Ensure a Seamless Deployment of the

SAP HANA Platform

Modernize Your IT Infrastructure and Reduce Business Risk

By Hitachi Vantara

June 2018

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Contents

Executive Summary ........................................................................................... 2

Modernize Your Data-Driven Business .............................................................. 3

Accelerate and Simplify Operations ................................................................... 3

Plan for Success................................................................................................ 3

Understand Your Options .................................................................................. 4

Deploy On-Premises or as a Managed Service............................................................................................... 4

Run in a Virtual Machine or on a Bare-Metal Server ...................................................................................... 4

Deliver Performance With an Appliance or a TDI ........................................................................................... 5

Realize the Full Potential of Your SAP HANA Platform ...................................... 6

Manage Data Location To Increase Database Performance ......................................................................... 6

Plan in Real Time ............................................................................................................................................... 7

Unify and Analyze Current and Historical Data .............................................................................................. 7

Integrate New Sources of Data ......................................................................................................................... 8

Manage Your Data .............................................................................................................................................. 8

Partner With Hitachi for Your SAP HANA Deployment ....................................... 9

Build a Platform With Enterprise-Grade Hardware ........................................................................................ 9

Understand Your Backup and Recovery Options .......................................................................................... 9

Simplify Storage Management ........................................................................................................................ 10

Talk to the SAP HANA Deployment Experts ................................................................................................. 10

Deploy SAP HANA With Managed Service Professionals ........................................................................... 10

Consult With SAP HANA Specialists ............................................................................................................. 11

Migrate Faster With Global System Integrators............................................................................................ 11

Ensure a Seamless SAP HANA Deployment ................................................... 11

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Executive Summary

To be successful in the digital economy, organizations must adapt to fast-changing business requirements and

economic situations. Technology is key, and a modern, efficient database platform can help organizations

streamline processes, automate operations and gain detailed, timely business intelligence.

As an in-memory database platform, the SAP HANA platform lets you accelerate and simplify processes through

increased transactional and analytical performance. It provides an ideal foundation for the applications that power

your business and lets you take advantage of best-in-class development tools. SAP HANA also simplifies system

administration and IT operations with tools to monitor processes, ensure data and application security, and

achieve continuous availability. Moving to SAP HANA has many compelling benefits, including increased

transaction speed, real-time analytics, predictive modeling and flexible queries.

An SAP HANA deployment can be a demanding, complex and time-consuming project. From SAP HANA sizing

and incompatible applications, to custom code and a lack of SAP HANA knowledge, there are many challenges to

overcome for a successful SAP HANA deployment. Adding to this, there are a wide variety of deployment options,

including on-premises or managed private cloud, virtual machine or bare metal servers, and leveraging the SAP

HANA appliance or Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) programs. Choosing the best deployment path for your

organization requires preperation.

Hitachi delivers a range of products and services to support your SAP HANA deployment, from SAP HANA

appliances to integration consulting and managed services. By partnering with Hitachi, you can deploy your SAP

HANA platform on high-performance, certified hardware running advanced data protection software and backed

by the services and experience of SAP HANA experts.

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Modernize Your Data-Driven Business

To compete in the modern digital economy, enterprise organizations need to react quickly to changing business

conditions and new economic situations. For these companies, technology is key to success. Technology helps

them streamline processes, automate office and business functions, and deliver business intelligence for better

decision-making.

The database platform is the foundation that makes this technology possible. An efficient database helps

organizations quickly process high volumes of operational and transactional data to strengthen their competitive

position. SAP offers data-driven enterprises an in-memory database platform with the highest levels of performance

and functionality. To take advantage of these capabilities, many organizations are migrating their database

platforms to the SAP HANA platform.

Accelerate and Simplify Operations

Data is one of most valuable corporate assets, and quick, reliable access is critical for efficient day-to-day

operations. SAP HANA can dramatically increase the speed of your real-time transactional and analytical

workloads. Using a single data copy on a unified platform, SAP HANA organizes data in columns, and then

partitions, distributes and stores that data in high-speed memory across multiple servers. This approach gives you

faster queries that aggregate data more efficiently, while avoiding costly full-table scans, materialized views and

analytic indexes.

Modern enterprise organizations depend on business intelligence applications to make faster, better decisions, and

SAP HANA is the ideal foundation for these applications. Analytics processing based on in-memory data

technologies and advanced algorithms delivers new business insights in real time. Hybrid transactional and

analytical processing capabilities help you to develop next-generation applications and deploy them on any device.

