HP Enhanced ConvergedSystem Portfolio for SAP HANA

Hewlett-Packard Development company, LP announced updates to its ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA.

HP ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA

Upgraded with the newest Xeon Processor E7 V3 Family architecture, the ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA supports the latest-generation business suite, SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), to deliver real-time actionable insights. In addition, new Converged Storage plug-ins help increase flexibility and reduce customer risk through a backup and recovery solution for environments running SAP S/4HANA.

Today, thousands of global organizations run their mission-critical operations on the SAP HANA platform. As customers migrate to advanced workloads such as SAP S/4HANA, they will benefit from a sophisticated and powerful infrastructure platform.

HP ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA

The ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA is designed for power and reliability, while engineered to deliver high performance, HA and outstanding scalability that is fully compatible with the latest generation business suite, SAP S/4HANA. The ConvergedSystem 900 has been certified by SAP to run SAP HANA in flexible configurations, delivering up to 12TB of data in a single memory pool, with 16 sockets. It is a large appliance available for SAP S/4HANA.

Organizations with medium-sized SAP solution-based landscapes looking for an economical way to start their journey can look to the ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA. Now certified with the Xeon E7 V3 architecture, this integrated system offers a cost-effective platform for deployments of SAP S/4HANA.

“Our business is about gathering real-time intelligence, so it is imperative that we have the mission-critical hardware infrastructure to support our workload demands while delivering the continuity and reliability we require,” said Mike Bishop, MD, Prescient Traveler LLC. “The HP ConvergedSystem 500 has offered us the fastest path to value for SAP HANA, helping us optimize our business operations by responding quickly to changing business requirements and market trends.“

Streamline data management and double performance of data protection
HP announced customers running SAP HANA can further protect their databases for less by installing the StoreOnce plug-in for SAP HANA. With this plug-in, administrators can safeguard their databases by backing them up to StoreOnce appliances directly using SAP HANA studio. This solution helps eliminate the cost and complexity of intermediary data protection software typically required to protect databases. The result of using StoreOnce Backup with SAP HANA is that customers can perform backups quickly.

3PAR StoreServ storage system

In addition, the HP storage plug-in for SAP Landscape Virtualization Management supports version 2.1 of the SAP software, which gives customers increased management capabilities in SAP HANA-based environments running physically or virtually on 3PAR StoreServ storage. With this expanded support, administrators can clone production versions of SAP databases within minutes for increased productivity and business agility.

Consumption models for SAP-based HANA environments
As part of this announcement, HP extended the ConvergedSystem portfolio for SAP HANA to be offered as a modular approach using the SAP HANA tailored data center integration approach. Using this approach, customers can leverage their existing hardware and infrastructure components for their SAP HANA-based environments, providing further choice for organizations, even when working in heterogeneous environments.

Through a range of services and partnerships, HP brings specific expertise and assistance to help customers modernize their SAP HANA-based environments. HP Technology Services offers a selection of end-to-end consulting, migration, and integration services that enable speedy deployment, smooth migration, and BC. HP expanded its system integrator efforts with Deloitte Consulting LLP. They are collaborating to provide services to customers to modernize their infrastructure running SAP HANA, including business case development and strategy. Deloitte has established a ConvergedSystem 900 lab environment for SAP HANA for prototyping, solution incubation and customer pilots to accelerate time-to-value.

The ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA with Xeon Processor E7 V3 Family architecture will be available worldwide starting late summer 2015.

The StoreOnce plug-in for SAP HANA is available at no cost to existing StoreOnce Backup customers beginning in May 2015 as part of an early access program with availability scheduled for June 2015. Use of the plug-in requires an StoreOnce Catalyst software license.

The storage plug-in for SAP Landscape Virtualization Management is available at no cost.