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Ensure Business Continuity By Embracing ] Virtualization For Your SAP Environment Timothy Yates Matt Lestock [ ERI C SYNSTELI EN ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 2000 [ RI CHARD RAUCH ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE:

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JENNI FER BUKO

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ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 2006

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ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 1999

ERI C SYNSTELI EN

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ASUG I NSTALLATI ON MEMBER MEMBER SI NCE: 2000

Ensure Business Continuity By Embracing Virtualization For Your SAP Environment

Timothy Yates Matt Lestock

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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Learning Points

  • Understand the fundamental concepts of virtualization and the

value it brings to your SAP infrastructure.

  • SAP in a virtualized environment can meet even the most rigid

uptime and business continuity requirements.

  • VMware virtualization technology enables customer to realize

immediate cost benefits, while deploying business continuity strategies which would otherwise be too costly to develop and implement.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Presentation Roadmap

  • Presentation Background
  • SAP Virtualization Overview With VMware
  • Business Continuity Concepts and Value in an SAP

Environment Leveraging VMware Virtualization

  • SAP Virtualization Examples ROI / TCO
  • Summary

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ DATAXSTREAM

  • A Leader In SAP Technical and Integration

Consulting

  • 100% Project Success Rate
  • SAP, VMware, Dell Certified Partner
  • Over 15 Years SAP Experience
  • Offices in California, Indiana, Virginia

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Example Companies For Our Discussion

  • DataXstream
  • Business: SAP Consulting, SAP Product Development, and SAP

Infrastructure & Architecture

  • Virtualized Since 2004: Leverage Virtualization for Internal

Systems as well as our SAP Product Development Systems

  • Lumber Liquidators
  • Business: Retail Flooring Products
  • Virtualized in 2010: Leverage Virtualization For Entire SAP

Landscape and Support Systems

  • Firestone Diversified Products
  • Business: Automotive Parts, Fibers, Building Products
  • Performing Datacenter and Virtualization Assessment

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Understanding Virtualization with VMware

  • Understand the fundamental concepts of virtualization and the

value it brings to your SAP infrastructure.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Internal Cloud Infrastructure With VMware

  • SAP and Supporting Products

Application Layer

  • VMware Hypervisor vSphere 4

Abstraction Layer

  • Server, Storage, and Network

Resources Internal Hardware Cloud

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware Hypervisor

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware – vSphere 4 Offering

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VMware

ESXi

VMware

Essentials / Essentials Plus

VMware

Standard

VMware

Advanced

VMware

Enterprise Plus

VMware Application and Infrastructure Tools

vCenter Lifecycle Manager vCenter Lab Manager vCenter Site Recovery Manager vCenter Server Hearbeat vCenter App Speed vCenter Chargeback

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware – vSphere 4 – Business Continuity

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VMware

ESXi

VMware

Essentials / Essentials Plus

VMware

Standard

  • High Availability
  • Update Manager
  • vStorage API’s
  • Thin Provisioning
  • VC Agent
  • 4 Way vSMP
  • VMware ESX or

ESXi

VMware

Advanced

  • vMotion
  • Hot Add
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Data Recovery
  • vShield Zones

VMware

Enterprise Plus

  • 8 Way vSMP
  • Storage vMotion
  • DRS / DPM
  • Distributed Switch
  • Host Profiles
  • 3rd Party

Multipathing

VMware Application and Infrastructure Tools

vCenter Lifecycle Manager vCenter Lab Manager vCenter Site Recovery Manager vCenter Server Hearbeat vCenter App Speed vCenter Chargeback

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware High Availability (HA)

  • Minimize unplanned

downtime and service disruption.

  • Eliminate the need for

dedicated standby hardware.

  • Enable affordable uniform

high availability across the entire virtualized SAP environment.

  • Automatic detection of
  • perating system failures.
  • Easy to configure “Out of

Box Solution”.

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VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

Hardware Failure Event Software Failure Event

VM VM VM VM VM

VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)

  • Automatically detects server

failures and triggers instantaneous, seamless stateful failover resulting in zero downtime, zero-data- loss continuous availability.

