Drive Real-Time Decisions With Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform
Enable growth, resilience and time to value.
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Incrementally grow from small to very large scale
systems, leveraging the same infrastructure.
nEnable the highest reliability and availability with
resilient architecture.
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Minimize capital and operating expenditure (capex
and opex) with rapid deployment and superior
consolidation.
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Organizations are increasingly relying on business intelligence and analytics to make smarter decisions. However, the growth in data sources has ham-pered the delivery of timely results. Knowledge workers often have to wait hours if not days to get reports. Worse
yet, traditional data warehouse limitations often result in aggregate or sample data to perform analytics, which can lead to inaccurate or “best-guess” results. To solve these challenges, Hitachi Data Systems and SAP offer an integrated platform that drives real-time reporting and analytics. Whether striving to create personalized customer experiences, optimize opera-tions or launch innovaopera-tions, the combined Hitachi Data Systems and SAP solution supports smarter decisions at the speed of business.
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver
Real-Time Analytics and Actionable
Information
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP have built upon their strategic partnership formed two decades ago to deliver analytics solutions for the enterprise. Now, your organization can eliminate barriers to fast, informed decision processing with SAP HANA software running
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver Solutions
for Real-Time Business
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engineering, Unified Compute Platform for SAP HANA combines outstanding enterprise-class reliability and scalability to deliver the highest value for SAP HANA environments.
With SAP HANA platform’s innovative in-memory database enabling analysis of massive data sets, you can rely on Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA to accelerate reporting and query responses. Your business users will have instant access to knowledge at their fingertips to make more informed and timely decisions.
Realize Faster Time to Value
With a Factory Tested and
Integrated Platform
Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is a compre-hensive deployment environment for SAP HANA contained within a single enclosure. The combination of enterprise-class storage systems, compute blades and networking components simplifies deployment and helps ensure predictable results. Today, there are two models available, Hitachi UCP 4000 and UCP 6000. UCP 4000 is based on Intel Xeon E7-8880 v2 and the UCP 6000 is based on Intel Xeon E7-8880v3. The solutions combine Hitachi Compute Blade server technology and enterprise-class storage, Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM) and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), with leading network components from Brocade. The solutions are factory tested and integrated (rack and stack) and shipped from Hitachi data center ready to be deployed in your organization’s environment. With end-to-end hardware and software integration helping to streamline complex tasks, your organization will be able to unlock answers and enable breakthroughs, faster than ever before.
Two deployment models are available for UCP for SAP HANA: scale up and scale out. The scale-up offering is ideal for running SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA, proof of concept, and development and test environ-ments. Scale-up configurations are supported
functionality to conduct hypothetical “what if” analysis. While critical for making deci-sions at the speed of business, real-time analytics can place significant demands on the host. Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is ide-ally suited to address those hefty demands. Delivering futureproof scalability and invest-ment protection, the infrastructure allows for easy expansion of processing and storage to accommodate additional SAP HANA end users and larger SAP HANA data volumes.
The processing engine behind Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA is Hitachi Compute Blade, an enterprise-class blade server platform equipped with two Intel Xeon processors E7 family per blade. With features such as symmetric multiprocessing and native logical partitioning commonly found in mainframes, the platform delivers out-standing, enterprise-class performance. Highly cost-effective in terms of capex and opex, Hitachi Compute Blades integrate network, power and server resources into a single, space-efficient, flexible solution. The rack-mountable chassis houses blade modules and provides for I/O versatility with internal switches and connectivity to enterprise solid-state flash storage and persistent data storage.
Ensure 24/7 Availability
of Demanding and
Data-Intensive Environments
Companies that rely on SAP HANA to more intelligently run business require data to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. SAP and Hitachi are satisfying these requirements by ensuring uninterrupted operations with backup, recovery and
easily scalable solution, which will be able to consistently
handle our dynamic workloads, no matter what.
Andreas Kranabitl, SPAR Information & Communication Service GmbH
HDS offers extensive flexibility and scalability with over 25 scale-up configurations. Tables 1 and 3 highlight the range of scale-up con-figurations offered today.
To scale out, Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA supports up to 48TB of platform memory, which makes it ideal for larger mission- critical SAP HANA implementations. Tables 2 and 4 provide UCP for SAP HANA scale-out specifications. Hitachi is certified for support for up to 56 active nodes (112TB for UCP 4000 and 168TB for UCP 6000) and standby nodes.
