digesting sapphire

Digesting Sapphire - Panel Discussion with Cisco’s SAP Center of Excellence

Success Story – Cisco’s Internal SAP HANA Deployment

Drew Iacone – Global Sales Strategy for SAP on Cisco

Rajiv Thomas – Global Technical Strategy for SAP on Cisco

Saroj Mohapatra - Global Technical Strategy for SAP on Cisco

May 20, 2015

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Safe Harbor Statement

The content and commentary in this presentation and associated webinar is intended to be accurate and directionally representative of SAP's Best Practices and Product Strategy. There is however a degree of subjectivity in any effort to interpret SAP from a sizing and capacity planning perspective.

Therefore, it is strongly encouraged to request a "HANA Technical Academy" Briefing and Workshop with SAP, Cisco, and your preferred Storage Vendor at the SAP Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) or the SAP Competency Center:

Spend 1-2 Days with true SAP Subject Matter Experts

Latest Product Roadmaps and Solution Planning with SAP and your End-to-End SAP Technology vendors

Hands-on with HANA (Several Technical Scenarios including HA/DR, Hadoop, ILM, and Security Integrations)

Locations: Palo Alto (California, USA), São Paulo (Brazil), Waldorf (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Bangalore (India), Shanghai (China), Singapore, and Tokyo (Japan).


1. What is SAP’s S/4HANA Vision and Roadmap? – March 4, 2015 (done)

2. Deploying HANA via TDI – March 18, 2015 (done)

3. Understanding HANA Containers vs vHANA – April 15, 2015 (done)

4. Digesting Sapphire – May 20, 2015 (Today)

5. SAP Technical Upgrades - Best Practices and Lessoned Learned from Cisco Advanced Services on Deploying HANA via TDI – June 17, 2015

Educational Webinar Series – Wednesday at 10a PDT


Links to the Recorded Content and Slideshares

Find the content from

cisco.com/go/sap

Or directly on the Cisco

Build & Price Page for SAP

https://buildprice.cisco.com/sap



Cisco Live – June 7-11 (San Diego, CA)

http://www.ciscolive.com/


A. Digesting Sapphire Panel Discussion1. Keynotes – What did we hear?

2. New SAP-level Innovations featured

3. New SAP Ecosystem-level Innovations featured

4. New Cisco Innovations featured at Sapphire

5. What do we expect to see featured at TechEd (formerly d-code)?

B. SAP HANA at Cisco Success Story – featured at SapphireFrom 2TB to 20TB of HANA via TDI. Starting with 200 Users, 1 Use Case, and 1 Billion Records three years ago and expanding to now 10,000 Users, ~10 Use Cases, and 6 Billion Records

C. Architecture for HANA and S/4HANA via TDI – featured at SapphireRun Production, Non-Production, HANA, and Non-HANA workloads together with Logical Isolation – HANA via TDI

New End-to-end Configurations for HANA via TDI that now included Storage (NetApp, EMC, IBM, and Nimble)

Today’s Agenda


A. Customer Success and MomentumNine out of the Ten customers referenced during SAP’s Keynotes are current Cisco UCS Customers

B. S/4HANA is Lean and Agile10x Smaller Footprint – meaning less Hardware and much lower TCO. OLTP/OLAP Combo with Optimizations

C. Simple Path S/4 adoptionSoH was first introduced in late 2013. The upgrade path(s) are becoming more clear

Panel Discussion: Keynotes – What did we hear?

Webex Recording of Panel Discussion - http://tinyurl.com/mvb5vbv



A. Increased focus on HadoopStronger more defined integrations from SAP into Hadoop. Take-out Cost, Take-out Complexity

B. VMware via Controlled AvailabilityJust because there were no major announcements made by VMware doesn’t mean the virtualization story was not there

Controlled Availability vs General Availability vs Ramp-up. Things to know and keep in Mind

C. Simple with all 26 Industry Releases. Power of OLTP/OLAP ComboThe Simple portfolio is starting to come into focus (Finance, Logistics, etc.)

Real-world use cases made possible by OLTP/OLAP combo. Simulations and Predictive Analytics on the fly

This does NOT replace the need for a Next Generation EDW (powered by HANA essentially stand alone)

Panel Discussion: New SAP-level Innovations




A. Linux for SAPSUSE and RedHat extend the value of their enterprise Linux distributions for SAP and SAP HANA

B. Virtustream’s Cloud-first/Hybrid-Cloud Story & New TDI OptionsRapid Time to Value and Extensibility enabled by their Orchestration technology layered our Cisco Powered Clouds

C. Cisco ACI Partners

Panel Discussion: New Ecosystem-level Innovations




A. Programmable Infrastructure and ACI

B. Hybrid-Cloud and Reference Models for HANA and S/4HANA via TDI

C. Next Generation Intel-based Certifications and Roadmap

Panel Discussion: New Cisco Innovations Featured




A. Mainstream Adoption of HANA – learning curve!

B. TDI Deployment Models are HOT – how to?

C. HANA Containers and VMware - nuances

Panel Discussion: What to expect at TechEd?




