Insanity: doing the same thing over and

over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

Optimised Infrastructure for

Enterprise Applications
Paul Davies
Enterprise Architect, European Data Centre and Virtualisation
19th May 2011
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Agenda
Applications and the Data Centre
The Platform for Applications
Ciscos Solutions for SAP and Oracle

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Applications and the Data Centre
The Platform for Applications
Ciscos Solutions for SAP and Oracle

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Modern Business
View of Information Technology
Business Focus

..which is Increasingly Fragile & Costly

Products, offerings
Customer service

What the Business Sees

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

Supporting Infrastructure

Reduced competitiveness
High Costs
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.puts Pressure on the Data Centers

Reg. Compliance

Connected Life

SLA Metrics

Global Availability

Lower Costs

New Business
Pressures

Data Center
Operational
Limitations
Power & Cooling

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Asset Utilization

Provisioning

Security

Business
Continuity

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...and Pressures for Applications Managers

Delivery of Capability Business Requirements
Availability
Performance
Patching/Upgrades/Reliability/Security
Testing
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Data Center Costs.

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

60

Virtualization makes things worse

60

Spending
(US$B)
$300

55
50

Logical server
installed base
(millions)

45
$250

Server mgmt. and admin. costs

$200

Power and cooling costs

New server spending

40

Admin Costs
Dominate
Budgets

$150

35
30

Physical server
installed base
(millions)

25
20

$100

15
10

$50

5
$0
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But What if

Your Data Center Strategy enabled you to

Drive Business Objectives

Reduced Business
Risk

IT to enable the business (Inc.

BI)

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Need to reduce costs and

increase profits

New Services to
Market

AND

Innovate with Operational Excellence

Server virtualization:
higher performance

Applications
experience

Drive for Greenpower,

cooling and space

LAN and storage

convergence

Workplace
Experience

Workload
provisioning

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Applications and the Data Centre
The Platform for Applications
Ciscos Solutions for SAP and Oracle

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Different Workload Characteristics of Applications

Highly Threaded

DB Instance

Web

Web Dispatcher
AII (RFID)

liveCache
SAP-TRex
SCM Event Manager
liveCache
SAP-R3SAP-XI
MRP
Portal
Oracle EBS
ERP/OLTP

Data
Storage
Intensive

F&R Processor

BI Accelerator

HPC

Application

BP Engine
Reporting

Network
Intensive

Analytical OLAP
Business Consolidation
APO Optimizer

Compute
SEM Analytics

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Single Threaded

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Typical Application Server Sprawl

Usually Individually Sized to Peak Requirement but often run at <20%
1990
R/3 Production

2000

2002

2005

BW Production

CRM Production

SCM Production

R/3 QAS

R/3 PreProd

BW QAS

BW PreProd

CRM QAS

CRM PreProd

SCM QAS

SCM PreProd

R/3 Dev

R/3 Train

BW Dev

BW Train

CRM Dev

CRM Train

SCM Dev

SCM Train

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Cisco Unified Computing System:

Memory

Solve Frustrating Performance Issues

A single system that unifies

Compute: Industry standard x86
Network: Unified fabric
Virtualization: Control, scale, performance
Storage Access: Wire once for SAN, NAS, iSCSI

Database

Embedded management
CRM

VM

VM

Increase scalability without added complexity

VM

VM

Dynamic resource provisioning

Ability to integrate with broad partner ecosystem
Analytics

ERP
Data
Warehouse

CPU

Energy efficient
Fewer servers, switches, adapters, cables
Lower power and cooling requirements

I/O

Increase compute efficiency by removing I/O and memory

bottlenecks

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Increasing Agility While Reducing TCO

Virtualization
Platform

Expenditures

Hypervisor
Optimization

Resource
Scaling

Revenues

Dynamic
Provisioning

Compute
Platform

15%

Infrastructure Savings
1.Fewer Components
2.Lower HW/SW Costs
3.More Virtual Machines Per Node
4.Better Performance Per Node
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Unified
Fabric

Network
Platform

20%

Site Savings
1.Reduced Power
2.Lower Cooling
3.Better Use of Space
4.Lower PUE/Site

