge 4 30.5 Moderate 3,990
r3.large 2 15 Moderate 1,995
See SAP Note 1656099 for additional information
General Purpose
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
m4.10xlarge 40 160 10 Gigabit 47,320
m4.4xlarge 16 64 High 17,712
m4.2xlarge 8 32 High 8,856
m4.xlarge 4 16 High 4,428
m4.large 2 8 Moderate 2,214
Compute Optimized
Name vCPUMemory
(GiB)
Network
BandwidthSAPS
c4.8xlarge 36 60 10 Gigabit 37,950
c4.4xlarge 16 30 High 19,030
c4.2xlarge 8 15 High 9,515
c4.xlarge 4 7.5 High 4,758
c4.large 2 3.75 Moderate 2,379
Certified instances SAPS ratingsH
AN
A
“X1 instances offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance available today”
Designed for SAP HANA
Amazon EC2 X1 instances
Powered by four Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (Haswell)
processors (64 cores / 128 vCPUs)
2TB of DDR4 RAM per instance
High memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
20 Gbps of network bandwidth
10 Gpbs of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS
Specifications
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160518005520/en/Amazon-Web-Services-Announces-Availability-X1-Instances
Amazon EC2 X1 instances
Intel® E7 performance features on X1
Intel® AES-NI feature.
Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel® TSX)
Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2)
Intel® RAS feature on X1
Single Device Data Correction (SDDC +1)
Specifications cont..
X1: SAP HANA powered by AWS
244Gb
1TB
2TB
1TB 14TB4TB …
Scale-out
Scal
e-u
p
Scale-out
2TB x1.32xl
14TB scale-out
1TB x1.16xl
7TB
7TB scale-out
Single node
- OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
- OLTP (incl. S/4HANA & SoH)
- liveCache
- BPC
Scale-out up to 14 TB!
- OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
Based on SPS11 (or later) core-to-memory
relaxation for OLAP, as of SPS11 customers
can make full use of RAM
https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html
R3 4TB scale-out
• SAP HANA Virtual appliance delivery
• SAP Certified Configurations
• Automated infrastructure provisioning for
SAP HANA
• Follows AWS and SAP best practices
• Self service and customizable
• AWS Quick Start reference deployments
are free - pay only for the resources you
use
• Provision Infrastructure and deploy SAP
HANA in minutes vs weeks or months
https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart
AWS SAP HANA Quick Start Reference Deployment
SAP HANA HA and DR on AWS Region BAmazon S3
EC2
Instance
HANA
DR
Region A
- EC2 Auto Recovery
- HANA System Replication - Synchronous
- HANA Database backup
1
3
2
- S3 Cross-Region Replication
- HANA System Replication - Asynchronous
4
5
Availability Zone A Availability Zone B
Amazon
CloudWatchAmazon S3
EC2
Instance
EBSvolumes
HANA
HA
EC2
Instance
EBSvolumes
NW
PRD
EC2
Instance
EBSvolumes
HANA
PRD1
2
3Virtual Private Cloud
4
Region A
High Availability
Scenario 1
Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
Scenario 2
Synchronous HANA System Replication
to standby HANA system in second AZ
Disaster Recovery
Scenario 1
Backup/Recovery – Intra Region
Scenario 2
Backup/Recovery – Cross Region
Scenario 3
Synchronous HANA System Replication to
standby HANA system in second AZ
Scenario 4
Asynchronous HANA System Replication to
standby HANA system in remote Region
5EC2
Instance
NW
DR
1
1
2
3
3 4
2
5
HA & DR solutions for SAP HANA
that differentiate AWS from other
infrastructure options
Coca Cola Icecek
Challenges
Rapidly growing business
Infrastructure reached limits
Poor application performance
Productivity of employees suffering
Goals
Become more efficient and agile
Migration with minimal disruption
Keep integration of >400 systems
including on-premises data warehouse
and transactional systems
CCI produces, distributes and sells beverages under
the Coca Cola brand
Established 1964, head quarter in Istanbul Turkey
Serving 380 million customers
10,000 employees in 25 plants
Annual revenue 2.03 billion Euro
A leading SAP technology service provider
headquartered in Reading, England
AWS partner since 2010
APN Advanced Consulting Partner
Second company globally to achieve the APN SAP
Competency
Keys to Success
Analyzed CCI current infrastructure cost
Created AWS TOC model to show customer cost benefits of
running SAP on AWS
Utilized a mix of On-Demand and Reserved Instances
Scale up capacity to improved end of month reporting
Reduce cost by shutting down dev/test systems when not
in use
Designed a DR solution on AWS reducing RPO/RPO times
from 24hrs/72hrs to 15min/3hrs
Q4 2015 - Executed a POC on AWS
Jan 2016 - Completed a successful migration to AWS with
minimal downtown and impact on the business
Summary
CCI cut the cost to run SAP by 50%-60%
Generation of key financial reports is 4x faster
CCI converted their static environment into an agile
environment
Lemongrass’s combined SAP and AWS experience was
pivotal in this transition
Kellogg’s
Upgrade from ECC 5 to latest version of SAP
R/3 ECC 6
Retire legacy “big iron” hardware
Update and modernize BW and SCM
landscapes also
Downtime minimization, ZBI (Zero Business
Impact) and constrained hardware resources
are unmovable constraints.
Minimize cost, time and risk
Combined need for concurrent OS/DB
migration, byte order conversion, and SAP
version upgrade with NZD.
Founded in 1898 headquartered in Battle
Creek, Michigan,
Operates in 180 countries, serving 380
million customers
2013 reported net sales totaled $14.8 billion
SNP | The Transformation Company
Has nearly three decades of experience
delivering value through technology to
industry-leading companies
Key objectives
Keys to Success
SNP’s combined experience with SAP and AWS
A turn-key end-to-end approach - integrated analysis,
planning, execution and testing
Multiple steps collapsed into one resulting in less risk, cost
and time
Knowledge and experience resides in the SNP migration
software
Close integration with AWS
Summary
Reduction in IT operational overhead and technology debt
Complete landscape uplift and modernization occurred in the
AWS Cloud
Downtime reduced to a few hours
Full turn-key support from provisioning, installation,
migration, transformation and go-live
Uplift of entire landscape including ECC. BW, SCM and GTS
for DEV, PROD, and QA
Zero risk at go-live –source environment was unchanged
Replicating this process globally at Kellogg’s now
Sales programs
AWS Proof of Concept (POC) Program
Provides AWS funding to facilitate qualified APN Partners in
pursuing strategic or enterprise customer projects
SAP HANA X1 Program
A combination of financial incentives and technical assistance to
encourage SAP customers to migrate existing or implement new
SAP HANA based solutions on AWS
APN SAP Competency
The AWS Competency Program is designed to provide AWS customers with top quality APN Partners
SAP Competency Partners have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven success in helping customers implement, migrate, and manage SAP applications on the AWS Cloud
SAP Competency Partners
Call to action
SAP Partners Non-SAP Partners
Create a plan to identify SAP on
AWS opportunities
Work with the AWS SAP team to
build an SAP strategy
Proactively build relationships with
SAP partners
Create AWS optimized solutions
vs. just lift & shift
Leverage the multiple Amazon
EC2 purchasing options
Incorporate a POC into every
opportunity
Additional information and help
SAP on AWS Whitepapers
SAP Test Drives & Trials
SAP on AWS Case Studies
Find AWS / SAP Partners
AWS Credit Promotions
http://aws.amazon.com/sap
Contact the AWS SAP Sales, SA,
and PDM teams for assistance with
anything related to SAP on AWS
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