Challenges Encountered in Deploying SAP HANA
In the era of big data, as the quantity, type and generation speed of data continue to increase, making full use of “vital” data to achieve business innovation breakthroughs has become the original intention for enterprises to deploy SAP HANA. The deployment of SAP HANA requires stable and reliable hardware equipment certified by SAP, as well as pre-installed software and comprehensive service consultation to simplify the deployment, management and operation of SAP HANA. Moreover, at different stages of business development, users have different demands for big data analysis, and at the same time, they also have requirements for the system upgrade and expansion of SAP HANA. This requires SAP HANA to provide flexible solution options.
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Dell EMC SAP HANA Typical Application Scenarios
Dell EMC SAP HANA Single-Server Integrated System
When users are considering enhancing the performance of SAP HANA OLTP, they usually start by thinking about server acceleration. Dell EMC provides the servers required for the SAP HANA single-machine solution, and guarantees that the SAP HANA memory computing meets the expansion requirements for performance improvement.
Dell EMC SAP HANA Horizontal Scalable All-in-One Machine
The Dell EMC SAP HANA horizontal expansion all-in-one machine adopts a modular architecture, integrating server, storage and network modules, to create a horizontally scalable system. Users can achieve horizontal scalability by adding nodes according to business development needs; through high load balancing, it ensures that the upgrade and expansion do not affect business operations; by providing large memory for servers, it improves the CPU usage efficiency of servers, reduces additional software licensing costs, optimizes the usage management efficiency of the SAP HANA lifecycle, and lowers the total cost of ownership. In addition, Dell EMC SC mobile storage offers the most economical all-flash storage to ensure OLTP and OLAP performance.
Dell EMC SAP HANA reference architecture based on hybrid cloud
Dell EMC has established a hybrid cloud SAP HANA reference architecture based on VMware vSphere 5.5 and vRealize. The Dell EMC PowerEdge FX2 integrated architecture integrates R930 computing nodes, with ultra-low latency network switches S4048 and Broade 6510 fiber optic switches serving as network nodes, and SC4020 all-flash as enterprise-level storage nodes. Through Dell EMC Open Manage Essentials, hardware monitoring and fault resolution are achieved to ensure enterprise-level business continuity. This reference architecture provides a scalable and highly available SAP and SAP HANA architecture, with built-in monitoring and data protection, and belongs to a reference architecture based on best practices for hybrid cloud. Dell EMC offers a complete set of services including consultation, planning, architecture deployment, operation and maintenance management, and after-sales support to help users achieve the evolution of SAP HANA to the cloud.
Dell EMC SAP HANA Key Technologies
Powerful server configuration
Dell EMC offers a variety of server options. Among them, the quad-core servers (PowerEdge R930/R940) provide powerful computing performance through the QPI full-link of four processors, and the 6TB large memory meets the requirements of memory computing.
All-flash storage
The Dell EMC SC4020, as the most cost-effective all-flash storage, combines with the Dell EMC Mobile Data Architecture to ensure the OLTP and OLAP performance required by SAP HANA, and optimizes the utilization efficiency of storage resources. For large enterprise-level users, the SC8000 and SC9000 become the preferred choices for business application storage integration, SAP HANA system upgrade, and business continuity.
Flexible SAP HANA Solution Selection
Single-machine SAP HANA all-in-one machine, with powerful server processing performance and large memory, meets the requirements of OLTP and vertical scalability; Horizontal scalable all-in-one machine, meets the OLAP performance and high horizontal scalability requirements of enterprise-level real-time analysis; Solution integration can achieve the integration of server, storage and network SAP HANA solutions according to user needs.
Modular Cluster Expansion Technology
The horizontally scalable architecture based on module design supports single-node to multi-node expansion and smooth expansion through clusters; the Dell EMC quad-core server serves as the computing module, meeting the requirements of high computing power and large memory; the SC flow storage can achieve high scalability of the cluster across 16 arrays; the FX fusion architecture enables users to quickly implement modular deployment and upgrade expansion of computing, storage, and network modules.
Consulting Services and Support
Firstly, Dell EMC is the sole provider of all solution components (including SAP HANA software licenses) and design, offering end-to-end solution support and consulting expertise. Secondly, it can also provide SAP HANA assessment services, deployment planning, layout design, installation tuning, and disaster recovery services. In addition, the Dell EMC SAP HANA certified all-in-one machine is factory-pre-integrated and tuned to ensure rapid deployment. Combined with ICS and SAP Partners, it can provide system backup, solution deployment, and other services. Dell EMC can also provide comprehensive management for HANA hosting services, including 7*24 monitoring, remote health checks, firmware/software upgrades, application patches, issue tracking, and problem-solving assistance.
Advantages and Value of Dell EMC SAP HANA
Dell EMC has profound professional knowledge in the fields of SAP and SAP HANA, and possesses rich industry experience. The Dell EMC SAP HANA industry standard solution provides enterprises with the scalability and agility of IT infrastructure, enabling them to improve resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain logistics, accelerate business processes, and thereby enhance production efficiency. Moreover, SAP HANA is a pre-configured device that simplifies the IT environment, reduces hardware requirements, and eliminates the burden of enterprises maintaining separate old systems and isolated data. Additionally, in the era of cloud computing, the deployment of SAP HANA enables enterprises to leverage the power of cloud computing to conduct real-time analysis of large amounts of non-aggregated data, thereby meeting the real-time decision-making needs of enterprises and allowing them to regain more vitality in the new digital economy era.