  • Ideal for Central Services
  • instances. Continuous

availability of Central Services.

  • Automatically triggers the

creation of a new secondary virtual machine after failover.

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VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

Hardware Failure Event

VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX

FT Protected FT Protected

No Disruption T

  • Service During

Failover Event

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware vMotion

  • Perform hardware

maintenance without scheduled downtime.

  • Proactively migrate virtual

machines away from failing

  • r underperforming servers.
  • Automatically optimize and

allocate entire pools of resources for optimal hardware utilization and alignment with business priorities.

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VM VM VM VM VM (Moved) VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX

No Disruption T

  • Service During

Virtual Machine Move

vMotion

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware DRS / DPM

Dynamic Resource Scheduler

  • Continuously balanced capacity

will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources.

  • Add additional capacity to a

resource pool without system disruption.

  • Automatically migrate all virtual

machines off physical servers to enable scheduled server maintenance with zero downtime.

Dynamic Power Management

  • Cut ongoing power and

cooling costs by up to 20% in the datacenter during low utilization time periods.

  • Automate management of

energy efficiency in the datacenter

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware Hot Add

  • Enables CPU and memory to

be added to virtual machines when needed without downtime.

  • Hot plug enables virtual

storage and network devices to be added to or removed from virtual machines without downtime.

  • Hot extend of virtual disks

allows virtual storage to be added to running virtual machines without downtime.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware vStorage API

  • Provides greater flexibility

for VM data access to backup vendors (block-level access to VMDK files).

  • Implements new vSphere

functionality that is not available through VCB, like changed block tracking (today), and fault-tolerant VM backups (in future).

  • Single-vendor support for

your backup solution.

  • No extra application to

monitor.

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VM VM VM VM VM

VMware ESX

(1) Snap Shots

Backup Agent

  • Server Can Be

Physical or Virtual

Backup Server

(2) Backup Agent Mounts Snap Shots

Disk Tape

(3) Backup To Media

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware Snap Shots

  • A snapshot preserves

the state and data of a virtual machine at a specific point in time.

  • You can create

snapshots, revert to any snapshot in the chain, and remove snapshots.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ VMware Site Recovery Manager

  • Discover and display virtual

machines protected by storage replication.

  • Create and manage recovery

plans.

  • Extend recovery plans with

custom scripts.

  • Monitor availability of

remote site and alert users.

  • Store, view and export

results of test and failover execution from vCenter Server.

ESX Resource Pool

vCenter Server SRM Server Primary Site

SAN Infrastructure

ESX Resource Pool

vCenter Server SRM Server Recovery Site

SAN Infrastructure

Replicated Storage

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Hardware Capability

  • For approx $50,000 it is possible

to spec a 32-core quad Xeon X7560 system with 512GB of RAM.

  • For comparison, to achieve similar

performance benchmarks utilizing an IBM Power 750, one would have to spend well over $125,000.

  • The latest generation Intel

Processors can now perform as well as their RISC counterparts in high performance computing applications at a much more reasonable price.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Review of Supported OS & DB

Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows 2003
  • Microsoft Windows 2008
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 4
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 9
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Databases

  • DB2 for LUW 9.X
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  • SAP MAXDB 7.6+
  • Oracle 10.1+

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Uptime and Business Continuity

  • SAP in a virtualized environment can meet even the most rigid

uptime and business continuity requirements.

  • Let’s look at an example: Lumber Liquidators Implementation.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Lumber Liquidators SAP Environment

Development

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal
  • Solution

Manager Quality

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal

Production

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal
  • Solution

Manager

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Lumber Liquidators ECC Landscape

ECC Development

  • CI/DB

ECC Quality

  • ASCS
  • PA
  • DB

ECC Production

  • ASCS
  • PA
  • DB

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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Storage Layer Host Layer

Lumber Liquidators VM Infrastructure

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Hardware Cloud

vSphere Hypervisor

Application Layer and Hypervisor

Development

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal
  • Solution Manager

Quality

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal

Production

  • ECC
  • BW
  • PI
  • Portal
  • Solution Manager
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Lumber Liquidators Primary Site Cloud

