The IBM Systems solution for SAP HANA – Enable real time business

The IBM Systems solution
for SAP HANA – Enable
real time business
Simple, Seamless, and Scalable
Solution Brief
IBM Systems and Technology
In today’s data-driven culture, tools for business analysis are quickly
evolving. Organizations need new ways to leverage critical data on the fly
to not only accelerate decision making, but also to gain insights into key
trends. The ability to instantly explore, augment and analyze all data in
near-real time could deliver the competitive edge your organization needs
to make better decisions faster—as well as take advantage of favorable
market conditions, customer trends, price fluctuations and other factors
that directly influence the bottom line.
SAP HANA, delivered on IBM eX5 enterprise servers with fifth-
generation IBM® Enterprise X-Architecture® technology (eX5), helps
transform the enterprise by addressing current needs while delivering
the robust scalability and performance needed to accommodate growth.
SAP HANA running on powerful IBM eX5 enterprise servers with
Intel Xeon processor E7 family combines the speed and efficiency of
in-memory processing with the ability to analyze massive amounts
of business data—enabling companies to eliminate barriers between
real-time events and real-time business decisions.
Innovative analytic appliance
To support today’s information-critical business environment, SAP
HANA gives companies the ability to process huge amounts of data faster
than ever before. The appliance lets business users instantly access, model
and analyze all of a company’s transactional and analytical data from vir-
tually any data source in real time, in a single environment, without
impacting existing applications or systems.
Highlights
● ●
SAP HANA™ running on IBM eX5 enter-
prise servers enables faster access to SAP
operational data and information with near
real-time visibility into business operations
● ●
Powerful and scalable IBM eX5 enterprise
servers powered by the Intel® Xeon®
processor E7 family speed in-memory
processing, enabling the analysis of
massive amounts of business and
operational data
● ●
Workload Optimized Solutions for
SAP HANA deliver leading performance
and scaling with faster deployment

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Solution Brief
The result is accelerated business intelligence (BI), reporting
and analysis capabilities with direct access to the in-memory
data models residing in SAP In-Memory Database software.
Advanced analytical workflows and planning functionality
directly access operational data from SAP ERP or other
sources. SAP HANA provides a high-speed data warehouse
environment, with SAP In-Memory Database serving as a next-
generation, in-memory acceleration engine.
Delivered on IBM eX5 enterprise servers that provide leading
performance and scalability, SAP HANA efficiently processes
and analyzes massive amounts of data by packaging SAP’s use of
in-memory technology, columnar database design, data com-
pression and massive parallel processing together with essential
tools and functionality such as data replication and analytic
modeling.
Made possible through recent technology advances that com-
bine large, scalable memory, multi-core processing, fast solid-
state storage and data management, in-memory computing
leverages these technology innovations to establish a continuous
real-time link between insight, foresight and action to deliver
significantly accelerated business performance and reduced total
cost of ownership (TCO).
To explore, model and analyze data in real time, SAP HANA
can be leveraged as a high-performance “side-by-side” data
mart to an existing data warehouse; it can also serve as the data-
base in SAP Business Suite™ and SAP NetWeaver™ Business
Warehouse environments.
IBM eX5 systems with the Intel Xeon
processor E7 family power SAP HANA
IBM is the first to decouple memory and input/output (I/O)
from the processor—moving processing power from what’s the-
oretically possible to what’s actually possible. IBM System x®
servers with fifth-generation IBM eX5 technology enable SAP
HANA customers to benefit from a shared vision that delivers
simplicity and automation designed to help organizations accel-
erate business outcomes while lowering TCO.
These System x servers are equipped with processors from the
Intel Xeon processor E7 family, which combine exceptional raw
compute power with increased memory bandwidth and support
for significantly greater memory capacity to deliver superior
performance to previous-generation processors. With up to ten
cores in each processor, the four-socket x3950 X5 can be scaled
to 40 cores and 80 threads with the use of Intel Hyper-
Threading Technology. Organizations can achieve extreme
scaling within each node for running demanding workloads on
a compact system. IBM System x servers based on the Intel
Xeon processor E7 family offer 20x more performance than
single-core servers,5 enabling greater responsiveness from SAP
applications.