Gain Freedom and Flexibility
With Tailored Data Center
Integration
The SAP HANA tailored data center integra-tion (TDI) program offers another approach to deploying SAP HANA. With TDI, you have more freedom and flexibility in config-uring the layers for SAP HANA, depending on your existing data center layout and your design requirements. You’ll be better positioned to stay within your IT budget, shorten implementation cycles, and enable improved consumption of hardware innova-tions to drive the adoption of SAP HANA. Organizations using Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), VSP G200, VSP G400, VSP G600, VSP G1000 and HUS VM can gain these benefits. All storage systems are cer-tified for deploying SAP HANA via the TDI program. By re-using any of these Hitachi storage systems in the deployment, organi-zations can leverage established operational processes, reducing capex and opex, and mitigating risks.
With 1TB Nodes With 2TB Nodes
SAP HANA Platform: Nodes Quantity 2 – 16
Processors/Cores Up to 64/960 Up to 128/1920
Memory Up to 16TB; support beyond 16TB possible through custom engagements
Up to 32TB; support beyond 32TB possible through custom engagements
Storage Hitachi Unified Storage VM Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Ethernet Networking (gigabit Ethernet:
GbE)
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nRedundant and bonded 10GbE 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for inter-cluster and 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for HANA customer uplink
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nManagement: 1GbE LAN pass through modules, 1 x Brocade ICX 6430
SAP HANA High Availability Yes
Disaster Tolerance Yes
High-Speed Backup Yes
Operating System n■SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications ■
nRed Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA
Small Medium Large
Hitachi Compute Blade 500 1x Hitachi CB520X B1 2x Hitachi CB520X B1 4x Hitachi CB520X B1
CPU Family Intel Xeon E7-8880 v2
CPUs/Cores 2/30 4/60 8/120
Memory 128GB – 512GB: Data Mart, Business Warehouse on HANA (BWoH) and Suite on HANA (SoH) 768GB – 1.5TB: SoH Only
128 GB – 1.0TB:
Data Mart, BWoH and SoH 1.5 TB – 3TB: SoH Only
256GB, 512GB – 2TB: Data Mart, BWoH and SoH 3TB – 6TB: SoH Only Hitachi Unified Storage VM
(HUS VM) Disk Storage
Log: 8 x 600GB Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) (Log)
Data: 24 x 600GB SAS 10k
Log: 8 x 600GB SAS Data: 24 x 600GB SAS 10k
Log: 8 x 600GB SAS Data (10k SAS Drives):
■ n3TB: 24 x 600GB ■ n4TB: 32 x 600GB ■ n6TB: 48 x 600GB Ethernet Networking 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Onboard CNA
Host Bus Adapters 8Gb/sec Fibre Channel
Software n■SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications ■
nRed Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA
Virtualization n■VMware vSphere 5.5: 4-Socket 2-Blade 1TB Single VM per Physical Server (Production) ■
nVMware vSphere 5.5: 4-Socket 2-Blade Multiple VM per Physical Server (Nonproduction) ■
nHitachi Compute Blade logical partitioning (LPAR): Multiple VM with 1S or 2S and different memory options can be configured per Physical Server for production environments (Controlled Availability)
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n2-Socket 1-Blade: Up to 2LPARs ■
n4-Socket 2-Blade: Up to 4LPARs ■
n8-Socket 4-Blade: Up to 8LPARs
TABLE 2. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 4000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: CONVERGED SCALE-OUT
SOLUTION SPECIFICATIONS
ability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features. For reliability, the chassis is fully redundant, including two management modules for redundancy. Each module supports an independent management LAN interface from the data network for remote and secure management of the chassis, and blades and components are hot swappable.
In terms of storage high availability, backup and recovery, the scale-out architecture employs Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), Symantec NetBackup and CommVault Simpana. Using HNAS as a staging area provides high speed in system backups (up to 500MB/sec) without performance impact to SAP HANA. Hitachi also supports the SAP HANA Backint API with Symantec NetBackup. This solution provides your company with an option to leverage your existing backup infrastructure to protect against data loss due to failure or corruption. Hitachi solutions for SAP HANA support both synchronous and asynchronous disaster tolerance. The synchronous solu-tion is based on Hitachi TrueCopy and the asynchronous option is supported with Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR). The Hitachi storage replication software delivers 24/7 mission-critical access to the SAP HANA platform if the primary SAP HANA system becomes unavailable. Because your employees, vendors and customers are relying on constant availability, SAP and Hitachi are committed to ensuring your IT environment never lets them down.
Use Case Study for Real-Time
Business Analytics
Challenge
While business growth can present new revenue-generating opportunities, it can also present challenges on how to best manage the simultaneous growth in data. Asia Capital Reinsurance Group (Asia Capital Re) faced this situation as its data grew from about 500GB in 2007 to 30TB. Data volume was projected to grow to 200TB within the
HANA delivers the compute and storage performance and
high throughput that we need to make smarter business
decisions, faster. By dramatically reducing the traditional
delay between operations and analytics, it enables us to gain
near-real-time insight and information.
