Lenovo SAP HANA Quick Start Guide

Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA™ appliance Quick Start Guide

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Sixth Edition (March 2021)

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Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . 1

License information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Documentation and related information . . . . . . 1

Notices and statements in this document. . . . . . 1

Chapter 2. Overview. . . . . . . . . . . 3

Benefits of the Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA . . . 3

Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA . . . . 5

Chapter 3. Requirements . . . . . . . . 7

Network requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Information requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 4. Configuring the server

and installing SAP HANA. . . . . . . . 11

Accessing the system . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 5. Software entitlement . . . 13

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA . . . . . 13

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP

Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

IBM Spectrum Scale™ (IBM General Parallel File

System™ (GPFS)) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

SAP HANA appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

XFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Upgrading GPFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 7. Hardware and software

add-ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Upgrade from SAP HANA System on Lenovo

ThinkSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Supported hardware options. . . . . . . . . . 21

Additional software add-ons . . . . . . . . . . 21

Antivirus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 8. Recovering from a

hardware failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Appendix A. Getting help and

technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 25

Appendix B. Notices. . . . . . . . . . 29

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Important notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Particulate contamination . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Telecommunication regulatory statement. . . . . 32

Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . 32

Taiwan BSMI RoHS declaration. . . . . . . 33

Taiwan import and export contact information . . . 33

Chapter 6. Software updates . . . . . 19

Upgrading Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . 20

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Chapter 1. Introduction

The Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA appliance is a hardware and software solution that integrates the SAP HANA database with Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950, SR650 and SR860 V2 enterprise servers. This solution is optimally configured as an optimized system solution for use in your corporate SAP application environment.

Delivered as an optimized system solution based on Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise servers, SAP HANA includes the following features:

• High-performance SAP HANA database and a powerful data calculation engine

• Real-time replication service to access and replicate data from SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP)

• Data repository to retain views of business information

• Highly tuned integration with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for insight and analytics

• SQL and MDX interfaces for third-party application access

• Unified information-modeling design environment

• Data services to provide access to virtually any SAP and non-SAP data source

Note: Throughout this document, SAP HANA appliance is referred to as SAP HANA.

License information

This computer system is delivered with the SAP HANA appliance Platform Edition. You are not licensed to use this copy of the SAP software contained in the hardware system until you have purchased or licensed the use of the SAP software from SAP or its authorized distributors. Use of the SAP software is subject to the applicable SAP end-user license agreement. Your purchase of the Lenovo hardware system does not include a license to use the SAP software or to any other SAP software. SAP is under no obligation to license the included SAP software to you. Contact your responsible SAP representative to obtain the applicable license rights to use the SAP software.

Documentation and related information

In addition to this Quick Start Guide, the following resources are available on the web:

• ServerProven program for compatibility information of Servers and selected products You can obtain compatibility information about Lenovo ThinkSystem from

serverproven/

• Lenovo Systems and servers documentation and technical support Go to

http://support.lenovo.com to locate the most recent versions of all Lenovo ThinkSystem

documentation, and also obtain support for Lenovo hardware and systems-management software.

• SAP HANA appliance support and information General information about SAP HANA is available on the Help portal for SAP HANA Platform website at

http://help.sap.com/hana.

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/

Notices and statements in this document

The following notices and statements are used in this document:

• Note: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.

• Important: These notices provide information or advice that might help you avoid inconvenient or problem situations.

• Attention: These notices indicate potential damage to programs, devices, or data. An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which damage might occur.

• Caution: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous to you. A caution statement is placed just before the description of a potentially hazardous procedure step or situation.

• Danger: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or situation.

Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA™ appliance Quick Start Guide

Chapter 2. Overview

This section provides a technical overview of the Systems solutions for SAP HANA.

Benefits of the Lenovo Solutions for SAP HANA

Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise servers offers the following features and technologies.

Leading performance

Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise servers offer extreme memory and performance scalability. With improved hardware economics and new technology offerings, Lenovo is helping SAP realize a real-time enterprise with in-memory business applications. Lenovo enterprise servers deliver a long history of leading SAP benchmark performance.

Future-proof scalability

Based on scalable Lenovo ThinkSystem technology, SAP HANA on Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise servers offers a solution that meet the need to analyze growing amounts of transactional data and deliver significant gains in both performance and scalability in a single, flexible appliance.

