1. Drive Real-Time Decisions with Hitachi Unified
Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform
Enable enterprise-class scalability, reliability and efficiency.
• Performance: Generate queries and reports faster.
• Scalability: Add infrastructure resources on demand,
with no downtime.
• Efficiency: Design to deploy in less than 2 weeks.
• Real Time: Access fresh data and gain new insights.
• Reliability: 99.999% uptime for 24/7 availability.
SOLUTIONPROFILE
Organizations are increasingly relying
on business intelligence and ana-
lytics to make smarter decisions.
However, the growth in data sources
has hampered the delivery of timely
results. Knowledge workers often
have to wait hours if not days to
get reports. Worse yet, traditional data warehouse
limitations often result in aggregate or sample data
to perform analytics, which can lead to inaccurate or
“best-guess” results.
To solve these challenges, Hitachi Data Systems and
SAP offer an integrated platform that drives real-time
reporting and analytics. Whether striving to create
personalized customer experiences, optimize oper-
ations or launch innovations, the combined Hitachi
Data Systems and SAP solution supports smarter
decisions at the speed of business.
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP Deliver the Platform
for Real-Time Business
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2. SOLUTION PROFILE
Small Medium Large Large
Plus-2TB
(for SAP
Business
Suite on
HANA only)
Large
Plus-4TB
(for SAP
Business
Suite on
HANA only)
Hitachi
Compute
Blade 2000
1 Hitachi
x57A2
server blade
2 Hitachi
x57A2 server
blades
4 Hitachi
x57A2 server
blades
4 Hitachi
x57A2 server
blades
4 Hitachi
x57A2 server
blades
CPUs/
Cores
2/20 4/40 8/80 8/80 8/80
Memory 256GB 512GB 1,024GB 2,048GB 4,096GB
Flash Fusion-io
ioDrive2
Fusion-io
ioDrive2
Fusion-io
ioDrive2
Fusion-io
ioDrive2
Fusion-io
ioDrive2
Hitachi
Unified
Storage 130
Disk Storage
17 x 300GB
SAS 10k
17 x 300GB
SAS 10k
22 x 300GB
SAS 10k
43 x 300GB
SAS 10k
19 x 300GB
and 32 x
600GB SAS
10k
Ethernet
Networking
4 x 1 gigabit
Ethernet
(GbE) pass-
through LAN
4 x 1 GbE
pass-through
LAN
4 x 1 GbE
pass-through
LAN
4 x 1 GbE
pass-through
LAN
4 x 1 GbE
pass-through
LAN
Host Bus
Adapters
8Gb/sec
Fibre Channel
8Gb/sec
Fibre Channel
8Gb/sec
Fibre Channel
8Gb/sec
Fibre Channel
8Gb/sec
Fibre Channel
Software SAP HANA
platform
SUSE Linux
SAP HANA
platform
SUSE Linux
SAP HANA
platform
SUSE Linux
SAP HANA
platform
SUSE Linux
SAP HANA
platform
SUSE Linux
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP
Deliver Real-Time Analytics
and Actionable Information
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP have built
upon their strategic partnership formed 2
decades ago to deliver analytics solutions
for the enterprise. Now, your organization
can eliminate barriers to fast, informed
decision processing with SAP HANA soft-
ware running on Hitachi Unified Compute
Platform (UCP) Select for the SAP HANA
Platform. Representing the power of Hitachi
engineering, Unified Compute Platform
Select for SAP HANA delivers outstanding,
enterprise-class performance, scalability
and reliability for SAP HANA environments.
With SAP HANA platform’s innovative
in-memory database enabling analysis of
massive data sets, you can rely on Hitachi
UCP Select for SAP HANA to acceler-
ate reporting and query responses. Your
business users will have instant access to
knowledge at their fingertips to make more
informed and timely decisions.
Realize Faster Time to Value
With An Integrated Platform
Hitachi UCP Select for SAP HANA is a com-
prehensive deployment environment for SAP
HANA contained within a single enclosure.
The combination of enterprise-class storage
systems, compute blades and networking
components simplifies deployment and
helps ensure predictable results. The solution
combines Hitachi Compute Blade server
technology and enterprise-class storage,
Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) to scale up
and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) to
scale out, with leading network components
from Brocade. With end-to-end hardware
and software integration helping to stream-
line complex tasks, your organization will be
able to unlock answers and enable break-
throughs, faster than ever before.
