SPO91539

Best Practice: Hamm-Reno Group with

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems with
SUSE® Linux Exterprise Server

Carsten Dieterle
IBM Germany
Carsten.Dieterle@de.ibm.com
Agenda

- SAP HANA on Power History

- Introduction to HR Group
- SAP HANA History at HR Group
- SAP HANA RampUp with HoP
- Migration Project and Going Live
- Lessons Learned and next steps
- Summary

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SAP HANA on IBM Power – From Start till To-Date
History - Development activities
August 2013
SAP initiates Product Development Program for HANA on IBM
Power technology
December 2013
HANA code optimized compiled/linked (HANA SPS08,
SLES11SP2)
February 2014
All HANA Servers running, IBM code checked in, full function
testing commencing, Power 8 optimization agreed
June 2014
SaphireNow/Bernd Leukert announces “Test and Evaluation
Program” for selected customers in 3Q 2014
October 2014  August, 2015:
SAP TechEd && d-code/Bjoern Goerke announces HANA on GA SAP HANA on IBM POWER
POWER SAP Ramp-Up Program” beginning 1Q2015
 December, 2015
November, 2014 Support for SAP Suite on HANA and
BW 7.31+ TEA code ships to customers HANA Platform Edition SPS 11
March, 2015:
SAP Ramp-up opened for customer applications
July 2015:
SAP Ramp-up successfully closed 3
Hamm-Reno Group - Company Key Data (rounded)

Countries with HR-Group presence 20

Points of sale (POS) 2,000

Employees 5,000

Units sold per year 40m pairs / units

(shoes, textiles and accessories)
Revenue per year 600m€

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Internationalization
Reno retail only
Systems trade
Retail and systems trade
Reno general franchise

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RENO: Footwear Retailer in the HR-Group

 Largest footware system wholesaler in Europe

 More than 750 chain stores in 20 countries
 Owner managed, franchise & general franchise
 Exclusive shoe brands e.g. Bama,
Sansibar, Young Spirit and Mercedes
 Large portfolio of lifestyle brands
 Attractive prices
 Proven quality
 Patent for „3E-Children Shoe System“

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Brands

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Mülheim Kärlich

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SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems – Current Status as of May 2015

General availability
Ramp-Up period (GA)
Customer Test and
Evaluation phase (TEA)
March 2015 August 21st, 2015
November 2014 - February 2015 March 2015 - July 2015

HR-Group was one of 20 customers that qualified for Ramp-Up

Program and live with a productive system as #4 worldwide
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SAP HANA at HR-Group

 Start with BW on SAP HANA

in December 2012
 2 system landscape each with

20-Core Intel / 256 GB memory

 Assortment and module planning
Source: IBM
 POS Data Management and Loss Prevention Analytics

 Data sources: POS-DM, ETL from ERP-System, SLT

 BO Analysis for Office, Design-Studio applications

 Real-time reporting for Point of Sale (POS) and logistics

 At present about 300 GB of data

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Hardware Life Cycle with HR-Group

 Replacement of leased IBM POWER7 Systems

with Power8 beginning of 2015

3 x S824 (each 16 Cores, 768 GB Memory)

Source: IBM


 1 x S822L (10 Cores, 384 GB as Linux test system)

 2 x Storwize V5000, each 3,2 TB SSD, 82 TB HDD, EasyTier

 Almost doubling the number of SAPS leaves room for new developments

 End of leasing of existing HANA-Appliances in December 2015

SAP HANA is strategic for SAP

 Since 2011 available with SAP Business Warehouse

 Since 2013 with SAP Business Suite (“Suite on SAP HANA“)
 Base of the „Simple…“ roadmap / S/4 HANA

that redesigns central modules

 Future SAP solutions will probably

only be available with SAP HANA

Source: SAP

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From the Appliance to the Cloud

 Started as High Performance ANalytic Appliance

 S/4 HANA is also available as

Cloud Edition

 Cloud environments
require virtualization

 IBM PowerVM

Source: SAP

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Availability “on Premise“

 HR-Group prefers IBM PowerVM

as platform for virtualization
 Intel-Appliance is “foreign object“

 IBM Proof-of-Concept on IBM POWER in 2012 was successful Source: IBM

 Customer demanded permission for “on Premise“ in 2012

 SAP started Development Program on August 1st, 2013
 Test- and Evaluation Program since November 1st, 2014
 Ramp-Up started on April 1st, 2015
 General Availability (GA) since August 21st, 2015
 SLES 11.3 (LINUX_PPC64), POWER8, ≤ 3TB Memory, BW 7.31.12ff
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The most scalable in-memory analytics
platform in the industry