With best-in-class development tools, you can deliver customized experiences to your users with the right data

served at the right time.

Efficient system administration and IT operations are critical to the success of enterprise organizations. SAP HANA

helps you monitor processes, ensure data and application security, and achieve continuous availability.

Comprehensive administration capabilities, including system start, stop, restart, backup and recover, along with

offline diagnostics, let you manage your SAP HANA platform from any location, on any device. Through advanced

tooling, you can analyze Structured Query Language (SQL) execution plans and CPU and memory utilization over

time to pinpoint problems. Support for the latest encryption and auditing techniques, including encryption for data at

rest, keeps communications, data storage and application services secure.

Plan for Success

Advance preparation is key to a successful SAP HANA deployment. Migrating to SAP HANA often requires updates

to many essential system components: hardware, database, application environment and associated, unbundled

software. Because SAP HANA is a columnar database, heterogeneous migrations from row-based databases

require additional detailed planning to ensure a problem-free deployment.

When deploying SAP HANA, you must carefully size your hardware. Potential challenges created by improperly

sized hardware include inability to meet your performance goals and accommodate future growth, as well as

consumption of too much of your budget. Because SAP HANA structures and stores data differently than other

relational databases, it has unique hardware resource requirements. SAP HANA has a relatively smaller data

storage footprint; however, it needs higher CPU performance and additional memory resources. If you use

multitemperature data management techniques or perform analytical processing on the operational SAP HANA

platform, you also need to account for the performance requirements of these individual workloads.

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SAP implements standardized, optimized processes that allow your applications to access data stored in SAP

HANA. To realize the true performance of SAP HANA, your applications need to execute these processes

according to SAP guidelines. However, users of previous SAP databases have historically aligned applications to

specific business needs by modifying these processes. This custom code regularly uses outdated data modeling

techniques that are poorly suited for SAP HANA. To guarantee optimal performance, you need to update any

customized applications before migrating to SAP HANA.

In-house teams often lack the experience to deploy SAP HANA. The data migration process is dependent on the

complexity of your existing database environment and requires strategic planning to avoid disrupting normal

business processes. Highly complex environments may require expertise that your team does not have.

Furthermore, there are many third-party tools available to assist with your SAP HANA migration, and you need to

thoroughly understand the usability of those tools before your migration begins.

Some versions of third-party applications that connect to previous SAP databases cannot interoperate with SAP

HANA. In such cases, you must upgrade these applications to supported versions during the migration process. For

many applications, this upgrade process can be long and complex. And, if your mission-critical applications are

unsupported on SAP HANA, the entire migration project may be impossible. Before deploying, you must verify that

all third-party applications have a clear migration path to and will continue to work with SAP HANA.

Migrating to SAP HANA requires strategic investments in dedicated hardware, database software and annual

maintenance. SAP requires you to install SAP HANA on certified infrastructure, either dedicated appliances or

existing resources leveraged through their TDI program.

Significant investments in additional resources are often required. To complicate matters, the size of your SAP

HANA installation is directly related to the costs of both the hardware and software. Failure to size your SAP HANA

platform correctly can result in high costs for unused database storage.

Understand Your Options

A wide range of options is available, from on-premises or managed service, bare-metal or virtual machine, to

appliance or TDI. Choose the SAP HANA deployment scenario that best meets your business needs, budget and

resources.

Deploy On-Premises or as a Managed Service

In an on-premises deployment, you have complete control over the security, scalability and configurability of your

SAP HANA systems. With increased flexibility, an on-premises deployment lets you configure and reconfigure both

the hardware and software to meet your evolving needs. Because the equipment is physically located within your

building and managed by your IT department, you have direct control over data security. However, you are

responsible for the full costs of both the hardware and software required to deploy your SAP HANA platform.

Additionally, to ensure successful operation, IT must be a core competency of your business. You need qualified

system administrators on staff to maintain and monitor your SAP HANA platform.

In a managed service deployment, a third-party service provider builds, hosts and manages your entire SAP HANA

solution in a private cloud environment. Hosted private clouds can provide increased on-demand scalability as

service providers often pool a large number of resources across many customers. Managed services also simplify

security, as the service provider is responsible for both the physical and digital security of your SAP HANA solution.

However, in a managed service deployment, you are reliant on the service provider to deliver a quality experience.

