Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA - Etilize

Solution Brief

Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA Gain insights into critical business trends and speed decision making As data continues to grow and new technologies are emerging to help leverage critical data, enterprises face growing market pressures to remain competitive. ●● ●

●● ●

●● ●

IDC estimates that by 2020 business transactions on the Internet—business-to-business and business-toconsumer—will reach 450 billion per day.2 Most companies notice a gap in the availability of big data and their ability to analyze and gain insights from it Many companies foresee a need for a high-performance analytics strategy

The Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA is built on Flex System x880 X6. It is designed to enable clients to maximize the management operations of their SAP Business Suite application environment and give them near real-time insight into critical business information. Deploying the Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA enables clients to: ●● ●

●● ●

In today’s data-driven culture, tools for business analysis are quickly evolving. Clients need a solution to accelerate their business analytics and reporting capabilities while lowering OP-EX costs associated with systems management and cost of ownership.

●● ●

Speed system provisioning and cloning operations from days to minutes for traditional SAP Business Suite applications Gain near real-time insight into business information and enable clients to identify trends in seconds instead of minutes or even hours. Enable common converged server infrastructure for SAP HANA and SAP Business Suite environments

1 866 426 6398 WWW.LENOVO.COM

Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA

with Flex System Manager. This integration simplifies routine monitoring and cross-node utilization adjustment. New resources within your SAP Business Suite solution—both for capacity and project reasons—can easily be (re-)assigned. Flex System is optimized for virtualization and provides an ideal base for managing your SAP application infrastructure as a private cloud. The Flex System management processes are designed to be application agnostic. But with the optional combination of Flex System Manager and the SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management software you achieve an integration of infrastructure and SAP base application management. From within SAP administrator interfaces typical tasks for monitoring and managing SAP ecosystems can be performed more efficiently and with fewer errors. You can accelerate key tasks like cloning, copying, and refreshing of SAP systems while minimizing impact on source SAP systems.

Optimized for SAP application environments Flex System supports physical consolidation to a small footprint and is designed to reduce the need for external components and cabling. With an efficient virtualization implementation using other x86-focused virtualization technologies, you can consolidate your systems and get the benefit of resource pooling and autonomous peak load compensation for your SAP components.

Powerful analytics for fast insight 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 result is accelerated business intelligence (BI), reporting and analysis capabilities with direct access to business data residing in the SAP HANA In-Memory Database. 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.

Flex System Manager™ integrates and simplifies the management of the various physical and virtual IT architectures hosting your SAP solution. IT solutions spanning across various architectures, can easily be consolidated in a single PureFlex System rack and consistently administrated from a single user interface

2

Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA

FlexSystem x880 is the world’s first 8-socket Intel Xeon processor-based blade server.4 It provides up to 2x the capacity of competitive blade servers5 and offers scalability from 2- to 4- or 8-sockets enabling you to scale up processors and memory for large SAP Business Suite on HANA databases add IT resource to your environment as your demands increase. It offers high-end server resiliency and availability to help maximize application uptime for critical SAP database and business applications. I addition, it provides the ability to integrate and optimize compute, storage and networking resources with simplified management using the no-comprise building blocks of the Flex System® infrastructure. System x GPFS Storage Server (GSS) provides the persistent storage needed for SAP HANA preconfigured implementations. GSS is a integrated storage solution built to leverage IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS™) and provides a high-capacity, scalable building-block approach—performance and capacity increase as you add multiple building blocks. Its unique, innovative GPFS-Native RAID capability provides extreme data integrity and reduced latency with faster rebuild times, and enhanced data protection.

Delivered on Flex System x880 X6 compute nodes 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 compression and massive parallel processing together with essential tools and functionality such as data replication and analytic modeling. Using SAP HANA as transactional single-node RDBMS for e.g., SAP Business Suite, customers can benefit from the in box memory scalability of the X6™-technology.

Customers that prefer to leverage their existing storage investments in their SAP landscape may follow SAP’s Tailored Datacenter Integration approach and integrate their SAP HANA certified storage platform with the Flex System x880 X6 compute nodes. This combination of the Flex System infrastructure and its native automation capabilities with the SAP management products establishes an excellent foundation for deploying and operating SAP landscapes in a private cloud environment, while providing leading data analytics capability for real-time insights into business information with SAP HANA.

3

Why System x System x is the leading provider of x86 systems for the data center. The portfolio includes rack, tower, blade, dense and converged systems, and supports enterprise class performance, reliability and security. System x also offers a full range of networking, storage, software and solutions, and comprehensive services supporting business needs throughout the IT lifecycle.

For more information

2

Wikibon, “Revisited: The Rapid Growth in Unstructured Data” At bottom (hyperlinked) Wikibon, “Revisited: The Rapid Growth in Unstructured Data”

4

Based on information obtained from www.cisco.com, www.dell.com, www.hp.com, and www.ibm.com, as of April 4, 2014.

5

Up to 12 TB maximum memory vs. 6 TB or less for competitive Intel Xeon processor-based blade servers.

NEED STORAGE?

Learn more about LenovoEMC

NEED SERVICES?

Learn more about Lenovo Services

lenovoemc.com

lenovo.com/­services

To learn more about Flex System X6 Solution for SAP HANA, visit lenovo.com/thinkserver

Availability: Offers, prices, specifications and availability may change without notice. Lenovo is not responsible for photographic or typographic errors. Warranty: For a copy of applicable warranties, write to: Warranty Information, 500 Park Offices Drive, RTP, NC, 27709, Attn: Dept. ZPYA/B600. Lenovo makes no representation or warranty regarding third-party products or services. Trademarks: Lenovo, the Lenovo logo, ThinkServer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lenovo. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Core, Core Inside, Xeon and Xeon Inside are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Visit www.lenovo.com/lenovo/us/en/safecomp.html periodically for the latest information on safe and effective computing. IBM x86 products are now products of Lenovo in the U.S. and other countries. Learn more at ibm.com/lenovo-acquisition

LZS12346-USEN­ ­01

© 2014 Lenovo. All rights reserved.

Please Recycle