Dell Data Protection for SAP User Manual

Solution Report

Dell Technologies Data Protection for SAP
Workloads in Google Cloud

This technological overview explains the Data Protection offering from Dell
Technologies for SAP workloads in Google Cloud. It provides the basic
guidelines and elements needed for seamless backup and recovery. Dell

Technologies Data Protection engineering partners with Google Cloud to bring
our customers’ SAP S/4HANA enterprise workloads to their cloud
infrastructure using Dell EMC NetWorker and PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition
products. This partnership creates a solution through a specific framework in
which both parties accept it as a viable, transparent and easily deployable by
our mutual customers.

Why this unique partnership is important to your business?

As more IT organizations continue to move applications and data to the cloud,
the value of data protection is more important than ever. Solid and reliable
data protection workflows guarantee data is always available and ready for

recovery when needed and ensure little or no downtime for our
customers’ business operations. Now, deployment of a Dell EMC Data
Protection Suite with NetWorker, PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition and
certified native integration with SAP S/4HANA, makes it easy to protect
your most critical workloads in Google Cloud.

Dell EMC products and Google Cloud together provide a customer­centric cloud experience, combining security, automation and
functionality in public and hybrid-cloud environments for customers of
all sizes, from SMBs to the Enterprise. Customers who have high
service-level (SLA) requirements on premises can also rely on a robust
and validated cloud backup solution for their SAP workloads.

Why Dell Technologies Cloud Data Protection?

Dell Technologies Data Protection cloud solutions bring proven data
protection for distributed hybrid and multi-cloud platforms across
edge, core and cloud to Google Cloud. As customer data grows
exponentially, only innovative trusted solutions can protect data at a
global scale. As organizations continue their IT transformation and
migrate and modernize workloads to cloud, hybrid cloud and multi­cloud environments, Dell EMC’s proven data protection products will
maximize cloud-based infrastructure investments. Dell EMC offers
the fastest and easiest path to the cloud with a proven architecture.
The following ESG Analyst paper does a really nice job of explaining
more on why a Dell EMC cloud-based infrastructure is desirable to
our SAP S/4HANA users; Understanding the Economics of In-Cloud

Data Protection - White Paper (2019)

Features:

• Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE) gives

customers the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage
and the simplicity, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined
solution. PowerProtect DDVE is simple to configure and deploy and

Benefits

In-cloud Enterprise-Class data
protection

Native tool integration with SAP
S/4HANA & BR*Tools

Industry-Leading deduplication

Instant Access & Restore

Backup to object store for long­term retention lowering on-prem
tape costs

Centralized single management
interface

High Performance & Scale up to
96TB per instance

Native cloud support

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can be up and running within minutes. Customers could start small and grow as needed while using a single
management interface for multiple instances.

o PowerProtect DDVE scales up to 96TB per instance – on-premises and in the cloud for larger workloads.
o PowerProtect DDVE in cloud: supports backups to object store for long term retention vs. physical tape,

benefiting users with increased efficiency and a lower TCO.

o In addition, as a storage at scale solution; Dell EMC provides Electronic Licensing Management System to

enable flexible deployment and the ability for customers to purchase in 1TB increments.

o Included in the product is DD Boost for increasing backup speeds up to 50%, DD Encryption for enhance

data security, and DD Replicator which enables network-efficient replication for fast time-to-DR readiness.

o Centralized management available for DDVE on-prem and in the cloud via PowerProtect DD Management

Center (DDMC)

o Supported on:

▪ Google Compute Engine
▪ VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 9.0 and after
▪ Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 2016)
▪ KVM Linux distributions from Ubuntu, RedHat, SUSE, and CentOS
▪ Secure Multi-tenancy

o Multiple replication technologies: virtual to physical, physical to virtual, virtual to virtual, and virtual to cloud
o VMware vSphere High Availability and fault tolerance support
o DD System Manager and PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) support for manageability
o Current in cloud application support: NetWorker Virtual Edition, Avamar Virtual Edition and DD Boost

