Huawei Solutions for SAP HANA

The SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) is a data platform which can be deployed as an appliance, or in the cloud.
It is a revolutionary platform that is ideally suited to run real-time analytics, and to develop and deploy real-time applications. It
enables real-time processing of massive amounts of data in the main memory of a server.
Huawei has partnered with SAP to create HANA appliances based on Huaweis high-end hardware platform which feature
outstanding performance. Huawei provides complete deployment options for SAP HANA including cloud offerings (HANA One,
HANA Enterprise Cloud) and on-premise offerings (HANA Appliance, B1A, B1H). The appliances cover the range from entrylevel, with 128GB of memory to large-scale with up to 16 terabytes of usable memory. And technically Huawei infrastructure can
support larger cluster which can be certified on request.
The single node solution uses a Huawei RH5885H V3 rack server and high performance SSD to deliver the best read/write
performance in the industry. This performance ensures that real-time data is available for business operation and decision making.
The scale-out solution runs on the award winning Huawei FusionCube converged infrastructure. FusionCube employs an innovative
software based storage which also delivers very high IO performance. The FusionCubes converged architecture design with high
performance Infiniband networking and high-performance storage makes it an ideal platform for HANA scale-out solution.

Single Node Solution

Table 1: specification of single node solution

specication

XS

L+

Server

RH5885H V3

RH5885H V3

RH5885H V3

RH5885H V3

RH5885H V3

CPU

2*IVB-EX E74880/4890 V2

2*IVB-EX E74880/4890 V2

2*IVB-EX E74880/4890 V2

4*IVB-EX E74880/4890 V2

4*IVB-EX E74880/4890 V2

Memory

128GB DDR3

256GB DDR3

512GB DDR3

1024GB DDR3

2048GB DDR3

Log Volume

1T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

1T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

1T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

2* 800GB PCIe
ES3000

2* 800GB PCIe
ES3000

Data Volume

3T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

3T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

3T from 8*900GB
10k 2.5" SAS HDD,
RAID 5

8*900GB 10k 2.5"

SAS HDD, RAID 5

14*900GB 10k 2.5"

SAS HDD, RAID 50

OS

SLES 11.3 for SAP HANA

Figure 1: Tecal RH5885H V3 front view

Figure 2: Tecal RH5885H V3 rear view

Description
Single node solution is based on the RH5885H V3 high performance 4-socket rack server. The RH5885H V3 can provide 53 advanced
Reliability/Availability/Serviceability (RAS) features such as Cache security technology and Core isolation configuration. These features,
along with complete hardware redundancy, provides high reliability and it also supports a PCIe SSD accelerator card. It is a optimal
choice for the database and business intelligence business, ERP and mission-critical applications.

Highlights

Top performance in SPECint and SPECfp CPU tests

Fastest write performance with 15% less latency and 20% more bandwidth
Most completion of T-shirt sizes, highest density and provide comprehensive hardware and one-stop hardware support service

Scale out: FusionCube-Converged Infra solution

Figure 3: topology of scale-out solution
HANA server m

HANA server 1

SAP
Server
Cluster

HANA standby 1

HANA standby n

FusionCube
Table 2: specification of Scale out: FusionCubeConverged Infrastructure
Server system

56Gbps IB
FusionCube

Storage
Cluster

/hana/shared/<SID>
/hana/log/<SID>
/hana/data/<SID>

Storage Server 1

/hana/shared/<SID>
/hana/log/<SID>
/hana/data/<SID>

Storage Server 2

/hana/shared/<SID>
/hana/log/<SID>
/hana/data/<SID>

Storage Server Y

Memory
512GB, 1T
RAM

CPU

4*IVB-EX
E7-4880
/4890 V2

File System
xfs, ocfs2

Storage
option1: log volume: 2*2.4T
PCIe SSD per storage node;
data volume: 12*900G 10K
SAS per storage node
option2: log and data volume:
12*900G 10K SAS per storage
node

OS
SLES for SAP
11 SP3

Comments
Scale out up
to 16 nodes,
includes HA
capabilities

Description
Huawei SAP HANA converged infrastructure solution is based on Huawei FusionCube server and distributed storage solution. Huawei
FusionCube follows open architecture standards, integrates blade servers, distributed storage, network switches and management
software in a 12U height chassis. SAP HANA software can be supported as one-stop delivery, appliance installation, linear expansion.
FusionCube has a deep performance optimization for the HANA in-memory database scenario. Huawei FusionCube supports 10GE
56Gbps IB switch, that can fully meet HANA memory real-time computing scenario on storage low latency and high speed network
switching requirements.

Highlights

Distributed PCI-E SSD storage pool brings 5 times less latency, 50 times more IOPS, 15 times more storage network bandwidth
Extreme performance of scale out solution , the fastest read/write and data loading performance, the fastest HANA system
recovery time
Based on a converged infrastructure optimized design, significantly improve the HANA density, and pre-optimized, one-stop
maintenance and unified management reduce operation costs

Scale out: FusionCube-SAN storage solution

Figure 4: topology of scale-out solution
HANA server1

SAP
HANA
cluster

HANA server m

HANA standby 1

10GE

HANA standby n

FCSAN

/hana/shared

/hana/log/<SID>

/hana/log/<SID>

/hana/shared/<SID>

/hana/data/<SID>

/hana/data/<SID>

Server
system

CPU

4* Westmere
EX Intel E7FusionCube
4870 (2,4
GHz)

Memory

512GB
RAM

File System

S5600T

4 HANA Server : 1 Huawei

S5600T storage with 10*
2.5 400G SSD Log volume
as RAID 5, 38* 2.5 600G
10K SAS Data volume as 4*
RAID 5

OS

Comments

Scale out
up to 16
SLES 11
nodes,
SP2 for SAP
includes HA
capabilities

xfs

Storage
S5600T File Engine

Storage

S5600T

Description
Huawei FusionCube with SAN storage for SAP HANA is based on FusionCube converged infrastructure blade server and unified storage
OceanStor S5600T. Huawei FusionCube server uses leading technology and an advanced architecture, supporting 10GE/FCoE/FC switch
to meet the network requirements of HANA in real-time computing scenarios. Combined with S5600T unified storage, this solution
supports configuration file and block data sharing, and long-distance disaster recovery at the storage level. Core traffic is guaranteed
safe with this solution.

Highlights

High Reliability: the only device-level 99.9999% availability and fully redundant system design, eliminating single points of failure and
providing enhanced data protection

High Cost-effective: support storage tiering, helping customer control costs while delivering outstanding performance
High Flexibility: provide SAP HANA more flexible scale out solution covering low-end and high-end, to meet customer flexible demand

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