The document discusses SAP HANA's evolving hardware infrastructure and new developments. It introduces SAP HANA running on Intel Haswell CPUs, which provide a 50% increase in scalability. It also covers SAP HANA TDI Phase 4, which introduces SAP HANA versions for IBM Power Systems, specifically the IBM POWER8 S824 server supporting up to 768GB HANA sizes and IBM Power8 E870/E880 servers supporting up to 2TB HANA sizes. Requirements for certified storage, networking, and software installation are also outlined.

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SAP HANA Product Management June, 2015

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Agenda
 SAP HANA Infrastructure – Overview & Evolution
 SAP HANA on Intel Haswell CPU
 SAP HANA TDI Phase 4: Introduction to SAP HANA, version for IBM Power Systems

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SAP HANA Infrastructure Overview
Application
Database
Operation System
Virtualization / Partitioning
Server
Network
Storage
• Appliance delivery approach
• SAP HANA tailored data center integration
• Client Zone/ Internal Zone/ Storage Zone
• Any
• SAP HANA
• SUSE/SLES Redhat/RHEL
• VMWare / Hiatchi LAPR / HP nPAR / Fujitsu PPAR
IBM Power VM (dedicated LPAR)
• CPU type: Intel E7 with up to 12 TB RAM
Intel E5 with up to 1.5 TB RAM
IBM Power8 with up to 2 TB RAM (Ramp-up)

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Hardware and Deployment Options
SAP HANA bare metal / appliance offerings
Single Server
2 CPU 128GB to 16 CPU 12TB
Single HANA deployments for
data marts or accelerators
Support for high availability
and disaster recovery
Scale Out Cluster
2 to n servers per cluster
Each server is either 4 CPU/ 1.5 TB or 8 CPU/ 3TB
Largest certified configuration: 56 servers
Largest tested configuration: 100+ servers
Support for high availability and disaster tolerance
800+ certified appliance solutions by end of May 2015

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SAP HANA Infrastructure Evolution
A Continuous Journey Towards Openness …
Four years ago, SAP embarked on a HANA journey using the appliance delivery model
– SAP HANA Appliance: Pre-engineered in-memory appliance that combines pre-installed HANA software components with pre-configured,
SAP-certified hardware delivered by SAP’s leading partners
In 2013, SAP introduced HANA tailored data center integration delivery model (SAP HANA TDI)
– SAP HANA TDI: An alternative delivery model providing more choice to customers by allowing them to leverage their
existing hardware components and operational processes to build their own HANA deployment infrastructure
SAP HANA TDI Phase 1
Shared Enterprise Storage
SAP HANA Appliance GEN 2
CPU based on Intel Xeon EX E7 v2
(Ivy Bridge) processors
SAP HANA TDI Phase 2, Phase 3
TDI Phase 2: Shared Enterprise Networking
TDI Phase 3: Entry-level HANA E5 servers
Sapphire 2015: SAP HANA
Appliance GEN 3, TDI Phase 4
 New HANAAppliance based on Intel
Xeon E7 v3 CPU (Haswell)
 HANA TDI Phase 4: Intro to SAP HANA,
version for IBM Power Systems.
2011-
2012
Feb
2014
Nov
2014
SAP HANA Appliance GEN 1
CPU based on Intel Xeon EX
Nehalem and EX E7 v1 (Westmere)
processors
Oct
2013
Today:
Hundreds of certified SAP
HANA configurations ready
to meet every customer use
case and budget needs!
May
2015

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Agenda
 SAP HANA Infrastructure – Overview & Evolution
 SAP HANA on Intel Haswell CPU
 SAP HANA TDI Phase 4: Introduction to SAP HANA, version for IBM Power Systems

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SAP HANA on Intel Haswell EX E7v3 CPU
New Intel Xeon “Haswell” Processor Delivers Exceptional Performance for SAP HANA Platform
Intel Haswell processor – Key capabilities:
 20% more cores (18 cores per CPU), improved performance per core and a large and efficient cache hierarchy
enabling SAP to increase by 50% scalability for SAP HANA analytical workloads (from 2TB to 3TB)
 Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) capability which provides hardware-supported lock elision
for improved transactional data processing

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SAP HANA – Haswell EX reference systems
SAP HANA DataMart and BWoH optimized hardware configurations
Preconfigured system sizes
System requirements for the listed system sizes:
• DIMM setting: homogenous symmetric assembly of DIMMs and maximum utilization of all available memory channels
• Supported CPU´s are Haswell EX 8880 v3, 8890 v3, or new 8880L v3
• Storage requirements (the storage media itself needs to be protected from failures):
 Log volume ½ of the RAM size for systems  256 GB RAM
and min. ½ TB for systems 512GB
 Data volume 3x RAM
 HANA share 1x RAM
Single node The number of cores are the minimal numbers!
128GB – 768GB 2x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
128GB – 1.5TB 4x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
128GB – 3TB 8x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
Scale Out Fully non-blocking network, up to 16 nodes through standard certification
512GB*, 1TB*, 1.5 TB 4x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
1TB*, 2 TB*, 3 TB 8x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
* expansion for existing scale out installations (e.g. Ivybridge based systems) or scale out options below max. node size

