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SAP_HANA_Sizing_Simplified_Level_2_Quiz.pdf - 2
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Question 1 There are many advantages IBM Power System servers have over Intel x86 servers. All of the following
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statements are true EXCEPT for one. Select the *FALSE* statement.
IBM Power System servers can grow the LPAR memory in a more granular level to fit the SAP HANA
requirements compared to x86 servers that are required to add memory in sets of 6x the memory DIMM
size
IBM Power Systems can support up to 24TB for S/4HANA and BW/4HANA in a virtualized environment
compared to a maximum of 3TB for BW/4HANA and 6TB for S/4HANA on an x86 VMware vSphere
environment
There is negligible performance impact with IBM PowerVM hypervisor compared to approximately 14%
performance degradation with x86 VMware hypervisor
Question 2 Why wouldn’t you size the IBM Power System server for the highest peak workload?
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Select one:
1.00 points out
of 1.00 IBM Power Systems virtualization enables customers to host many LPARs on the same server. By sizing an
LPAR for the highest peak workload, you would reduce the performance of the other LPARs
Shared Processor Pools is similar to Capacity on Demand (CoD) in that, customers can pay for additional
processor cores without having to purchase a larger IBM Power server. Customer will only have to pay for
additional CPU capacity during peak workloads to keep cost down
Shared Processor Pools is an SAP only specific feature that enables as many SAP HANA instances to run in a
single LPAR to meet the workload requirements during peak times. By sharing this LPAR, CPU cores can also
be shared between workloads and increasing CPU utilization
With a pool of idle CPU cores available to meet the demands of any LPAR that exceeds its normal core
allocation, Shared Processor Pools for IBM Power Systems can reduce the overall need to have over
capacity
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Question 3 When customers need to stand-up an SAP landscape for an SAP application, for example, S/4HANA or
BW/4HANA, what is the minimum number of instances required to support it?
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the minimum is 5, consisting of a Development, QA, sandbox, training and Production instance
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Select one:
1.00 points out
of 1.00 a feature which enables each LPAR to “steal” excess CPU capacity from other LPARs to meet peak workload
demands and returning the CPU cores when not required
the ability to dynamically move applications between LPARs so as they may share the same CPU cores
the ability to allow each LPAR to be sized with the amount of CPU cores for the average workload and
tapping into a pool of idle common CPU cores to meet peak workload demands
the ability of the system to share CPU sockets between LPARs to meet peek workload demands
Question 5 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided.
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Which IBM Power System would be the most cost competitive to propose to the customer?
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Question 6 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided. In
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the BW sizing report, the CPU requirement was 48,000 SAPS. Choose the best answer on how this number was
Select one:
because the workload was classified as medium (M) and the server’s RAM was 1TB, the value was
calculated as 48,000 (SAPS for 1TB) x 1 (factor or M workload)
because the workload was classified as medium (M) and the server’s RAM was 1TB, the value was
it was derived from the number of active users of 57, driving the peak query load volume to 544 MB/s and
11 queries/s
it was derived from the memory and disk space requirements and number of nodes
Question 7 ALL of the following statement on IBM Power Systems are true, *except* for:
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Question 8 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided.
For the SAP BW development instance, which workload would you have chosen?
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Question 9 When comparing “legacy” database such as Db2, Oracle, SQL Server or SAP ASE to SAP HANA, what is one
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aspect that stands out as the biggest difference that will impact the server configuration?
SAP HANA requires much more memory than the legacy databases because it is an in-memory
database
The peak CPU usage of legacy databases compared to SAP HANA results in less cores required to be
allocate to legacy database LPARs
All the legacy databases come from 3rd party software vendors and only SAP HANA is built by SAP
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Sizing of the hardware requirements based on the SAP sizing reports is the responsibility of the hardware
vendor (or business partner).
SAP Certification of each model of the IBM Power System server is the sole responsibility of IBM only
SAP is responsible for the BW and S/4 HANA sizing reports. Those reports calculate the amount of SAPS
generated by the SAP application from statistics collected at the source system
Question 11 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided.
What is the source database in S/4 #1 Sizing Report ?
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Question 12 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided.
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What is the BW source server environment?
Question 13 According to the SAP annual report, the majority of customers are in the SMB space. IBM has built the “Fighter”
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model configurations to try to capture as much of this market space. What percentage of this market opportunity
80%
Question 14 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided. In
the S/4 #2 Sizing Report, what was the source environment?
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Question 15 The ability to virtualize is a key value proposition of IBM Power Systems. Which of the following statement is
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*FALSE*?
Only 16 HANA production LPARs are allowed on a single IBM Power System server but there is no
restriction on the number of non-production LPARs
Both IBM PowerVM for IBM Power Systems and VMware vSphere for Intel x86 servers are included as
SAP HANA LPARs for OLTP and OLAP SAP applications on IBM Power Systems are certified by SAP for up to
24TB
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Question 16 There are certain criteria that the SAP BW applications must be compliant to for the sizing report to be
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meaningful. The following statements are true *EXCEPT* for ....
The system in scope must have collected monitoring data history for at least 10 days
The client does not have highly critical Service Level Agreement for data loads
Question 17 The IBM Power System “Fighter” model was put together as a Cost Optimized configuration comprising the
following:
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IBM Power System H922 and H924 with a maximum of 4TB memory
Question 18 In the S/4 sizing report, you see that the Peak (Select equivalent) is 60,000,000 and the Peak Factor is 19.95
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with a SAPS estimate of 35,000. What would the average Select equivalent value be?
60,000,000
1,754
Question 19 One important aspect of sizing the amount of memory required for SAP HANA databases is that you should at
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least have
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calculation of SAPS that is generated by the SAP application is the responsibility of SAP and the
hardware server vendors
sizing of hardware for an SAP environment involves matching requirements for memory, CPU, disk space,
I/O capacity, and network bandwidth
Question 21 The SAP HANA Tetris sizing Excel spreadsheet was designed to address a specific size of IBM Power System
the Tetris spreadsheet can be used for all IBM Power System server models from H922 to E980 but cannot
exceed the 4TB memory limit.
the target customer for the Tetris spreadsheet is mainly SMB customers who require IBM Power System
server with up to 2 CPU sockets (maximum 24 cores) and 4TB of memory but could also be used for
enterprise customers requiring smaller servers for development or test SAP instances
Question 22 You have been given a BW sizing report to interpret the requirements for a customer’s configuration for an IBM
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Power System server. Which of the statement is a *wrong* interpretation of the report?
the exact memory (RAM) requirement can be found just below the “Recommended” column heading
in looking at the RSDDSTAT Analysis Details, you noticed that monitoring data was collected for 9 days and
had over 300 data loads and 7,000 queries, and concluded that the report will provide inaccurate sizing
results
looking at the top 10 query load peaks, there is only one period when the queries are 10x the other nine
periods. We can safely assume we do not need to dedicate sufficient number of CPU cores in the LPAR to
satisfy
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Question 23 The following question is based on the Tetris Excel spreadsheet and the three sample sizing reports provided.
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What was the final CPU core savings that resulted from the ability of using the unique IBM Power System
Select one:
58%
82%
42%
41%
Question 24 In the Tetris game analogy to the IBM Power System resources, which are the 3 characteristics we are referring
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to?
Question 25 What is the primary objective of using the Tetris “right” sizing methodology?
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to be able to easily configure IBM Power System server for small and complex SAP scenarios for “Fighter”
configurations.
to help automate and reduce the lag time between the customer’s request for a server configuration and
submitting a proposal
to be able to offer a highly competitive IBM Power System server proposal that addresses the optimal
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