Run in a Virtual Machine or on a Bare-Metal Server

Virtualization software can increase the efficiency of your SAP HANA infrastructure. In a virtualized system, a

resource abstraction layer divides available hardware and software resources among several SAP HANA platform

instances. This allows you to run multiple SAP HANA workloads on both single node and scale-out certified SAP

HANA systems.

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In a nonproduction environment, virtualization software can speed SAP HANA application development and testing

by allowing multiple developers to share a single physical resource. The scalability provided by virtualization

software allows developers to provision exactly what they need, eliminating over- and under-provisioning. Self-

service capabilities let developers provision resources exactly when they need them, and automatically retire those

resources when they are no longer needed.

For SAP HANA production environments using virtualization software, IT operations can deliver resources with

increased service level agreements (SLAs). Automated resource provisioning capabilities let IT operations deploy

SAP HANA faster and easily manage peak analytic workloads with better scalability. Live migration of SAP HANA

across multiple hosts in minutes with zero downtime and zero data loss helps maximize the performance of all SAP

HANA resources. Unified management of SAP HANA resources with your virtualized data center provides continuity

and simplifies operations management.

Deliver Performance With an Appliance or a TDI

Irrespective of whether your SAP HANA platform runs on virtual machines, bare-metal servers, on-premises or in a

managed, private cloud, the underlying hardware is critical to guaranteeing SAP HANA performance. To meet SAP

requirements, you have a choice of deploying your SAP HANA platform on a certified appliance or a TDI as shown

in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Comparison of an Appliance and a TDI

In the appliance model, enterprise hardware providers design and build certified, standardized and highly optimized

appliances based on well-defined specifications to run SAP HANA workloads. They rigorously validate and carefully

size their appliances for individual use cases. This approach allows you to select the right level of compute

resources to meet your needs. Because they deliver appliances as preconfigured hardware with pre-installed

software packages, integrating the appliance into your data center is quick and easy. The appliance model is

extremely scalable and lets you quickly accommodate increased data growth with additional appliances. Both your

hardware provider and SAP fully support the appliance and provide ongoing support and maintenance.

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For some organizations, the appliance model is not an optimal solution. Because the appliance must conform to a

specified hardware configuration, there is no opportunity to integrate pre-owned hardware into the appliance.

Furthermore, integrating an appliance in an existing data center may require changes to established IT processes.

The TDI model uses both new and existing certified infrastructure to create a cluster that meets SAP HANA

requirements while giving you flexibility and choice over the hardware components of your platform. This model lets

you reduce hardware costs by reusing existing SAP-certified assets. If you need additional compute, storage or

networking resources, you can purchase them from your preferred hardware vendor.

To successfully deploy SAP HANA on a TDI, you must first select and integrate all hardware. All compute resources

must follow the exact same bill of material as a certified SAP HANA appliance excluding storage, and all storage

devices must be SAP certified. You then need to perform the entire software installation, including the operating

system, database and any required SAP HANA applications. Finally, you have to validate your SAP HANA platform

using the SAP HANA Going-Live Check offered by SAP Digital Business Services and the SAP HANA Hardware

Configuration Check Tool. Table 1 summarizes the difference between the appliance and TDI models.

Table 1. Deployment Model Summary

SAP HANA Appliance Model SAP HANA TDI Model

Hardware

Selection

Choice of wide range of preconfigured

appliances, certified by SAP

Choose individual compute, storage and network

components that meet SAP HANA requirements

Installation Hardware is configured, and software is fully

installed by the provider before delivery

Hardware and operating system must be installed by

the end user, and SAP HANA must be installed by an

SAP-certified administrator

Validation Performed by SAP and hardware provider Performed by the end user using SAP HANA Going-

Live Check and SAP HANA Hardware Configuration

Check tool

Support Fully supported by SAP and hardware provider Individual support agreements with hardware

providers required

As compared to the appliance model, a TDI deployment offers significant capital expenditure (capex) savings,

although the deployment can be considerably more complex. A successful deployment requires a staff of highly

skilled experts, including administrators who are certified to install the SAP HANA software. Staff acquisition,

training and certification costs can quickly offset any potential capex savings, while also extending the project

schedule.

Realize the Full Potential of Your SAP HANA Platform

As a high-performance database platform, SAP HANA optimizes your database operations to power a wide variety

of applications. It is a critical component of an ecosystem that helps you manage your data and gain valuable

business insight.