Lenovo ThinkSystem enterprise servers feature Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family. These microprocessors deliver performance that is ideal for your most data-demanding SAP HANA workloads and offer improved scalability along with increased memory and I/O capacity, which is critical for SAP HANA. Advanced reliability and security features work to maintain data integrity, accelerate encrypted transactions, and maximize the availability of SAP HANA applications. In addition, Machine Check Architecture Recovery, a reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) feature built into Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family, enables the hardware platform to generate machine check exceptions. In many cases, these notifications enable the system to take corrective actions that enable uninterrupted SAP HANA application operations when an outage would otherwise occur.

The powerful and reliable Intel Xeon Processor Scalable Family allow for extreme scaling to running demanding workloads such as SAP HANA.

High-performance SAP HANA database

SAP HANA allows companies to make smarter business decisions supported by increased visibility into large volumes of operational data, and react faster to business events through real-time analysis and reporting of operational data. The ability to quickly analyze vast amounts of business information with no impact on transactional performance includes the following benefits:

• Optimized in-memory persistence of operational data with zero latency

• Readily available information for real-time, ad hoc analysis and reporting

• Integrated data modeling studio for design of in-memory analytic and reporting scenarios on operational systems

• Native access to SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) data without traditional extract, transform, and load processes

Real-time replication

With real-time replication service to access and replicate data from SAP ERP, you can offload analytical reporting, minimizing the load on the transactional system.

Rapid deployment

SAP HANA helps organizations streamline the IT network environment without compromising power and functionality plus, it is simple to deploy and does not disrupt existing network services. Highlights include SAP HANA has the following features:

• Significant rationalization of existing SAP ERP landscapes to help lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Optimization as a ready to deploy software and system solution

• In-memory computing that provides primary persistence model for the enterprise data warehouse

• Side-by-side deployment with existing SAP transactional and SAP business warehouse systems for analytic data mart scenarios

IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) Note: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) is renamed to IBM Spectrum Scale. For brevity and

consistency, in this documentation IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM Spectrum Scale are often referred to as IBM GPFS.

Rapid increase in the amount of data, and the number of transactions and digitally-aware devices are straining IT infrastructure and operations, while storage costs and user expectations are increasing. IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS), with its high-performance enterprise file management, can help move beyond simply adding storage to optimizing data management for SAP HANA. High-performance enterprise file management using IBM GPFS provides the following benefits to SAP HANA applications:

• Performance to satisfy the most demanding SAP HANA applications

• Seamless capacity expansion to handle the rapid growth of SAP HANA information

• High reliability and availability through storage replication to help eliminate production outages and provide disruption-free maintenance and capacity upgrades

Seamless capacity and performance scaling help your company foster innovation by simplifying your environment and streamlining data workflows for increased efficiency.

Stand-alone configuration with XFS

The XFS filesystem can be used instead of IBM GPFS when deploying stand-alone HANA systems.

High availability (HA) can be achieved by using SAP HANA System Replication. The Lenovo Solution for SAP HANA is certified for all stand-alone hardware configurations and meets the same performance requirements as configurations with GPFS.

The hardware configurations for XFS and GPFS do not differ. A later change from XFS to GPFS and vice versa is possible and requires a reinstallation of the appliance. The purchase of additional licenses may be required.

Automated system deployment for SAP HANA

The Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA comes with a highly automated system installer. The system configuration is created in beforehand. Afterwards operating system installation, RAID configuration, network configuration, driver installation, HANA configuration and installation are executed without further user interaction.

Phases:

• Configuration via LASSI TUI - a text user interface configuration tool which will generate a configuration file for the unattended deployment

• Automated installation via Lenovo Automated Software Solution Installer (LASSI)

Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA™ appliance Quick Start Guide

Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA

Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA is optimally designed and certified by SAP.

Note: Throughout this document, Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA is referred to as the server.

These servers are delivered with key software components to help speed delivery and deployment of SAP HANA.

Lenovo ThinkSystem Technology

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 servers can be configured with:

• 2 processors and 192GB - 3TB memory

• or 4 processors and 384GB - 6TB memory

• or 8 processors and 768GB - 12TB memory

Note: Starting with ThinkSystem SR950 Gen2, mixed installation of DDR4 and PMEM modules is supported.

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 servers can be configured with:

• 2 processors and 192GB - 3TB memory

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR860 V2 servers can be configured with:

• 2 processors and 192GB - 3TB memory

• or 4 processors and 384GB - 6TB memory

Note: Starting with ThinkSystem SR860 V2, mixed installation of DDR4 and PMEM modules is supported.

The Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA comes with the proper storage configuration in order to ensure that the performance requirements for the data and the log volumes are met. The quotas are set to prevent the LOG and SHARE volumes consuming more than the equivalent of the memory capacity in order not to reduce the available storage capacity for the DATA volumes. The size of the LOG has to be monitored according to SAP HANA guidelines and the logs have to be released regularly to avoid a hang situation caused by a filled-up LOG volume.