HR-Group

Power E850 Power E870 / E880

 4 sockets  Up to 16 sockets
Power S814 / S824  Up to 12 cores/socket  Up to 12 cores/socket
 Up to 4 TB of Memory  Up to 32 TB of Memory

 All IBM POWER8 Servers are certified by SAP

Power S812 / S822  IBM Solution Edition are a fast-start option, using sample
 1 or 2 sockets configurations based on industry best-practices used to quickly
 Up to 12 cores/socket configure and order an attractively priced infrastructure solution
 Up to 2 TB of Memory
 Rapid deployment of SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

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 New World Record set by IBM Power E870 on SAP BW Enhanced
Mixed Load Standard Application Benchmark with 2 Billion records
SAP BW Enhanced Mixed Load (BW-EML) Standard Application Benchmark Results,
2 billion initial record load on SAP Hana 1.0: Ad-hoc navigation step per hour/per core
Source SAP: http://www.sap.com//benchmark

“IBM set a world record in the

2X industry leading SAP BW-EML
more per core Standard Application Benchmark
at 2 billion records ... twice the
performance per core over
previous benchmarks.” >>
Kyle Garman
SVP & Managing Director, Global
Strategic Partners, SAP
Dell Dell HP
IBM PowerEdge R930 PowerEdge R920 DL580 Gen8
E870 E7-8890 v3 E7-4890 v2, E7-4880 v2
POWER8 4p/72c/144t 4p/60c/120t 4p/60c/120t
4p/40c/320t

(1) IBM Power Enterprise System E870 on the SAP BW Extended mixed load standard application benchmark running SAP Netweaver 7.31 application; 4 processors / 40 cores / 320 threads, POWER8; 4.19GHz, 1024 GB memory, 192.750 adhoc navigation steps per hours on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SAP Hana 1.0, Certification #: 2015024 Result valid as of
June 1, 2015. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(2) Dell PowerEdge R930, on the SAP BW Extended mixed load standard application benchmark running SAP Netweaver 7.31 application; 4 processors / 72 cores / 144 threads, , Intel Xeon Processor E-7 8890 v3 ,2.5 GHz; 1536 GB memory, 172.450 adhoc navigation steps per hours on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SAP Hana 1.0, Certification #: 2015014
(3) Dell PowerEdge R920, on the SAP BW Extended mixed load standard application benchmark running SAP Netweaver 7.31 application; 4 processors / 60 cores / 120 threads, , Intel Xeon Processor E-7 4890 v2 ,2.8 GHz; 1024 GB memory, 137,010 adhoc navigation steps per hours on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SAP Hana 1.0, Certification #: 2014044
(4) HP DL580 Gen8, on the SAP BW Extended mixed load standard application benchmark running SAP Netweaver 7.30 application; 4 processors / 60 cores / 120 threads, , Intel Xeon Processor E-7 4880 v2 ,2.5 GHz; 1024 GB memory, 126,980 adhoc navigation steps per hours on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SAP Hana 1.0, Certification #: 2014009

SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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Reflections

 SAP HANA is strategic component from SAP

 Virtualization on IBM Power Systems
has proved to work very well for HR-Group
 Suitable point of time in the
HR-
HR-Group hardware life cycle Group
 Ramp-Up Program started by SAP

 High interest from IBM and Hardware partner FUM

 Great opportunity and timing to migrate

to SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

 We wanted to change as little as possible on NetWeaver

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 Architecture Overview Diagram of the SAP
Infrastructure including SAP HANA on Power
DC1 DC2
Ethernet Ethernet
S824_1 HMC_1 HMC_2 S824_2
16 (24)-Core, 768GB RAM 16 (24)-Core, 768GB RAM
LPAR

VIO 1
LPAR

VIO 2
LPAR
LPAR

VIO 1
VIO 2
LPAR
LPAR
LPAR
HANA
Dev
LVM Mirror

4 4 Live 4 4
Partition
Fibrechannel Mobility Fibrechannel
SAN SAN SAN SAN
Fabric 1 Fabric 2 Fabric 2 Fabric 1