Manage Data Location To Increase Database Performance

With a traditional relational database, only a small amount of data resides in main memory at any one time. The

database holds the vast majority of data in persistent storage. While access time for persistent storage can vary, it

is always much higher than main memory access. As a result, database performance can suffer when processes

need to access large amounts of data.

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Poor database performance often impedes real-time analytic workloads, as complex reports can take days to

process. As a result, you experience workflow constraints on your business and limits on the insight you gain from

your data, slowing your reaction to changing market conditions.

To remove the performance impact of accessing persistent storage, SAP HANA keeps your entire database in

memory. Combined with other innovations in the underlying structure of the database, including advanced data

compression techniques and a column-based architecture, these technologies increase database performance for

complex queries and processes. These improvements accelerate a range database operations and applications,

from customer transaction recording and complex reporting to real-time analytics, predictive modeling and flexible

queries.

Plan in Real Time

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the real-time, integrated management of core business processes powered

by advanced technology. ERP tools help you collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business

activities, giving you an integrated and continuously updated view of core business processes. These tools unify

data across departments, business functions and outside stakeholders in a single database that is accessed by a

variety of applications.

Designed specifically for in-memory computing, SAP S/4HANA is an intelligent ERP suite that combines analytical

operations and transaction processing into a single platform. To help you make data-driven decisions, it analyzes

real-time operational data using lightweight modeling that supports immediate reflection of structural changes. The

analytical models are extensible and easily reusable in different scenarios, and they allow interoperability with

transactional developments.

The SAP S/4HANA predictive analytics library allows you to apply predictive and machine-learning algorithms to

your data. These capabilities help your entire organization gain insight into critical business functions.

Finance officers can better understand financial performance in real time and improve the effectiveness of a

range of processes, from planning and analysis to period-end close and treasury management.

Supply chain managers gain increased visibility across the digital supply chain and can use machine-learning

technology for logistics, manufacturing and asset management.

Procurement specialists can use intelligent applications with machine learning to improve supplier

management, streamline purchasing and deploy collaborative sourcing and contract management.

Product managers can develop fully aligned product portfolios that allow them to manage life cycles, control

production costs and deploy resources effectively.

Business analysts can get a complete picture of operations and use customer insights to help marketing, sales

and service teams work more productively, grow revenue and accelerate opportunities.

Unify and Analyze Current and Historical Data

SAP BW/4HANA is an enterprise data warehouse that consolidates data across your entire organization to support

decision-making with a standardized data model. By defining common semantics for interpreting all data values,

SAP BW/4HANA provides a single, comprehensive source of current and historical information. This source

includes data from SAP applications and third-party solutions, as well as unstructured, geospatial and Apache

Hadoop-based data.

Using this single source, you can develop analytical models to support new business innovations. Simplified

modeling and administration capabilities decrease development time and speed up change requests. Intuitive user

interfaces increase productivity and user adoption, while reducing shadow analytics. High-volume, real-time data

processing reduces wait time for data handling and enables intelligent automation.

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Integrate New Sources of Data

As internet of things (IoT) sensors become more affordable, new devices and machines that transmit data come

online every day. IoT technology offers automated mechanisms for filtering and refining IoT data. Using analytics

tools, you can gain a deeper understanding of your data, and apply that knowledge to a variety of challenges:

Create targeted marketing campaigns and promotions, reduce maintenance costs, avoid equipment failures and

improve business operations.

Properly managed IoT data is most valuable when it is connected and complemented with other data sources.

Processing IoT data with traditional ERP transactional data in SAP HANA offers immediate context, helps uncover

correlations between real-time data and historical data, and enables new business insights that were previously

impossible.

Manage Your Data

In modern enterprises, data comes from an ever-increasing number of sources. From real-time transactional data

and historical business data to modern IoT data, you need to successfully manage your data to extract the most

valuable insight.

Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) provides the extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities

required to capture, blend, transform and store data from a wide variety of sources in a uniform and consistent

format. As shown in Figure 2, PDI moves data between your SAP HANA database and a wide variety of relational

databases, enterprise applications and big data stores. Keep your hot data in-memory, offload your warm data to

local, persistent storage and move your cold data to Hadoop or NoSQL databases.

Figure 2. Pentaho Data Integration

UCP CI= converged infrastructure Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI, UCP RS = rack-scale Hitachi Unified Compute Platform RS

Through a visual drag-and-drop environment, PDI allows your data integration teams to design, test and deploy

integration processes, workflows, notifications and alerts. PDI’s data explorer module lets you visually inspect data

at almost any transformation step. An extensive library of connectors to thousands of data sources and a

comprehensive set of prebuilt data transformations help you quickly create complex process workflows. With data-

lineage analysis, you can analyze the end-to-end flow of data across PDI transformations and jobs.

