SAP runs best on Red Hat… with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP SolutionsArne Arnold - Senior Principal Product ManagerMiguel Pérez Colino - Principal Solution Owner2019-05-09

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Arne ArnoldSr. Principal Product Manager

● Product Manager for Red Hat’s solutions for SAP ● Focusing on certifications and overall strategy

in regards to RHEL for SAP Solutions, SAP HANA on RHV, SAP HA solutions and container workloads

● 13 years of SAP experience, certified PMP® and passionate sailor @vArneArnold

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Miguel Perez ColinoPrincipal Solution Owner

● Background in IT in Defence (~8 years)● Red Hat Consultant (~3 years) ● Red Hat Solution Architect (~2 years)

○ Large Cloud Projects (IaaS + PaaS)● Solution Owner / Product Manager● +15 years experience of implementing Open Source. ● Loves playing Bass and Guitar … with friends.@mmmmmmpc

AGENDA

WHY it mattersWHAT you should know WHERE to go next35-40 minutes

Wrap up, Q&A5-10 minutes

WHY it matters

425,000Customers

$24B2018 Revenue

46+Years Industry Expertise

96,000Employees

SYNERGIES between RHT & SAP

Complementary TechnologiesRHT Infrastructure, Application Platform - SAP ERP, HANA , Business Applications

Common Customer BaseDeep presence and common customers within Fortune 2000 companies

Industry FocusFinance, TelCo, Healthcare, Government - Automotive, Retail, Energy, Industrial

SAP | RED HAT – The Journey

on premise cloud

SAP Business SuiteSAP NetWeaverCustom applications

SAP S/4HANA On PremiseSAP HANA platform

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

on premise

SAP Data Hub (SaaS)SAP Cloud Platform (PaaS)Custom cloud apps

present future

PHYSICAL VIRTUALPRIVATECLOUD

PUBLICCLOUD

WHAT you should know

SAP runs best on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

for SAP Solutions

The foundation is always RHEL

CONTROL

CONFIDENCE

FREEDOM

It should—be secure.

It should—just work.

It shouldn’t—get in the way.

CUSTOMER REQUIREMENT “My team is accountable for the availability 24x7 of our SAP solutions. The need for a high number of maintenance windows, caused by a fast spinning update cycle on the operating system, is just not going to work for us.

I’m looking for a solution, or say a partner, which can support us in serving the current needs of our business, while lowering our TCO and move us closer to our long-term goal of transforming our business into a digital enterprise.”

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions

TRAVIS - SAP BASIS ADMINISTRATOR

Within his company, responsible for operation and

maintenance of SAP landscape

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions has been designed to deliver upon those needs. Our solution includes high availability and proactive monitoring capabilities, along with remote management options and extended support subscriptions by default, so customers can remain focused on their business objectives.

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

Red Hat Satellite

OIL AND GAS/EMEA

SOLUTIONRepsol decided to move to open, standardized systems and migrate its entire infrastructure to a Linux environment running on x86 hardware.

WHY RED HATRepsol chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation of its SAP® environment due to past success with Red Hat solutions.

RESULTS● Reduced planned downtime for SAP systems● Cut system response time by 10–15%● Gained greater flexibility and availability

CHALLENGEIncrease agility to address sudden market shifts in pricing and regulation

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Source: Red Hat case study, Repsol meets demands of competitive oil market with Red Hat, Aug. 2016.

Cut hardware and software spending by

80%

Red Hat | SAP AllianceWhat we do

● Global team of SAP champions, working hand-in-hand with SAP development & support, incl. on-site engineering team at SAP headquarters

● RHEL is also one of the development platforms of SAP product portfolio● Working with large ecosystem of OEMs, SIs and ISVs to deliver the total package

Tangible benefits

● Improved security & manageability e.g. in context of RHEL 8● Optimized performance & reliability with RHV and RHEL HA● Seamless installation and superior support experience

by means of automation and proactive monitoring● Unified Lifecycle Management across RHEL, RHV and Openshift

RHEL for SAP SolutionsTailored for the needs of Business Critical Applications

Enabled for continuous availability of SAP applications, through integration with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver High Availability options (RHEL HA add-on and Red Hat SAP HA solution incl.)

Focus on SAP application lifecycle, providing a stable foundationand support for certain RHEL minor releases of up to 4 years from GA(RHEL Extended Update Support for SAP incl.)

