Dell SAP LAMA User Manual

DESIGNED FOR SAP LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT (SAP LAMA)

DELL EMC SOLUTION: DESIGNED FOR SAP LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT (SAP LAMA)

Simplify and accelerate SAP system clone, copy and refresh

ESSENTIALS

Increased Productivity

• Automate system clone, copy and refresh

• Free admins for higher-value work versus

system copy tasks

• Provide on-demand copies using Dell EMC

snapshots

High Performance

• Offload CPU overhead from production server

to storage system

• Quickly create copies of production system

Lower Costs

• Reduce storage cost for SAP copies via highly

efficient snapshots

LOGICAL ARCHITECTURE

Today’s Situation

In the digital era, enabling business agility for new initiatives while

controlling costs is priority number one. Today, though, the CIO’s

biggest challenge is that 80% of the IT budget is trapped in operations and maintenance, with only 20% left for innovation. It is not surprising then, that simplifying management of complex SAP landscapes is a top priority.

Cut Time, Costs and Complexity for SAP System Provisioning

One area that’s ripe for simplification is SAP system clone, copy and

refresh processes. SAP Admins spend a great deal of time creating and managing copies of SAP production systems to support development, test, QAS and training environments.

The process can be time consuming with SAP system copy / refresh taking several business days. Most common challenges include:

• Coordination among storage, server and virtualization teams

• Manual, time-consuming, complex post-processing steps

• Risk of manual errors and quality of copy / refresh

• Large data footprints leading to increased storage costs

These circumstances slow innovation and increase the risk of data inconsistencies and corruption – major reasons organizations are looking for new ways to improve the process.

Dell EMC Solution for Managing SAP Landscapes

The Dell EMC Storage Integrator for SAP LaMa (ESI) solution brings SAP LaMa software together with Dell EMC storage-based local and remote replication software, providing a powerful platform to simplify management of SAP systems:

• SAP LaMa provides the central management dashboard to

orchestrate the end-to-end process including post copy automation (PCA)

• Dell EMC ESI enables SAP LaMa to use powerful storage-based

replication to deliver high performance SAP source system copies with economical space saving snapshots

Solution Brief

Manage SAP Landscapes

Solution Overview

Dell EMC Solution: Designed for SAP Landscape Management (SAP LaMa)

SAP landscapes can have dozens of non-production systems, like development, training and sandbox. Automating the management of SAP system copies by using trusted storagebased cloning reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of an SAP landscape, resulting in:

• More productive SAP Admins, focused on higher value work

versus time consuming, error-prone manual tasks

• Faster delivery of high-performance copies with minimal-to-

no impact on production

• Lower costs by reducing the size of storage footprints for

SAP copies via highly efficient data-reduction intelligence.

ESI for SAP LaMa Software Components

ESI for SAP LaMa software integrates Dell EMC storage systems with SAP LaMa. It supports physical (bare-metal) and virtual SAP systems, configured with physical raw device mapping (RDM) disks or Virtual Machine Disks (VMDK) on Dell EMC storage systems. ESI for SAP LaMa is delivered as an application on physical or virtual Linux hosts.

Components include:

• ESI plug-in — Dell EMC storage plug-in that integrates with SAP LaMa as a storage manager

• Unisphere REST API — storage-specific API commands used on Dell EMC PowerMax and Unity storage systems

• Enterprise High-level Storage Administration Console (EHAC) — GUI for access to Dell EMC storage systems

• Solutions Enabler (SE) with Enterprise Storage Library for SAP (ELSA) — provides integration between SAP

instance-specific file systems and Dell EMC storage systems volumes connected through the SAN-FC protocol

Storage Platforms

PowerMax

Dell EMC PowerMax provides unprecedented power and scale for consolidation, automation, and intelligent operations for mixed SAP and non-SAP workloads.

SAP LaMa integration with PowerMax accelerates end-to-end automation of repetitive, timeconsuming tasks for SAP system copy / refresh locally using advanced snapshot capabilities with SnapVX, remotely with SRDF/S to support redundancy/DR, and SRDF/Metro for high availability.

Unity, XT

All Flash & Hybrid

Dell EMC Unity represents the ultimate in storage simplicity and value in the midrange all-flash and hybrid storage by harnessing the performance of all-flash and the economic benefits of disk.

SAP LaMa integration with Unity, XT takes advantage of space saving thin clones for local copies.

DELL EMC VALIDATED USE CASES

• System clone

• System copy

• System refresh

• Restore-based system refresh with

PowerProtect DD Series Appliances

• System relocation

• End-to-end visibility and monitoring

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