HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA

HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA is group of the equipment rooms and the program integrated systems of Hewlett-Packard company helping to reduce payback periods of the SAP HANA platform.

On March 20, 2014 provided to HP HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA.

Description

HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA is architecture by means of which it is possible to unroll the platform quickly. The solution is created using systems easily scalable for different business challenges — from management of operational analytics and data warehouses before execution of applications, crucial for the enterprise.

Universal solutions include servers, storage systems, the software necessary for creation of the SAP HANA environment and also service. Simple and fast in installation, the HP ConvergedSystem systems help to accelerate an investment payback. They are optimized with that calculation to provide the greatest possible levels of high-speed performance and readiness for environments of calculations in RAM, are capable to make the analysis twice quicker, than other solutions.

As a part of HP ConvergedSystem portfolio:

• HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA — a system can be put into operation in 15 days from the moment of the order;
• HP Serviceguard for SAP HANA is the only thing in the industry the automated disaster-proof solution for commissioning of reserves at failure intended for the SAP HANA environments protects the enterprise from unplanned idle times;
• Project Kraken is the unique specialized system for SAP HANA allowing to create a pool of memory with a capacity up to 12 Tbyte. With its help customers will be able to simplify infrastructure of the SAP HANA environments and to accelerate business operations.

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA

The system of HP of ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA optimized for analytical applications helps customers to implement quicker new solutions and to try to obtain their payback.

Advantages

• will increase service quality by means of reliable, failsafe hardware infrastructure, existence of modern monitors and administration, for example HP Serviceguard for SAP HANA;
• simplifies a corporate IT environment use of a HP server of ProLiant Gen8 and storage systems of HP 3PAR with technology of arrangement of priorities which consolidates different working problems of SAP HANA on the same system without decline in production;
• will provide the highest level of service by means of HP Proactive Care — the range of services aimed at identification and problem solving with any system components, including with the software of SAP HANA.

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA has modular architecture. If necessary small power can be increased in five days. Vertically scalable options of a system provide a uniform pool of memory with a capacity from 256 Gbyte to 2 Tbyte depending on a configuration, horizontally scalable, grouping memory of several systems — up to 16 Tbyte.

"The systems of calculations in RAM allow to accept instantly weighed business solutions, processing difficult transactions with enormous amounts of data much quicker, than earlier — Matt Eastwood, the vice president and the general manager of IDC Enterprise Platform Group noted. — To get all advantages of such processing, the enterprises need the effective architecture differing in high readiness and scalability which will allow to react quickly to the changing requirements of business".

Deployment options

Depending on specific needs of business of the customer, HP provides several options of implementation of HP of ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA at choice: local, in the form of the placed infrastructure and in the form of a cloud service.

Price and availability

Deliveries of HP of ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA are planned for spring of 2014. The prices - from $87,787. Cost includes services of deployment and technical support of HP company.

Almost at the same time sales of HP Serviceguard for vertically scalable configurations, the starting price (including technical support services) — $38,980 will begin.

The solution Project Kraken will be available a bit later.

2014: HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA

On June 5, 2014 the HP company announced release of a new solution of HP of ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA.

A system underwent certification SAP and is ready to place up to 12 Tbyte of data in one pool of memory. By HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA it is created within a joint initiative HP and SAP Project Kraken and represents the high-scalable system allowing management and the analysis of the most different data sets. The platform is integrated, helps to analyze quicker data and to quickly make decisions in business.

HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA promotes a fast investment payback. It is delivered in the form of previously configured solution tested by specialists of HP of Factory Express. On installation, deployment and start of a system 30 days are allotted.

Advantages

• increase in efficiency thanks to consolidation of business and critical applications on one system;
• fast response to business requests using vertically scalable configurations 6 Tbyte / 8 slots and 12 Tbyte / 16 slots based on processors of the Intel Xeon E7 v2 family;
• HP Serviceguard for SAP HANA provides high availability and functions of disaster recovery;

an opportunity to place up to 12 Tbyte of data in memory allows to move smoothly and step by step data of SAP HANA from old DB on a new system;

• increase in employee performance of IT department thanks to intellectual management tools which provide a uniform control panel for the server, a blade modules, a failsafe switching matrix and the body.

"The in-memory technology allows the organizations to make quickly weighed decisions on the basis of processing of huge data arrays — Matt Eastwood, the vice president and the head of department of corporate platforms, IDC emphasized. — However the high-scalable environment of data management allowing to analyze all amount of data on one platform without need to transfer them from other systems is for this purpose necessary".

Support of a system

Within release of HP of ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA HP provided HP Proactive Care Advanced — the recommended packet of services of support for buyers of HP of ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA. The client will receive the selected contact person for communication concerning support of all components of a system: warn possible problems in work of the solution, increase performance, the personalized reports, the checked techniques and professional technical advices.

Provided to HP also a new service package of consulting of HP of Consulting Services for SAP HANA using which hopes to accelerate deployment and transition to HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA.

Availability

• The HSS of HP of ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA will be available on sale in the fall of 2014.
• services of HP of Consulting Services are available - they can be ordered in the form of ready packets or separately;
• cloud solutions of HP are available to Helion Business Applications for SAP.

2015: HP ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA left on the Xeon Processor E7 V3 platform

On May 26, 2015 HP announced updating of a solution portfolio of HP of ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA.

The upgraded system of HP of ConvegedSystem for SAP HANA works at a basis of the Intel Xeon processors Processor E7 V3 and is completely compatible to an application package of SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA) that gives the chance even quicker to provide analytical information in real time.

HP ConvegedSystem 500 for SAP HANA, 2015

In addition, the new connected modules of HP Converged Storage help to increase flexibility and to reduce risks of customers due to complete solution for backup and data recovery in SAP S/4HANA environment.

Management and data protection of HP also represents the new connected module of HP of StoreOnce Plug-in for SAP HANA which will help users of SAP HANA to strengthen protection of the databases. With its help administrators can create backup copies of a DB on the StoreOnce HP device directly from the utility of management SAP HANA studio. This solution saves from the middleware used for data protection and that reducing the price and simplifying a configuration.

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA is suitable for the companies with infrastructure of SAP of the average size and the limited budget. Certified, with the Intel Xeon processor E7 V3, this system is effective, at the cost of the platform, for use of SAP S/4HANA on it.

Representation of SAP HANA on HP Converged Systems and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, 2015

By means of use of HP of StoreOnce Backup in the environment of SAP HANA the customer will much quicker execute backup. Besides, the connected module of HP Storage Plug-in for SAP Landscape Virtualization Management supports version 2.1 SAP software now that gives to users enhanced capabilities on management in the SAP HANA environments placed physically or virtually on StoreServ Storage HP 3PAR storage system. Using expanded support administrators can clone productive versions of databases of SAP in read minutes, increasing performance and business flexibility.

The property in a portfolio of HP of ConvergedSystem for SAP HANA allows implementing solutions in the form of modules using specialized services of integration of SAP HANA into DPC (SAP HANA tailored data center). Similar modular approach allows to use already available equipment rooms and infrastructure components in the SAP HANA environments that expands "space for maneuver" even when using heterogeneous environments.

The HP solution of ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA on the basis of the Intel Xeon processors Processor E7 V3 will go on sale at the end of summer of 2015.