Co-innovation between Intel and SAP stretches back more than
10 years, and the latest manifestation is the excellent results
from SAP HANA on the Intel Xeon processor E7 family, for
extraordinary efficiency and business value:
● ●
Intelligent performance tailors processor operation dynami-
cally to the needs of the workload, for high throughput when
it matters most.
● ●
Automated energy efficiency powers up only those processor
components that are needed at any given time, for break-
through performance per watt and ROI.
● ●
Advanced reliability keeps the server running smoothly when
otherwise-unrecoverable processor or memory errors occur.
In addition, Intel Xeon E7 Processors feature energy efficiency
technology (Intel Intelligent Power Technology (IPT)) lever-
aged from Intel’s Efficient Performance product line. IPT auto-
matically shifts the CPU and memory into the lowest available
power state, while delivering the performance you need.

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Solution Brief
IBM offers several Workload Optimized Solution models for
SAP HANA. These Workload Optimized solutions are
server models, based on the 2-socket x3690 X5 and 4-socket
x3950 X5, are optimally designed and certified by SAP. They
are delivered preconfigured with key software components pre-
installed to help speed delivery and deployment of the solution.
The x3690 X5–based configurations offer 128 to 256 GB of
memory and incorporate IBM XFlash solid-state disk. The
x3950 X5–based configurations leverage the scalability of
eX5 and offer the capability to pay as you grow—starting
with a 2-processor, 256 GB configuration and growing to a
8-processor, 4 TB configuration. The x3950 X5–based
configurations integrate the 1.2 TB High IOPS MLC Mono
Adapter. Note: an 8-socket configuration uses a scalability kit
that combines the 7143-HBx10 with the 7143-HCx10 or the
7143-HDx10,14 with the 7143-HEx10,14 to create a single
8-socket system.
SAP Business Suite customers can now take advantage of new
high memory configurations designed for SAP Business
Suite workloads such as ERP, CRM, and SCM. Using the
7143-HDx10,12 and 7143-HEx10,12 models, these single
server configurations enable support for 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB
database sizes.
IBM now offers VMware™ virtualization support for select
single node SAP HANA workload optimized models for
non-production environments. This virtualization support helps
you optimize your investment for development and test envi-
ronments. In addition, new synchronous disaster recovery sup-
port is available so your SAP HANA systems can failover to a
second site enabling to you to ensure maximum data availability.
Leading performance
IBM eX5 enterprise servers with Intel Xeon processors offer
extreme memory and performance scalability. With improved
hardware economics and new technology offerings, IBM is
helping SAP realize a real-time enterprise with in-memory
business applications. IBM eX5 enterprise servers deliver a long
history of leading SAP benchmark performance.1,2
In addition, eX5 features such as eXFlash solid-state disk tech-
nology can yield significant performance improvements in stor-
age access, helping deliver an optimized system solution for
SAP HANA. Standard features in the solution such as the High
IOPS MLC Mono Adapter for IBM System x can also provide
fast access to storage.
SAP HANA benefits dramatically from high-speed Intel
QuickPath processor-to-memory interconnects and the latest
processor instructions, Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.x.
Those features eliminate many I/O bottlenecks, so processor
headroom is available to generate excellent throughput and
responsiveness. SAP HANA is also engineered to take particu-
lar advantage of RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability)
features of the Intel Xeon processor E7 family, especially error
correction through Machine Check Architecture Recovery, for
mission-critical implementations.
Enterprise platform investment with
workload optimized solutions
Based on scalable IBM eX5 technology included in IBM System
x3690 X5 and System x3950 X5 servers, SAP HANA offers a
solution that can help meet the need to analyze growing
amounts of transactional data—delivering significant gains in
both performance and scalability in a single, flexible appliance.

