SAP ASE In The Cloud

(c) 2015 Independent SAP Technical User GroupAnnual Conference, 2015
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SAP ASE in the CloudSAP ASE in the Cloud
Sumit KunduSumit Kundu

AgendaAgenda
Why support cloud
ASE support for IaaS
ASE support for PaaS
 ( )Building your own BYO
Offerings summary

Key Customer Challenges Around
Databases
•
•
Server & Storage
Provisioning
DB Implementation
& Tuning
Database
provision or
clone request
Lead time
of days or
weeks
Improve Operational Agility
•Database operations not fully automated
•Long lead time for database services for
developers
der-managed and under-secured and under utilized database servers
e policy and compliance
Control Database Sprawl
Corporate IT Shadow IT
Manage at Scale
•More databases than DBA’s can manage
•Administration activities take up 70% of
the DBA time
•
1000+ Databases
HADRPatching Compliance
Performance Security
Few DBA’s
Monitoring Schema Upgrades
Backup

The Cloud Application Stack
ØImproves operational agility
Ø Enables subscription pricing
models
Ø Can reduce overall costs
Ø
Why cloud platform is important?
WebApplication Server
Application
Operating System
Compute, Storage, Network
Application (SaaS)
PaaS
IaaS
Database DBaaS

Database Cost Considerations for the
Cloud
Category Items Description Contribution CapEx/OpEx
Capital Hardware,
Storage
Servers and
Storage
19% CapEx->OpEx
Software License and
maintenance fees
9% CapEx->OpEx
Operational Maintenance DBA 51% OpEx
End User HA/DR solution Protection
against
downtime
21% CapEx->OpEx
Database Costs Over a 5 year Lifecycle*
Need to Reduce Operational Costs Through Automation*Carl Olofson, IDC, June 2014

Database Solutions in the Cloud
Private Cloud – DB Service
Example: BYO, Partner
Public Cloud – DB Service
Example: HCP, database.com
Dedicated Database Hosting
Example: BYOL/Amazon

SAP on the Cloud
SAP IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Business Suite
Business
Warehouse
HANA
Managed Cloud -
HEC (HANA
Enterprise Cloud)
ASE
Other SAP Apps
PaaS - SAP HCP (HANA Cloud
Platform)
SaaS - Applications
Ariba
Concur
SuccessFactors
Database Services
Applications
Runtime/
Programming
models

Key Requirements for Cloud
Deployment
Key Requirement Solution
Enable Database Cloud High performance RDBMS handling thousands of
users
Simplify Database Consolidation Multi-tenant support with easy management of many
databases
Manage Data Growth Partitioning, compression and data lifecycle
management
High Availability and Disaster Recovery Built-in HADR solution along and reduction of
planned downtime
Data privacy and security Secure access to data
Easy deployment and management Database-as-a-Service

§ SAP creates an ASE AMI – preinstalled
§ A pre-installed, preconfigured
ASE
§ A block device mapping that
specifies the volumes to
attach to the install when
it’s launched
§ Customers deploy licenses obtained from SAP
§ An ASE instance can be launched
§ Only one image created; users need to follow the
user guide to make configuration change. An
auto-configure tool would be available later.
ASE BYOL (Bring Your Own License) on
AWS
Deploy licenses
SAP ASE
AMI
ASE
Instance
Deploy Licenses

Using ASE on AWS
§ Create an account on
Amazon AWS
§ Obtain license from SAP;
generate a license key
§ Select ASE AMI on Amazon
AWS
§ Launch an instance from the
AMI; deploy the license
key
§ Support
§ Contact SAP for support
questions
§ For patches, deploy
those directly onto
the instance; SAP
will only release
new AMI at the level
of major or minor
releases
The following not yet

Cloud Migration Using SRS
HANA
ASE
Oracle
Amazon
AWS
Amazon
AWS
•Touch free and secure
•Multi-topology support
•Near zero down time
•Bi-directional, planned and unplanned
downtime
On-premise

HCP: PaaS utilizing ASE as Relational
DB
•Customers/Partners/SAP developing and running applications on top of
ASE
•Must be able to perform
• Query Performance Analysis and Tuning (e.g. monitoring tables,
update statistics, tempdb, caches…)
• Database Configuration (e.g. enable Audit Log, configure remote
access with RPC/CIS)
• Database Trace Evaluation (e.g. when analyzing application bugs)
• Debugging (of SQL queries, Stored Procedures)

