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EMC Symmetrix V-Max 

for SAP Landscapes 

© Copyright 2009 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 

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SAP Customer Balancing Act 

Meet ever-higher performance 

and scalability demands… 

• Database growth 

• Non-production copies—number and size 

• Time required for non-production staging 

• Sustained performance 

• Slow and costly operational recovery 

• Applying SAP patches/enhancement packages 

…while driving costs out 

• Management complexities of the SAP landscape 

• Drive to virtualization—Virtual Data Center for SAP 

• Need to consolidate SAP Landscapes 

• Energy consumption and costs 


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EMC and SAP 

EMC and SAP have a strong 

partnership 

• 8,500 joint customers 

• 12 years successful partnering 

• EMC is a SAP global technology partner, and a Software 

partner 

• EMC relationship includes: 

– Charter memberships: SAP Titans of Technology; SAP‘s Green IT Community 

– Memberships: SAP Enterprise Services Community; SAP Virtual Community; 

SAP Adaptive Council 

Jointly driving customer value 

• Proven effectiveness through product testing and validation 

• Quicker deployment by leveraging best practices and proven 

solutions 

• Reduced risk through joint support services 


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INVESTMENT 

EMC|SAP Investments and Value 

Customer result: 

SAP/EMC Co-Innovation 

Shorter time to value 

Common Initiatives, e.g., Green IT, Virtualization 

Centers of Excellence 

Global citizen, efficiency 

Innovation 

SAP/ EMC product usage 

Shared Customers 

Leverage best-in-class 

Customer-driven 

MATURITY OF THE ALLIANCE 


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SAP and EMC Symmetrix Partnership 

―SAP and EMC share a vision for making business 

processes seamless and flexible. Our companies have 

worked closely for more than a decade to address some 

of the most pressing data center challenges facing our 

enterprise customers.‖ 

―The new Symmetrix systems, as part of our Center of 

Excellence environment, will enable us to work together 

to demonstrate customer proof of concepts, facilitate joint 

engineering work, and allow our mutual partners to run 

scalable SAP benchmarks in some of the areas of most 

interest to customers, including enterprise flash drives.‖ 

— Ralf Lindenlaub, senior director, SAP NetWeaver Platform Services, 

SAP AG, April 2009 


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EMC Symmetrix V-Max 

IN THE ARRAY TIERING: FLASH DRIVES, FIBRE CHANNEL, SATA 

SIMPLE, EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT: VIRTUAL PROVISIONING, QOS 

DATA MOBILITY: VIRTUAL LUN, HETEROGENEOUS COPY OVER SAN 

REPLICATION: LOCAL AND REMOTE REPLICATION OPTIONS 

FLEXIBLE CONNECTIVITY: DEDICATED PROTOCOLS OR UNIFIED 

CAPACITY SCALABILITY: ~1,000‘S OF DISKS IN A SINGLE SYSTEM 


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Symmetrix V-Max Addresses SAP Challenges 

Maximize performance in SAP landscapes 

•Maintain service levels in dynamic environments 

•Maximize performance and growth while minimizing 

cost 

• Virtual Matrix Architecture: Dynamically 

deliver performance on demand 

• Next-generation Tiering: Control costs 

and manage performance 

• Flash Drives: Sustain highest 

performance levels during peak times 

SAP infrastructure optimization and scaling 

on demand 

•Introduce new storage tiers without affecting host 

operations 

•Transparently change cost/performance layout to SAP 

landscapes 

•Ease of management 

• Enhanced Virtual LUN Technology: 

Places data on the storage tier that best 

meets performance and cost requirements 

• Auto-provisioning Groups: Automated 

SAP mapping 

• SAP Adaptive Computing: Virtualization 

Replication and disaster recovery for 

production and non-production environments 

•Efficiently create copies of SAP production data for 

operations like patching, test/training, sandbox 

•Reduce data loss and downtime when replicating over 

long distance 

•Manage dependent-write consistency for multiple 

databases 

• SRDF: Heterogeneous, federated data 

architectures within a single consistency 

group; extended distance protection—zero 

data loss 

• SAP liveCache Integration: Replication 

for high availability 

• TDMS Integration: Simplifies and 

automates data replication to use as 

source to ‗subset‘ the SAP client 


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With Symmetrix V-Max You Can… 

Provide predictable, consistent 

performance 

• Aggregate all CPU, memory, 

bandwidth resources as a shared 

resource 

• Lower costs through tiering: 

