HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA

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Brochure | HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA

Accelerate the delivery of business-critical information, maximize your return on investment, and mitigate risk with converged, automated solutions from the world’s leading solution providers—HP, Red Hat®, and SAP®.

Transform and standardize to change the game The need for agility is driving businesses to take a good, hard look at IT. Quickly adapting to market forces and customer requirements means deploying solutions that are fast, simple, and efficient. It also requires that you standardize on a common platform that is workload-optimized and delivers the best return on your investment (ROI).

Running on HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, SAP HANA® eliminates the divide between transactions and analytics, allowing you to use your data to transform your business in real time.

Standardizing on a workload-optimized platform with a common operating system environment allows you to rapidly create competitive differentiation by delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). This approach increases business agility with services-based solutions that enable you to quickly adapt to market and customer needs, reduce risk, and increase your ROI.

Flexible, real-time business with SAP HANASAP HANA is the ideal platform for advanced, real-time analytics while simultaneously handling real-time transaction workloads. As a result, you can analyze large amounts of data in real time, with instant business insights and lower overall total cost of ownership. By consolidating and simplifying your data environment, you gain a 360-degree view of the business and can act on real-time insights.

But to take full advantage of what SAP HANA offers, you need a platform that delivers performance and manageability, while seamlessly fitting in with your current environment. HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA provides the speed, simplicity, and efficiency you need to:

• Rapidly develop and deliver new services that invigorate business growth

• Reduce management complexity and mitigate project risk

• Refocus your investment on innovation, not operations

Deploy SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with confidence • Tightly integrated HP servers, storage,

networking, management software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, and SAP HANA software

• Purpose-built and performance-optimized configurations for SAP HANA

• Grow as your data grows and scale across different SAP HANA workloads—analytics, data warehouse, and business applications

• Scale-up and scale-out with modular, standards-based architecture available in scale-up configurations from 256 GB–2 TB, and scale-out systems that grow up to 16 TB

• HP factory configuration, testing, and rapid onsite deployment services

• Order in minutes, deploy in as little as 15 days

• Simplified, system-level support, including proactive and reactive services

• Decades of experience with a long-term commitment to SAP HANA innovation

1 SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse Enhanced Mixed Load (BW-EML) standard application benchmark.

2 The Guinness World Record for data warehouses (as of April 2014) held 12.1 PB and included SAP HANA running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANAThe HP ConvergedSystem 500 is more than simply a combination of compute, storage, and networking components. It’s a system that’s factory built and performance-optimized to provide the greatest level of integration and interoperability to power your business-critical applications. It’s a compute platform with automated, converged management to simplify everyday tasks, reduce operating expenditure (OPEX), and improve operational agility.

And rather than introducing a new platform into your environment, you can now use the power of SAP HANA and keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux as your standard operating system. Close technical collaboration between HP and Red Hat means Red Hat Enterprise Linux is engineered to take advantage of the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of HP ConvergedSystem, providing you with increased confidence in your deployment.

Speed and scalabilityAvailable in both scale-up and scale-out configurations, HP ConvergedSystem 500 gives you the performance you need to take advantage of SAP HANA’s in-memory processing. Compared to the closest competitive system, it offers 2X the performance, allowing you to make better, faster decisions supported by real-time access to analytics and reporting.

The HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA configurations are based on the HP ProLiant DL580 Servers with Intel® Xeon® processors. The HP ProLiant DL580 Server is an enterprise-grade x86 server offering breakthrough performance,1 rock-solid reliability, and compelling consolidation and manageability efficiencies. It is ideal for mission-critical enterprise, business intelligence, and database applications.

And it’s paired with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, offering the best in terms of performance and scalability.

Used by SAP to showcase performance, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a high-performing operating system that builds on the features of the DL580, This combination allows you to take advantage of key capabilities such as I/O speed, which is crucial to the performance of your SAP HANA in-memory data management system.

In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has proven its ability to handle the most demanding workloads and easily scale to manage petabytes of data.2

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SimplicityAs a pre-integrated compute environment with automated, converged management, HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA allows you to rapidly stand up and manage new deployments for the fastest time-to-value. You can become real-time—faster—with a complete solution that simplifies your IT environment with quick deployment, intuitive management, worldwide consulting, system-level support, and HP proactive service delivery.

Intuitive and simplified management enables the automation of best practices, reducing your risk while freeing up resources. And by using your corporate standard Red Hat operating system, you don’t have to invest in skills for a new OS platform. You can drive down your SAP HANA operating costs and free up budget to invest in new, innovative applications and services.

You can order a pre-configured solution in minutes, and be up and running in as little as 15 days to accelerate time-to-value. And with only one vendor to call for end-to-end support, you’re assured that any problems you encounter will be dealt with swiftly.

EfficiencyHP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA allows you to simplify and consolidate your SAP landscape while adding high availability (HA) and data protection for increased efficiencies.

Consolidating your data into a single location provides a single, 360-degree view of your business, with real-time data access that enables more accurate analysis, better insights, and faster decisions. And by simplifying the system landscape with scalable solutions, you can save system management and hardware costs both now and into the future.

