Optimize SAP HW DeploymentwithDell Active System Manager

Ondřej BačinaEnterprise Solutions Marketing Manager

Twitter: @OndrejAtDell

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„Dell is not just IT infrastructure we are much more than that“M. Dell

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Layers of complexity deploying & managing IT services

Infrastructure

Operations

Applications

IT Service Delivery

• Managing interoperability & other issues• Juggling multiple support contracts• Infrastructure managed within silos

• Delivering application best practices• Sizing for users and scaling• Ensuring performance & availability

• Expanding virtualization• Ensuring performance & capacity• Lowering operational costs

• Automation and orchestration• Lifecycle Management• Enabling self-service provisioning

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What if you could transform your IT environmentinto a unified, automated, service-centric data center?

Infrastructure Centric

Data Center

IT Service Centric

Data CenterBusiness View• Innovator• Service provider• Growth enabler

Characteristics• Elastic• Nimble• Modular• Integrated• Streamlined• High quality• Automated• Software-defined

Business View• Maintainer• Infrastructure provider• Cost center

Characteristics• Fixed• Slow

• Custom• Fragmented• Silo’ed• Unpredictable• Manual

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Shift your focus to service-centric IT managementwith Dell Active System Manager

Optimize IT operations by simplifying and unifying enterprise systems management

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Dell Active System ManagerFast, efficient and flexible

• Speed up time to production with automated onboarding, configuration and deployment

• Eliminate time-consuming steps and minimize risk through template-based automation

• Respond quickly and avoid disruption by easily scaling resources on the fly

• Lower your operating costs through more efficient use of IT resources

• Reduce errors and manage your environment efficiently with a unified console and highly intuitive interface

• Simplify complex infrastructure and workload deployments with reusable automation templates

• Build and deploy converged solutions that are tailored to your needs with an open and flexible automation tool

• Ensure investment protection with support for current and future IT resources, including Dell and third-party

• Integrate ASM into IT environments leveraging powerful ASM features and automated workflows

Increase flexibilitywith an open and extensible

architecture

Accelerate growth & innovationwith fast and responsive IT

automation

Optimize IT operationsby simplifying and unifying enterprise systems mgmt

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Active System ManagerUltimate speed and simplicity for the service-centric data center

Manual tasks can takedays, weeks, or months

Multiple administrators + Multiple tools + Manual process =

Potential failures/errors

Servers Storage Networking

Virtualization OS/Applications

With Active System Manager,in just minutes

Single administrator + Single tool + Automated process =

Reliable results, every time

Active System Manager

Unified Management & Automation

For IT Infrastructure & Services

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Discover

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Provision infrastructure and workloads in minutes

Dell Active System ManagerFastest path to production

to implement ASM and deploy new infrastructure

than Cisco UCS solution

71% fewer steps

Provision hardware and deploy an ESX cluster than Cisco UCS solution

94% fasterunder

3 minutes

Onboard, update, and configure new blade

infrastructure

*Principled Technologies Report, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.

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Dell Active System ManagerElegant simplicity, superior value

for ASM versus Cisco UCS Director *

95% lower cost

“Intuitive, wizard driven

automation makes ASM easier to use than a

Cisco UCS solution …” *

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6 stepsFor an administrator to deploy a new service *

*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.

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80% faster deployment

Free up valuable system administrator time

From set-up to deployment in under 16 minutes*

• Implement Dell Active System Manager and deploy your new infrastructure up to 80% faster than with a Cisco solution

• Less time deploying means more time innovating in the data center

*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.

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71% fewer steps

Reduce the risk of errors

Save set-up time and reduce the chance of human error*

• Active System Manager cut the number of steps to deploy a cluster and deliver services by 315 steps compared to the Cisco solution

• Fewer steps means faster and more accurate results

*Principled Technologies White Paper, Simplify deployment, save time with Dell Active System Manager, April 2015.

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Build the foundation for your private cloudWith essential capabilities, from onboarding through service delivery

Automated service delivery• Template-based provisioning of end-to-end

infrastructure and workload services

• Integration with cloud portals

Infrastructure lifecycle management• Comprehensive infrastructure lifecycle management,

including scaling of capacity

• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation

Rapid infrastructure deployment• Fast and efficient onboarding of new converged

infrastructure

• Initial configuration of servers, networks, storage

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Active System Manager High Level Architecture

NetworkServersStorageVirtualization Applications

Resource Modules

ASM Server Appliance

Resources & Applications

User Interface

3rd Party * Tools

REST API

IdentityMgmt

Resource Pooling

Service Templates

Database

Automated

Open

Automated

Comprehensive

Easy to Use

Automation

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View comprehensive inventory details

Wizard based chassis, blade, and IOM onboarding

Understand resource state

Manage heterogeneous resources

Define and utilize resource pools

Quickly discover, auto-inventory and onboard resources

Discover

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Easily define IT services and comprehensive infrastructure requirements via templates