The scale-up offering is ideal for proof of
concepts, development and test environ-
ments and for running the SAP Business
Suite on SAP HANA. It is offered in 5 con-
figurations, which are noted in Table 1.
To scale out, Hitachi UCP Select for SAP
HANA supports up to 16TB of platform
memory, which makes it ideal for larger
mission-critical SAP HANA implementa-
tions. Table 2 provides complete UCP for
SAP HANA scale-out specifications.
Gain Freedom and Flexibility
With Tailored Data Center
Integration
The SAP HANA tailored data center integra-
tion (TDI) program offers another approach
to deploying SAP HANA. With TDI you have
more freedom and flexibility in configuring
the layers for SAP HANA, depending on your
existing data center layout. You’ll be better
positioned to stay within your IT budget,
shorten implementation cycles, and enable
improved consumption of hardware innova-
tions to drive the adoption of SAP HANA.
Organizations using VSP and HUS VM can
gain these benefits as both storage sys-
tems are certified for deploying SAP HANA
via the TDI program. By re-using Hitachi
VSP and HUS VM storage systems in the
deployment, organizations can leverage
established operational processes, reducing
capital and operational expenses and miti-
gating risks.
Since we started using the SAP HANA platform, our
cost allocation has become 40 times faster, for example,
and reporting is 5 times quicker. Using this database also
meant we could reduce the volume of stored information
by 3 times while facilitating better information analysis.
This is a very good outcome.
Table 1: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform SELECT for the SAP
HANA Platform: Scale-Up Solution Specifications
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Benefit From Mainframe-Class
Performance and Scalability
The SAP HANA platform was designed to
deliver instantaneous business insight from
extremely large data sets, along with rich
functionality to conduct hypothetical “what
if” analysis. While critical for making deci-
sions at the speed of business, real-time
analytics can place significant demands
on the host. Hitachi UCP Select for SAP
HANA is ideally suited to address those
hefty demands. Delivering future-proof
scalability and investment protection, the
infrastructure allows for easy expansion of
processing and storage to accommodate
additional SAP HANA end users and larger
SAP HANA data volumes.
The processing engine behind Hitachi UCP
Select for SAP HANA is Hitachi Compute
Blade, an enterprise-class blade server
platform equipped with 2 Intel Xeon pro-
cessors E7 family per blade. With features
such as symmetric multiprocessing and
native logical partitioning commonly found
in mainframes, the platform delivers out-
standing, enterprise-class performance.
Highly cost-effective in terms of capital
and operating expenses, Hitachi Compute
Blades integrate network, power, and server
resources into a single, space-efficient, flex-
ible solution. The rack-mountable chassis
houses blade modules and provides for
I/O versatility with internal switches and
connectivity to enterprise solid-state flash
storage and persistent data storage.
Ensure 24/7 Availability
of Demanding and Data-
Intensive Environments
Companies that rely on SAP HANA to more
intelligently run their business require their data
to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
SAP and Hitachi are satisfying these require-
ments by ensuring uninterrupted operations
with backup, recovery and disaster tolerance
solutions. Hitachi provides high-availability
technologies in both its server and storage
components of UCP Select for SAP HANA.
Hitachi Compute Blades reduce the risk
of unplanned downtime of the SAP HANA
platform with its sophisticated, built-in
reliability, availability and serviceability
(RAS) features. For reliability, the chassis is
fully redundant, including 2 management
modules for redundancy. Each module
supports an independent management
LAN interface from the data network for
remote and secure management of the
chassis, and blades and components are
hot-swappable.
In terms of storage high availability, backup
and recovery, Hitachi UCP Select for
the SAP HANA scale-out architecture
employs Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS) and
Symantec NetBackup. Using HNAS as a
staging area provides high speed in system
backups (up to 500 MB/sec) without per-
formance impact to SAP HANA. Hitachi
also supports the SAP HANA Backint API
with Symantec NetBackup. This solution
provides your company with an option to
leverage your existing Symantec backup
infrastructure to protect against data loss
due to failure or corruption.
The combination of SAP HANA and Hitachi UCP
Select for SAP HANA delivers the compute and storage
performance and high throughput that we need to make
smarter business decisions, faster. By dramatically reducing
the traditional delay between operations and analytics, it
enables us to gain near-real-time
insight and information.