Alvin Lim, Senior Vice President
With 1.5TB Nodes With 3TB Nodes
SAP HANA Platform: Nodes Quantity 2 – 16
Processors/Cores 2 node – 8/144
Up to 16 node – 64/1152
2 node – 16/288
Up to 16 node – 128/2304 Memory Up to 24TB; support beyond 24TB possible
through custom engagements
Up to 48TB; support beyond 48TB possible through custom engagements
Storage Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G800 Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 Ethernet Networking (gigabit Ethernet:
GbE)
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nRedundant and bonded 10GbE 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for inter-cluster and 2 x Brocade VDX 6740 switches for HANA customer uplink
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nManagement: 1 x Brocade ICX 6430
SAP HANA High Availability Yes
Disaster Tolerance Yes
High-Speed Backup Yes
Operating System n■SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications ■
nRed Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA
Small Medium Large
Hitachi Compute Blade 2500 1x Hitachi CB520X B2 2x Hitachi CB520X B2 4x Hitachi CB520X B2
CPU Family Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3
CPUs/Cores 2/36 4/72 8/144
Memory 128GB – 768GB: Data Mart, Business Warehouse on HANA (BWoH) and Suite on HANA (SoH) 1GB – 1.5TB: SoH Only
128GB – 1.5TB:
Data Mart, BWoH and SoH 2.0TB – 3.0TB: SoH Only
256GB, 512GB – 3.0TB: Data Mart, BWoH and SoH 4.0TB – 6.0TB: SoH Only Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform G200 (VSP G200) Disk Storage
Log: 8 x 600GB Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS)
Data (10k SAS Drives): ■
n1TB: 8 x 600GB ■
n1.5TB: 16 x 600GB
Log: 8 x 600GB SAS Data (10k SAS Drives):
■ n1TB: 8 x 600GB ■ n2TB: 16 x 600GB ■ n3TB: 24 x 600GB Log: 8 x 600GB SAS Data (10k SAS Drives):
■ n1TB: 8 x 600GB ■ n2TB: 16 x 600GB ■ n3TB: 24 x 600GB ■ n4TB: 32 x 600GB ■ n6TB: 48 x 600GB Ethernet Networking 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) on PCI-Express
Host Bus Adapters 16Gb/sec Fibre Channel
Software n■SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications ■
nRed Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA
TABLE 3. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 6000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: SCALE-UP
SOLUTION SPECIFICATIONS
TABLE 4. HITACHI UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM 6000 FOR THE SAP HANA PLATFORM: CONVERGED SCALE-OUT
SOLUTION SPECIFICATIONS
Alvin Lim, Senior Vice President
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Santa Clara, CA 95050-2639 USA
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Solution
With the goal of consolidating its data warehouses, reducing data duplication and establishing a big data analytics foundation, Asia Capital Re refreshed its IT road map. The company centered on the SAP HANA platform to gain a single integrated environ-ment for accessing current information for near-immediate analysis. To optimize per-formance and scalability of its consolidated analytics platform, Asia Capital Re selected Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform.
Benefits
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nScalability: Whenever Asia Capital Re needs to scale, they simply upgrade by adding blades instead of having to replace the entire compute and storage appliance fabric.
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nPerformance: By dramatically reducing traditional delays between operations and analytics, the company is gaining near- real-time insights and information within 45 minutes versus days.
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nEfficiency: With less manpower required to manage its infrastructure, the company can reassign resources to higher value tasks.
Summary: Hitachi UCP for
SAP HANA Powers Real-Time
Business
The era of real-time analytics is here. Now your organization can trust SAP and Hitachi to more effectively manage your massive and ever-growing data stores. The deep integration of SAP HANA software and Hitachi UCP for SAP HANA gives your organization the basis to implement real-time business intelligence across your enterprise. Offering a highly scalable SAS architecture that grows with your business needs and delivers superior reliability and availability, UCP for SAP HANA is ideally suited to help your company turn data into actionable information.
By delivering a precertified combination of SAP and Hitachi components, we help your organization to realize a streamlined implementation and stay focused on your business goals. Whether your organization is striving to deliver more personalized customer experiences, optimize operations or bring new innovations to market, choose SAP and Hitachi. We can empower your stakeholders to make more informed, faster decisions. We help you get real-time data into their hands, exactly when they need it most.
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP
Deliver the Platform for Real-
Time Business
Go to http://www.hds.com/go/sap to learn more.
