Table of Contents
Unleash the power of your
SAP HANA platform . . . . 1
To thrive, businesses today need real-time analytics . . . . 1
HPE Superdome Flex for the SAP HANA platform . . . . 2
Scalability . . . . 2
Flexibility . . . . 3
Large memory capacity . . . . 3
Reliability . . . . 3
HPE Pointnext Services . . . . 4
World-record performance in new SAP HANA benchmarks . . . . 3
Second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors: A feature- rich, future-forward infrastructure platform . . . . 4
A robust and scalable SAP solution . . . . 4
Learn More . . . . 4
Give your business world-record performance with HPE Superdome Flex powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
Unleash the power of your SAP HANA platform
Enterprise & Government Big Data Analytics
Unleash the power of your SAP HANA platform
By the end of 2020, 5.8 Billion IoT endpoints will be in use.1
Worldwide mobile subscriptions are over 8 billion and expected to grow to almost 9 billion over the next 5 years.2
Global total mobile data traffic is expected to reach around 38 exabytes per month by the end of the year, and is projected to grow by a factor of 4 to reach 160 exabytes per month in 2025.3
These figures hint at the challenges businesses face today. Enterprise infrastructures now extend to a nearly unfathomable number of mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints at their periphery, and they face a deluge of data pouring back from those endpoints in real time.
For corporations to survive in this new business environment, it is no longer an option to simply offer core services. Competitors are now deriving more data- driven insights and they are doing so more quickly than ever before. They are using these insights to offer better services to customers, faster, and at a lower cost.
To thrive, businesses today need real-time analytics
An enterprise today can effectively handle this onslaught of real-time data only by transforming the heart of its business into a dynamic digital core. Such a core needs to transform the massive incoming information streams pouring in from every segment of the business process—suppliers, factory floors, distributors and customers—into instant actionable analytics to improve competitiveness and efficiencies. For example, wherever and whenever changes originate, whether technology, organizational or other changes, they need to be communicated immediately to other parts of the business to increase organizational efficiency and agility. To meet the level of service that customers expect today, real-time data needs to be fed into prediction engines that help these customers find what they need as effortlessly as possible. And finally, to remain competitive, this data needs to lead to actionable insights for quick and smart decision-making.
For many large organizations, the in-memory database capabilities of the SAP HANA platform provide the core software functionality needed to run high- speed transactions and advanced analytics in real time. But many of these same organizations are losing their competitive advantage because they are held back by the limiting performance of their existing hardware. To remain competitive, enterprises no longer have the option of letting infrastructure restrict the agility of their business operations or the quality of their business decisions. Instead, they need to rethink their hardware strategy and pursue a solution for the SAP HANA platform that meets the high standards and demands of their businesses.
Solution Brief
Solution Brief | Unleash the power of your SAP HANA platform
HPE Superdome Flex for the SAP HANA platform
To address these challenges, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) provides HPE Superdome Flex solutions for the SAP HANA platform, powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Superdome Flex is a high- performance server that provides scalability, flexibility and mission-critical reliability with 4–32 sockets in a single system and 768 GB–48 TB of shared memory.
Scalability
With data already flooding in, and increasing at a rate of approximately 26 percent per year,4 businesses need a solution that can scale with the demands of the business, and enable them to grow for years into the future. HPE Superdome Flex delivers an outstanding combination of flexibility, performance, and reliability for critical
environments of any size.5 The groundbreaking architecture allows modular growth in increments of four-socket building
blocks, enabling businesses to start small and grow their SAP HANA environments as needed. HPE Superdome Flex solutions for the SAP HANA platform are available in a broad range of CPU and memory configurations—including those based on 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors—
for both scale-up and scale-out use cases.
For single-node, online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, such as SAP S/4HANA, HPE Superdome Flex can scale up from 4 to 32 sockets and from 1.5 to 24 TB of memory (as shown in Figure 1). For multinode, online analytical processing (OLAP) workloads such as SAP BW/4HANA, HPE Superdome Flex can scale out from a few nodes to up to 48 nodes and 288 TB of memory (as shown in Figure 2). These reflect SAP-certified configurations as of the date of publication of this solution brief.
