White Paper VIRTUALIZED SAP HANA® ON VCE VBLOCK IN PRODUCTION — A REALITY Benefits of Running Virtualized SAP HANA on VCE Vblock™ with Deloitte Cloud ServiceFabric™ on Hybrid Cloud EMC Global Solutions Group Abstract An international team of Deloitte, EMC, VMware, Cisco, and VCE functional and technical experts worked to identify the challenges of running virtualized SAP HANA on a Vblock in Production and over a hybrid cloud. Through this Proof of Concept, named Project RUBICON, that multi-company team created real- world use cases for testing Production workloads, analyzing the results, suggesting solutions for mitigating risks, and offering solutions for possible implementation of SAP’s new S/4HANA in virtualized mode. February 2015 Copyright © 2015 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. 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Part Number H13997 s Virtualized SAP HANA on VCE Vblock in Production — A Reality 2 Benefits of Running Virtualized SAP HANA on VCE Vblock with Deloitte Cloud ServiceFabric on Hybrid Cloud TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................... 5 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ ..5 Scope ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Audience ...................................................................................................................................... 5 OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROOF OF CONCEPT ........................................... 6 Challenges and Concerns addressed by this Proof of Concept (POC) .............................. 6 Business and Technical Benefits of this Proof of Concept ...................................................... 6 ARCHITECTURAL OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT BUILT FOR THIS POC . 7 Architecture Overview & POC Landscape High-level Diagram ........................................... 7 Details of the Virtualized SAP HANA Environment used in this Proof of Concept ............... 7 USE CASE RATIONAL & DESCRIPTIONS ............................................... .8 Overview of Use Cases ................................................................................................................ 8 Overview of Test Scenarios ......................................................................................................... 8 Key Metrics of Test Scenarios ...................................................................................................... 9 Measuring Stability, Performance & Headroom Capacity .................................................... 9 Business/Technical Perspectives of Use Cases ....................................................................... 10 OUTCOMES & RESULTS FROM USE CASES .............................................................. 11 Overview of Test Load Run ....................................................................................................... 11 Benefits of running the virtualized SAP HANA "appliance" on VCE Vblock ....................... 15 Role of the Tools in validating Stability & Performance ........................................................ 17 Summary of Contributions of the Tools in Project RUBICON ................................................. 27 Deloitte's Cloud ServiceFabric running in Hybrid Cloud Mode ........................................... 30 Benefits of running Cloud ServiceFabric in Hybrid Cloud Mode ......................................... 35 Conclusions of Results and Analysis from these Outcomes ................................................. 36 LESSONS LEARNED & RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................... 37 Customer Issues Addressed ...................................................................................................... 37 Technical Lessons Learned ....................................................................................................... 38 Business Lessons Learned .......................................................................................................... 39 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................................. 40 Appendix 1--Diagrams & Charts .............................................................................................. 40 Appendix 2--Inventory of Architectural Components used for this POC ........................... 41 Appendix 3--Descriptions of Architectural Components ..................................................... 42 Appendix 4--Overview of the VCE Vblock ............................................................................. 43 Appendix 5--Overview of Tools used in this Proof of Concept ............................................ 43 Virtualized SAP HANA on VCE Vblock in Production — A Reality 3 Benefits of Running Virtualized SAP HANA on VCE Vblock with Deloitte Cloud ServiceFabric on Hybrid Cloud EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In May 2014, SAP and VMware jointly announced support for running virtualized SAP HANA on VMware in Production and many customers including EMC IT have benefited from the more flexible and cost effective way of running productive virtualized HANA. Yet, HANA deployments in Production, whether virtual or bare metal, are not as common as traditional SAP NetWeaver so it is natural that certain customers have concerns with the maturity, system behavior, and reliability under Production-level workload, and customers are even less certain of how HANA would work in a hybrid cloud. This white paper provides proof points and a reference architecture for customers desiring to take advantage of the efficiencies, performance and scalability of virtualized SAP HANA environments running on Vblock under Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) mode and in a hybrid cloud model instead of on bare metal physical appliances. This paper addresses those customer challenges and concerns by: Proving that virtual SAP HANA “appliances” on a VCE Vblock can easily handle Production workloads while offering long distance disaster recovery not possible with bare metal Demonstrating that monitoring and reporting tools can provide the required insight to ensure stability and scalability of virtualized SAP HANA on a Vblock under TDI Validating how to operate SAP HANA in a hybrid cloud model over long distance Deloitte, EMC, VMware, Cisco, and VCE in conjunction with Blue Medora and Worksoft worked together to show how to monitor, measure, and take actions upon the entire computing stack of a virtualized SAP HANA Production system to achieve stability and scalability under heavy workload. This team also showed how SAP HANA can realistically be implemented in hybrid cloud mode between the Deloitte datacenter in Georgia and the EMC datacenter in North Carolina, located 550 kilometers apart. This Proof of Concept used a workload equivalent in volume and scope to a month-end closing event, by loading inventories, creating planned orders, calculating lead times, etc., with over 2,000 concurrent SAP users logged in and multiple MRP batch jobs. Over the 2 hour test run, this massive load generated the equivalent of 784,000 dialog steps, 680,000 Updates, and 144GB of SAP HANA logs per day. Under this large workload, the virtualized SAP HANA “appliance” running on Vblock proved to be stable and scalable according to the monitoring tools from Blue Medora Pack for SAP HANA, Cisco Intelligent Automation for SAP HANA, and EMC ViPR SRM, confirming that there is no difference in stability and performance between a traditional, bare metal infrastructure and a virtualized, converged environment based on the Vblock. The monitoring tools were even able to predict possible future failure, while providing reporting on compliance with agreed-to Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Since long distance disaster recovery for SAP HANA is very important in Production, EMC RecoverPoint proved that it could replicate large amounts of SAP HANA logs over long distance to restart HANA at the remote site, with a more than acceptable Recovery Point Objective (RPO) at peak workload. The POC also demonstrated that Deloitte’s Cloud ServiceFabric™ (CSF) can be extended to a hybrid cloud model by implementing and controlling CSF endpoints in Durham, NC from the CSF provisioning and monitoring portal in Suwanee, GA. By relocating workloads from one datacenter to another without data loss, Cloud ServiceFabric works well in hybrid clouds for maximum optimization of resources. The results detailed in this white paper suggest that perhaps the reference architecture proposed in this POC could be the ideal platform to