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Tripling Data Capacity for SAP HANA*
The SAP HANA platform was developed jointly by SAP and Intel to deliver
unprecedented performance and scalability for complex analytics acting on large
data sets. More recently, Intel and SAP have collaborated to optimize SAP HANA for
a new generation of Intel® server components.
• The Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 family provides dramatic performance and
scalability enhancements versus previous generation processors, including up
to 2x faster performance for complex, ad hoc queries,
a
and up to 3 times the
memory capacity
b
(up to 6 TB per 4-socket server and up to 12 TB per 8-socket
server). For more information, visit: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/
processors/xeon/xeon-processor-e7-family.html
• The Intel® Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Series provides high-performing
persistent storage for SAP HANA, which is essential for implementing high
availability with zero data loss and without sacricing in-memory performance.
Conguring SSD-to-memory capacity in a four-to-one ratio allows the in-
memory database to spill over into a high-speed RAID array for logging, user
space requirements, extended data capacity, time series data, and warm cache
solutions. For more information, visit: www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/
solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-dc-s3700-series.html
• The Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 Family offers some
of the most exible and scalable Ethernet adapters available for today’s data
centers. These adapters support unied networking and data center bridging
(DCB). DCB enhances the network-attached storage and Internet small computer
interface (iSCSI) by offering trafc differentiation at the link layer. DCB can be
used to converge a variety of applications, such as local area networks, storage
area networks, and high-performance computing. For more information, visit:
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/converged-network-
adapters.html
Together, these advances dramatically increase the per-node scalability of SAP
HANA, so enterprise customers have more headroom for supporting large-scale
SAP Business Suite applications and other mission-critical workloads.
a
Source: Intel internal measurements November 2013. Congurations: Baseline 1.0x: Intel® E7505 Chipset
using four Intel® Xeon® processors E7-4870 (4P/10C/20T, 2.4 GHz) with 256 GB DDR3-1066 memory
scoring 110,061 queries per hour. Source: Intel Technical Report #1347. New Generation 2x: Intel® C606J
Chipset using four Intel® Xeon® processors E7-4890 v2 (4P/15C/30T, 2.8 GHz) with 512 GB DDR3-1333
(running 2:1 VMSE) memory scoring 218,406 queries per hour. Source: Intel Technical Report #1347.
b
On a 4-socket natively connected platform: Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family supports 64DIMMS, max
memory per DIMM of 32 GB RDIMM; Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 family supports 96DIMMs, max memory
per DIMM of 64 GB RDIMM. This enables a 3x increase in memory.
By supporting both AES-NI and Secure
Key, the Vormetric Data Security Manager
increases encryption security while
simultaneously reducing the performance
impact on both applications and the
supporting infrastructure.
Notes on platform support:
• AES-NI is supported in the Intel Xeon
processor E7 v2 family, as well as
the previous-generation Intel Xeon
processor E7 family, both of which are
certied for the SAP HANA platform.
(AES-NI is also supported in the Intel®
Xeon® processor E5 and E3 families.)
• Secure Key is supported in the Intel
Xeon processor E7 v2 family (and also in
the Intel Xeon processor E3 v2, E3 v3,
E5 v2, and E5 v3 families).
Powerful Performance with
Fully Encrypted Data
Vormetric Data Security is optimized
for AES-NI and Secure Key, so strong
data encryption can be implemented
pervasively without sacricing application
performance or overloading the SAP
HANA platform. This is especially true
when the SAP HANA platform is based
on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family,
which, in some cases, performs even
faster with encryption than without.
To verify the performance of SAP
HANA with Vormetric Data Security,
Intel, Vormetric, Virtustream, and SAP
conducted a series of performance
tests at SAP Co-Innovation Lab, a
global laboratory network in which SAP
collaborates with partners to develop
and test innovative new technologies and
solutions. The team tested the solution
on the SAP HANA platform based on the
Intel Xeon processor E7 product family,
and also on the SAP HANA platform based
on the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 product
family (see the sidebar, Tripling Data
Capacity for SAP HANA).
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Security in the Cloud for SAP HANA*