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Partner With Hitachi for Your SAP HANA Deployment

Hitachi delivers a variety of products and services to support your SAP HANA deployment. Our solutions range from

appliances based on converged infrastructure (CI) architectures and enterprise-grade storage platforms, to SAP

HANA integration consulting and managed services deployment.

Build a Platform With Enterprise-Grade Hardware

The compute requirements of SAP HANA workloads demand high-performance hardware with scalable resources

that can be deployed quickly in any data center. CI groups servers, storage devices and networking equipment into

a single package along with software for IT infrastructure management, automation and orchestration. The result is

a single, pre-integrated, optimized package that decreases complexity and increases IT efficiency. Because

resources are shared by multiple applications and managed in a collective manner using policy-driven processes,

CI lets you centralize IT management, consolidate systems, increase resource-utilization rates and lower costs.

Certified as an SAP HANA appliance, the converged infrastructure Hitachi Unified Compute Platform CI (UCP CI)

simplifies IT deployments by consolidating SAP HANA landscapes onto a single, dynamic, scalable system.1 This

system is an integrated system of enterprise-class hardware components with independently scalable server,

network and storage resources. Delivered in single or multirack configurations, UCP CI supports the high availability

and reliability requirements of SAP HANA, while delivering a simple, repeatable way to scale your landscape. With

support for up to 224 cores, 48 solid-state disks (SSDs), and 12TB RAM, UCP CI is optimized and certified for large

SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics workloads.

As SAP HANA-certified enterprise storage, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family systems support the SAP

HANA TDI model.2 Built on 20 years of experience, Hitachi’s VSPs are enterprise storage technology in all-flash

and hybrid configurations that provide unparalleled performance, efficiency and reliability. VSP family systems

support up to 4.8 million IOPS with an all-flash storage capacity of 8PB and a hybrid storage capacity of 255PB.

Understand Your Backup and Recovery Options

Planning for data backup and recovery is a critical part of any SAP HANA deployment. Hitachi Data Instance

Director (HDID) protects your SAP HANA database using a rapid, space-conscious backup policy with configurable

recovery point objective (RPO) and retention periods.

HDID automates copy data management. This capability lets you make snapshot-based backups of your SAP

HANA database at the frequency you define. These snapshots along with the active SAP HANA configuration are

stored and retained for a user-defined period of time. You can use these snapshots for backup and recovery of both

the data area and the configuration files for scale-up SAP HANA databases. The file backup functionality of HDID

allows you to back up the SAP HANA log files to enable a fine-grained restore window.

In case of catastrophic failure, you can use HDID with the native tools in SAP HANA to quickly restore a snapshot of

your database. The tools restore SAP HANA data is to its original location, while the configuration files are available

for manual integration into the running SAP HANA instance. You can restore these snapshots, including both data

and configuration, to either the original host, in case of system failure, or to a new host, to facilitate a system copy of

the SAP HANA database.

Snapshot functionality using HDID adds very little overhead to your SAP HANA database during snapshot creation.

It relies on the SAP HANA savepoint mechanism that runs automatically on the database.

1 For a list of currently certified Hitachi SAP HANA appliances, see:

sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/appliances.html#categories=certified%2CHitachi 2 For a list of currently certified Hitachi SAP HANA enterprise storage, see:

sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/enterprise-storage.html#categories=certified%2CHitachi

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Simplify Storage Management

Managing storage resources in an enterprise-grade SAP HANA deployment can be difficult. The Hitachi Storage

Adapter for the SAP HANA Cockpit delivers simple, efficient storage management for Hitachi storage through your

web browser. It simplifies storage backup and replication operations, including operating system backup, and

database backup and clone, using Hitachi Thin Image (HTI), Hitachi ShadowImage and SAP HANA storage

snapshots.

The Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Cockpit lets you register and monitor your Hitachi storage

subsystems. It generates a range of reports, including LUN and port performance, replication, storage snapshot

history, host group, storage pool, parity group, CLPR and schedule, which can be viewed through a web browser

anytime and on any device.