• Expands capacity in 1TB increments

• Dell EMC’s Data Protection Suite with NetWorker offers a full-feature solution to support SAP workloads being

protected across multiple environments from core to edge to cloud. Customers gain visibility into their data
protection environment across multiple systems, multiple sites and protect multiple workloads running in a variety
of configurations; transfer backup data securely and efficiently into the cloud. Dell Technologies is #1 in Data
Replication and Protection Software1. When you pair Data Protection Suite with PowerProtect DDVE, they improve
their SLOs with up to 38% faster backups and up to 36% faster restores in addition to enabling efficient data
movement with deduplication2. The most trusted protection storage on the market PowerProtect Data Domain
boasts up to 65x deduplication rates3 and an invulnerability architecture that verifies data in-line to keep it protected.

• Dell Technologies wants to let SAP admins protect their data using their native tools, but also provide them with the
simplicity and efficiency of backing up directly to PowerProtect DDVE. This seamless experience eliminates the
complexity of traditional backup software and puts control in the hands of SAP data owners, letting them have the
control they need to do backups when they want. Data management via Data Protection Suite with NetWorker offers
SAP S/4S/4HANA & BR*Tools integration for backup and recovery.

• Certified with SAPs Backint API, data protection solutions integrate directly into S/4HANA Studio, giving SAP basis
and database administrators direct control over backup and recovery, enabling self-service without any loss of
visibility.

1

IDC 2Q19 Storage Software and Cloud Services Overview

2

Based on Dell EMC internal testing with DD Boost protocol on DD9900 with DDOS 7.0 vs. DD9800 with Data Domain OS 6.2, Sep 201

3

Based on Dell EMC internal testing with DDOS 7.0, Aug 2019. Actual results may vary.

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• DD Boost for SAP provides application centric data protection for SAP
applications running on Oracle databases and SAP S/4HANA giving the
SAP and/or SAP S/4HANA administrator the ability to perform backups
and restores through the familiar SAP BR*TOOLS GUI, CLI and SAP
S/4HANA Studio directly to a PowerProtect DD system; without the need
for an external backup application.

• DD Boost advances PowerProtect DDVE performance and simplicity
differentiators over all competitors. DD Boost provides advanced

integration between PowerProtect DDVE and leading backup and
enterprise applications. Using DD Boost, the application server only
sends unique data to a PowerProtect DDVE. This enables more
backups with existing resources, 20 to 40 percent less overall impact to
the server. Meet stringent protection SLOs for your high-value
workloads by backing up directly from the application server to
PowerProtect DDVE. As a result, DD Boost agents send over unique
data blocks, reducing storage utilization and network bandwidth by up
to 98%. Recovery is simple - copies are stored as full backups, and only
changed data is pulled back. In addition, data base administrators can
instantly access their backups stored on Dell EMC’s backup storage for
simplified granular recovery.
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Deployment:

The Deployment Flowchart diagram below captures the steps to be followed to protect SAP S/4HANA servers in Google
Cloud with Dell EMC Data Protection. Our components today are available to be installed manually and will be available in
marketplace shortly. Our Professional Services team also has different service plans to enable customers to do the same.

Components:

• SAP S/4HANA Database Server

• Google Cloud for SAP Cloud Appliance Library - suite of

public cloud computing services offered by Google

• PowerProtect DDVE v4.0 with 7.0.0.7 - software-defined

version of PowerProtect DD Series Appliances / Data
Domain

• NetWorker 19.2 for Linux for x64- Software-based product

that centralizes, automates, accelerates backup and
recovery

• NetWorker 19.2 Module for SAP Linux x64 (64-bit) - add-on

module for the NetWorker server and client that provides
native integration with SAP S/4HANA for this solution

• NetWorker Runtime Environment (NRE) file for Linux

• NetWorker Runtime Environment (NRE) file for Windows