Enterprise Flash; Fibre Channel; 

and SATA 

• EFDs for superior performance 

and increased efficiency 

– Requires less power and cooling 

VMware VMware VMware VMware 

V-Max 

Engine 

SERVER RESOURCES 


Engine 


Engine 

GLOBAL MEMORY 

CPU RESOURCES 

SYSTEM BANDWIDTH 


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Response Time Millisecond 

Flash Drives Shatter Performance Barriers 

60 

55 

50 

45 

40 

35 

30 

OLTP Workload 

15K FC Drives 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5 

0 

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 

Workload – IOPs 

• Tenfold IOPS improvement 

• 10x faster response time 

• 38% less power per drive 

• 98% less power per IO 

• 58% less weight per TB 

• No moving parts for high reliability 


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Acquisition $ 

Storage Tiering Allows Lower Costs 

and Optimized Service Levels 

17% 

17 percent lower storage costs 

And reduced maintenance and 

software costs 

8 200 GB 

Flash drives 

38 percent more drive IOPs 

And more aligned with workloads 

528 146 GB 

15K Fibre 

Channel 

drives 

65 TB 

104 400 GB 

10K Fibre 

Channel 

drives 

32 1 TB SATA 

drives 

65 TB 

32 percent less power and cooling 

And more efficient use of space 

384 fewer drives 

144 Flash drives plus Fibre Channel drives 

plus SATA drives versus 528 Fibre Channel 

drives 


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Identifying Flash and SATA Targets 

220 

210 

200 

190 

180 

170 

160 

150 

140 

130 

120 

110 

100 

90 

80 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

Flash drive 

targets 

SATA Disk 

targets 

D8C 46D 270 4C6 D73 D8A 44C 2EE 4A6 356 5A3 BF2 96F 8E3 857 7CB 73F 6B3 627 9FF A5E BAD C92 D22 DEF F0D F99 14D0 144D 13C9 1345 12C1 123E 11BA 1136 10B2 102F 0A6 01A 

Devices Total IOPS (Maximum) 

Device activity reports identify target devices for flash and SATA 


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Number of Clicks 


Scale on demand and optimize the 

storage environment to meet SAP 

business requirements 

• Start small and scale out to hundreds of 

engines federated across the data 

center 

• Dynamically balance workloads across 

all resources 

• Auto-provisioning tools reduce admin 

time by 90%+ versus current processes 

• Virtual Provisioning automatically 

allocates, adds, reclaims and 

rebalances storage capacity 

Automated Storage Provisioning 

1,000 

0 

131 

244 

495 

Hitachi 

USP V 

96% 

Fewer 

Clicks 

Symmetrix 


7 

10 

15 


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Auto-provisioning Groups 

Automates both mapping and masking operations 

Create pools 

Host Initiators 

Array ports 

Storage devices 

Define a view 

Link storage devices to array ports with host initiators 

Fabric 

Initiator Group 

Storage Group 

Port Group 


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Auto-provisioning for SAP 

Initiator 

Groups 

Port 

Group 

Storage Group 

Fabric 

SAP application servers 

and database server 

View Initiator Group Port Group Storage Group 

SAP_CRM 

AppSrv1 SAPCRM SAPCRMDevs 







SAPDB SAPCRM SAPCRMDevs 

Device added, 

updates all initiator 

groups in the view! 


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Virtual LUN Technology 

• Enables transparent, nondisruptive 

data mobility between storage tiers 

for standard Symmetrix volumes 

– Migration within array 

– Between storage tiers and/or RAID 

protection type 

• Advantages 

– Introduce new storage tiers without host 

side changes 

– Change application performance without 

affecting filesystem mount points; 