Hitachi Thin Image lets you create and manage snapshots of SAP HANA storage data volumes. The high-speed,

nondisruptive technology rapidly creates up to one million point-in-time data copies without impacting host service

or performance levels. Because snapshots store only the changed data, the storage capacity required for each

snapshot copy is substantially smaller than the source volume. HTI snapshot copies are fully read/write compatible

with other hosts, and can be used for system backups, application testing and SAP HANA database restoration.

Hitachi ShadowImage lets you create and manage logical volume replication in a single storage system without

using host resources. The high-speed, nondisruptive local mirroring technology rapidly creates multiple data copies

within all storage systems. By enabling concurrent operations, such as backup and batch processing, it keeps data

RAID-protected and fully recoverable, without affecting service or performance levels. You can split replicated data

volumes from the host applications and use them for system backups, application testing and SAP HANA database

restoration.

Talk to the SAP HANA Deployment Experts

Hitachi Consulting has the proven experience, knowledge and best practices you need for a successful SAP HANA

deployment. If you are new to the SAP platform, Hitachi Consulting works with you to understand your business

requirements, determine the appropriate model for deployment, and develop a comprehensive road map for the

future. To understand how the solution will work in your environment, Hitachi Consulting can develop and deliver a

proof of concept. During the migration process, Hitachi Consulting utilizes advanced migration tools to move your

data quickly and efficiently from your legacy system into SAP HANA.

If you are already using an SAP database and want to take advantage of the new, simplified SAP HANA data

model, Hitachi Consulting works with you to assess your current landscape and determine the best migration path.

Hitachi Consulting develops a thorough checklist of technical issues that require attention prior to migration and

diligently works to address them. Hitachi Consulting then performs the actual software update, and helps you adopt

new technical features and business processes.

Embedded analytics using the SAP HANA platform is a new experience for many organizations. Hitachi Consulting

applies long-term experience working with advanced technologies to help you transition to embedded analytics and

add value to your transactional systems.

Deploy SAP HANA With Managed Service Professionals

With skills and knowledge gained through hundreds of successful SAP HANA migrations, the more than 700

experts at oXya, a Hitachi Group company, deliver SAP HANA as a managed cloud service that meets your

business goals. A single, named service delivery manager coordinates a dedicated, multidisciplinary team that

works with you through every stage of your SAP HANA migration, from planning, integration and testing to

deployment and ongoing support. This approach minimizes errors and provides fast resolution for any problems that

arise. Continuous monitoring of your SAP HANA deployment and an on- and near-shore service model —

supported by teams in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Belgium and China — deliver seamless

SAP HANA operation.

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Consult With SAP HANA Specialists

Hitachi Consulting provides a global center of excellence for SAP solutions, which delivers knowledge and solution

consulting for all aspects of your SAP HANA deployments, including hardware, software and services. Certified

consultants with years of experience in SAP HANA administration offer executive briefings, sizing and capacity

planning workshops. They can assist you in choosing the correct sizing approach for your implementation project,

jointly perform sizing activities, and help you interpret the results. The Capacity Usage Assessment helps you

identify available, existing hardware resources and evaluate the option of co-locating additional HANA workloads on

shared infrastructure. SAP HANA infrastructure validation services provide assurance that your architecture

complies with SAP and Hitachi requirements.

Migrate Faster With Global System Integrators

Hitachi partners with a range of large, well-established, global system integrators with long histories of successful

SAP HANA migrations and deployments. They can help you identify the key challenges in your SAP HANA

deployments and determine which options best fit your objectives. Once planning is complete, they can help you

implement and maintain your SAP HANA solutions.

Ensure a Seamless SAP HANA Deployment

An SAP HANA deployment requires careful planning and preparation. From SAP HANA sizing and incompatible

applications, to custom code and a lack of SAP HANA knowledge, there are many challenges to overcome.

There are a wide variety of options for deployment, including on-premises or managed private cloud, virtual

machine or bare metal servers, appliance or TDI. As a result, choosing the best path for your SAP HANA

deployment can be confusing. However, the benefits of moving to SAP HANA, including increased transaction

speed, real-time analytics, predictive modeling and flexible queries, make the move to SAP HANA compelling.

Partner with Hitachi to deploy your SAP HANA platform on high-performance, certified hardware, running the latest

in data protection software. Your deployment will be backed by the services and experience of a wide range of SAP

HANA experts. To begin your transition to accelerated business insights, contact your Hitachi representative and

visit hitachivantara.com/en-us/solutions/application-ecosystem/sap-solutions.html.

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