CMP322

Optimizing SAP HANA on AWS

with Amazon EC2 X1 Instances
Steven Jones, Sr. Manager Solutions Architecture, AWS
Rudi Leibbrandt, Senior Director SAP HANA Product Management, SAP
November 30, 2016

© 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Why Are Enterprises Moving to the Cloud?

Reduce costs Increase speed Improve agility

Get Rid of Time-Consuming, Expensive Tasks

Move from risk-laden

Stop guessing
up-front expense to
at capacity planning
flexible variable expense

Go global in
Remove complicated infrastructure
minutes
management that adds little
business value

GE Oil & Gas is migrating 500 applications, and more than 750TB of data, to
the cloud by the end of 2016 as part of a major digital transformation, helping it
attain a 52% reduction in TCO and greater speed to market.
…And Focus on Your Core Mission

Lower the time spent Concentrate on new Dedicate more

on infrastructure business initiatives resources to innovation

“Our goal is to move at the speed of business. Our customers’ needs

change constantly, and we need to be able to adapt to that.”
Keith Homewood – Cloud Product Owner, Nordstrom
AWS Platform
A collection of building blocks and tools to develop, deploy and operate secure
and scalable and reliable applications in the cloud

• Infrastructure and core services

• Security and compliance
• Platform services
• Hybrid architecture
• Technical and business support
• Marketplace
• Enterprise applications
• Internet of Things (IoT) services
SAP Overview
SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in
terms of software and software-related service revenue.
Based on market capitalization, it’s the world’s third
largest independent software manufacturer. 74% of the
world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system.

• Revenues (IFRS): €20.8 billion in FY2015

• Employees: More than 77,000 employees in 130+ countries
• Customers: 300,000 active customers in 190 countries
• Global 500: 87% of Forbes Global 500 customers are SAP clients
• Stock exchanges: Listed under the symbol “SAP” on stock
exchanges, including the Frankfurt Exchange and NYSE
SAP HANA Platform
SAP HANA Platform: Common Use Cases
Introducing SAP HANA 2
Next-generation platform for digital transformation
Next-Generation Applications

• New release of the SAP HANA Trans-Analytic Predictive Location Search Big Data
platform
Machine Learning IoT Social Mobile
• Continuous technology
enhancements delivered 2x-a-year Application Development & Delivery
for agile IT
Advanced Analytical Processing
• Optimized for business innovation Data Management and Integration
• Introduce solutions or services to
compete In-Memory Database
• Transform processes to reduce
operational costs
SAP HANA Platform: The Platform for All Applications
Simplify, accelerate, innovate
SAP BW/4HANA – The Next Generation Data
Warehouse

SAP BW 7.3 SAP BW 7.4 SAP BW 7.5 SAP BW 7.5,

powered by powered by powered by edition for BW/4HANA
SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA SAP HANA Add on

• Performance • Simplification and • Simplification, • For SAP BW/4HANA • Introducing SAP BW/4HANA
optimization Virtualization customers only
• HANA platform • The Next Generation Data Warehouse
integration • Use transfer tools
• Built for Cloud
to make system ready
• Big Data for SAP BW/4HANA • Logical Data Warehousing
scenarios
• Requires SAP BW 7.5 • Internet of Things
SP 4 or higher • Integrates with Big Data

2012 2013 2015 2016

SAP & AWS ALLIANCE
Customer Outcomes

Strong partnership with a history of

collaboration and rapid innovation
SAP Solutions Supported on AWS

SAP Business SAP Database & Supported OS &

Solutions Mobile Solutions DB Platforms

SAP S/4HANA SAP HANA IBM DB2

NEW SAP BW/4HANA SAP ASE SAP MaxDB
SAP Business Suite SAP IQ SAP HANA
SAP NetWeaver SAP Replication Server Microsoft SQL Server
SAP Business Warehouse SAP Mobile Secure NEW Oracle Database
SAP Business All-In One SAP Mobile Platform SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP Business One Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SAP BusinessObjects Windows Server