business continuity, disaster recovery, 

backup scripts 

– LUN movement using storage resources 

– Keep replication intact 

Flash 

Tier 0 

SATA 

Tier 2 

FC 

Tier 1 


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Virtual LUN Technology 

Migrate within a Symmetrix System 

Tier 1 

Tier 2 

Virtual LUNs 

Nondisruptive mobility of 

applications and data 

• Leverage lower tiers of storage – lower 

performance 

– Provides the best performance without paying 

the highest cost 

– Allows you to start with lower tier and if 

performance is not sufficient, use Virtual LUN 

to transparently migrate devices to 

preconfigured storage on higher tier 

• Increase usable storage within an array 

– Enables migration of an array from RAID 1 to 

RAID 5 to increase efficiency 

– Allows you to add additional storage to the 

array to a new physical disk group 

– Migrate all or part of existing devices to 

unconfigured storage as RAID 5 

– Space freed up in original disk group can be 

reconfigured as RAID 5 storage 


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SAP Adaptive Computing 

Components 

• Computing: Servers and SAP 

Systems/Instances 

– Easily add and remove computing resources 

• Network 

– Builds connections between computing and 

storage building blocks 

– Provides transport layer for virtualization 

• Storage: Data 

– SAP instances can be managed and assigned 

to any computing resource 

– Requires no local disk space 

• Control: Adaptive Computing Controller 

– Operate, observe, and manage an adaptive 

business solution 

Adaptive Computing 

Computing 

Control 

Network 

Storage 

any service – any time – on any server 

Founding member of the SAP Adaptive Council— 

first SAP Adaptive SAN implementations on EMC storage 


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Achieve ―always on‖ availability that 

eliminates outages and improves 

service delivery to SAP users 

• Deliver ―Five-9‘s +‖ availability (average 

less than 5 minutes of downtime per year) 

• Support fully non-disruptive operations 

including code and configuration changes 

• Provide multi-site recovery and restart to 

prevent site and/or regional outages 

Source 

Near Site 

• SRDF family—industry leading 

remote replication solution 

Far Site 

• Exclusive three-site data replication 

with continuous protection 

• New cost-effective zero data loss 

extended distance solution 


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Replication and Disaster Recovery for SAP 

Disaster restart 

• Transforms tedious disaster recovery procedures 

into a simple disaster restart solution 

Backup and recovery 

• Simplifies and speeds up backup and recovery 

operations without affecting application availability 

Cloning 

• Enables fast cloning operations while maintaining 

high availability 

– Intelligent Cloning Solution for Mainframe Implementations 

– Intelligent Cloning Solution Using RM for ABAP 

– Intelligent Cloning Solution Using RM for Java and dual stack 

SAP 

EMC 

Consistency 

Groups 

Backup 

Recovery 

Testing 

Training 

Systems share information…and need a consistent view 


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EMC TimeFinder Family 

Industry-leading local replication 

• Highly integrated with all industryleading 

applications, including SAP 

• Highly recommended with the SRDF 

family to enhance application 

availability for disaster restart 

requirements 

• Best functionality when compared to 

other major array-based local 

replication products 

• Supports tiered storage strategy 

• Tens of thousands of licenses shipped 

TimeFinder Family 

TimeFinder/Clone 

Ultra-functional, highperformance 

copies 

TimeFinder/Snap 

Economical, 

space-saving copies 

TimeFinder/Clone 

Emulation 

Enables use of existing 

TimeFinder/Mirror 

scripts 

TimeFinder/CG 

Consistency 

Group 

TimeFinder/EIM 

Exchange Integration 

Module option 

TimeFinder/SIM 

SQL Integration Module 

option 

Most breadth and depth for array-based local replication 


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Understanding Data Consistency 

• The logical dependency between 

write I/Os 

– embedded by the logic of an application, 

operating system, or database 

management system 

• Applications and data are interrelated 

(Federated) 

• All data movement must be stopped/ 

started at the same point in time 

• To restart applications you must have 

all the data—not parts of it 

• Restart requires dependent-write 

consistency across all volumes and 

systems 

Order Entry 

DB 

CRM 

DB 

DB 

SCM 


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EMC Consistency Technology Enables 

Federated Disaster Restart for SAP! 

SAP ERP 

SAP BI 

SAP MDM 

SAP PI 

SAP EP 

SAP CRM 

Dependent- 

Write 

Consistent 

RESTART 

SAP SRM 

SAP APO 

Business point of 

consistency across 

operating platforms 

for SAP! 

SAP liveCache 


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EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) 

Family 

World’s most widely deployed remote 

replication 

• Protect against local and regional 

disruptions 

• Increase application availability 

• Minimize/eliminate impact on application 

• Reduce downtime 

• Improve recovery-time objectives and 

recovery-point objectives 

• Provide near-instant recovery 

• Enable parallel processing 

• Support tiered storage strategy 

SRDF Family 

SRDF/S 

Synchronous for 

zero data exposure 

SRDF/A 

Asynchronous for 

extended distances 

SRDF/DM 

Efficient Symmetrix-to- 

Symmetrix data mobility 

SRDF/Star 

Multi-site replication 

option 

SRDF/CE 

Cluster Enabler option 

SRDF/AR 

Automated Replication 

option 

SRDF/CG 

Consistency Groups 

Cascaded SRDF 

and SRDF/EDP 

Extended Distance 

Protection 

Concurrent SRDF 

Concurrent 

Choice and flexibility to meet any service-level requirement 


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SAP liveCache 

• SAP has combined relational and object-oriented database technologies 

to create a new ―species‖—SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) 