The modular design of HPE Superdome Flex for the SAP HANA platform allows enterprises to harness increasingly large datasets for high-speed in-memory computing. With
Figure 1 . The HPE Superdome Flex platform offers highly scalable x86 configurations for SAP HANA, certified with 4–32 sockets and 1.5–24 TB of memory6 and made possible by many years of partnership and co-innovation between HPE, SAP, and Intel
HPE Superdome Flex Compute Block for SAP HANA/Scale-Up Cofigurations (S/4HANA/BWoH/BW/4HANA) Scale-up Configurations (S/4HANA/BWoH/BW/4HANA)
• A minimum of SAP HANA 2.0 SP503 is required for all configurations up to 8 sockets. 12 socket configurations or larger require a minimum of SAP HANA 2.0 SPSO4
• Configurations up to 32 sockets are also available for S/4HANA scale-out use cases
• Under TDI Phase 5 rules, Gold CPUs are allowed in production for configurations up to 16 sockets. For Scale- out configurations, only the Platinum 8280 and 8276 CPUs are allowed
• 128 GB DIMMs are allowed only up to 16s. Configurations larger than 16s must use 64 GB DIMMs only
Total Maximum System Memory
32 Sockets 24 TB
21 TB 18 TB 15 TB
24 TB 18 TB
12 TB 6 TB
28 Sockets 24 Sockets 20 Sockets 16 Sockets 12 Sockets 8 Sockets 4 Sockets
HPE Superdome Flex Compute Block for SAP HANA/Scale-out Cofigurations (BWoH/BW/4HANA) Scale-out Configurations
• A minimum of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS03 is required for all configurations up to 8 sockets. 12 socket configurations or larger require a minimum of SAP HANA 2.0 SPSO4
• Configurations up to 32 sockets are also available for S/4HANA scale-out use cases
• Under TDI Phase 5 rules, Gold CPUs are allowed in production for configurations up to 16 sockets.
For Scale-out configurations, only the Platinum 8280 and 8276 CPUs are allowed
Memory per Node
32 Sockets 24 TB
21 TB 18 TB 15 TB 12 TB 18 TB 6 TB 3 TB 28 Sockets 24 Sockets 20 Sockets 16 Sockets 12 Sockets 8 Sockets 4 Sockets
Maximum Scale-out System size
288 TB 12 Nodes 252 TB 12 Nodes 216 TB 12 Nodes 180 TB 12 Nodes 288 TB 12 Nodes 216 TB 12 Nodes 288 TB 12 Nodes 144 TB 12 Nodes
this world-leading modular design and scalability, businesses can reduce over-provisioning with an in-memory analytics solution that is sized for the current workload. Businesses can then scale the solution as their data volumes grow—
seamlessly and cost-efficiently.
Flexibility
HPE Superdome Flex offers thousands of configuration choices to best meet the needs of SAP HANA environments of all sizes. Solutions can be purchased in one of two deployment models—as an appliance with all the required hardware and software preinstalled and preconfigured, or as an SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) solution, enabling customization as well as the use of existing storage hardware. For added flexibility, HPE TDI solutions allow choosing Intel® Xeon® Gold Processors (for servers with up to 16 sockets) or Intel® Xeon® Platinum Processors to optimize TCO in accordance with business requirements.
HPE Superdome Flex also gives businesses the flexibility to easily repurpose their SAP HANA workloads and the agility to respond to evolving business needs. Because HPE Superdome Flex solutions for the SAP HANA platform can be deployed in both scale-up and scale-out configurations, customers can fully repurpose their SAP HANA infrastructure investments and avoid forklift upgrades.
The broad range of deployment options lets firms customize their SAP HANA journey as needed, without compromising performance or scalability.
Large memory capacity
To harness the full value of in-memory computing, the underlying system must be capable of addressing extremely large datasets to process analytics and achieve real-time insights. Designed for environments of all sizes, HPE Superdome Flex delivers from 768 GB to 48 TB of shared memory and is architected to scale to the industry’s largest memory capacity for the SAP HANA platform.8 Delivered with 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel® Optane™
persistent memory offers increased memory capacity close to the CPU to support in-memory workloads, as well as offering persistence for greater resilience and productivity.
Reliability
Reliability is a crucial aspect of any SAP solution. For many enterprises, in fact, it is fair to say that if the SAP software isn’t running, the business is not either.
Designed with extreme RAS capabilities, HPE Superdome Flex gives customers the confidence that critical SAP HANA workloads will remain available, which can help maintain business continuity.9, 10
Numerous high-reliability features and services that differentiate the HPE Superdome Flex solution for the SAP HANA platform from other solutions include:
• Analysis engine, an automated software service that predicts hardware faults and initiates self-repair without operator assistance, which can help reduce downtime
• HPE Serviceguard for Linux, which offers a fully automated and unattended high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for the SAP HANA platform, allowing firms to achieve near-zero downtime for SAP HANA workloads
• HPE Rapid Deployment Service for SAP HANA—spanning planning and review, integration, and testing activities.
This service includes an integration option, designed to automate and enhance SAP HANA replication across the HPE infrastructure systems utilizing HPE Serviceguard
• HPE Pointnext Services, which provides partner services to help customers optimize their infrastructure and reduce complexity
HPE Pointnext Services
HPE Pointnext Services provides comprehensive SAP solutions leveraging experience from over 1,500 SAP HANA consulting projects and supporting over 25,000 SAP customers.
From migration assessments to architecting HA and DR solutions, database migration and system deployment to data protection HPE Pointnext Services has a solution for every step. Some of the services for SAP HANA include 24x7x365 device-level support, personalized and comprehensive management of multivendor environments and the HPE Center of Excellence (CoE) Experience for SAP HANA. Find more information about HPE Pointnext Services here.
