optimized infrastructure for enterprise applications

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Optimised Infrastructure for Enterprise Applications

Paul DaviesEnterprise Architect, European Data Centre and Virtualisation

19th May 2011

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Albert Einstein

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Agenda• Applications and the Data Centre

• The Platform for Applications

• Cisco’s Solutions for SAP and Oracle


Modern Business…

Business Focus Products, offerings

Customer service

Employee productivity

Beneath the Waterline Infrastructure sprawl, complexity

Low asset utilization

High operations overhead

Difficult to manage, scale, optimize, reconfigure, maintain

Impact Low agility, efficiency, resilience

Reduced competitiveness

High Costs

What the Business Sees

Supporting Infrastructure

View of Information Technology

……..which is Increasingly Fragile & Costly


4th June 2009

OperationalLimitations

….puts Pressure on the Data Centers

New BusinessPressures

SLA MetricsConnected Life Global AvailabilityReg. Compliance

Power & Cooling ProvisioningAsset Utilization Security Business Continuity

Lower Costs

Data Center


...and Pressures for Applications Managers

Delivery of Capability – Business Requirements

Availability

Performance

Patching/Upgrades/Reliability/Security

Testing


Data Center Costs….

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Virtualization makes things worse

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Physical server installed base

(millions)

Logical server installed base

(millions)

Source: IDC

Admin Costs Dominate Budgets

New server spending

Power and cooling costs

Server mgmt. and admin. costs

Operations & Maintenance Now ~80% of IT Budgets and Growing


Drive Business Objectives Innovate with Operational Excellence

But What if…Your Data Center Strategy enabled you to…

Server virtualization: higher performance

LAN and storage convergence

Workplace Experience

Workload provisioning

Applications experience

Drive for Green—power, cooling and space

Need to reduce costs and increase profits

IT to enable the business (Inc. BI)

New Services to Market

Reduced Business Risk

AND


Web Dispatcher

SEM Analytics

Web

Data

HPCApplication

Compute

NetworkIntensive

StorageIntensive

Highly Threaded

Single Threaded

Different Workload Characteristics of Applications

DB Instance

liveCache

liveCacheSCM Event Manager

Portal

APO Optimizer

F&R Processor

Reporting

AII (RFID)SAP-TRex

MRP

Analytical OLAP

ERP/OLTPBI Accelerator

Business Consolidation

SAP-XI

BP Engine

SAP-R3

Oracle EBS


Typical Application Server Sprawl…Usually Individually Sized to “Peak Requirement” – but often run at <20%

R/3 Production

R/3 QAS R/3 Pre-Prod

R/3 Dev R/3 Train

BW Production

BW QAS BW Pre-Prod

BW Dev BW Train

CRM Production

CRM QAS CRM Pre-Prod

CRM Dev CRM Train

SCM Production

SCM QAS SCM Pre-Prod

SCM Dev SCM Train

1990 2000 2002 2005


Cisco Unified Computing System:Solve Frustrating Performance Issues

CPU

I/O

Mem

ory

CRM

ERP

Analytics

VM VM

VM VM

Database

DataWarehouse

A single system that unifies• Compute: Industry standard x86

• Network: Unified fabric

• Virtualization: Control, scale, performance

• Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI

Embedded management• Increase scalability without added complexity

• Dynamic resource provisioning

• Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem

Energy efficient • Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables

• Lower power and cooling requirements

• Increase compute efficiency by removing I/O and memory bottlenecks


ComputePlatform

NetworkPlatform

VirtualizationPlatform

Increasing Agility While Reducing TCO

Expenditures

Revenues

Site Savings1.Reduced Power2.Lower Cooling3.Better Use of Space4.Lower PUE/Site

Operational Savings1.Higher FTE/Server Ratio2.Rapid Provisioning3.Seamless Repurposing4.Streamlined Coordination

20% 35%Infrastructure Savings1.Fewer Components2.Lower HW/SW Costs3.More Virtual Machine’s Per Node4.Better Performance Per Node

15%

ResourceScaling

HypervisorOptimization

UnifiedFabric

Dynamic Provisioning

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Why Cisco UCS for Applications…

(a little look under the covers at the clever bits of technology….…..)


UCS

Simplifies network management

Wire-once infrastructure

Higher consolidation ratios

Rapid provisioning

Cisco Unified Computing SystemIdeal Platform for Application Virtualization

Service Profiles

Extended Memory

VN-Link

Unified Fabric


Daily Nightly Monthly

Web Tier 6 servers

Web Tier 4 servers

SAP ERP PRD8 servers

Test/Dev – 4 servers

SAP QA4 servers

Spares

SAP ERP PRD6 servers SAP ERP PRD

10 serversTest/Dev 6 servers

Test/Dev – 2 serversSAP QA4 servers

Spares

Spares

Batch Apps6 servers

Reporting – 2 servers Reporting4 servers

Web Tier4 servers

Batch Apps – 4 servers

Server Role Depends on Actual Requirements

SAP QA4 servers

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SAP Solutions……


Cisco and SAP Solutions Today

Cisco Unified Compute System, Vblock (EMC) and Flexpod (NetApp)

Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation

Providing real-time application delivery to Enterprise customers who want to optimize their business processes and sustain profitable growth

Business Warehouse Accelerator and HANA on UCS

SAP Optimised Cloud Infrastructure

SAP Business Intelligence

SAP Run Book Automation

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flexibility


Challenge

Solution

Benefits

• Customers concerned about virtualizing mission critical applications

• Need to reduce costs, lower operating costs, implement updates more quickly and manage applications as a whole

• SAP running in physical and virtualized environments on UCS

• Lower TCO• Increased flexibility and agility• Easier to manage and scale• Easy right-sizing (only a reboot)

SAP on Cisco Unified Compute System

UCSLegacy

Server = ResourceServer = Application

Management and Control

Primary Network

Secondary Network

SAN A

SAN B

Inefficient Complex High Cost Efficient Agile TransformativeFragile

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Data Center Solutions Unified Computing for Enterprise Resource Planning

NetApp® MultiStore®

Storage Virtualization

Cisco Unified ComputingSystem (UCS)Compute Node Virtualization

Cisco NexusNetwork Virtualization

VMware® vSphere™

Server Virtualization VMware VMware VMware

MixedLandscape

SAPLandscape 1

SAPLandscape 2

SAPLandscape

1

SAPLandscape

2

SAPLandscape

3

SAP on Vblock provides a validated converged infrastructure to virtualize SAP securely and cost-effectively using Cisco UCS, VMware server virtualization solutions, and EMC storage solutions.

SAP on FlexPod solution provides a unified, pretested and validated shared infrastructure to simplify the transformation to cloud computing using Cisco UCS, VMware server virtualization solutions, and NetApp storage solutions.

Compute

Network

Virtualization

Storage

Vblock Infrastructure Packages

Solution Packages

Operating Systems

Applications

Information


TCO Analysis - 13% Cost Reduction on Running SAPAreas of TCO

SavingsKey Contributions by Vblock Vblock triggered

savingsImpact on SAP

TCO

Hardware/ Software Investment

Introduction of pre-engineered, tested, and validated Vblock units 9 - 19%

ImplementationSimple setup, installation and reconfiguration with virtual machines 22 - 32%

Hardware/Software Ongoing Cost

The ability to expand the capacity of Vblock infrastructure as the architecture is very flexible and extensible 2 - 5%

OperationsOnDemand provisioning, centralized administration, simple expansion and scaling of SAP instances and reduction of planned downtime 3 - 4%

Continuous Improvement Projects

Quick and easy installation of SAP Systems due to the usage of pre-configured templates 20 - 25%

Upgrade Projects

Reduction of upgrade runtimes due to options for adding temporary additional Application Server or compute resources.Fallback scenarios available out of the box 26 - 36%


Data Center Costs….

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Virtualization makes things worse

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Physical server installed base

(millions)

Logical server installed base

(millions)

Source: IDC

Admin Costs Dominate Budgets

New server spending

Power and cooling costs

Server mgmt. and admin. costs

Operations & Maintenance Now ~80% of IT Budgets and Growing


4th June 2009

SAP Best Practices for End-to-End OperationsThe RUN SAP™ Methodology

Automation


4th June 2009

Engine

Incident Analysis for SAP

Automation Packs• Role-based access

• Task Delegation

• Process Execution

• Event triggering

• Human Approvals

• Assignments & Notifications

• Auditing & Reporting

Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform for SAP

Task Automation

for SAP

SystemRefresh &

System Copy for SAP

Set of Core Processes, Activities, Events & Tasks

Automation Core Platform

Delivery

• Web Based Portal

• Client Console

• Reporting

• Ticketing Integration

• Operations Managers

• CLI

SAP Predefined and Configured Content

Over 200+ process flows

AdaptersBuilt in SAP and

non-SAP content to automate tasks for incident prevention and remediation

Over 50+ flows to automate complex

pre and post system

copy/refresh activities

Over 100+ process flows to automate taking actions of SAP alerts and

events


In-Memory Computing Engine

Calculationand Planning

EngineModeling Studio

Real-TimeReplicationServices

Data Services

SAP High-Performance Analytic ApplianceRun Better with SAP In-Memory Computing

Run BolderProvides access to SAP’s game changing innovation

with exponential potential to change enterprises

Enable mixed workloads of analytics, operations, and performance management

in a single system

Deploy innovative new business applications

Run Simpler

Streamline the IT landscape and reduce TCO

Groundbreaking yet non-disruptive to existing landscapes

Simple to deploy and without compromise

Run Smarter

Make smarter business decisions supported by increased visibility on very large

volumes of business information

React to business events more quickly through real-time analysis and reporting of

operational data

Achieve greater flexibility to deliver innovative real-time analysis and reporting

scenarios

Other Applications SAP BusinessObjects

SAP BusinessSuite

SAP NetWeaverBW

Their Party


SAP on UCS - Customer Examples

3000 Users / ~3TB

SAP ECC 6.0 Unicode, BW

XI (B2B/A2A),

SAP PLM/Risk/Compliance,

SAP Product Enablement

Challenge

Reduce TCO

Cisco Solution

Huge cost savings in Migration from HP-UX on Superdome to UCS

SAP Americas chose Cisco UCS as their Server virtualization standard for their DC running internal IT including SAP ERP and CRM

