Cisco and SUSE Linux provide a robust platform for SAP, enhancing performance, reducing costs, and improving reliability for businesses like TUI Travel. Leveraging technologies such as Cisco UCS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, organizations can analyze large datasets quickly and streamline data center management. The partnership emphasizes a strong commitment to supporting SAP workloads, with features like built-in high availability and extended support tailored for optimal SAP performance.

1. Cisco and SUSE Linux:
The Perfect Platform for SAP
Dirk Oppenkowski
SAP Partner Executive
dop@suse.com

2. TUI Travel
With an unrivalled local presence of destination services companies in
over 50 countries, a database of over 55,000 hotels worldwide, and a
global network of port and shore-side services to the world’s leading cruise
operators, TUI Travel operates in diverse sectors of the leisure industry to
offer a wide breadth of customer experiences.
Business Issues:
• Improving performance on key
SAP BI applications
• Streamlining data center
management and enhancing
scalability
• Reducing complexity and
costs of technology servers
• Performance and Reliability
issues with existing Solaris
servers
SUSE Solution:
• Cisco UCS platform
• EMC storage, VMWare
vSphere Enterprise
• SAP HANA, BW, BO Suite
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Results:
• Analyzing millions of records
in hours to hundreds of
millions of records in
seconds
• Daily DB loads running up to
24 times faster
• Lowered IT administration
costs by more than 150,000
euros

3. SAP on UCS
Develop
• In-memory computing
• Mobility
• Cloud
Design
• Validations & benchmarks
• Adaptive computing
• Joint technical activity with new
Partner Port and UCS in SAP labs
Deploy
• SAP on Vblock
• SAP on Flexpod
• HANA and BWA
• CPO for SAP
Cisco SAP Partnerships

4. Cisco Flexpod: Validated Design
SAP
SAP LVM
Database
HA
Vmware
Extension
HA
SLES for SAP
Applications
VSphere 5
UCS

6. SAP installations on Linux steadily
increasing each year (SCN)
•
Most SAP UNIX migration
goes to Linux
•
Linux on Intel achieves 5x
SAPS/$
•
No Limits for SAP
workloads on Linux
•
Competitive Advantage
‒
Improved Performance
‒
High Availability
‒
Increased Reliability
‒
Tightened Security
Source: The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP DataCenters, RealTech Consulting, Oct 2012

7. Why are customers moving away from RISC?
7

8. SAP and SUSE by the numbers
16,800
70%
SAP customers are using Linux to run the
database and/or application server
of these are running their workloads on
SUSE Linux Enterprise
#1
SUSE Linux Enterprise is SAP's development
platform for UNIX and Linux
#1
SUSE Linux Enterprise is the recommended
and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA
#1
First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for
integration with SAP Netweaver

9. SAP and SUSE
13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration
•
Front runner technologies
‒
‒
1st validated open source HA
‒
•
1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP
1st validated virtualization
Strategic OS for:
‒
‒
SAP BWA
‒
•
SAP HANA
SAP Business ByDesign
Integrated Enterprise Support

10. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
The only operating system optimized for SAP Applications
•
Built in HA components to enable
you to protect Mission Critical
Applications
•
Extended Update Cycle (18 months)
to fit your needs
•
Enables High Performance of Large
Workloads
•
Integrated Priority Support from
both SUSE and SAP
•
Enables Fast and Easy Deployment
with Installation Wizard

11. What is SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Server for SAP?
SAP Installation
Wizard
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
• Guided
Installation
(OS + SAP)
• Install.
Framework
3rd party ext.