Servers

  • 64 Processor Cores
  • 1152 Gig RAM
  • 64 1GbE w/TOE NICs
  • Benchmarked SAPS – 146K

Virtualization Software

  • 16 Sockets vSphere Enterprise

for 8 vCPU’s

  • 1 vCenter Server

Storage

  • 56.7 TB (Raw)
  • 25.0 TB (Raid 10)
  • Dual Controls
  • 16 Gigabit NICs
  • 96 – 10K – 600gb Drives
  • 12200 IOPS

Network

  • Redundant Switches
  • 96 1gb Ports / Switch

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Lumber Liquidators – Install

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Uptime and Business Continuity In An SAP Environment

  • Unplanned Events
  • Hardware or Software Failures
  • User Errors
  • Disaster Events
  • Planned Events
  • Infrastructure Changes
  • Maintenance

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ SAP HA Configuration Scenarios

  • 2 / 3 Tier Implementations Supported
  • Protects Against Hardware and OS Failure
  • System Unavailable During Failover

VMware HA

  • 3 Tier Implementations Supported
  • CI or ASCS & DB Protected By VMware FT
  • Continuous Availability of DB, Message Server, and Enqueue Services
  • Limited to one vCPU per VM

VMware FT

  • 3 Tier Implementations Supported
  • ASCS Protected By FT - DB and APPs Protected by HA
  • Continuous Availability of ASCS (Enqueue and Message Server)
  • DB Unavailable During Failover

VMware HA & FT

  • 3 Tier implementations Supported
  • Protects Against Hardware and Software Failures
  • Availability Of Enqueue During Failover
  • DB Unavailable During Failover

MSCS in Virtual Machines

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Cost and Complexity Increase

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Hardware Failures

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ECC Development

  • CI/DB - HA

ECC Quality

  • ASCS - FT
  • PA - HA
  • DB - HA

ECC Production

  • ASCS - FT
  • PA - HA
  • DB - HA

System Unavailable During Failover ASCS Protected By FT - DB and APPs Protected by HA Continuous Availability of ASCS (Enqueue and Message Server) DB Unavailable During Failover ASCS Protected By FT - DB and APPs Protected by HA Continuous Availability of ASCS (Enqueue and Message Server) DB Unavailable During Failover

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ DATAXSTREAM SAP Product Development

Development Infrastructure

  • Support SAP Product

Development, R/3, ECC, Solution Manager, XI, PI, and CRM

  • SAP Product Development

Best Practices Require 3 Box Delivery Landscape

  • Product Development

Requires Multiple Versions Of Same Product and Patch Levels Solution: Virtualized Infrastructure

  • 10+ SAP Product Delivery

Landscapes

  • 30+ SAP Instances
  • Ability To Test and Roll

Back Product Delivery Process

  • Ability To Patch Landscape

and Roll Back To Assist Customer Troubleshooting

  • Entire Infrastructure Is HA

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ DATAXSTREAM User Errors and Data Corruption

  • Backup and Restore

Program via the vStorage API with VEEAM

  • Backup Solution

Integrates With The

  • Hypervisor. Any VM

Can Be Added to Backup Program with No Additional Installations.

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Disaster Events

Site Recover Manager (SRM)

  • Easily create and manage

recovery plans directly from vCenter Server

  • Automate execution of

recovery plans.

  • Connect virtual machines to

an existing isolated network for testing purposes.

  • Manage and monitor

execution of recovery plans within vCenter Server. Solutions In Action

  • Deployed Oversized VM

Solution To Primary Site.

