SUSE® Solutions for

SAP Applications
Platform Overview for Business Operations

Ahmed Shawki
Preselas Engineer @ SUSE
Agenda
What is it about?

Overview

SAP Technology Roadmap

SUSE Platform for SAP Applications

• We are going to talk about how we can solve your business problems

What are the three benefits of our solution

• We are going into more detail about what we can provide to help your business

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Overview

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 Open Source at the Heart of Our
SDI and Application Delivery Approach
Application Delivery

Container Platform
Management as a Service

Software-Defined Infrastructure
Infrastructure &
Lifecycle
Management Private Cloud
IaaS

Spacewalk Public Cloud

Compute Storage Networking
SALT

Monasca

Operating
System

Physical Infrastructure:
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Unrivaled Relationship Making SUSE the Smart Choice for SAP Workloads
• SUSE Linux Enterprise is the leading platform for SAP workloads on Linux
• Seamless support from SAP and SUSE
• First and leading OS for SAP HANA
• The platform powering SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
• SUSE OpenStack Cloud powers SAP’s HANA Cloud platform
• Joint collaboration on Cloud Foundry

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The Smart Choice for SAP Workloads
• Recommended and supported operating system for SAP HANA
• 17+ years of joint development at the SAP LinuxLab
• Marketshare
⎻ 90%+ for SAP HANA
⎻ 100% for SAP Business One on HANA
⎻ 70%+ for SAP on Linux
• SAP IT runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise www.suse.com/success/stories/sap-se/

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SAP relies on SUSE
https://blogs.sap.com/2015/10/09/sap-se-relies-on-suse-also-for-the-sap-hana-enterprise-cloud

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https://youtu.be/FUO9GYJS71A

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SAP Technology Roadmap
powered by SUSE

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SUSE Platform for SAP Applications

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When it’s Business Critical, Make the Smart
Move
• Boost performance for mission-critical
SAP applications

• Reduce downtime of critical operations

• Minimize the time and effort to migrate to

S/4HANA and deploy SAP landscapes
www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap

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SUSE SLES for SAP Applications
How can we solve your business needs?

Benefit Turn into

• Towards Zero Downtime ü Ensures your business availability

• Optimum performance ü real-time analytics

• Simplified Operations ü reduced operation cost

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 VMware
Virtualization
Pack

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SUSE products and services SUSE features for SAP systems
Towards Zero Downtime

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SUSE products and services SUSE features for SAP systems
High Availability Extension
Overview
ensures the
high
integrated suite availability protect
of open source and data
clustering manageability integrity
technologies

maintain
business
continuity

eliminate
single
reduce implement highly
points of
unplanned available physical
failure
downtime and virtual Linux
clusters

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High Availability Extension
High Availability – SLES 12

• Service failover at any distance – from local to geo

• Up to 99.9999% availability
• Rolling updates for less planned downtime
• Easy setup, administration, management
• Virtualization agnostic
• Leading open source High Availability
• On par with proprietary products

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SAP High Availability: Simple Stack

• Entire SAP system runs on one node

• No enqueue replication server

• Multiple SAP systems are possible.

For two SAP systems slighty
increased complexity

• Fits well for multiple SAP systems of

small to medium size on one cluster

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SAP High Availability: Enqueue Replication

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SAP High Availability: Enqueue Replication

• This shows the cluster

status after node1 has been
damaged completely

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SAP High Availability: Enqueue Replication

• The status after node1 is

rebooted and the cluster
software is started by the
administrator

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SUSE products and services SUSE features for SAP systems
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Towards Zero Downtime

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Towards Zero Downtime
Hawk – High Availability Web Console

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Towards Zero Downtime

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Live Patching

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Towards Zero Downtime

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Live Patching
Use Cases
• Mission Critical systems

• Help with deployment challenges

• Cover small changes

• See also:
https://www.suse.com/products/live-patching/
https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/need-kgraft-2/

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Towards Zero Downtime

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Optimum Performance

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Simplified Operations

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SUSE Leads in SAP Cloud Deployment

SUSE is the only distribution on Amazon with:

• SAP HANA System Replication on Amazon virtual instances

SUSE offers two solutions:

• Azure Large instance – a bare metal server, available today, with SAP HANA System
Replication
• Azure M series instance – a virtual machine which supports only SUSE SAP HANA
System Replication (May release)

Flexible Buying Options:

• SUSE provides the option for customer to buy on-demand or use BYOS subscriptions
with using Amazon and Microsoft IaaS volume purchasing options
• Red Hat imposes a BYOS model on their customers

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Things to know about SLES for SAP
Applications
• Built-in high availability
− Graphical UI (HAWK) delivers faster set-up of clustering and recovery, supporting SAP HANA SR
− SUSE pioneered automated recovery with SAP HANA System Replication
− Protect system data with SAP HANA Firewall and Remote Storage Encryption Management
• Performance optimization
− SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is optimized for performance as a reference development platform for
SAP applications
− Page cache management prioritizes SAP application performance over the file system
• Ease of use and deployment
− Installation and configuration wizards reduce SAP solution stack deployment time to hours vs. days
− S/4HANA transition support makes it easier for Windows Server admins to work in SAP Linux environments
• SUSE innovation and collaboration
− First Linux for SAP HANA with >90% of installed base, and exclusive Linux for SAP HANA on Power Systems
− Developed automated SAP HANA System Replication
− HANA Express VMs are built on SLES for SAP Applications
− SUSE Connect simplifies access to SUSE and SAP partner applications and services 57
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