The software components come preconfigured in form of an installation image with IBM GPFS and SAP HANA included.

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Chapter 3. Requirements

This section provides requirements of the Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA. You must configure the XClarity Controller (XCC) for the server and the corresponding network modules in your network based on the requirement from SAP. To perform the initial server configuration and installation, there are both network and information requirements that you must obtain from your IT administrator.

The Workload Optimized Solution for SAP HANA requires the following networks (minimum requirements):

• SAP Business Suite access to customer network

• SAP HANA internal communications (hananode)

• Internal GPFS communications (gpfsnode)

• Lenovo server management via XClarity Controller (XCC)

Notes:

• In a single node installation, the internal networks are connected to the server. No connection to any external infrastructure.

• In a cluster installation, the internal networks are connected to the internal 10 Gigabit Network Switch which is part of the Lenovo Systems Solution for SAP HANA.

Network requirements

Single Node Configuration

The server provides the following connectivity options in the standard configuration:

• A 100 Mb or 1 Gb network connection using XCC interface

• Four to six 1GbE ports

• Four 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ ports

Other configuration may be available upon request.

In the single node configuration, depending on your network environment, the 1GbE, 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ port may be used for connecting the server to your network. Any two NIC ports may be used for the connections to your network. Thus, two single, non-bonded ports must be assigned to the internal HANA and GPFS communications and must not be connected to your network.

Clustered Configuration

The server provides the same connectivity options in the standard configuration. Other configuration may be available upon request.

• Non-HA configuration: Each server uses two of the four 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ ports for the internal HANA and GPFS communications. Thus, two 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ ports and four to six 1GbE ports are available for the integration into your network environment.

• HA configuration: Each server uses all 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ ports for creating the internal networks regarding HANA and GPFS communications. Thus, four to six 1GbE ports are available for connecting the server to your network. The integration of the appliance servers into your network can either be done through 1 Gigabit Ethernet switch delivered by Lenovo as part of the solution (e.g. the Lenovo G8052 1 Gigabit RackSwitch) or by connecting the servers to other switches provided by you.

Note: If a 10 Gb uplink is needed or the redundant connections are required for higher availability, additional 10 Gb Emulex adapters can be installed into the server. Contact your sales representative for more information.

The following illustration shows a possible network configuration for the clustered configuration.

Note: The "Customer Switch Choice" labeled switches are either 1 Gigabit Ethernet adapter, 25GbE or 10GbE SFP+ switches provided by you or Lenovo. Make the switch uplink redundant when possible.

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

• Clustered Configuration: NTP is mandatory and must be configured during the installation. All nodes have to run in the same time zone.

• Single Node Configuration: NTP is highly recommended.

Information requirements

Before you configure the server and install SAP HANA, gather the following network information from your network administrator.

Table 1. Server network information

Server ID

Server 1 Customer network

Network description

GPFS (Private network) 192.168.x.0/24 192.168.1.101

HANA (Private network) 192.168.y.0/24 192.168.2.101

XCC remote management

IP address Host name

(default)

gpfsnode01 (mandatory)

hananode01 (mandatory)

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Table 1. Server network information (continued)

Server ID

Network description

IP address Host name

Server 2 Customer network

GPFS (Private network) 192.168.x.0/24 192.168.1.102

gpfsnode02 (mandatory)

(default)

HANA (Private network) 192.168.y.0/24 192.168.2.102

hananode02 (mandatory)

(default)

XCC remote management . . . Server NN Customer network

GPFS (Private network) 192.168.x.0/24 192.168.1.1nn

gpfsnodenn (mandatory)

(default)

HANA (Private network) 192.168.y.0/24 192.168.2.1nn

hananodenn (mandatory)

(default)

XCC remote management

You may use the following tables to record the DNS and gateway information for your network.

Table 2. Default network information

Default IPv4 Network Prefix Default Netmask

Default Gateway

Table 3. SAP HANA appliance routes information

Application

Host Network Netmask

Gateway

note

Table

Interface Labels

SAP Business Suite customer network

SAP HANA private network

GPFS private network

Lenovo XClarity Controller

192.168.x.y 255.255.255.0 None

Table note:

1. If the network is not accessible using the default gateway in Table 2 “Default network information” on page 9.

Table 4. Network DNS information

Domain

Primary DNS Secondary DNS

Table 5. Server name information

NTP Server Name Server Name

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