SAP HANA virtualized

Technology Roadmap
Arne Arnold, SAP HANA Product Management
September, 2014
SAP HANA virtualized
High-Level Overview
SAP HANA virtualized
Why care about SAP HANA virtualized

• Why
• SAP HANA virtualized offer customers reduced TCO and
additional options for planning and managing their
systems landscapes. It also impacts CAPEX positively
and hence can help lower the barriers to entry for SMEs
and startups.

• How
• A hypervisor specific validation process has been
established to determine all necessary constraints and
best practices to ensure supportability and minimum
performance requirements for running SAP HANA in
virtualized environments.
• The first hypervisor which went through validation and is
Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
supported in the context of SAP HANA is VMware Infrastructure, July 2014 (G00262673)
vSphere, but others will follow over time.
© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 4
SAP HANA virtualized
Technology Roadmap (high level)

F∙u∙t∙u∙r∙e

2012 2013 2014 2015

© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 5

SAP HANA virtualized
SAP HANA Deployment Scenarios
production

On premise Cloud
•SAP HANA appliance •SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
•SAP HANA Tailored •HANA Cloud Platform
Datacenter Integration •IaaS Providers
•VMware vSphere
•Hitachi LPAR
•ABAP on SAP HANA
•MCOD

On-premise/private virtual private/public

On premise Cloud
•Multi SID (MCOS) •SAP HANA One
•SAP HANA developer edition

non-production
© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 6
SAP HANA virtualized
Hypervisor Support Status & Outlook
SAP HANA virtualized
Currently Supported Hypervisors

 Currently supported hypervisors for running SAP HANA virtualized (on either SLES or RHEL guest OS):
– VMware vSphere 5.1 and SAP HANA SPS 05 (or later releases) for non-production use cases
– VMware vSphere 5.5 and SAP HANA SPS 07 (or later releases) production and non-production use cases
o In General Availability for single-VM scenarios (see SAP Note 1995460 for details).
o In Controlled Availability for multi-VM scenarios, (see later slide for process description)
– Hitachi LPAR 2.0 and SAP HANA SPS 07 (or later releases) production and non-production use cases
o In Controlled Availability for single- and multi-VM scenarios, (see later slide for process description)

 The following general constraints and conditions do apply while running SAP HANA virtualized:
o Limited to scale-up scenario only (scale-out / multi-node database installations are not supported).
o CPU & memory overprovisioning must not be used. Each SAP HANA instance / virtual machine is sized according to the existing SAP
HANA sizing guidelines and corresponding hypervisor vendor recommendations.
o SAP HANA installation was either done following by an SAP HANA certified engineer on SAP HANA certified hardware and
successfully verified with the SAP HANA hardware configuration check tool (SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration option), or system
had been delivered pre-configured as certified SAP HANA appliance, with hypervisor installed by SAP HANA hardware partner.

See SAP Note 1788665 - SAP HANA Support for Virtualized Environments

© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 8

SAP HANA virtualized
High Availability Options
High Availability solution
Scenario Description
Operating system failures
Hardware failures
Application failures
IP Redirect / DNS update
RTO
RPO
Remarks:
© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved.
Hypervisor High Availability
Standard VM HA solution
(based on shared file system, no
split brain)
Yes
Yes
No **
Not necessary
Medium
(crash recovery of DB)
0 0
Suitable also for disaster tolerant
(DT) solution, in conjunction with
site failover with VMware Site
Recovery Manager and storage
replication
Hypervisor HA + In-Guest
Cluster (node recovery)
Cluster manager handles switch
over to secondary site, while VM HA
is used to restart/restore availability
of primary host, so HA cluster is
ready for next fault situation (just in
opposite direction).
Yes
Yes
Yes
Handled by In-Guest Cluster
Manager
Medium
(crash recovery of DB)
Note: 2nd cluster node shall not
reside on same physical host
Possible cluster manager includes
SUSE HA; HP Service Guard, SAP
LVM, VMware Site Recovery
manager
* The SAP HANA host auto-failover is currently not supported, as scale-out supported is missing for virtualized environments
In-Guest cluster only SAP HANA System Replication *
+ In-Guest Cluster
Standard 3rd party cluster manager, Standard 3rd party cluster manager,
not utilizing VM capabilities. Data not utilizing VM capabilities.
replication between primary and Data replication between primary
secondary site may be done by and secondary site is done by SAP
storage replication (or similar). HANA system replication, however.
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Handled by In-Guest Cluster Handled by In-Guest Cluster
Manager Manager
Medium Shortest
(crash recovery of DB) (IP redirect)
0 0 (synchronous)
>0 (asynchronous)
Note: 2nd cluster node shall not Alternative to VM HA / DT solution,
reside on same physical host leveraging SAP HANA system
replication to achieve possible lower
RTO.
** In case of VMware, future plans to also support application failure detection
Customer 9
SAP HANA virtualized
Technology Roadmap (from today to 2015+)

• Today
• Support for SAP HANA on VMware Multi VM
in non-production scenarios Complement
support

• Support for single-VM SAP HANA on deployment

options
On single host

VMware in production and non- HANA scale out

production scenarios On vSphere
cluster
• Controlled Availability for VMware Single VM
8 socket
Extend platform hardware
multi-VM scenarios, as well as Hitachi production
support support
LPAR technology in production Future vSphere
optimization /
• On Roadmap releases

• Support for scale-up on vSphere 6 Add variety Support of

additional
• Support for scale out scenarios hypervisors

H1/2014 H2/2014 2015+

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 10

SAP HANA virtualized
Application Process for Controlled Availability

• Customers interested in running …

• multiple SAP HANA VMs on VMware vSphere 5.5 in production
• one or more SAP HANA VMs on Hitachi LPAR 2.0 in production
… can apply for Controlled Availability of SAP HANA production support by sending an email to:

sap_hana_tailored_data_center_integration@sap.com

• This email should contain…

• High-level scenario description and timeline (e.g. planned Go-live date)
• Expected database size (compressed HANA DB size, number of users)
• Hardware spec (HW vendor, server t-shirt size),
• Planned HA/DR setup (if applicable),
• Contact details (if possible incl. SAP account number) for further communication

All information provided will be kept confidential and is only being used during the selection process. Once accepted,
customers will receive the usual SAP HANA support as also provided for non virtualized environments for the presented
scenario.
© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 11
SAP HANA virtualized
Further Reading

 SAP HANA Virtualized Central Note https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1788665

 SAP HANA Virtualized Overview ppt http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3334
 SAP HANA Guidelines for VMware http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-4192
 VMware Best Practices for SAP HANA http://vmware.com/go/sap-hana
 Hitachi Best Practices for SAP HANA http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-57936

 SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud http://www.sap.com/entcloud

 SAP HANA One http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-2482
 SAP HANA Developer Edition http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28294

 More info will be made available through http://www.saphana.com/community/resources

 HANA Technology  Virtualization

© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 12

Thank you
Contact information:

Arne Arnold, MSc, PMP®

SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com

To get the best overview of what’s new in SAP HANA SPS 08, read this blog.
© 2013 SAP AG. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP AG.
The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice.

Some software products marketed by SAP AG and its distributors contain proprietary software components of other software vendors.

National product specifications may vary.

These materials are provided by SAP AG and its affiliated companies ("SAP Group") for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and
SAP Group shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP Group products and services are those that are set forth in
the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.

SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and other
countries.
Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices.

© 2014 SAP SE. All rights reserved. Customer 14