Alvin Lim
Senior Vice President
Information Technology
Asia Capital Reinsurance Group
With 1TB Nodes With 0.5TB Nodes
SAP HANA
Platform: Nodes
Quantity
2-16 2-16
Processors/Cores Up to 128/1280 Up to 64/640
Memory Up to 16,384GB; support
beyond 16TB possible through
custom engagements
Up to 8,196GB; support
beyond 8TB possible through
custom engagements
Storage Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Ethernet
Networking (giga-
bit Ethernet: GbE)
■■ Redundant and bonded 10GbE 2 x 6720-40 switches for inter-
cluster and 2 x 6720-24 switches for HANA customer uplink
■■ Management: 1GbE LAN pass-through modules, 1 x 6430
SAP HANA High
Availability
Yes Yes
Disaster Tolerance Yes Yes
High-Speed
Backup
Yes Yes
Operating System SUSE Linux for SAP HANA
Table 2: Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for the SAP
HANA Platform: Converged Scale-Out Solution Specifications

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Solution
With the goal of consolidating its data
warehouses, reducing data duplication and
establishing a big data analytics foundation,
Asia Capital Re refreshed its IT roadmap.
The company centered on the SAP HANA
platform to gain a single integrated environ-
ment for accessing current information for
near-immediate analysis. To optimize per-
formance and scalability of its consolidated
analytics platform, Asia Capital Re selected
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for
the SAP HANA Platform.
Benefits
■■ Scalability: Whenever Asia Capital Re
needs to scale, they simply upgrade
by adding blades instead of having to
replace the entire compute and storage
appliance fabric.
■■ Performance: By dramatically reducing
traditional delays between operations and
analytics, the company is gaining near-
real-time insights and information within
45 minutes versus days.
■■ Efficiency: With less manpower required to
manage its infrastructure, the company can
reassign resources to higher value tasks.
Summary: Hitachi UCP for
SAP HANA Powers Real-Time
Business
The era of real-time analytics is here. Now
your organization can trust SAP and Hitachi
to more effectively manage your massive
and ever-growing data stores. The deep
integration of SAP HANA software and
Hitachi UCP Select for SAP HANA gives
your organization the basis to implement
real-time business intelligence across your
enterprise. Offering cost-effective perfor-
mance, highly scalable SAS architecture
and 99.999% uptime rating for data avail-
ability, UCP Select for SAP HANA is ideally
suited to help your company turn data into
actionable information.
By delivering a precertified combination
of SAP and Hitachi components, we help
your organization to realize a streamlined
implementation and stay focused on your
business goals. Whether your organization is
striving to deliver more personalized customer
experiences, optimize operations or bring
new innovations to market, choose SAP and
Hitachi. We can empower your stakeholders
to make more informed, faster decisions. We
help you get real-time data into their hands,
exactly when they need it most.
Hitachi Data Systems and SAP
Deliver the Platform for Real-
Time Business
Go to www.hds.com/go/sap to learn more.
The solution for SAP HANA Disaster
Tolerance is based on Hitachi Virtual Storage
Platform as the SAP HANA persistent storage
repository. VSP works with Hitachi TrueCopy
synchronous storage replication software
to enable SAP HANA Disaster Tolerance.
The Hitachi VSP and TrueCopy combination
delivers 24/7 mission-critical access to the
SAP HANA platform if the primary SAP HANA
system becomes unavailable. Because your
employees, vendors and customers are rely-
ing on constant availability, SAP and Hitachi
are committed to ensuring your IT environ-
ment never lets them down.
Use Case Study for Real-Time
Business Analytics
Challenge
While business growth can present new
revenue-generating opportunities, it can
also present challenges on how to best
manage the simultaneous growth in data.
Asia Capital Reinsurance Group (Asia
Capital Re) faced this situation as its
data grew from about 500GB in 2007 to
30TB. Data volume was projected to grow
to 200TB within the next 5 years. Therefore,
Asia Capital Re needed to ensure that its
data management capabilities could pro-
vide seamless and uninterrupted support
as the company continued to evolve. The
Singapore-based independent reinsurance
group turned to 2 established partners, SAP
and Hitachi Data Systems, for a solution.