35%

Operational Savings
1.Higher FTE/Server Ratio
2.Rapid Provisioning
3.Seamless Repurposing
4.Streamlined Coordination

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Why Cisco UCS for Applications

(a little look under the covers at the clever bits of technology.
..)
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Cisco Unified Computing System

Ideal Platform for Application Virtualization
Service
Profiles

UCS

Rapid provisioning
Extended
Memory

Unified Fabric

VN-Link
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Higher consolidation ratios

Wire-once infrastructure

Simplifies network management

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Server Role Depends on Actual Requirements

Daily
Web Tier
6 servers

Nightly
Web Tier
4 servers
SAP ERP PRD
6 servers

SAP ERP PRD

8 servers

Batch Apps 4 servers

Test/Dev 4 servers

SAP QA
4 servers

Spares

Web Tier
4 servers

SAP ERP PRD

10 servers

Test/Dev
6 servers

Reporting 2 servers

SAP QA
4 servers

Monthly

Reporting
4 servers
Test/Dev 2 servers
Batch Apps
6 servers

Spares

SAP QA
4 servers
Spares

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Agenda
Applications and the Data Centre
The Platform for Applications
Ciscos Solutions for SAP and Oracle

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SAP Solutions

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Cisco and SAP Solutions Today

SAP Optimised Cloud Infrastructure
SAP flexibility
flexibility
Increase
Increase SAP

Drive
Drive down TCO
TCO

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

SAP Run Book Automation

Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation

SAP Business Intelligence

Business Warehouse Accelerator and HANA on UCS

Providing real-time application delivery to Enterprise customers who want to

optimize their business processes and sustain profitable growth
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SAP on Cisco Unified Compute System

Challenge
Customers concerned about virtualizing
mission critical applications
Need to reduce costs, lower operating
costs, implement updates more quickly
and manage applications as a whole

Solution

Legacy

UCS
Management
and Control

Primary
Network

SAN A

SAP running in physical and virtualized

environments on UCS
SAN B

Benefits

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

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Secondary
Network

Server = Application
Inefficient

Complex

High Cost

Server = Resource
Fragile

Efficient

Agile

Transformative

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Data Center Solutions

Unified Computing for Enterprise Resource Planning
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.

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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.

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TCO Analysis - 13% Cost Reduction on Running SAP

Areas of TCO
Savings
Hardware/
Software
Investment
Implementation
Hardware/
Software
Ongoing Cost
Operations
Continuous
Improvement
Projects
Upgrade
Projects

Key Contributions by Vblock

Introduction of pre-engineered, tested, and validated Vblock units

Simple setup, installation and reconfiguration with virtual machines

Vblock triggered
savings

9 - 19%
22 - 32%

The ability to expand the capacity of Vblock infrastructure as the architecture

is very flexible and extensible

2 - 5%

OnDemand provisioning, centralized administration, simple expansion and

scaling of SAP instances and reduction of planned downtime

3 - 4%

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

20 - 25%

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%

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Impact on SAP
TCO

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Data Center Costs.

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

60

Virtualization makes things worse

60

Spending
(US$B)
$300

55
50

Logical server
installed base
(millions)

45
$250

Server mgmt. and admin. costs

$200

Power and cooling costs

New server spending

40

Admin Costs
Dominate
Budgets

$150

35
30

Physical server
installed base
(millions)

25
20

$100

15
10

$50

5
$0
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1996

1997

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SAP Best Practices for End-to-End Operations

The RUN SAP Methodology

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Cisco Tidal Intelligent Automation Platform for SAP

SAP Predefined and Configured
Content
Over 200+ process flows

Delivery
Delivery

Engine
Engine

Automation
Automation Packs
Packs

Role-based access

Web Based Portal

Client Console
Reporting

Incident
Incident
Analysis
Analysis
for
for SAP
SAP

Task
Task
Automation
Automation
for
for SAP
SAP

Ticketing Integration

System
System
Refresh
Refresh &&
System
System Copy
Copy
for
for SAP
SAP

Task Delegation
Process Execution
Event triggering
Human Approvals

Operations Managers

Automation Core Platform

Set of Core Processes, Activities,
Events & Tasks

CLI

Over 100+ process

flows to automate
taking actions of
SAP alerts and
events

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Assignments & Notifications

Built in SAP and

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

Auditing & Reporting

Over 50+ flows to

automate complex
pre and post
system
copy/refresh
activities

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SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance

Run Better with SAP In-Memory Computing
Other Applications

SAP BusinessObjects

Run Bolder
Provides access to SAPs 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

In-Memory Computing Engine

Run Simpler
Calculation
and Planning
Engine

Modeling Studio

Streamline the IT landscape and reduce TCO

Groundbreaking yet non-disruptive to existing landscapes
Simple to deploy and without compromise

Real-Time
Replication
Services

Data Services

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

SAP Business
Suite

SAP NetWeaver
BW

Their Party

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

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SAP on UCS - Customer Examples

SAP ESS, MSS, E-Recruiting Business Objects,

Virsa, Solution Manager

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

3000 Users / ~3TB

SAP ECC 6.0 Unicode, BW
XI (B2B/A2A),
SAP PLM/Risk/Compliance,

Challenge
Legacy system required fifteen cables for each new
server
Cut deployment time for ESX

SAP Product Enablement

Cisco Solution

Challenge

UCS with Windows on VMware ESX

Reduce TCO

Shifting 90% of all Windows apps onto 75 VMs

Cisco Solution

VM deployment reduced from 1-2 weeks to 30

min

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
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Oracle Solutions

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Cisco Performance Leadership Top to Bottom

UCS Achieves Top Performance Across the Entire Stack
2010-2011 #1
Benchmarks!
Benchmark
Details

Cisco UCS
Model

Oracle Applications
Standard Benchmark

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

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4

Extra-Large Payroll Batch
Medium Payroll Batch

World Record
Results

B200 M2

Up to 43% better IBM Power 7

SPECjAppServer2004
SPECjEnterprise2010
(2-Node)
Oracle WebLogic Server Rel 10.3/ Oracle
JRockit(R)
JRockit(R)
6.0 JDK6.0
(R28.0.1)

Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5

B230 M1
B440 M1

B440 M1
B460 M1

17,301.86
54%
increase
SPECjEnterprise2010
over prior top
at only 60% of cost to
IBMresult
Power !780
54% increase over prior
top result !

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Oracle RAC Certification Configuration

Initially completed certification in 2009
8 Node Oracle RAC cluster 10gR2 or 11gR2
2Failure
Chassis, 4 Blades
each
Description

Response

2 Quad-core Intel Xeon 5570 (Nehalem)

Single Link Failure

Represents Port Failure

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

Storage Path Failure

1 IO Path LostNo Effect, All

IO Paths Nodes Reboot

1 or 3
9 months
required
certificationnodes Continue to Work
(Public for
Interface)

1 and 2 or
3 and 4

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Scalability on Cisco UCS for Oracle Database with Oracle

RAC
Scaling from 1 Node DWH 2 Nodes 4 Nodes

Solution Overview:

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

UCS Benefits:

Reference Architecture
and Performance:

Scaling: 1 Node 2 Nodes 4 Nodes

Cisco M81KR(Palo) VIC

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

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Oracle VM Enables Sub-Capacity Pricing

Benefits:

Other App

4 Sockets

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.

Hard partitioning allocates system resources.

Similar to LPAR for AIX or Containers in Solaris.
1 Socket

1 Socket

2 Sockets

Oracle VM

DB support is 22% of list license/year.

Customer saves $31,350/year

Cisco UCS B440

Oracle
VM Hard Partitioning Paper:
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Oracle does not recognize this licensing

capability with other hypervisors.
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Delivering Customer Success

Efficiency

Agility

Transformative

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EMC IT Selects:
Cisco UCS for Oracle E-Business Suite
One of worlds largest Oracle E-Business Suite implementations with ERP for 20,000 employees
and CRM supporting 50,000 users seeks open solution
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

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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

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