1. Linux on IBM z Systems (IBM Z) SAP Application Server Success stories — Jerry Hosch 28 Aug 2017
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2. IT landscapes create challenges for SAP clients
Explosive growth of SAP systems and storage
Sharp increases in SAP landscape complexity
High cost of business outages and lack of reliable systems recovery
Lack of infrastructure flexibility
Demands for improved service delivery
DEV
Multiple physical servers per SAP System
TEST QA
PROD
Multiple system landscapes per SAP functional solution
Multiple operational stages per SAP System
Cost of IT complexity associated with of SAP systems and storage infrastructure presents major challenges for large SAP deployments.
SAP systems require multiple servers per system and each system has multiple stages (Dev, Test, Production, etc) Many servers may be very lightly loaded at any given time making them excellent candidates for consolidation and simplification.
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3. SAP Landscape Consolidation
SAP applications on Linux co-located with Db2 on z/OS are most beneficial if you …
Grow or consolidate your SAP environment
Less operational management efforts, high administrator productivity supported by flexible resource management and unique arrangements for operation.
Need business resiliency
Ultra-high availability for data and services; unpredictable spikes in demand are handled reliably, resources are assigned dynamically where they are needed.
Best-of-Breed Data Serving
Handle high volumes of databases and transactions with ease; deliver fabulous throughout.
Integration and utilization
Integrate SAP applications with corporate data and applications; utilize existing skills and resources and extend them to your SAP solutions.
Linux on z Systems (IBM Z)
IBM Z, z/OS and Linux can help transforming the economics of your SAP environment to become more integrated, efficient and secure.
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4. Designed for competitive advantage The Strengths of Linux with IBM Z
Operational efficiency incl. co-location advantages
Qualities of service (RAS)
Security incl. pervasive encryption
Economic benefits
Simplicity, high performance and same arrangements for administration
Designed to avoid failures and near-continuous availability and DR solutions
Pervasive encryption enablement, RACF for z/VM and EAL 5+ certification
Life-cycle management cost can be considerably less vs x86 or public clouds
The right solution: Linux on IBM z Systems (IBM Z):
Reduced operational management efforts
One physical server versus a full room of servers with many cables and switches
Less physical network
Growth inside a server
IBM Z servers provide the largest Linux capacity inside a physical server - grow inside versus added a new data center
Lower software acquisition and licensing costs
SW pricing for one IFL is equivalent to one core of many distributed systems!
One IFL can run the workload of many distributed cores!
The more software is running on one core, the more savings will be achieved.
Integration of data and applications
Server capacity to bring together data and applications, eliminating silos
Lower floor-space and energy requirements
Highly securable
IBM Z servers include “security” features
Simpler data center is easy to secure
Easier disaster recovery
Several high availability and disaster recovery options
Simplicity & Efficiency
Data Center in a single server, with almost unlimited capacity, automated provisioning of resource sharing across multiple workloads, and same arrangements for administration, security, backup and disaster recovery
Integration & Co-location
Open APIs for seamless integration of many and multiple parallel workloads which communicate via high performance internal network, and are managed by centralized management
Trusted Operations
Leadership Availability & Disaster Recovery, designed to avoid or instantly-recover from failures, impressive horizontal and vertical scalability, advanced data-in-memory techniques, production system utilization rates of over 95%
Let’s consider availability of larger servers.
For several reasons, when implementing a virtualized deployment, it is generally best to use fewer, larger servers rather than a greater number of smaller servers.
From the hardware attributes standpoint, larger servers provide the following benefits:
Better overall performance for application sharing by increasing internal bandwidth
Fewer disk drives, adapters, and ports required
More effective memory sharing
More fault-tolerant features
From the administration standpoint, larger servers show the following benefits:
Fewer servers to order, install, maintain, and retire
Fewer hypervisor instances to manage
Fewer firmware patches to apply
Less time spent cabling
From the data center facilities perspective, larger servers allow for the following:
Better power utilization
Reduced floor space
Using large, virtualized servers to centralize workload enables better resource utilization (85% or better) and offers greater efficiency from a green (environmental) perspective.