SAP HANA at Cisco Success Story• Cisco’s internal success and journey from 2TB to 20TB

• Starting with 200 users, 1 Use Case, and 1 Billion Records three years ago and growing to now 10,000 users, ~10 Use Cases, and 6 Billion Records

Run the Business Dashboards for Sales

Weekly Sales Forecasting Process

360-Degree Customer View Dashboard

Strategy & Planning Analysis

Increase Attach Rates and Renewal Rates for Support Contracts

Integration into 360-Degree Customer View to Unify Product and Services Sales

End-to-End Visibility Across Entire Supply Chain

Improve Order cycle time for Manufacturing and Distribution of Cisco Products

Staffing and Product Development Strategy Based on full Product Lifecycle Costing

Integration of Service Case History (Cisco TAC) into Analysis

Real-time visibility in Sales Discounting

Discount Guidance and Pricing Analytics

Global and Regional Partner Organization Reporting (Channels)

Partner Incentive and Performance Analysis

ProductSales

ServicesSales

SupplyChain

ProductEngineering

ChannelsSales

Commerce Pricing

SAP HANA at Cisco - Use Cases

Functional Architecture – SAP HANA at Cisco

Sales Pipeline

(Every Hour)

Sales Forecast

(Every 5 Minutes)

Sales Bookings

(Every 15 minutes)

ClientAccess

Self-Service Analytics

IT Authored Dashboards & Reports

Oracle CRM Support Tickets &Service Contracts

(Daily)

Excel Spreadsheet Feeds

ERPSupply Chain Data

(Every 30 minutes)

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ERP EDW

ETL Off-load for EDW

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Technical Architecture – SAP HANA at Cisco

HANA Cluster 1: In-bound Writes and Dashboards

10 x UCS B460M48+2 Configuration8 TB Usable RAM

TDI

Storage

Nexus 3000

UCS Fabric UCS Fabric

HANA Cluster 3: Supply Chain Optimization


TDI

Storage

Nexus 3000

HANA Cluster 2: Data Exploration/Information Discovery


TDI

Storage

Nexus 3000


SAPSmart Data Access

SAP Business Objects / Non-HANA

N+1 Virtualized UCS Blade Servers

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Where to find the full SAP HANA at Cisco Storyhttps://buildprice.cisco.com/sap



Cisco offers a complete portfolio of certified solutions for SAP and SAP HANA

Deploying HANA and S/4HANA via TDI on Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure Solutions


Cisco offers a Complete Portfolio for HANA – Appliance & TDI Scale-up to 8-socket before you Scale-out | Analytics at 2+TB | Transactional/Suite (SoH) at 6TB

C460 M4

(2-4s Appliance Workhorse. 80+% SoH)

B200 M3/M4*

(2s TDI Workhorse on Intel E5 – 80+% SoH)

B460 M4

(4s TDI Workhorse for SoH and Scale-out)

C880 M4

(8s Analytics Workhorse)

(~10% of SoH-classic)

Then Scale-out!

Scale-up80+% of SoH-classic

fits into 2-4 socket

Compute Nodes

Analytics80+% fits into 2-7TB

Clusters (1-8 Nodes)

* NEW! Mainly for HANA via TDI, Cisco also certified the

B260M4 (2s x E7) and the C220/C240M4 (2s x E5)

Single-Node EDW

Architecture only

advised for low/slow

growth scenarios


SAP on UCS Integrated InfrastructureCisco Validated Designs (CVDs) with NetApp (FlexPod), EMC (vBlock/VCE), and IBM (VersaStack)

• Tested for Hardware Interoperability• Compute and Network Fabric from Cisco

• Storage from NetApp, EMC, IBM, and soon Nimble

• Hypervisors from VMware, Microsoft, and Red Hat

• Forward and Backward compatibility promise

• Detailed Documentation and Design Guides• Foundation CVDs (IaaS level) for FlexPod, VSPEX, VersaStack

• Extension CVDs (IaaS level) for Advanced Security and Secure Enclaves

• Extension CVDs (IaaS level) for Disaster Recovery or ‘Workload Mobility’

• Additional SAP Documentation and Testing• Extension CVDs (PaaS level) for SAP HANA via TDI (replacing Whitepapers)

• Additional Documentation: Best Practices, Technical Whitepapers, and ‘How

to’ implement Guides Storage, VMWare, etc… on UCS

• Reference Configurations (Small, Medium, Large) for Simple Sizing

• End-to-End Solution Support from Cisco!• Compute, Network, Third Party Storage

• Bare Metal OS, Through the Hypervisor, Into the Guest OS

SAP’s ‘S4HANA’ Vision runs Best

on UCS Integrated Infrastructure


SAP Experience on Cisco Build & Price

One-Stop Shop for the ‘How to’, ‘How Much’, and ‘Who Else’ Questions


www.cisco.com/go/sap

• Main Landing Page for SAP on UCS

• Links to SAP page on Cisco Build & Price

buildprice.cisco.com/sap

• Featured Promotions, Certified HANA Configurations, Real-World Reference Configurations (including Third Party Storage)

• Full listing of the Customer Success Stories for SAP on UCS Integrated Infrastructure (on FlexPod, on vBlock, etc…).

• Aggregated and Organized information about the Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for SAP

www.cisco.com/go/ucs

• More information on Cisco UCS

http://www.cisco.com/go/sap

http://www.cisco.com/go/ucs

Thank you.

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