SAP Note #1656099 contains the latest information regarding

SAP product, landscape, and platform support on AWS
AWS Building Blocks
 AWS Global Infrastructure

14 Regions
38 Availability Zones
63 edge locations
EC2 Compute

Intel ® Xeon E5-26xx v2, v3 & v4 CPUs

• Up to 2.9 GHz, Turbo enabled up to 3.6 GHz
• Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel®
AVX2)

Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (X1)

• Quad Socket configuration / DDR4 Memory with
high memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
• Support for Intel® AVX2 & TSX
• Single Device Data Correction (SDDC +1)
• Up to 128 vCPUs, up to 2TB RAM
Platform: Certified instances SAPS ratings
General Purpose Memory Optimized

Memory Network Memory Network

Name vCPU SAPS Name vCPU SAPS
(GiB) Bandwidth (GiB) Bandwidth

HANA
m4.10xlarge 40 160 10 Gigabit 47,320 x1.32xlarge 128 1952 20 Gigabit 131,500
m4.4xlarge 16 64 High 17,712 x1.16xlarge 64 976 10 Gigabit 65,750
m4.2xlarge 8 32 High 8,856 r3.8xlarge 32 244 10 Gigabit 31,920
m4.xlarge 4 16 High 4,428 r3.4xlarge 16 122 High 15,960
m4.large 2 8 Moderate 2,214 r3.2xlarge 8 61 High 7,980
r3.xlarge 4 30.5 Moderate 3,990

Compute Optimized r3.large 2 15 Moderate 1,995

Name vCPU
Memory Network
SAPS • Use in 2-tier and 3-tier configurations up to
(GiB) Bandwidth hundreds of thousands of SAPS
c4.8xlarge 36 60 10 Gigabit 37,950 • Amazon EBS-optimized instances
c4.4xlarge 16 30 High 19,030
• Enhanced networking
• Certified instances for SAP HANA
c4.2xlarge 8 15 High 9,515
c4.xlarge 4 7.5 High 4,758 Check SAP Note 1656099 for more information
c4.large 2 3.75 Moderate 2,379
 Amazon EC2 X1 Instances
Designed for SAP HANA

Specifications

• Powered by four Intel® Xeon® E7 8880 v3 (Haswell)

processors (64 cores / 128 vCPUs)
• Up to 2TB of DDR4 RAM per instance
• High memory bandwidth and larger L3 caches
• Up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth
• Up to 10 Gpbs of dedicated bandwidth to Amazon EBS

“X1 instances offer more memory than any other SAP-certified cloud instance available today”
https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#
 X1: SAP HANA Powered by AWS

2TB Single node

- OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
2TB 14TB scale-out - OLTP (incl. S/4HANA & SoH)
x1.32xl - liveCache
- BPC
Scale-up

1TB
Scale-out up to 14 TB!
1TB 7TB scale-out - OLAP (incl. BW/4HANA & BWoH)
x1.16xl
244Gb Based on SPS11 (or later) core-to-memory
R3 4TB scale-out relaxation for OLAP, as of SPS11 customers
can make full use of RAM
1TB 4TB 7TB … 14TB
Scale-out

https://global.sap.com/community/ebook/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html
 Digital Transformation:
Crossing the Chasm
Fear of the
unknown

Capital investments Budget Effort

Complex integrated Real-time insight

system architectures Simplified and
Customized SAP streamlined business
solutions processes

Rigid IT backbone Lower TCO

Intuitive user
experience
SAP Powered by AWS
Accelerate the digital transformation through the power of the AWS Cloud

“The digitization of business requires a modern approach

to data management, data processing and analytics that
S/4HANA & BW/4HANA can handle any data source and type in real time. With
SAP BW/4HANA and our collaboration with AWS, the
leading cloud infrastructure provider, we are providing
Try Prove-It Move-It Optimize customers with an easy-to-consume next-generation data
warehouse platform that will further accelerate their
journey toward becoming a live digital business.”
AWS X1
-- Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board,
Accelerate the digital transformation
Products & Innovation, SAP SE.
From years to months
Try SAP Solutions on AWS with Ease