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5. Manufacturing company5
Business challenge
To keep its US manufacturing business growing in a competitive market, this company must deliver top-quality products, super- fast. How could it meet those high expectations without breaking the bank?
Transformation
With SAP applications running on the IBM mainframe, this manufacturer can deliver high-quality products and responsive service, keeping customers happy and keeping the business on track for profitable growth.
“SAP and IBM Z allows us to operate an incredibly streamlined and seamless manufacturing process.”
—Spokesperson, manufacturing company
Business benefits
Improves
agility with lightning-fast performance and deep insight into operations
Sharpens
competitiveness, helping maintain market-leading edge
Boosts
profitability by driving tight control over operating costs
Manufacturing company
Focusing on quality and service excellence to outperform low-cost offshoring
Solution components
IBM DB2® for z/OS®
IBM System Storage® DS8870
IBM z/OS
IBM z/VM
IBM z13™
IBM Z server
SAP Business Suite
(Apr 2016)
(PDF)
Published workloads: SAP apps, DB2 for z/OS, z/OS, z/VM, Linux
IBM internal Reference:
A95L6X&appname=crmd (upd. Oct 2016)
Client Name: Manufacturing company
Company Background: This company designs, manufactures and markets industrial electric motors, drives, and mechanical power transmission products. The company sells its products to distributors and original equipment manufacturers in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Business challenge: To keep its US manufacturing business growing in a competitive market, this company must deliver top-quality products, super-fast. How could it meet those high expectations without breaking the bank?
The benefit: With rapid, seamless manufacturing operations, the company ships high-quality products to customers around the world in tight timeframes, driving growth and staying ahead of competition.
Pull Quote: “SAP and IBM z Systems allows us to operate an incredibly streamlined and seamless manufacturing process.”
—Spokesperson, manufacturing company
Solution components
Case study Link
This company designs, manufactures and markets industrial electric motors, drives, and mechanical power transmission products. The company sells its products to distributors and original equipment manufacturers in more than 70 countries worldwide.
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6. Major utility organization6
Business challenge
To combat lengthening response times for its mission-critical SAP business systems, this major utility targeted a scalable IT infrastructure to support its end-to-end processes.
“Without a doubt, our SAP and IBM solutions provide the headroom we need to accommodate significant business growth.”
—Spokesperson, major utility organization
Transformation
Many of this major utility’s processes, including finance, human resources, inventory and fleet management, depend on SAP applications. To keep up with increasing demand on its SAP solutions, the organization deployed a new IT infrastructure – enabling critical SAP application updates, reducing response times and helping it to manage its growing business effectively.
“Without a doubt, our SAP and IBM solutions provide the headroom we need to accommodate significant business growth.”
Spokesperson, major utility organization
Business benefits
50% reduction
in SAP application response times
8x faster
generation of external audit reports, ensuring regulatory compliance
monthly pay slip calculations
Major utility organization
Enabling business growth for all services with fast, robust mainframe platform for SAP applications
Solution components
IBM Z server
IBM System Storage® DS8870
IBM DB2® 10 for z/OS®
IBM z/OS V1.13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IBM Lab Services
IBM Migration Services
SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP SRM, SAP EP, SAP PI
(May 2015)
Published workloads: SAP Application on Linux, DB2 on z/OS, z/VM, RHEL
USE OF CLIENT NAME PROHIBITED
IBM Internal reference (last update Dec 2016)
Pull Quote: “Without a doubt, our SAP and IBM solutions provide the headroom we need to accommodate significant business growth.”
—Spokesperson, major utility organization
Company Background: This major utility aims to expand its services to new regions in its domestic market while continually enhancing customer services. To achieve these goals, the company wanted to ensure that it could onboard and manage new suppliers and customers without impacting service quality.