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SAP HANA – Haswell EX reference systems
SAP HANA SoH optimized hardware configurations
Preconfigured system sizes
System requirements for the listed system sizes:
• DIMM setting: homogenous symmetric assembly of DIMMs and maximum utilization of all available memory channels
• Supported CPU´s are Haswell EX 8880 v3, 8890 v3, or new 8880L v3
• Storage requirements (the storage media itself needs to be protected from failures):
 Log volume ½ of the RAM size for systems  256 GB RAM
and min. ½ TB for systems 512GB
 Data volume 3x RAM
 HANA share 1x RAM
Single node The number of cores are the minimal numbers!
128GB – 1.5TB 2x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
128GB – 3TB 4x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
128GB – 6TB 8x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
128GB – 9 TB 12x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU on server systems
128GB – 12TB 16x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU on server systems
Scale Out* Fully non-blocking network, up to 4 nodes through standard certification
6TB 8x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU server systems
12TB 16x 18 cores Intel HSW CPU on server systems
* SoH scale out HW configuration only recommended if 6 TB sizing is exceeded.

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Agenda
 SAP HANA Infrastructure – Overview & Evolution
 SAP HANA on Intel Haswell CPU
 SAP HANA TDI Phase 4: Introduction to SAP HANA, version for IBM Power Systems

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SAP HANA TDI Phase 4 – Introduction to HANA on IBM Power Systems
Compute server requirements
Customers can chose to run SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems 8 (in production) or on Power Systems 7+ (in non-production).
SAP supports hardware setups which comply with the prerequisites below; no additional approval(s) by SAP needed.
Compute server requirements
 The following IBM Power 8 System configurations are supported for HANA compute server nodes in
production use cases:
1. IBM POWER8 S824 server; max 24 cores, 768GB HANA size (32GB/core)
o 2 socket, 12 cores each (total 24 cores); 3.5 MGHz clock frequency; scale-out chip set; SMT8 configuration supported
(requires special SLES 11 SP3 patch)
o Max 768 SAP HANA system size (24 cores * 32GB = 768 GB)
o LPAR support via dedicated donating, aka DLPARS, LPARS
o The system can be partitioned in numerous ways (e.g. 1 LPAR with HANA 768GB instance, or 2 LPARs, each with 384GB
HANA instance, or 1 LPAR with 256GB and 1 LPAR with HANA 384 GB instance, etc.)
2. IBM POWER8 E870/E880 server (max 64 cores, 2TB HANA size (32GB/core); 1 or 2 node configs:
o 1 node configuration has up to 4s, 10/12 cores each (total 40/48 cores) and can support up to at least 1TB HANA system
size; SMT 8 configuration supported (requires special SLES 11 SP3 patch)
o 2 node configuration has 2 nodes * 4 socket * 10/12 cores (total 80/96 cores), and can support up to at least 2TB HANA
system size; SMT 8 configuration supported (requires special SLES 11 SP3 patch)
o LPAR support via dedicated donating, aka DLPARS LPARS.
o The system can be partitioned in numerous ways and users can leverage IBM Capacity on Demand (COD) to turn on/off
capacity as needed
 IBM Power 7+ system configurations are supported only in non-production use cases

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Enterprise storage requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems
 Use certified storage only
– Storages used for TDI setups must have successfully passed the SAP HANA hardware
certification for Enterprise Storage
– Certificate states that the storage fulfills SAP HANA’s requirements for data throughput and
latency times
– For an up-to-date list of supported storage vendors, see Cerified HANA Enterprise Storage site.
Enterprise networking requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems
 Follow the best practices and network recommendations described in the the SAP HANA
Network Requirements white paper
Software installation requirements for SAP HANA on Power Systems
 Let only certified person(s) do the SAP HANA software installation
Restrictions
 IBM Power 7+ systems are supported only in non-production (for test and development systems)
 SUSE Linux is supported only (requires special SLES 11 SP3 patch)
 Use case is limited to BWoH single node, scale up scenarios , with max 2TB HANA system size
 IBM GPFS is not supported
SAP HANA TDI Phase 4 – Introduction to HANA on IBM Power Systems
Enterprise storage and networking requirements

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