Define

Graphically based easy-to-create templates

Best practices captured using in box or custom templates

Import existing templates to speed creation

Easily capture complex resource settings

Share templates with template portability

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Rapidly deploy templates to create services Deploy

Select templates from library catalog

Simple two button service deployment

Deploy a template multiple times

View deployment status and history

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Efficiently maintain services and infrastructure Maintain

Monitor service status

Retry failed services

Scale up and migrate running services

Link and launch to element managers

Baseline and update BIOS and firmware levels

Seamless ASM upgrades

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Dell Active System ManagerDelivering value to enhance Dell’s Enterprise Solutions and Strategy

Active System

Manager

Converged SolutionsUnified and comprehensive user experience for the deployment and ongoing lifecycle management of converged infrastructure and solutions

Future-ReadyEnterpriseOpen and extensible architecture unifies existing IT investments with choice and flexibility to adopt new technology or architectures in the future

Private CloudSimplify and automate IT service delivery for private cloud with foundational capabilities for dynamic, on-demand provisioning of resources from shared pools

Dell BlueprintsASM makes Dell Blueprints and reference architectures come to life with template-based automation for rapid, consistent and repeatable deployment.

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Active System ManagerKey features and benefits

Open and extensible architecture enables simplified integration of existing and future heterogeneous IT investments

Protect IT Investments

Service templates based on best practices ensure reliable, repeatable, and automated infrastructure and workload deployments

Increase accuracy and consistency

Simplify Management

Wizard-driven automation drastically reduces number of steps and amount of admin time required to onboard, configure and deploy infrastructure and workloads

VM

Accelerate IT Service Delivery

ReduceRisk

End to end automation reduces the number of manual touch-points resulting in fewer errors and improved IT service quality

Unified console & intuitive UI provide a consolidated view of infrastructure and workloads and simplify the onboarding, deployment and lifecycle management of IT resources

Service mobility provides abstraction of infrastructure configuration and identity information within service templates, enabling migration of workloads across servers and other devicesAvoid

Downtime

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Service MobilityImprove Service Availability

Spare Server Resource

MAC/WWN assigned to template, not hardware

PowerEdge M1000e

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Disaster Recovery Hardware basedData transfer managed by shared storage system

Data Center 1

Still appears as one system to user and applications(Allows use of secondary systems as QA/Dev when not in failover mode)

Data Center 2

Primary SAP HANA instance(Active)

Option 1 – Inactive standbySecondary SAP HANA instance

w/Inactive Standby System

Data transfer controlled by storage systemData transfer controlled by storage system

Option 2 – Standby & QA/DevSecondary SAP HANA instance w/Active QA/Dev, Inactive Stdby

Additional storage to support QA/Dev load

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Opportunity:

Accelerate and simplify delivery of IT services to University of Wisconsin end users

Solution:Integrated solution including Dell servers, networking fabric, and storage, with Active System Manager automation software

Results:• Consolidate and build a

private cloud infrastructure

• Offer IT as a campus service

• Respond more rapidly to user requests for IT resources and applications

Dell Active System Manager is an important part of the University of Wisconsin –Madison’s strategy to aggregate distributed campus computing infrastructure.It enables us to provide scalable, reliable, consistent, and efficient IT services.

Steve Krogull, Director Systems Engineering and Operations, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Keep up with evolving infrastructure demands

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Opportunity:Massive server and OS deployment and staging of OpenStack compute node installation

Accelerate IT service delivery by automating and centralizing workload & infrastructure deployment. Solution:Over 3000 Dell PowerEdge C-series cloud server blade systems (in 3 phases), with Active System Manager automation software

Results:Radical reduction in deployment times

Without ASM: ~20 man weeks to manually stage and install

With ASM: ~7 days to deploy with ASM automation

A reduction of 95% in initial deployment time

Scaling up a Federal Government Agency

The customer was impressed with Active System Manager’s capabilities for rapid deployment of their large scale server and OS environment. And after seeing the full feature set of ASM, the customer was grinning ear-to-ear as they realized how ASM will further simplify the lifecycle management of their IT environment.

Dell Major Accounts Manager, Federal Government

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Lokální úspěšná instalace

1TB SAP HANA for BW

- Předinstalováno OS/SAP

- Stačí pouze dokonfigurovat

- Dokoupena remoteinstalace

- Stačilo pouze připojit k internetu a kolega z Dell SAP Teamu dokonfiguroval

- Vše ostatní zařizoval Mibcon&SAP

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Let us help you on your journey to service-centric IT

Active System ManagerUnified Management and automation for private cloud and converged infrastructure solutions

Accelerate growth & innovationwith fast and responsive IT

automation

Optimize IT operationsby simplifying and unifying enterprise systems mgmt

Increase flexibilitywith an open and extensible

architecture

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Thank you

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