Separation of Duties
DatabaseApplicationWeb Browser
Customer Account
Cloud Provider
(HCP)
Public
Internet Hardware
Storage
Networking
OS
Backup
Monitoring
Billing
Security
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Support/Troubleshooting
DBMS Maintenance
Application Development
Testing/Debugging
Application Maintenance/Support
Application Performance Analysis/Tuning
Data/Catalog Maintenance/Support
Database Performance Analysis/Tuning
Application/Database Upgrade
Update Statistics
Monitor Resource usage in Database

Application/Database per Tenant
Application
Database
Web
Browser
Inter
net
SAP HANA Cloud
Platform
Application
Database
Web
Browser
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
• Dedicated ASE server
instances per tenant
account
• Large number of
server instances to
manage
(provisioning,
monitoring, life-
cycle)
• Enable performance
and problem
analysis, without
administrator
permissions
• SQL trace,
Monitoring
tables,
Profiling
• Tune server settings
as self service
• separate
tuning

Shared ASE Server Across Tenants
Inter
net
SAP HANA Cloud
Platform
• Shared ASE server
for free Starter
Edition accounts
• Protect data from
other
accounts
• User client
must
not see
resourc
es of
other
accoun
ts
(login/d
atabas
e
names,
proces

Migrating to Larger Instances
•Advantages
• Independent – not only move/relocate, but major upgrades,
etc.
• No need for external/shared storage
Fault Monitor
RMA

After
Self Service
Policy
Foundation
Developers/Administr
ators
Database
Team
IT
Before
Developers
DBAs IT
Tickets
DBaaS Accelerates Productivity

ASE Capabilities Enabling DBaaS
• ProvisioningASE
•
• ResourceManagement
• Increasing and shrinking database size
• Elastic CPU resources
• Elastic memory
• Managing task priorities
•
• MaintainingASE
• Scheduling backup and restore
Hardware/OS Platform
Service
Layer
Templates &
Resource Files
Provisioning
Service
Cloning
Service

Provision a Database
• (A) Create, using resource files, a new Adaptive Server, with default or
user-specified values for key configuration attributes
• srvbuildres [-s sybase_dir] [-I interfaces_file] [-r resource_file]
• -s sybase_dir specifies the value to use for the SYBASE environment
variable.
• -I interfaces_file specifies the name and location of the interfaces file to
search
• -r resource_file executes the specified resource file
• (B) Load data into the newly created database
•

Elasticity: Manage Compute Power
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Priorities
OLTP Applications DSS Applications
Affinity
Eng 0Eng 0 Eng 1Eng 1 Eng 2Eng 2 Eng 3Eng 3 Eng 4Eng 4
Priorities
OLTP Applications DSS Applications
Affinity
Eng 0Eng 0 Eng 1Eng 1 Eng 2Eng 2 Eng 3Eng 3 Eng 4Eng 4
Virtualized Resource ManagementTM in
SAP ASE System
Bind an execution class for a login or application:
• Create an engine group called DS_GROUP :
- sp_addengine 0, DS_GROUP
sp_addengine 1, DS_GROUP
• Create a user-defined execution class : -
sp_addexecclass DS, LOW, 0,
DS_GROUP
• Bind the manager login mgr1 to DS
execution class
sp_bindexeclass mgr1, LG, NULL, DS
•
•Add Compute power to a login:
• sp_addengine 3, DS_GROUP
•
•Reduce compute power to a login:
• sp_dropengine 2, DS_GROUP

Compiler/Compiler/
OptimiserOptimiser
Resource LimitsResource Limits
RuntimeRuntime
STOPSTOP
Managing Resource Limits for
Clients
• Manage resource usage for a query, batch or transaction
• Limit specified in I/O cost, elapsed time, number of rows returned, or
tempdb space usage
• Pre-execution or runtime
• Configurable “action” for violation
• Configurable date and time option

Defining Resource Limits
•Limit’s defined using:
• Login Name (optional)
• Application Name (optional)
• Time range for limit (optional).
Examples:
• Business_Hours:
• Monday-Friday
8:00-18:00
• Post_business_hours:
• Monday-Friday
18:00-24:00
• Type of resource to limit and
the actual limit
• I/O cost
• # of rows returned
• Time of enforcement
• Pre-Execution and
runtime limits
supported for i/o limits
• Other limits only
enforced at runtime
• Action to take when limit is
exceeded
• Warning (Error log & App)
• Abort query batch
• Abort transaction
• Kill the session
• Limit Scope
• Query, Batch or
Transaction

Security: Database Encryption
•Full DatabaseEncryption
• Secure: all user data,
index and log in
database will be
encrypted with
standard
cryptographic
algorithm AES
• Transparent: there is
no difference
between encrypted
database and
normal database
from application
point of view.
Database
Column Level
Encryption
•Simple extension to the
well understood concept
of column properties in an
RDBMS
•Allows different data
elements to be encrypted
using different keys –
providing granularity of
access
•Balances complexity, risk,
and performance