Proactive monitoring and remote management of SAP landscapes,with real-time assessment for risks related to performance, availability, stability, and security (Red hat Insights and Smart Management add-on incl.)

Ready to run, delivering high-performance profiles, runtime libraries and file system add-ons, turning SAP into a first class citizen on RHEL for SAP(RHEL for SAP solutions specific software components incl.)

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RHEL

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Unified Lifecycle

ManagementPredictive

Analysis

Extended 4y SAP Support

High

Availability

Cluster

8 8

8

8

8

Red Hat HA Solutions for SAP

ASCSnode1

Pacemaker

ERSnode2 PAS AAS ...

ascs-vip ers-vip pas-ip aas-ip

HANA node1

hana-vip

EnqueueReplication

Pacemaker

HANA node2

SystemReplication

Currently available / SAP supported HA scenarios:● SAP HANA scale-up & scale-out● SAP NetWeaver ● SAP S/4HANA

Red Hat Extended SAP Support

* or until the end of Prod 3, whichever is shorter

EUS E4S ELS

Audience Direct and via

partners

SAP Solutions

Direct and via partners

Life Cycle 2 years from GA

4 years from GA*

Until next release retirement

Security fixes (RHSA) Critical

Bug fixes (RHBA) Selected Urgent

Standard subscription As Add-On Included As Add-On

Premium subscription Included Included As Add-On

Supported architectures

All + SAP X86_64Power LE

X86 and z Systems (no Power BE)

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata

Red Hat Smart Management

Keeping the Baseline of your environment, making it predictable ...

Infrastructure Admin

SAP Base Admin

SAP Early Watch● proactive application monitoring● top down view● ML in SAP datacenter

Red Hat Insights● proactive infrastructure monitoring● bottom up view● ML in Red Hat datacenter

Administrators are proactively informed on possible future impacts

Red Hat Insights Rules for SAP

DISCOVER VALIDATE1,000,000+solved cases

100,000+unique solutions

Product SKU:RHEL for SAP Solutions

RHEL for SAP Applications

RPM Channel: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP /SAP NW applications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA / SAP Solutions

compat-locales-sap x

compat-sap-c++ x x

resource-agents-sap x

resource-agents-sap-hana x

tuned-profiles-sap x

tuned-profiles-sap-hana x

sapconf x

vhostmd/vm-dump-metrics x

RHEL packages & repos specific for SAP

SAP / SAP HANA Supported Cloud Providers

http://bit.ly/RHEL-on-SAP-on-Cloud

SAP runs even better running Red Hat solutions all together

Red Hat Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Insights

Ansible Automation

SAP Application

Red Hat Satellite

Red Hat Openshift

96% of all critical security issues addressed within one week

Predictive Analytics

Unified LifecycleManagement

2

1

3

HARDWARE MAINTENANCE

► On Site construction

► Installation & Configuration

► Installation & Configuration

► Validation & Customization

► Maintenance & Updates

Automation for the whole environment

Link to Ansible SAP Playbooks

SAP optimized installation processwith Red Hat Ansible

LINUX (OS), SAP HANA, VALIDATION

Example Use Case - Reduce risk of patching

Software Repository for:- Operating System- Firmware RPMs- Application Binaries

Patch

1. Apply Production Server Profile & boot

2. Install OS on QA Server

4. Provision & Configure Application

3. Apply Production OS Config on QA Server

Load Test Data

Run Tests

Promote Patch to PROD

Run Update on PROD

Trigger

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/videos/iot-and-big-data-red-hat-jboss-middleware-and-sap-hanahttps://vimeo.com/184648850

IoT solutions, built jointly by SAP & Red Hat

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The future SAP runs best with Red Hat Openshift

SAP Cloud Platform Architecture

Full SAP Blog Entry

Orchestrate interoperation through API‘s

Open Runtimes

Data Management

Services

SAP Cloud Platform

SaaS Stacks

Ecosystem

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure SAP Data Center

SAP HANA Data Management Suite

BusinessServices

IntegrationServices

TechnicalServices

SAP LeonardoInnovation System

3rd Party

SAPS/4 HANA

Cloud

SAP ABAP

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Where SAP & Red Hat Architecture Intersects

Red HatAPI Management

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxunderpinning SaaS offerings

Red Hat lead OS projectsKubernetes, kNative, Istio

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxe.g. SAP HANA

Red Hat CCSPOpenshift

SAP is embracing Open Source on their journey to become the enterprise cloud company.Kubernetes & Containers are strategic building-blocks of both, SAP and Red Hat future architecture.