  • Migrated Existing Non-SAP

VM Infrastructure to New VM Platform

  • Redeployed Existing

Infrastructure To Secondary Site For DR

  • DATAXSTREAM Is Also

In The Process Of Implementing This Same Approach

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Infrastructure Changes

  • Hot Add
  • Add Hardware and Devices to Servers with No Interruption to

Your SAP Environment

  • Addition Of New Hardware
  • Add New Capacity and Redistribute Work Load in Less Than A

Day with No Interruption to Your SAP Environment

  • Retirement Of Old Hardware
  • Retire / Replace Your SAP Hardware with No Interruption to

Your SAP Environment (Little to No Implementation Cost)

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Maintenance

  • DRS – vMotion, Storage vMotion, Evacuate
  • Perform Hardware Maintenance on Your Servers and Storage

with No Interruption to Your SAP Environment

  • Snap Shots

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SAP ECC DEV

Live Cone

SAP ECC DEV Clone

Test VM Network & Snapshot

SAP ECC DEV Clone

Clone DEV Box and Isolate On T est Network. T est Patch On Clone. Snapshot DEV and Patch. Role Back Snapshot on Failure. Commit Snapshot on Success.

SAP ECC DEV

Snapshot

SAP ECC DEV

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESX

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Virtualization Cost Benefit

  • VMware virtualization

technology enables customer to realize immediate cost benefits, while deploying business continuity strategies which would otherwise be too costly to develop and implement.

  • Reduced Hardware Cost
  • Reduced Software Cost
  • Reduced Maintenance Cost
  • Cost To Implement HA and

DR Strategy Significantly Reduced

  • Reduced Time and Cost To

Implement

  • Flexibility

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Lumber Liquidators Physical vs Virtual Infrastructure

Physical Infrastructure

  • Primary Site Would

Required Minimum 50 Servers (Avg. Cost 12K) Total 600K

  • DR Site Would Require

Minimum 11 Servers (Avg. Cost 16K) Total 176K

  • Only QA and PRD HA

Protected

  • Complex Setup and

Configuration Virtual Infrastructure

  • Primary Site Required 8

Servers (Avg. Cost 22K) Total 122K

  • DR Site Required 3 Servers

(Avg. Cost 22K) Total 66K

  • All SAP Infrastructure

Servers HA / FT Protected

  • Simplified Setup and

Configuration

  • Cost Savings Over $500K

(In Just Servers)

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Firestone BC Physical vs Virtual Infrastructure (Study)

Physical BC

  • Tape Backups, Offsite Standby,

Declarations

  • Up To 24 Hours Data Loss
  • Up To 3 Days Downtime From

Declaration

  • Approximate Monthly

Reoccurring External Cost For Hot Site

  • $12K (144K Yearly)
  • DR Declaration Cost
  • $50K

Virtual BC

  • Replicated SAN with VMware

SRM (Leveraging Existing Sites)

  • Less Than 30 Minutes Data Loss

(SAN Replication Queue)

  • Less Than 1 Hour Downtime

From Declaration

  • No Monthly Reoccurring External

Cost (Leveraging Current Sites)

  • ROI Less Than 18 Months

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Sizing - Importance

  • Traditional Physical Landscape Design Total 18K SAPS Capacity
  • Multiply That By 3 or 4 Similar Sized Products Landscapes That

Is 72K SAPS Processing Capacity

  • In A Physical Model You Would Need To Buy At Least 72K

SAPS Capacity To Implement This Model

  • In A Virtualized Environment You Size To A Solution Peak

Value

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ECC Development

  • 3000 SAPS

ECC Quality

  • 6000 SAPS

ECC Production

  • 9000 SAPS
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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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Key Learnings

  • Virtualized SAP Landscape has big TCO / ROI Benefits.
  • Virtualization of your SAP Landscape Provides Maximum

Flexibility To Meet Your Companies Changing Business Requirements.

  • Virtualization Technology by VMware Can Meet Your

Companies Business Continuity objectives.

  • Understanding Both SAP and VMware are Critical to

Successfully Virtualizing Your SAP Environment

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

[ Resources

  • DATAXSTREAM
  • Website
  • Blog
  • VMware
  • Virtualization TCO / ROI for SAP
  • VMware HA for SAP
  • SAP Virtualization Case Studies
  • SAP
  • VMware Acceptance / Approval For Production
  • SAP PAM
  • SAP Hardware Benchmarks
  • 2 Tier
  • 3 Tier

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Real Experience. Real Advantage.

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