Reduced riskHP ConvergedSystem are easier to support and specifically designed to reduce the risk of technology deployments. This approach helps mitigate the risk associated with infrastructure changes since you have fewer moving parts. You no longer need to build and configure systems in a piecemeal manner. Instead, you get a fully integrated, fully tested system that’s optimized for the task at hand.

And with expertise built over 25 years of SAP partnership, 77,000 joint SAP installations, and over 1500 SAP HANA installations worldwide, working with HP means mitigating risk in your environment.

Accelerated resultsRather than taking months to plan and deploy, HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA allows you to focus immediately on transforming your data into an enterprise asset that quickly delivers business insights resulting in better, more informed decision making that drives business growth.

The result of collaborative engineering between HP, SAP, and Red Hat is that HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is optimized to meet the unique requirements of SAP HANA’s in-memory database. It’s simple to acquire, deploy, and manage while at the same time delivering the results you desire.

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The business caseHP recognizes that SAP HANA adoption is a journey. You may be primarily interested in accelerating analytics/reporting with SAP HANA. Alternately, you may want to run multiple SAP business applications (which support different functions and are often in different business units) within your company. Our experience has led us to lay out an adoption strategy that matches the critical steps in your SAP HANA adoption journey.

Whether you’re looking to accelerate business analytics for one of your lines-of-business; ready to build your next-generation business warehouse on SAP HANA; or set to transform your entire global SAP landscape with SAP HANA, HP has a solution configuration that’s sized just right for you—and can scale as your needs change.

Starting out: Analytics on SAP HANAHP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA is optimized for entry to medium-sized SAP landscapes. It supports online transaction processing (OLTP) environments up to 2 TB, with simultaneous support for data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP) environments of up to 16 TB.

We’ve found that most customers start with:

• Proofs-of-concept

• Small scale analytics workloads

• Sidecar SAP HANA implementations

• Production systems for data-marts/accelerators

Expanding: Enterprise data warehouse on SAP HANAThe HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA portfolio offers a range of sizing options if you’re looking to:

• Simplify and consolidate SAP landscapes

• Extract data from SAP ERP and other applications for a unified view of the business

• Merge multiple data marts into a single enterprise data warehouse (EDW)

• Ensure HA and data protection

HP can help you achieve fast time-to-value for these implementations, with scalable, turn-key solutions that are easy to order deploy, manage, and support.

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You’re not aloneHP offers a complete portfolio of highly focused service offerings addressing your specific deployment, configuration, high-availability, migration, and upgrade needs.

The HP/SAP HANA consultant acts as the single point of contact during your implementation, and ensures knowledge transfer, speedy time-to-market, and business continuity.

HP Migration Services for SAP HANASimplify migration and management of your HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA.

HP Disaster Tolerance Service for SAP HANAGet expert implementation of system replication for SAP HANA.

HP Capacity Upgrade Service for SAP HANATake advantage of additional capacity, delivering a system in a “ready-to-use” state, with reconfiguration of HP ConvergedSystem software.

HP SAP HANA Deployment AcceleratorIncorporate HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA into existing infrastructure.

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Why HP for your SAP HANA deploymentHP and SAP have been close partners for more than 25 years, with rich legacy of bringing performance and innovation to our customers. When SAP wanted to push the limits for SAP HANA, they turned to us as the natural partner for co-innovation. We’ve also got more than 100 engineers working together. And to top it all, HP runs SAP internally, and SAP’s own IT environment is running on HP.

Committed roadmap• A steadfast commitment to the x86 platform to offer solutions with unparalleled performance,

maturity, and reliability

Committed partnership• HP/SAP worldwide co-innovation labs

• More than 25 years of HP/SAP partnership

• More than 77,000 joint HP/SAP installations

Depth of experience• More than 1,000 SAP HANA installations worldwide

• Services in 170 countries with 9,500 trained SAP professionals

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Brochure | HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA

Red Hat makes a differenceBy adding Red Hat Enterprise Linux to your HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA solution, you get real-time information services on an open, scalable, integrated, certified platform capable of handling the world’s largest data warehouse.

It allows you to standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux throughout your environment, resulting in reduced complexity, significant cost savings, and increased productivity, allowing you to ramp up more quickly on new technologies like SAP HANA.

Supporting 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Red Hat’s growing collaborative engineering relationship with HP and SAP offers superior innovation in the SAP HANA arena. It brings superior price/performance across numerous technologies and mission-critical RAS to the x86 platform.

Your end-to-end solution—optimized for SAP HANAThe HP ConvergedSystem 500 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA offers a pre-integrated, workload-optimized, scale-up or scale-out platform for running in-memory transactional and analytical workloads. It includes:

• Tightly integrated HP servers, storage, networking, management software, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA, and SAP HANA software

• HP factory configuration, testing, and rapid onsite deployment services

• Simplified, solution-level support, including proactive and reactive services with a single number to call

You can transform your data into a competitive advantage by simplifying and consolidating your data on to HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA. You’ll get a single, 360-degree view of your business, with real-time data access that enables more accurate analysis, better insights, and faster, more informed decision making.

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