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Solution Brief
Simple and Seamless Scalability
Using the workload optimized solution models you can com-
bine multiple models together to create multi-node scale-out
configurations. These multi-node scale-out configurations
enable you to achieve larger SAP HANA memory sizes for SAP
NetWeaver™ Business Warehouse and data mart workloads
simply by adding compute nodes. IBM was the first vendor to
have multi-node scale-out configurations and currently has
16 node x3690 X5 and 56 node x3950 X5 with high availability
solutions validated. You can start with one node and grow your
environment to 56 nodes. This modular approach enables you
to invest in a Workload Optimized solution for SAP HANA
and grow your infrastructure as your SAP HANA environment
grows. In addition, you can handle unplanned outages by
including an additional High Availability (HA) node in your
configuration. SAP and IBM have demonstrated extreme scal-
ability by testing a 100 TB HANA System.
These multi-node scale-out configurations do not require exter-
nal storage or a Storage Area Network (SAN) as other vendor
solutions do. The IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™)
software in these configurations has the unique capability to use
the storage contained within each node helping to simplify the
infrastructure required for SAP HANA. In addition, only
IBM has a High Availability concept which allows customers to
seamlessly extend their installation to enable High Availability
using GPFS replication and an additional stand-by node.
IBM Intelligent Cluster integrated packaging and assembly can
help speed installation and deployment of multi-node scale-out
HA configurations as well as reduce implementation risk.
IBM and SAP accelerate value and
performance
By implementing SAP HANA on eX5 enterprise servers, cus-
tomers can realize:
● ●
Faster time-to-value by bringing all the data in the enter-
prise to decision makers in seconds, not weeks or months—
and presenting it in an easy-to-understand and usable format
so your company can run smarter, react quicker and perform
better.
● ●
Faster performance, less complexity and greater effi-
ciency from a powerful and proven converged infrastructure
environment of integrated technologies that simplify
operations, consolidate resources and dynamically migrate
functionalities as business changes, while delivering the ability
to quickly change the way users look at mass amounts of data
without compromising data integrity or security. SAP HANA
running on IBM eX5 enterprise servers has been proven to
handle 10,000 queries per hour against 1.3 TB of data,
returning results within seconds.3
Figure 1. IBM System x3690 X5 Workload Optimized Solution for
SAP HANA
Figure 2. IBM System x3950 X5 Workload Optimized Solution for
SAP HANA

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Solution Brief
SAP HANA can be deployed rapidly and offers low TCO by
leveraging the latest server, processor, storage and memory
technologies. Integrated solution components in the appliance
help speed installation and deployment. Thanks to real-time
replication of transaction data with near-zero latency, SAP
HANA allows you to offload analytical reporting, easing the
load on the transactional system.
360-degree view of business operations
SAP HANA enables organizations to integrate and model data
from virtually any data source for complete real-time insight
into the entire business. In addition, it brings all the data in
your enterprise within the reach of decision makers in seconds,
enabling them to make time-critical business decisions based on
instant access to information.
Greater organizational efficiency from this powerful and proven
converged infrastructure environment simplifies operations,
consolidates resources and dynamically migrates functionalities
as business needs change—letting you quickly change the way
users look at mass amounts of data without compromising data
integrity or security. Now you can:
● ●
Combine high-volume transactions with analytics to improve
existing planning, forecasting, pricing optimization and other
processes
● ●
Access data directly from SAP ERP or combine it with other
data sources for real-time analytics and business insight
● ●
Accelerate business intelligence by leveraging SAP
BusinessObjects BI and other third-party clients integrated
directly on top of SAP HANA
● ●
Roll out next-generation in-memory acceleration for current
and future deployments
IBM General Parallel File System
enhances performance and reliability
Explosions of data, transactions and digitally-aware devices are
straining IT infrastructure and operations, while storage costs
and user expectations are increasing. The IBM GPFS, with its
high-performance enterprise file management, can help move
beyond simply adding storage to optimizing data management
for SAP HANA. High-performance enterprise file management
using GPFS gives SAP HANA applications:
● ●
Performance to satisfy the most demanding SAP HANA
applications
● ●
Seamless capacity expansion to handle the explosive growth
of SAP HANA information
● ●
High availability to help eliminate production outages and
provide disruption-free maintenance and capacity upgrades
● ●
Integrated disaster recovery features to ensure business
resiliency
The IBM x3690 X5 and x3950 X5 Workload Optimized
Solution server models include IBM GPFS on x86 Single
Server for x86 Integrated Offerings with 3-year software
subscription and support. Multi-node scale-out cluster
configurations use the full featured GPFS scale-out product and
offer enhanced availability and resiliency required for large
production environments. Seamless capacity and performance
scaling—along with the proven reliability features and flexible
architecture of GPFS—help your company foster innovation by
simplifying your environment and streamlining data workflows
for increased efficiency.

