Technology & Innovation System to S/4HANA

1. SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems
August 2017
Thitiphat Phimsen
Client Technical Specialist,
SAP Infrastructure Architects
IBM Cognitive Systems Group, Thailand

2. All Roads Lead to SAP HANA
Analytics SAP BW SAP ERP, CRM, SCM
Business Suite,
S/4HANA

3. 15+ Years of
Collaboration
on Open Source+ 400+ software products
500+ patents donated
600+ developers
Specifically Designed
for Big Data / Analytics
Workloads
3X
Per core Ratio in
SAP SD 2-Tier vs Intel™
4X
more memory bandwidth
vs Intel™
Strong partnership over
40+ years delivering
compelling value for
customers
+ 31+
SAP Awards
1000’s
Customer engagements
IBM + SAP = A Winning Team
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4. SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Delivers Value
Scale Out
S812
S814
S822/S822L
S824/S824L
Enterprise
E850C
E870C
E880C
•Flexibility
–Virtualize SAP HANA without compromise
Up to 8 production VMs per system without overhead
–Capacity-on-Demand
Buy as you need
–Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI)
Reuse assets
•Resiliency
–Best uptime for business critical
•Performance
–Performance at scale
–2x throughput per core
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5. Design for Superior Performance
• Highest throughput per core to deliver faster
business results – up to 2x Intel-based alternatives
“Our IBM and SAP solutions have improved our performance while reducing the
size and cost of our environment.”
– Steve Parker, Director, Application Development, Kennametal
“Using SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems enables us to deliver cutting-edge click-
and-collect services with up-to-the-second inventory data.”
– Thomas Vielhauer, Head of ERP Processes, Coop Group

6. Delivering Freedom of Choice to the
HANA Landscape
▪ Run SAP ECC/AnyDB and SAP HANA production side-by-side on the same
POWER8 system
▪ Migrate overtime to SAP HANA freeing cores / memory
t t+1 t+2
Current
SAP
Compute
SAP
HANA
Compute
SAP HANA
In ProductionStart dev/test
of SAP HANA
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7. Resiliency to Support Mission Critical SAP
•Designed to deliver the reliability and fault-resilience
required for mission critical environments
– Built in fault tolerance, redundancy and self-healing capabilities
•All Power Systems include advanced memory RAS:
– Chipkill – up to three chips may fail before needing to replace the memory board
– On-board error checkers
– Standard Error Correcting Code
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8. SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems – High
Availability Solutions
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Business Continuity
High Availability per
Data Center
Disaster recovery between
Data Centers
SAP HANA Host Auto-Failover
Scale-out with Standby
SAP HANA System Replication
Fast take-overs to prepared
instance
SAP HANA Storage Replication
System started fresh on separate
hardware
SAP HANA System Replication
Performance Optimized
Cost Optimized

9. SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Total Solution
Service for Business Continuity
With extensive knowledge of SAP HANA products and support infrastructure, our highly
skilled specialists provide proactive guidance to help address current problems and
preempt future issues
Give you optimized
access to a
comprehensive
solution support
SPOC
Provide integrated HW
and SW support to help
improve availability
and reduce high-severity
problem resolution time
INTEGRATED
Avert problems with
proactive services,
preventative support
advice and services
PROACTIVE
Improve efficiency
through continuous
customer interaction
CARE
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10. © 2017 IBM Corporation
Fast Time to Value with IBM Power Systems
IBM Systems Lab Service Offerings for SAP HANA
▪ SAP HANA on Power Install
▪ SAP HANA on Power Migration Workshop
▪ SAP HANA Migration Assessment
▪ SAP HANA Migration Planning & Solution Design
▪ SAP HANA Migration Assistance
▪ SAP HANA on Power Systems Health Check
▪ SAP HANA on Power Performance Assessment
Post-installation services include ongoing SAP HANA health checks and performance optimization
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Start your Journey
With IBM Power Systems Today
Flexibility
Superior
virtualization and
management
Resiliency
Best up-time for
mission critical SAP
applications
Performance
Higher throughput to
deliver faster business
results
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