SAP ESS, MSS, E-Recruiting Business Objects, Virsa, Solution Manager

Challenge

Legacy system required fifteen cables for each new server

Cut deployment time for ESX

Cisco Solution

UCS with Windows on VMware ESX

Shifting 90% of all Windows apps onto 75 VMs

VM deployment reduced from 1-2 weeks to 30 min

Challenge

DC running out of power & cooling

fifteen cables per server

Cisco Solution

26 UCS B250 with 192GB memory (Large fraction running SAP) replace 180 Dell and other servers

Ability to Vmotion SAP with 16-32 GB memoryVMs fast over 10GE enables new types of management flexibility

savings in power & cooling

$15K cost reduction per server by removing complex web of cables


4th June 2009

Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4

Up to 60% better than HP & IBM System x x86-based

Up to 43% better IBM Power 7 B200 M2 Extra-Large Payroll Batch

Medium Payroll Batch

Posted on Oracle website http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html

SPECjAppServer2004 (2-Node)

Oracle WebLogic Server Rel 10.3/ Oracle JRockit(R) 6.0 JDK (R28.0.1)

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5

54% increase over prior top

result !B230 M1

B440 M1

Benchmark Details

Cisco UCS Model

World Record Results

SPECjEnterprise2010 (2-Node)

Oracle WebLogic Server Rel 10.3/ Oracle JRockit(R) 6.0

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5

17,301.86 SPECjEnterprise2010 at only 60% of cost to

IBM Power 780B440 M1

B460 M1

UCS Achieves Top Performance Across the Entire Stack

2010-2011 #1 Benchmarks!

Cisco Performance Leadership – Top to Bottom

54% increase over prior top result !

http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html





Oracle RAC Certification ConfigurationInitially completed certification in 2009

• 8 Node Oracle RAC cluster 10gR2 or 11gR2

• 2 Chassis, 4 Blades each

• 2 Quad-core Intel Xeon 5570 (Nehalem)

• 9 months required for certification

Failure Description Response

1 or 3 Single Link Failure (Public Interface)

Represents Port Failure—nodes Continue to Work

1 and 2 or3 and 4

All Links Failure (Public Interface)

Nodes Continue to Work Via Failover

5 or 7 Single Link (Private Interconnect)

Represents Port Failure —Nodes Continue to Work

6 or 8 All Links (Private Interconnect)

Nodes Continue to Work Via Failover

9 Storage Path Failure 1 IO Path Lost—No Effect, All IO Paths— Nodes Reboot


Scalability on Cisco UCS for Oracle Database with Oracle RAC Scaling from 1 Node DWH 2 Nodes 4 Nodes

• Data continues to explode

• Growth unavoidable and hard to predict

• Data analysis key to business success

• Demonstrates data warehousing solution on UCS

• Oracle RAC database based implementation

• Scaling from one to four nodes analyzed

• Demonstrates near linear scaling going from one to four nodes with UCS B200 M1

• Wire-once architecture allows additional nodes provisioning near instantaneous

• 10gE allows excellent Oracle RAC scaling

• Service profiles allows newer servers to have access to storage in a seamless fashion

Cisco UCS Demonstrates Exceptional Scalability for Data Warehousing Application

Scaling: 1 Node 2 Nodes 4 Nodes

Cisco M81KR(“Palo”) VIC

Solution Overview:

UCS Benefits:

Reference Architecture and Performance:


DB support is 22% of list license/year.

Customer saves $31,350/year

Oracle VM

1 Socket 1 Socket 2 Sockets

Oracle VM – Enables Sub-Capacity Pricing

Hard partitioning allocates system resources. Similar to LPAR for AIX or Containers in Solaris.

Cisco UCS B440

4 Sockets

Oracle VM Hard Partitioning Paper:http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf

Benefits:

Allows customer to only license the number of CPU or sockets being utilized. ($47,500 per core for DB)

Customer can save support fees by shifting from older servers to a Oracle VM partition.

Other App

Oracle does not recognize this licensing capability with other hypervisors.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/virtualization/pdf/ovm-hardpart.pdf


Delivering Customer Success

Efficiency

Agility

Transformative


EMC IT Selects:Cisco UCS for Oracle E-Business Suite

Problem: • High cost of proprietary UNIX/RISC solution• Aging infrastructure • No clear path to Cloud Computing

Proposed Solution:• Cisco UCS B200 based solution • B200 Intel Xeon based• Migrate 8TB RDBMS – 8.8 billion rows

Realizing Results:• 28x improved performance• 60% reduction in batch runtimes• 60% reduction in user response times• Significantly lower cost• Virtualization enabler – “Journey to the Private Cloud”•

One of world’s largest Oracle E-Business Suite implementations with ERP for 20,000 employees and CRM supporting 50,000 users seeks open solution


Summary• “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different

results.” Albert Einstein

• Business Outcomes with UCS in the DC are different!

• UCS provides a platform to change the way we deliver Applications to meet Business Demands

Thank you.Thank you.

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