V5000
V5000

HANA
LPAR

VIO 1

VIO 1
VIO 2

VIO 2
LPAR
LPAR
LPAR

Prod
LTO Library LTO Library
S824_3 S822L
16 (24)-Core, 768GB RAM 20-Core, 384GB RAM
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Architectural Concept for the SAP Infrastructure
Abstract:
This architecture assumes that the existing workload is distributed over three identical Power8 S824
systems. If in the future more compute power and memory is required, this can be done via PowerVM and
AIX license increase of the available CoD resources.
Characteristics:

 Distribution of LPAR’s on three symmetrically equipped Power 824 systems across the two data center
(load-balancing and high availability)
 On each physical server will be 2 VIOS server installed for redundancy
 All DB and application server instances are mapped to these systems in micro-partitions and "fully
virtualized". Virtualization refers to all components: CPU, memory and I/O adapters
 I/O adapters are hot pluggable
 The integrated virtualization PowerVM Enterprise enables a non-disruptive migration of LPARs between
systems (Partition Mobility) *
 Data mirroring over both storage subsystems with AIX standard tools (LVM Mirror)
 SAN connection via 8Gb FC
 LAN connection via 10 Gbit / 1Gbit copper RJ45
 Use of VSCSI- or NPIV technology for the operating system and data LUN’s
 The management of the hardware and LPARs takes place on the HMC
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Scope of the SAP HANA on Power RampUp Program

 SAP Note 2133369

 Only for SAP Business Warehouse (BW)
 BO reports directly onto SAP HANA views is not supported
 SAP Migration Check Service was under development
 No support for SAP LT for HoP (!!!!)
 HANA-Revision ≥ 94 +
new SAP kernel required
 32 GB memory per core
 SLES11 SP3 + patch
 No show-stoppers for HR !

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SAP HANA on Power Scope Description SAP Note 2133369
Version 1.0 from 18th of June 2015

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SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server

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Project schedule
 HANA on Power workshop conducted from IBM in April
2015
 Support agreed by IBM and Fritz & Macziol (FuM) in
05/2015
 Successful applied as RampUp customer end of May 2015
 Project started mid of June 2015
 Sandbox migration done in CW 27/28 (July 2015)
 Development system migrated in CW 30 (Aug 5th)
 SAP HANA on IBM POWER Systems
General Availability (GA) Aug. 21st
 SAP Support agreement for SAP LT on Sep. 3d
 TSM 7.1.3 GA on Sep. 11th
 Production system migrated on Sep 11th+12 th

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SAP HANA Sizing report for the productive SAP BW
system

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Architecture Overview for HANA on Power Production System

HMC1

HMC2

LAN SAN 1 SAN 2

V5000 V5000

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Architecture Overview for HANA on Power LPAR of the
Production System (Details)

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OS-DB-Migration

 IBM POWER uses big-endian,

Intel uses little-endian Source: Wikipedia
 OS-DB-migration was necessary
 Significant CPU-load on app (!) servers for export / import in platform
independent format, about 15 GB/Core/hour
 Parallelization / partitioning of large tables
 Test of migration on sandbox system
 DB objects created with HANA-Studio or SLT had to be migrated manually (!!!!)

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TSM Beta Programm

 “TSM ERP SAP HANA on Power“ available with 7.1.3

 Direct API call from HANA instead of temporary dump
 Participation in BETA-Program

 One error found – quickly resolved (stability)

 Great cooperation with IBM specialists

 Subsequent tests passed without any problems

TSM is now called

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SAP HANA Backup with TSM (Spectrum Protect) @ HR Group

 Hamm Reno (large retailer in Europe) decided for SAP HANA on POWER
 Gained better performance compared to SAP HANA on INTEL hardware
 Hamm Reno was the first customer that is in production with Spectrum Protect for ERP for
SAP HANA on POWER

 Scenario
 Full database backup of production system to tape
 Redo logs and development system to disk, later migration to tape

Customer feedback:
"HammReno is using Spectrum Protect for many year to protect their SAP databases. During the HANA
RampUp on IBMs POWER platform we evaluated Spectrum Protect for ERP using early code. It worked
very stable and robust with great performance characteristics, which made us using the product in our
production environment starting with the first day of General Availability on the POWER platform."