liveCache 

• Hybrid database system can process enormous volumes of information, 

such as planning data for supply chain management 

• All data that must be accessible to the database system is located in the 

main memory 

• EMC provides an integration to enable SAP liveCache 

– Normal processing of Hot Standby for APO liveCache 

– Cluster failover for Hot Standby for APO liveCache 

– Reverse direction for Hot Standby for APO liveCache 

– Hot Standby data re-instantiation for APO liveCache 

• Can be leveraged with standard MaxDB hot standby configurations 


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TDMS Integration with Replication Manager 

Solution Using Intelligent Cloning 

EMC Replication Manager 

EMC RM/ADM with 

with SAP 


post Post-Cloning 

cloning 

Cleanup 

SAP TDMS 

SAP Admin 

Start from TDMS 


PRD DB 

Clone or Snap, depends 

on customer requirement 

Input for TDMS 


Replica 

Optional Clones 

of Extract 


Extr. 


SBSAP 

SBSAP 

SAP SB 

DevSAP 

DevSAP 

SAP Dev 

TestSAP 

TestSAP 

Test 

Optional 

EMC Replication Manager with post-cloning cleanup processing automates 

the process and makes SAP system copies easy for SAP customers. 

―Save time—increase productivity‖ 


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Symmetrix V-Max‘s Differentiation Highlights 

• Integrated support for SAP lifecycle 

– Seamless management and support for production and test 

environments utilizing common toolset 

• Industry leading replication and failover 

– TimeFinder efficiently creates independent copies of SAP 

production data for patching, test/training, and sandbox operations; 

no risk of losing snaps in case of file system corruption 

– With PowerPath, V-Max failover times only a few seconds versus 

30 seconds to several minutes 

• Industry gold standard for disaster recovery 

– SRDF delivers the most stringent RPO, RTO and geographical 

service levels in the industry. 

• True non-disruptive data migration—reallocates data to 

different tiers without disruption, while maintaining 

disaster recovery 

• Industry‘s only high-end architecture purpose built for 

fully virtualized IT 


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Building a Virtualized IT Environment: 

Start with a Single Symmetrix V-Max Engine 

Virtual Servers 

VMware 

V-Max Engine 


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Easily Add More Symmetrix V-Max Engines 

Virtual Servers 

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Federate Systems Across the Data Center 

VMware 

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Multiple generations of arrays 



















Managed as a single storage namespace 




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Seamless workload migration across the federation 

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EMC Technologies—Efficiency 

Thin Provisioning 

Compression 

Active Archive 

B2D 

Spin Down 

Tiering 

iSCSI 

Virtualization 

Deduplication 

SAN Copy 

Policy-based Mobility FCoE 

SATA Disks Multi-Protocol 

Flash Drives QoS Tools 


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EMC—Creating a Green Standard 

Percent Energy Change for Every 10% in Storage Capacity 

3 

2 

All users EMC users 

2.44% 

1.92% 

1.56% 

―...users of EMC report 

increasing storage 

capacity without 

increasing operational 

cost...resulting in 

measurable benefits‖ 

1 

0.6% 

0.37% 

0 

-0.17% 

-0.08% 

Growth 

in: 

-1 

-0.87% 

Data center 

storage power 

consumption 

Data center 

floor space 

Cooling 

required 

for storage 

Data center 

utility cost 

http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/aberdeen-group-emc-storage-benefits-green.pdf 

Source: Aberdeen Group, March 2008 


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Summary: Symmetrix V-Max for SAP 

Landscapes 

• Optimized performance 

– Virtual Matrix Architecture dynamically delivers performance 

– Maximizes storage tiering: Enterprise Flash Drive, FC, SATA 

• SAP infrastructure optimization and scaling on demand 

– Simpler management with Auto-provisioning Groups 

– Enhanced Virtual LUN Technology 

– SAP Adaptive Computing 

• Replication and disaster recovery for production and 

non-production environments 

– Foundation technology—EMC consistency technology 

– Completes SAP liveCache in-memory database 

– TDMS Integration 

• Symmetrix V-Max differentiation 

– V-Max for fully virtualized IT 

– V-Max technologies for efficiency 


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Large SAP Customer Landscape 


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