Security: Granular Permission Controls
•Construct site-specific roles with privileges to match site
job requirements
•
• Restrict DBOs and SAs from accessing user data if
needed
•
• Allow customers to revoke permissions from out-of-box
system defined roles.
Implicit permission vested in sa_role/sso_role/
dbo can be revoked
By default, sa_role would not have
permissions on objects not owned by dbo

Security: Predicated Privileges
•Flexible low-level access controls
• Access to data granted subject to
conditions evaluated at the time of
accessing the data
• Conditionally activate roles during
login based on evaluation of a predicate.
• Sensitive data protected by access
tag reveals whether a row and column
can be released to a given security
domain.

HA
module
Primary Site Companion Site
HA
module
ASE
Monitoring
ASE
Cockpit
Active
Standby
ASE
Cockpit
Fault Manager Installer
Key benefits
•Zero data loss (in HA configuration)
•Transparent client failover
•Planned and unplanned failover support
•Soft quiesce for planned failovers without
stopping applications
•Zero downtime upgrades, including
major releases
•Automated fault detection and handling
•Ability to fully leverage companion
assets for reporting in a enforced
read-only mode that does not require
user administration
§
HA and DR Support

Moving Data in the Cloud
Config Use cases Use Case Examples Source & Target DB
Within Cloud HA/DR ASE • - -Provide 2 node and 3 node
(planned) HA / DR configuration
based on SLA requirement
ASE -> ASE
R/T Reporting
/ analytics
•Leverage standby ASE database
for reporting
•Replicate subset of ASE data to
HANA for reporting and
analytics
•ASE -> ASE
•ASE -> HANA
On-Premise œ
Cloud
R/T Reporting
/ analytics
•Replicate subset of ASE data
from On-Premise to ASE on
Cloud for reporting or analytics
•ASE (OP) -> ASE (Cloud)
•ASE (OP) -> HANA (Cloud)
DR /
Archiving
•SRS enables rapid failover by
maintaining a hot standby
database on Cloud from on-
Premise database
ASE (OP) -> ASE (Cloud)
<
sync
Async or
Delayed
On-Pr Cloud

DB Elasticity: Automatic Size
Expansion
• For automatic database expansion, a
service could be built using the
following support from ASE:
• Use sp_dbextend to install
automatic database
expansion procedures on
database/segment pairs
and devices
• Define the site-specific
policies for individual
segments and devices
• Establish the thresholds for
• Example of automatic database expansion service:
• Create the database: create database pubs2 on
pubs2_data = "10m" log on pubs2_log =
"5m“
• Set the ‘growby’ and ‘maxsize’ policies of the data
device: exec sp_dbextend 'set',
'device', pubs2_data, '10m', '512m‘
• Set the ‘growby’ and ‘maxsize’ policies of the log
device: exec sp_dbextend 'set', 'database',
pubs2, 'logsegment', '4m', '100m'
• Install the expansion threshold for the default and
log segments: exec sp_dbextend 'set',
'threshold', pubs2, 'default', '4m'

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•4GB database 3GB database
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•
•dbdev1 dbdev2 dbdev3 logdev dbdev1 dbdev3
logdev
• 1GB 1GB 1Gb 1GB 1GB
1GB 1GB
DB Elasticity: Size Reduction
• “alter database” command is used to shrink the database.
• Command can be executed by DBO or by users with sa_role privilege.
• Remove a whole database device or a specified portion of a database device
demoDBdemoDB
alter database
demoDB OFF
dbdev2

Lowering TCO: Data Compression and
Backups

Summary of ASE on Cloud
Vendor Product Edition Type Status Target Date
Amazon Enterprise Edition on
Linux and Windows
(BYOL Bring Your Own
)License
Available Now Available Now
Amazon Runtime Edition (Business Suite)
on All Platforms
)License
Red Hat
Openshift
Developer Edition for Openshift
Origin
For developers; free/no license
required
SAP HEC Enterprise Edition on all
platforms
Hosting services Available Now Available Now
SAP HCP Enterprise Edition and Developer
Edition on all platforms
Subscription Initial release in Q2 (for free developer edition),
followed by production use offering
Q2 2015
Microsoft Azure Enterprise Edition on
Windows
),License Hourly
( )subscription
Images created. Pending Microsoft’s verification
and creation of an SAP revenue account.
Q2 2015

:
SAP ASE Resources
For Developers:
http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/oltp-db
For Custom ASE Applications:
http://scn.sap.com/community/sybase-adaptive-server-enterprise
For SAP Business Suite on ASE:
http://scn.sap.com/community/sybase-ase

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