World-record performance in the new SAP HANA benchmarks
To turn a system of record into a system of real-time intelligence, you need raw power. HPE Superdome Flex for the SAP HANA platform delivers that power at unparalleled scale, as reflected in a myriad of industry benchmark results. Most recently, HPE Superdome Flex set overall and 16-processor world records on SAP Business Warehouse, Edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark V3 at 41.6 billion initial records.11 This was achieved with Superdome Flex powered by 16 second-generation Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L processors, 12 TB of DRAM and 12 TB of HPE Persistent Memory featuring Intel Optane persistent memory technology—also a new milestone. This followed a previous world record of 20.8 billion initial records set in October, 2019 by HPE Superdome Flex with identical Intel Xeon processors and 12 TB of DRAM.12
In November 2018, HPE Superdome Flex, powered by eight Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processors, delivered top single- database-node (scale-up) results with 13 billion initial records for the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 3 and #1 ranking for all 3 phases.13 A prior benchmark took place in June 2018 where HPE Superdome Flex with eight Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processors delivered top single-database-node results with 11.7 billion initial records in the SAP BW Edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark Version 2. This was the first benchmark result for Intel Xeon Scalable processors and for which world records for all three phases are held for single database nodes.14
Solution Brief | Unleash the power of your SAP HANA platform
Second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors: a feature-rich, future-forward infrastructure platform
Benchmarks with second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors have shown impressive results. These processors can deliver excellent performance because they are
engineered with:
• Higher Per-Core Performance: Up to 56 cores (9200 series) and up to 28 cores (8200 series), delivering high- performance and scalability for compute-intensive workloads across compute, storage, and network usages.
• Support for six memory channels and up-to 4 TB of DDR4 memory, per socket, with speeds up-to 2933 MT/s (1 DPC).
• Expanded I/O: 48 lanes of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth and throughput for demanding I/O-intensive workloads.
• Greater Memory Bandwidth/Capacity with support for Intel Optane persistent memory.
HPE Superdome Flex builds on these new improvements by offering the following range of processor configurations:
• Four Intel Xeon Scalable processors per chassis, with up to eight chassis in a single system, 4–32 processors
• 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, or 28 cores per processor
• Up to 3.8 GHz processor speed
• Support for HPE Persistent Memory, available in 128, 256, and 512 GB kits, featuring Intel Optane persistent memory
A robust and scalable SAP solution
HPE is a trusted name in SAP environments, having successfully deployed more than 27,000 servers for SAP HANA solutions worldwide and industry-wide. As a result of nearly 30 years of close partnership with Intel and SAP, HPE Superdome Flex solutions for the SAP HANA platform, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are able to deliver the high standards of scalability, flexibility, reliability, and performance demanded in SAP HANA environments.
Learn More
• Intel and SAP partnership intel.com/sap
• Intel Xeon Scalable processors
intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/
scalable/xeon-scalable-platform.html
• HPE Superdome Flex for SAP HANA
hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/detail/pip.hpe- superdome-flex-for-sap-hana.1010323145.html
• HPE solutions for the SAP HANA platform hpe.com/info/sap/hana
• HPE Pointnext Services hpe.com/us/en/services.html
2, 3 Ericsson Mobility Report, November 2019 ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/reports/november-2019
4 IDC, The digitization of the World from Edge to Core. November 2018. IDC predicts that the Global Datasphere will grow from 33 Zettabytes in 2018 to 175 Zettabytes by 2025
5 HPE Superdome Flex: A Mission Critical Marvel, April 2019. hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2019/04/hpe-superdome-flex-a-mission-critical-marvel.html
6 The SAP HANA Hardware Directory. sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/appliances.html#categories=certified%2CHewlett%20Packard%20Enterprise. TB capacities shown are max; capacities begin at 1.5 TB for 4-socket system.
7 Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/appliances.html#categories=certified%23Hewlett%20 Packard%20Enterprise
8 HPE Superdome Flex QuickSpecs
9 HPE Superdome Flex Server. hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/servers/mission-critical-x86-servers/pip.hpe-superdome-flex-server.1010323140.html
10 Based on HPE lab availability analysis results. The single-system HPE Superdome Flex server availability of five-nines (99.999%) can be greatly increased when used in combination with failover clustering solutions such as HPE Serviceguard for Linux.
11 community.hpe.com/t5/servers-the-right-compute/scale-up-and-up-with-sap-hana-and-persistent-memory/ba-p/7085474#.XqIV48hKiUk
12 h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=a50000337enw
13 sap.com/about/benchmark/appbm/netweaver.sap-bw-edition-for-sap-hana-benchmark-version-3.html#sap-bw-edition-for-sap-hana-benchmark-version-3
14 sap.com/dmc/exp/2018-benchmark-directory/#/bwh
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