• More than 30 preconfigured SAP solutions

• Available as Trial, Education, & Developer Editions
• Deployed into your own AWS account
• New releases of:
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW/4HANA 1.0
SAP Connected Health Platform
SAP Master Data Governance 8.0
SAP HANA Vora Developer Edition
SAP HANA Express Edition

https://cal.sap.com/
Demo
Prove It - Innovate Faster

• Move fast and stay secure

• Reduce infrastructure risk
• Software-defined, dynamic architecture
Capacity? • Leverage existing orchestration
BW/4HANA? • Agile, flexible platform
• Low risk / Low cost
Accelerate Your SAP Projects

2 – 5 year journey

Suite On AnyDB 2025

Suite On Hana

S/4HANA

Suite On 2025
AnyDB
Suite On Hana

S/4HANA

6 months to 1 year journey

 FAIRFAX MEDIA
PROVIDING AN AGILE INFORMATION PLATFORM WITH SAP® BW/4HANA®
Business challenges
Company
Fairfax Media Pty. Ltd.  Access accurate information in a timely manner
 Large amount of time spent downloading and manipulating spreadsheets
Headquarters 3 months
Sydney, Australia  Multiple ERP Systems with different chart
From nothing to
productive system
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Technical implementation
Products and Services
Digital Media
 Implemented SAP BW edition for SAP HANA <1 hour
 Infrastructure provided by AWS Upgrade from 244gb
Newspapers
Radio to 2tb system using
 Development and prototyping with live data
Events AWS
Video  4 layers landscape (Sandbox, Development, Test & Production)

Employees
5,515 (2016)
Key benefits 50%
Revenue  Enablement of Financial Operational self service analysis and reporting Reduction in end to
AUD 1,837 (2016)
 Business stakeholder and key users embedded in report development end development
Web Site process time
www.fairfaxmedia.com.au  Enablement of cost savings initiatives by analyzing detailed expenditure
information
Partners
Internal Team

“The use of SAP BW edition for SAP HANA has 10x

Average report
enabled us to deliver a new analytic platform to our execution time
constantly changing business in 3 months with improvement
minimal upfront investment and using an extremely
flexible environment using AWS. ”
10
Diego Lombardini, Head of Finance Systems, Fairfax Media Pty. Ltd.

© 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 28786 (14/09) This content is approved by the customer and may not be altered under any circumstances.
Automated Deployments with
AWS Quick Starts

• SAP HANA Virtual appliance delivery

• Automated infrastructure and SAP HANA
provisioning
• Delivers SAP certified configurations, including
single and multi-node deployments
• Incorporates AWS and SAP best practices
“Using AWS SAP HANA Quick Start, we
only needed to push a few buttons to get
a functioning SAP HANA solution.”
Philip Miller
Philip Miller, Director, Brooks Brothers

• Self service and customizable

• Quick Starts are free - pay only for the resources you
use https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart
• Deploy SAP HANA in minutes vs. weeks or months
 AWS Quick Start for SAP HANA
Infrastructure as Code

CloudWatch alarm

IAM role / instance profile

Private subnet SAP HANA cluster

AWS CloudFormation Public subnet

security group

NAT gateway Bastion host and/or RDP

instance (optional)
Bucket containing EBS volumes
SAP HANA software
Demo
Migrating SAP HANA to X1 on AWS
Common migration scenarios
• Migrate from existing EC2 instances
• Migrate from any DB to an SAP HANA database on AWS
• Migrate an SAP HANA based installation from another
platform/on-premises to X1 on AWS

Tools and methodologies

• Amazon EC2 instance type resizing
• AWS Server Migration Service or partner tooling
• Quick Start +
• Simple backup and restore
• SAP HANA classical migration
• SUM DMO or DMO for Cloud
AWS Partner Network: SAP Partners
SAP Competency Partners
The AWS Competency Program is designed
to provide AWS customers with top quality
APN Partners