12. What is SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Server for SAP?
• Cluster
Resource
Manager
• Cluster
Filesystem
• SAP
Resource
Agents
High Availability
Extensions
SAP Installation
Wizard
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

13. SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension
Achieves SAP-Certified Integration with SAP NetWeaver
•
Press release by SUSE (link)
•
Technical collaboration with SAP
Linux Lab
•
High Availability included in SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Applications
•
SAP Connector available only in SUSE
for SAP product

14. High Availability Solutions for SAP
Validated best practices with partners at SAP Linux Lab
Simple Stack
DRBD Data Sync
Enqueue Replication
HA in Virtual Environments

15. What is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP?
Fully
supported
optimization
for SAP
workloads
Page
Cache
Limit
High Availability
Extensions
SAP Installation
Wizard
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

16. Page Cache Limit Feature
Solution Overview
Tells kernel that once page cache is
filled to configured limit, application
memory is more important and
should not be paged out
No memory paged out if memory
footprint of the workload plus the
configured page cache limit does not
exceed the amount of physical RAM
SAP Note 1557506: Linux paging
improvement

17. What is SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP?
Page
Cache
Limit
Clam
SAP
High Availability
Extensions
ESPOS
SAP Installation
Wizard
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Extends
Service
Pack
overlap
support
from 6
months to
18 months

18. Extended Service Pack Overlap Support
General Support
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Extended Support
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
GA
SP1
ESPOS
SP2
ESPOS
SP3
ESPOS
SP4
6 month
18 month
18 month upgrade window
18 month extended lifecycle
ESPOS
Year 9
Year 10

19. What is SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
for SAP?
Page
Cache
Limit
Clam
SAP
High Availability
Extensions
ESPOS
Web
YaST
SAP Installation
Wizard
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP specific update channel
•Additional
maintenance
channel
•Allows SAP
specific
patches
•Updates for
SAP specific
packages

20. That is the
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
Applications 11
Page
Cache
Limit
Clam
SAP
High Availability
Extensions
ESPOS
Web
YaST
SAP Installation
Framework
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP specific update channel
PRIORITY SUPPORT for SAP
PRIORITY SUPPORT for SAP
PRIORITY SUPPORT for SAP
PRIORITY SUPPORT for SAP

21. Competitive Assessment
Product Elements
SLES for SAP
Applications 11
SLES 11
RHEL 6 for SAP
Business
Application
Basic
Maintenance / Update
Priority
Basic
Priority
Premium
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Dedicated SAP Update Channel
Priority Support 24X7
X
X
X
SAP Solution Manager Integration
Installation Wizard
X
X
X
X
Linux Kernel 3.0
X
X
X
X
Xen Virtualization supported by SAP
X
X
X
X
KVM Virtualization supported by SAP
X
X
X
X
Page-Cache Limit
X
X
Expanded Service Pack Overlap Support
X
X
High Availability Clustering
X
X
Cluster File System support
X
X
Support for SAP required JVM
X
X
ClamSAP integration
X
X
X
X

22. Additional Information

23. SAP-Notes
Relevant SAP Notes*
#
171356 - SAP Software on Linux: Essentials
#
1310037
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11: Installationsguide
#
1056161
- SUSE Priority Support for SAP Applications
#
1557506
- Linux paging improvements
#
1122387
- Linux: SAP Support in virtualized Environments
VMware Knowledge base
•
1034165 Disabling simultaneous write protection provided by VMFS using
the multi-writer flag
* SAP S-User Id required

24. SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2
Enhancements
•
Support for Kernel 2.6 compatibility environment
‒
SAP Applications require uname output of 2.6.x
‒
uname26 and PAM module providing compatibility
environment
‒
SAP Notes 1629558 and 1310037
“SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2’s new Linux kernel version 3.0 offers many new features and
enhancements that will help SAP customers utilize the newest technology improvements with their
SAP infrastructures, together with SUSE, we're developing easy installation and migration paths for
existing SAP installations, such as SAP NetWeaver, to support Linux kernel 3.0 so our customers
can confidently run SAP solutions on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2."
(Helge Deller, head of SAP LinuxLab at SAP).

25. More Information
SUSE Websites
•
www.suse.com/smart
•
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications
•
SUSE and SAP Alliance
•
SUSE Linux Enterprise and SAP HANA
SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications
•
Overview and Features
•
Video Introduction
•
Solutions Guide
•
Success Stories
•
Whitepapers
•
Best Practice Guides (High Availability)
•
FAQ
•
Technical Information
•
Evaluation Download

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