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HANA & Spectrum Protect Environment at HR Group

Storwize Storwize
PROD Site DEV Site

SAP Application Server SAP Application Server

BW 7.3.1 BW 7.3.1
AIX 7.1 AIX 7.1
ABAP SAN ABAP
TSM B/A TSM B/A
Client Client

HANA DB Server HANA DB Server

HANA Rev. 96
• POS-DM
HANA Rev. 96
SLES 11 SP4 • Visualization with SAP Business Objects
SLES 11 SP4
320 GB Memory • SAP LT Replication from Retail
180 GB Memory
• Integrated planning

TSM B/A Recovery Scenarios: TSM B/A

Client • Storage failure: Mirror on other Storwize Client
TSM Agent for • IBM Power S824L failure: Live Partition Mobility TSM Agent for
HANA • Logical database failure: Restore from DB Backup HANA
• Disaster Recovery with offsite tapes

Spectrum Protect
Server

Inhouse vault Remote vault

Planned in 2016:
Node Replication over Ethernet Connect to
other headquarter in Osnabrück

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Assessment / Impact of Risks

 OS-DB migration had to be completed within given timeframe. This was feasible
 TSM 7.1.3 was available (GA) on time for go-live
 Support for SLT was agreed 10 days prior to go-live
 SAP OS/DB migration check service became available on time
 HANA-Rev. 94: Error in test system: “Integrated Planning“
SAP Note: 2100049 / 2094791 (or BW SP13)
 IBM activated some additional cores (already built in)

 No show-stoppers
 Timing and project plan were fully in scope
 Production migration was flawless
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Tips & Lessons Learned

 Check and use DNS aliases

 Validate unified names of schemes
 Test migration using sandbox system
 Evaluate BW patchlevel update before migration
 Plan for manual migration of “other“ HANA objects
 Perform „Integrity Test“ before export
 Configure 10+ cores on App servers

 IBM and FUM always reacted fast and with high competency
 Also with SAP it‘s a great help to have a personal contact

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SAP HANA on POWER – Current Status as of September 2015

Ramp-Up period Ramp-Up period T&EA period

BWoH BWoH SoH selected use
Closed 07/15 cases

Customer Test and Evaluation

phase

November 2014 – February 2015

Release to Customer Public announcement General Availability GA date

Ramp-Up Start SAP for BW SoH
April 2015 at SAPPHIRE, May 2015 August 2015 tbd

HR-Group was one of 20 customers that qualified for Ramp-Up Program

and went live with a HoP productive system as #4 worldwide
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Performance - Observations
 Pure Database observations, not SAPS
 Evaluation of replicated table konp with about 9m data sets
 Sum: select sum(kbetr) from konp
 Integer: select sum(kbetr*2) from konp
 Float: select sum(kbetr/17) from konp
 Evaluation of likp/lips with 19 vkorg in about 7.5m joins
 Join: select sum(lfimg), vkorg from likp, lips where lips.mandt=likp.mandt and lips.vbeln=likp.vbeln group by vkorg

250%
Intel 20-Core
200%
(100%)
150%
Power 6-Core
100%
50% Power 10-Core
0%
Sum Integer Float Join

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 CPU Usage
 Few peaks during overnight processing
 Real-time processing during daytime hardly visible
 Significantly more than 32 GB per core load-dependent is realistic, e.g.
with entitlement (guaranteed cycles) in a shared processor pool

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Watch the Hamm Reno reference online @ http://ibm.co/1WwiS9z

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Summary
 Since 2000 HR-Group is satisfied IBM Power customer
 When starting with SAP HANA – it was only available as an Intel
Appliance - a “foreign object” in our Data Center
 SAP HANA on IBM Power is a real Enterprise Solution: Not an
Appliance but implemented as a Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI)
 The time was right to join the SAP on Power ramp-up program
 All IBM POWER8 server configurations are certified by SAP

 Smooth Migration to SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems!

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Next steps
 Upgrade from SLES11 SP3 to SLES4SAP (SLES11 SP4) with support
from SUSE (done in Jan/Feb 2016)
 Full virtualization of Power8 servers with PowerVM
 Integration of application stack in SAP HANA LPAR (back to 2tier)
 Planned integration of SLES HAE for reducing unplanned downtime
 Further SAP HANA projects with SLES and IBM Power Systems

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Thank you for your attention !
Carsten.Dieterle@de.ibm.com
Time for questions …
Carsten Dieterle
IBM Deutschland GmbH
Leading SOLAR IBM-Allee 1
(SAP Infrastructure 71139 Ehningen
SOLution ARchitect) Germany
Member of the IBM Phone/Mobile
Technical Expert Council +49 7034 274 1917
(TEC) DACH Carsten.Dieterle@de.ibm.com