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Solution Brief
Integrated data protection
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource Planning
(TSM for ERP) is a simple, scalable data protection solution for
SAP HANA and SAP ERP. SAP HANA’s memory-to-disk
backups create export files that need to be preserved in case
recovery is required. TSM for ERP includes a one-step com-
mand that automates SAP HANA backup and TSM data
protection—a simple process that preserves SAP HANA data
safety in TSM. Full and incremental (log only) backups can be
performed so users can make frequent backups throughout the
day to help reduce the risk of data loss. Parallel multiplexed
sessions can be configured for faster backup processing as the
SAP HANA environment grows.
Services to speed deployment
To help speed deployment and simplify maintenance of your
x3690 X5 and x3950 X5: Workload Optimized Solution for
SAP HANA, IBM Systems Services and IBM Global
Technology Services offer quick-start and optional Total
Solution Support services to help set up and configure the
appliance and health-check services to ensure it continues to
run optimally. In addition, IBM also offers skills and enable-
ment services for administration and management of IBM eX5
enterprise servers.4
By drawing on these resources, we can help you take full advan-
tage of SAP HANA running on IBM eX5 enterprise servers.
IBM and SAP team for long-term business
innovation
With a unique combination of expertise, experience and proven
methodologies—and a history of shared innovation—IBM can
help strengthen and optimize your information infrastructure to
support your SAP applications.
IBM and SAP have worked together for over 40 years to deliver
innovation to their shared customers. Since 2006, IBM has been
the market leader for implementing SAP’s original in-memory
appliance, the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
(BWA). Hundreds of BWA deployments have been successfully
completed in multiple industries. These BWA appliances have
been successfully deployed on many of SAP’s largest business
warehouse implementations.
The IBM and SAP offer solutions that move business forward
and anticipate organizational change by strengthening your
business analytics information infrastructure for greater
operational efficiency and offering a way to make smarter
decisions faster.

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Solution Brief
x3690 X5: Workload Optimized
Solution for SAP HANA
X3950 X5: Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA
Model 7147-HA1x10,6 7147-HB2x10 7143-HAx10 7143-HBx10 7143-HCx10,7 +
7143-HBx*
Processor 2 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-2870
10C 2.40GHz
2 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-2870
10C 2.40GHz
2 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8870
10C 2.40GHz
4 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8870
10C 2.40GHz
8 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8870
10C 2.40GHz
Memory 128 GB 256 GB 256 GB 512 GB 1024 GB
Solid State Disk 10x 200 GB eXFlash 10x 200 GB eXFlash 1.2 TB High IOPS
MLC Mono Adapter
1.2 TB High IOPS
MLC Mono Adapter
2 × 1.2 TB High IOPS
MLC Mono Adapter
Hard Disk 8x 900 GB 10K
6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF
HS HDD
8x 900 GB 10K
6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF
HS HDD
16x 900 GB 10K
6Gbps SAS 2.5" SFF
HS HDD
Networking Ports 4x 10 GbE
6x 1 GigE
4x 10 GbE
6x 1 GigE
4x 10 GbE
6x 1 GigE
4x 10 GbE
6x 1 GigE
8x 10 GbE
12x 1 GigE
Software SUSE Linux for
SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for
SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for
SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for
SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for
SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
x3950 X5: Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA for SAP Business Suite, Powered by SAP
HANA Single Node Configurations12
Model 7143-HDx10 7143-HEx10,11 7143-HDx10,11 + 7143-HEx* 7143-HDx10,11 + 7143-HEx*