SAP Competency Partners have

demonstrated technical proficiency and
proven success in helping customers
implement, migrate, and manage SAP
applications on the AWS Cloud
Moving to AWS Is More Than Just “Lift and
Shift”

Step 2: Optimize

Step 1: Migrate

Step 3: Automate
SAP Solution running on a NON-
AWS Cloud environment
SAP Solution running on AWS
• Rigid / un-flexible
• Low utilization (~40% capacity) • Flexible – scale up / down in minutes
• High cost • Adapt to changing business needs
• Integrate with other AWS services
Optimizing SAP HANA Workloads on AWS
Sizing

Sizing based Hardware

on actual Upgrades in
demand minutes
Support & Monitoring

AWS Data
Provider
Security

Scalability
For SAP

+
Sample Region

SAP OSS support Availability

Zone A
Availability
Zone B
BC-OP-LNX-AWS Amazon
Availability
BC-OP-NT-AWS CloudWatch
Alarm
Zone C

Primary Primary Primary Secondary

HANA HANA HANA HANA

Auto Recovery Optimized HA Full HA/DR

Resiliency
Optimize: SAP High Availability

Sample Region

Availability
Availability
Zone A
Zone B
NEW:

Availability
Zone C

SAP on AWS High Availability Guide

 Amazon EC2 Auto Recovery
Automatic recovery of an EC2 instance when underlying checks fail, due to,
among other things, loss of network connectivity, loss of system power, software
issues on the physical host, and hardware issues on the physical host

Amazon
CloudWatch
SAP Alarm
Virtual Machine SAP Virtual
Virtual Machine SAP Machine
SAP
Virtual Machine Virtual Machine

AWS Hypervisor AWS Hypervisor AWS Hypervisor AWS Hypervisor

Physical Host Physical Hardware
Physical Host X Physical Hardware Physical Host Y
Detect & Trigger Y
X

• Running • Host/hypervisor • SAP virtual machine • Running (new host)

failure or loss of started on a new
network connectivity physical host
• SAP virtual machine • Amazon EBS persistent
is unavailable volumes are mapped by
Result: default
• Better uptime numbers, no waiting for hardware repairs
• Leverage hardware spares at no additional cost
Example: Optimizing SAP HANA HA
(Multi-AZ)

• Use HANA System Replication

(HSR) in Synchronous mode
• Turn off preload option
• Use same size EBS volume
configuration as primary - Memory
requirements for secondary instance
drastically reduced
• Use an smaller instance type with at
least 64 GB of RAM or row store +
20 GB (whichever is higher)
• During a failover event, resize
secondary instance to X1 and
resume operation
Optimize: Trusted Advisor

Monitors and recommends

optimizations for
• Cost
• Security
• Fault tolerance
• Performance

Available to customers with

business and enterprise-level
support
Four checks available as Free Tier http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/

“Over the last couple years, we’ve sent more than 2.6 million Trusted Advisor
notifications that have saved customers over US$350 million dollars.”
 SAP and AWS
Accelerating the Digital Transformation Journey

Increase Innovate Reduce

speed faster costs

• Rapid Provision: • Secure: • Low Cost of Entry:

Create new HANA systems through Innovate while maintaining a 2 TB for 40 hours <$700*
AWS Quick Start in <1 hr secure environment whitespace

• Grow (or shrink) as you go: • Simplify: • Flexible pricing:

Scale-in or scale-out your configuration Clone and upgrade systems with Achieve up to 72% discount on X1 for
in <1 hour ease 3-year commitments

• Expertise: • Consume: • Optimize:

SAP, AWS, and joint partner ecosystem Provision new SAP innovations Flexible HA/DR strategy
through SAP’s Cloud Appliance Integrated monitoring
Library (CAL) Trusted Advisor
* Pricing based on US-East region as of 08/14/2016
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