Ask the Expert: XtremIO for SAP - Best Practices, Configuration and Q&As

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I am hearing that with XtremIO provides some expected performance gains that can have tremendous positive business impact, but more from a consolidation and ease of use perspective. What do you guys see in terms of consolidating several SAP landscapes onto XtremIO. What are the real benefits for customers?

Axel,

Thanks for your question. we all know if customers  move their SAP system data from traditional storage platform to all flash storage platform (XtremIO) the performance will improve much , i can give you an example, we have a customer who have transform their SAP systems data from traditional storage to XtremIO. the customer got more than 2* performance increase

75% reduction in ETL time(Extraction time), 66% reduction in long running batch jobs (3 days to 1day), 60% reduction in database scan times, 55% reduction in SAP BW reporting run times , 50% reduction in DB times within BW interaction process.

XtremIO provides confidence and assurance to consolidate  SAP physical and virtual landscapes to a scale-out AFA without performance degradation resulting in many SAP application workloads to be run on the same platform (OLTP, DW, Test & DEV )

XtremIO’s real-time Data Services which incorporate “always running” thin provisioning, deduplication, inline compression, data protection, data-at-rest encryption, and writable snapshots bring huge impact on the consolidation of SAP environments resulting in significant savings due to reduced storage space consumption, optimum agility, improved availability, and security with every SAP application and for each user, during both peak and normal times.

with XtremIO for SAP ,we can help customers

•   Simplified system landscape
•   Fast Development cycle
•   Cost Saving
• Provide innovation path &support the business

Regarding simplified system landscape, for traditional SAP customers they always have 3 -layer for one SAP system (DEV/QAS/PRD), with the business development, the customer would have new business requirement, they need run several projects to change their systems for business requirement, in order to not impact the original systems , they need set up new DEV and QAS systems for new projects(5 systems landscape) Now the customer can make full use of XtremIO snapshot functionality to build up new DEV and QAS systems based on the original DEV/QAS system without performance degradation and no additional storage footprint requirement. After the project finished , you could build up another new DEV/QAS system for new project or you could delete the snapshot at any time without impact the original systems. So  it's easy and simple for customer to manage their system landscape.

Regarding the fast development cycle,  you are probably used to development systems and QA system  that in many cases are not the latest data from production system, sometimes the test result would not be correct ,now the customer can use XtremIO Snapshot to fast build up  new  QAS, TEST systems based on PRD data without performance impact and no additional storage requirement which would lead to accelerate the development cycle.

Regarding the cost saving, XtremIO’s real-time Data Services which incorporate “always running” thin provisioning, deduplication, inline compression leads to  a lot of storage footprint saving, meanwhile, XtremIO configuration is so simple which would help customer to save a lot of human effort. In EMC customer testing, we have achieved 40% percent TCO reduction, with the following

• 80% reduction in space consumed by copies
• 50% consolidation for virtual server VCPUs
• 7 *production snapshots maintained on a live system (with massively reduced RTO)

Regarding provide innovation path and support business, business users always want information fast, new business initiatives typically come to SAP application teams with aggressive deadlines, the business nearly always wants changes deployment faster in production than development teams can reasonably do it .  XtremIO snapshot can help customers to build up new systems with production data for faster code development , break-fix responses, and SAP Enhanced pages testing. You can get more independent, production-like snapshots to initiate new projects at extremely low cost. XtremIO also support SAP HANA TDI so you can consolidate SAP HANA and EMC XtremIO to innovate more at the speed of business than was previously possible.

Hoped I could answer your question. Thanks!

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