Processor 4 x Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8870 10C
2.40GHz
4 x Intel® Xeon®
2.40GHz
8 x Intel® Xeon®
2.40GHz
8 x Intel® Xeon®
2.40GHz
Memory 1024 GB 1024 GB 2048 GB 4096 GB
Solid State Disk 1.2 TB High IOPS MLC
Mono Adapter
1.2 TB High IOPS MLC
Mono Adapter
2 × 1.2 TB High IOPS MLC
Mono Adapter
4 × 1.2 TB High IOPS MLC
Mono Adapter
Hard Disk 8x 900 GB 10K 6Gbps
SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD
8x 900 GB 10K 6Gbps
SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD
16x 900 GB 10K 6Gbps
SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD
24x 900 GB 10K 6Gbps
SAS 2.5" SFF HS HDD
Networking Ports 4x 10 GbE 6x 1 GigE 4x 10 GbE 6x 1 GigE 8x 10 GbE 12x 1 GigE 8x 10 GbE 12x 1 GigE
Software SUSE Linux for SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
SUSE Linux for SAP8,
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
IBM GPFS9 and
SAP HANA
The following table gives a model summary.

XSS03094-USEN-02
1 “IBM posts leadership 2-processor and 16-core result on two-tier SAP
SD standard application benchmark,” ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/
benchmarks/news/newsblurb_x3690X5_Windows_sap_101110.pdf.
2 “IBM posts new results for two-tier SAP SD Standard Application
Benchmark,” http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/resources/benchmarks/
intel/benchmark/index.html#SAP
3 http://www.sap.com/about/newsroom/press.epx?pressid=14906
4 Services offerings vary by geography. Please contact your IBM sales
representation for available offerings.
5 Claim: Intel Xeon processor 7500 series offers up to 20x greater
performance than single core servers. See: www.intel.com/Assets/pt_BR/
PDF/prodbrief/323499.pdf
6 The 7147-HAx can be upgraded to support 256 GB of memory.
7 The 7143-HCx is used to upgrade the 7143-HBx model to an 8-socket,
1TB configuration. The 7143-HCx can also be used to upgrade the
7143-HAx model, once the 7143-HAx model has been upgraded to a
4 processor, 512 GB configuration.
8 These IBM models include SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Applications with 3 year SUSE priority support.
9 IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) on x86 Single Server for
Integrated Offerings with a 3-year software subscription and support.
10 x represents the regional character identifier for this server model.
Please contact your IBM sales representative for regional part numbers.
11 The 7143-HEx model is used to upgrade the 7143-HDx model to an
8-socket, 2TB configuration.
12 7143-HDx and 7143-HEx models are specific to and limited for use in
single node configurations for SAP Business Suite, Powered by SAP
HANA applications, including ERP, CRM and SCM.
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These IBM computer systems are preinstalled with a copy of the SAP High
In-Memory Appliance (SAP HANA) software which includes SYBASE
REPLICATION SERVER 15, SAP HOST AGENT 7.2, APACHE
TOMCAT 5.5, PERL 5.8, SAP In-Memory Database which has been
integrated or pre-installed as part of the IBM hardware system. You are not
licensed to use the copy of SAP software contained in the IBM hardware
system until you have purchased or licensed the use of the SAP software
from SAP or its authorized distributors. Usage of the SAP software is
subject to the applicable SAP end-user license agreement. Your purchase of
the IBM hardware system does not include a license to use the SAP
software to be preinstalled, or to any other SAP software. SAP is under no
obligation to license the preloaded SAP software to you. Please contact
your responsible SAP representative to obtain the appropriate license rights
to use the SAP software.
General information about the SAP HANA can be found on SDN:
www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/in-memory
The installation is described in the SAP OSS Note 1523337:
https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&
_EVENT=DISPL_TXT&_NNUM=1523337&
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