Sizing mySAP Business Suite

Susanne Janssen

Performance & Benchmark Group

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Contents

Sizing Approaches Preconditions and assumptions SAP Quick Sizer

Examples Sizing CRM Sizing Employee Self Service

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mySAP Business Suite Deliverables at a Glance

mySAPWorkplace

Marketplace

Company/Organization

boundary

Web Services

Information and services within company context

Information and services outside company context

Business scenarios

Communities

HostedApplication

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Sizing Approaches

Based on proven scalability Performance tests, benchmarks, customer feedback

Applications used Users

Different user behavior Throughput (Dialog and Batch)

Quantity structure Peak times Load profile during the day

Multiplied by weight factors Based on

Benchmarks Performance measurements

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Side step: Other Factors that Influence Sizing

Considered to a certain extent Load profile mySAP Business Suite edition Business processes are

Comparable to tested SAP Standard Application Benchmarks Optimized for high throughput

Sizing doesn't consider Special data constellation Reporting Customizing Customer add-ons Platform, RDBMS

ThroughputResponse times

SAP and Partner

R/3 Version

DB Version

OS Version

Hardware

Customer

Numberof users

Amount of Reporting /

Batch

Load profile

Customizing

Reporting

Dialog / BatchPerformance /

Sizing

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Example for Load Factors (Release 4.6)

SAP Business Component (Standard Application Benchmark)

Rel. CPU-Usage / Dialogstep

0,00

1,00

2,00

3,00

4,00

5,00

6,00

7,00

FI WM MM SD PP ATO

Platform & Release dependent

13%

8%

79%

11%9%

80%

9%10%

81%

11%11%

77%

16%10%74%

6%6%

88%

Update

Database

Dialog

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Characteristics of the Quick Sizer

Available On the Service Marketplace 24 hours a day, 7 days a week For customers and partners For free

Easy-to-use web interface

In the framework of ASAP Road Map

Linked to GoingLive Check

Monitored by monthly Sizing Meeting

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ThroughputResponse times

SAP and Partner

R/3 Version

DB Version

OS Version

Hardware

Customer

Number of users

Amount of Reporting /

Batch

Load profile

Customizing

Reporting

Dialog / Batch

Factors that Influence Sizing

Performance /Sizing

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The Sizing Process

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Participating Technology Partners

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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http://service.sap.com/quicksizing

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Some Results of the Quick Sizer

Categories Memory, CPU, disk

SAPS (see published results)

Largest contributors Helpful to verify business process Functionality

Largest Indexes

Load profile

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Quick Sizer and Benchmarks

Published Results http://www.sap.com/benchmark SAPS Find an exemplary configuration

Platform Partner

Number of benchmark

users

mySAP Business

SuiteComponent

Average dialog

response time (sec)

Dialog steps/ hour Line

items/ hour

Operating system - Release

DBMS Release

R/3 Release

Benchmark was

conducted in

Database & application

server (Central Server)

Central server

memory (MB)

Central server CPU

utilization

Date of publication

(dd/mm/ yyyy)

IBM 255 SD 1.95

77,000 (1,280 SAPS) 25,670

WinNT 4.0

Oracle 8.0.4

4.0 BRaleigh,

USA

Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-way

SMP, Pentium III Xeon 550 MHz, 2

MB L2 cache

4,096 99%

22/10/1999 Certification

No. 1999033

IBM 225 SD 1.94

68,000 (1,130 SAPS) 22,670

WinNT 4.0

DB2 UDB V6.1

4.0 BToronto, Canada

Netfinity 7000 M10, 4-way

SMP, Pentium III Xeon 500 MHz, 2

MB L2 chache

4,096 97%

30/07/1999 Certification

No. 1999020

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When Should the Quick Sizer be Used?

Blueprint RealizationGo Live &Support

Project Preparation Prep to Go Live

Quick Sizer

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Sizing Beyond the Scope of the Quick Sizer

Analysis in Single-User-Mode Development or correction system Performance review

Measurements CPU, database, memory Linear extrapolation

Multi-user behavior Sizing

Multi user load tests Verify calculations Verify scalability, parallelization

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Summary and Information

The design of the mySAP Business Suite architecture is the basis for high scalability

Sizing mySAP Business Suite is possible through sizing the various mySAP Business Suite elements while ensuring scalability.

Transparent and consistent sizing methodologies

mySAP Business Suite is well prepared for high volume internet transaction rates

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