Our mutual customers want open hybrid cloud choices!

Red Hat serves as Open Standard Software Provider

for all of SAP’s Business Applications

SAP | RED HAT – Strategic Partners

WHERE to go next

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP NW APPLICATIONS

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION FOR APPLICATIONS (non-HANA)

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP HANA (X86 ONLY)

RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS DEVELOPER EDITION

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP SOLUTIONS

SAP DATAHUB VALIDATED ON RED HAT OPENSHIFT

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION FOR SAP HANA (1.5TB SINGLE VM)

RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS AVAILABLE VIA CCSP

2017 2018

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP NW APPLICATIONS

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION FOR NW APPLICATION (non-HANA)

History of Red Hat Solutions for SAP

2019

RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS DEVELOPER EDITION

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP SOLUTIONS

SAP DATAHUB VALIDATED ON RED HAT OPENSHIFT

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION FOR SAP HANA (1.5TB SINGLE VM)

RHEL FOR SAP WITH HA AND US AVAILABLE VIA CCSP

RHEL HA FOR SAP NETWEAVER AND SAP HANA

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP NW APPLICATIONS

RED HAT VIRTUALIZATION FOR NW APPLICATION (non-HANA)

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP HANA (X86 + Power)

RHEL FOR SAP WITH HA AND US AVAILABLE VIA CCSP

SAP HANA TESTED IN-PLACE UPGRADE FROM RHEL 6 to 7

RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX FOR SAP HANA (X86 + Power)

OCP

RHEL

RHV

SAP HANA + SAP DataHub Support Status

SAP HANA 2.0

SAP HANA 1.0

RHEL 6.10 (x86) RHEL 7.6 (x86 & Power)incl. DAX-FS for HANA RHEL 8.0 (x86 & Power 9)

-planned-

scale-out supportsingle-VM support

multi-VM supportRHV 4.1 (1.5 TB)RHV 4.x (>1.5 TB)

-planned-

SDH 2.3/.4 on OCP 3.10 SDH 2.5/.5 on

OCP 3.11-planned-

SAP NetWeaver is fully supported on RHEL 6.x/7.x, as well as RHV 4.x on x86 & PowerFind information at https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/x/rDK7Gg

Information provided may be subject to change for any or no reason.

Digital transformation & S/4HANA migrations➢ Solution Overview, Technical Brief from Red Hat

RHEL for SAP Solutions ➢ Datasheet, Technical Overview, Certified releases, SAP Note 2235581➢ Blog, Solution Brief, SAP Note 2235581 for SAP HANA on Power

RHV virtualization for SAP HANA➢ Solution brief, Certified releases, SAP Note 2599726

Red Hat Openshift in context of SAP➢ Validated releases, KB Article 3630111

Joint SAP / Red Hat customer references➢ Mohawk Industries, Repsol, Bayer, Molecular Health, FI-TS, Sunrise

Communications, Indesso, Hotelplan

Where to find further information

Summary

Red Hat Automation04● Increase efficiency in SAP landscape deployments● Perform proactive & automate configuration tasks

based on Red Hat Insights & Smart Management capabilities

Red Hat High-Availability for SAP 03 ● Leverage first class HA automation capabilities● Integration for SAP NetWeaver and HANA applications

Red Hat Virtualization02● Jointly tested with SAP ● Providing more flexibility in how to operate SAP applications,

while not sacrificing performance SLAs

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxfor SAP Solutions | Applications01

● Designed to deliver upon needs of SAP customers● Includes high availability and proactive monitoring capabilities,

along with remote management options and extended support

Red Hat Hybrid Cloud 05● Cloud optimized RHEL operating system ● Provide first-class container runtime

for hybrid cloud environments (public and private cloud)

PHYSICAL VIRTUAL PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD

Everything-as-a-Service Modern apps ISV

RED HAT CAN BE YOUR TRUSTED PARTNER ON THIS JOURNEY

Containers & microservices

The new Datacenter is Hybrid