Solution Components:
Hardware
IBM® zEnterprise® EC12
IBM System Storage® DS8870
IBM System Storage SAN40B-4 Fibre Channel switch
IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library
Software
IBM DB2® 10 for z/OS®
IBM System z® Solution Edition for Enterprise Linux
IBM System z Solution Edition for SAP
IBM z/OS V1.13
IBM z/VM® V6.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Services
IBM Lab Services
IBM Migration Services
Applications
SAP ERP
SAP Supplier Relationship Management
SAP Business Warehouse
SAP Enterprise Portal
SAP Process Integration
Business challenge: To combat lengthening response times for its mission-critical SAP business systems, this major utility targeted a scalable IT infrastructure to support its end-to-end processes.
The benefit: Today, the utility organization has reduced response times for key SAP applications by an average of 50 percent, enabling it to manage key compliance and human resources processes up to eight-times faster.
Fast-growing enterprises must react quickly to ensure that they can continue to deliver high-quality customer services. “With IBM solutions supporting our mission-critical applications, we can keep the business running smoothly – even as the number of customers and suppliers increases.”
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7. 7
Business challenge
Cope with rapid workload growth while maintaining guaranteed response times according to SLAs. Ensure continuous availability of key systems. Decrease costs through use of zIIP and IFL specialty engines. Enable provisioning of new Linux on z Systems (IBM Z) application servers within minutes. Comply to highest security standards imposed by legal obligations to observe client and data confidentiality. Simplify administration.
“By migrating to IBM Z and conducting associated streamlining work, we were able to reduce our monthly operational costs for the mainframe environment by 30%.”
—Willi Lohmann, CEO of gkd-el
“Without a doubt, our SAP and IBM solutions provide the headroom we need to accommodate significant business growth.”
Spokesperson, major utility organization
Transformation
Deployed IBM z Systems (IBM Z) with IBM z Systems Integrated Information Processors (zIIP), IBM Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) processors, IBM z/VM to enable clients to run hundreds or even thousands of Linux servers on a single mainframe, IBM z/OS, and IBM System Storage DS8000 for data storage.
Business benefits
Significant reduction in downtime during SAP release upgrades
30% reduced total cost of ownership
Flexible yet easy-to-manage infrastructure
Efficiently balanced workload
gkd-el
Boosts SAP system throughput by 270 per cent and cuts costs by 30 per cent by migrating SAP solutions to IBM Z
Solution components
IBM Z server
IBM System Storage® DS8000
IBM DB2® for z/OS®
IBM z/OS
IBM z/VM
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP ERP
SAP Business Warehouse
Pre-approved for external use (Last update Sep 2016)
(German language – Mar 2009)x
Published workloads: SAP applications
IBM Internal reference:
(Last update Sep 2016)
The ability to provision new SAP application servers rapidly was another priority, and gkd-el also needed to comply with strict security standards around data and client confidentiality.
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8. Published workloads: SAP Business Suite applications
Baldor Electric Company
“We saw that our IBM Z platform had never suffered a hardware outage.
Our Linux environments, on IBM Z and on other servers, were similarly robust from an operating system perspective.“
—Mark Shackelford, Vice President of Information Services, Baldor Electric
The need: Following the success of a major consolidation project, Baldor Electric wanted to continue to drive down operational costs in its virtualized SAP Business Suite software environment.
The solution: Baldor runs its core SAP landscape on IBM Z. Its IBM DB2 for z/OS databases run in IBM z/OS partitions, while 70 virtual servers under z/VM provide Linux environments that act as SAP application servers. Baldor migrated data to the IBM System Storage DS8800 platform.
Benefits:
Lowered costs and cut complexity by eliminating 200 servers
Cut energy costs by more than 60%
Reduced time taken to generate sales reports from five hours to 13 seconds
Cut IT administration costs as a proportion of sales revenue by 50%
(Published Jan2013)
(upd Feb2017)
Published workloads: SAP Business Suite applications
NO IBM Internal reference
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9. Published workloads: SAP applications
Embasa improves data flows with SAP and IBM
The need: The company needed to find a high-performance, cost-effective way to introduce new software while continuing with the tried and trusted database solution. Its proposed operational software package, SAP, runs on the Linux operating system, and Embasa was keen to avoid introducing additional server platforms and a complex IT landscape.
The solution: To support the new workload, Embasa upgraded its IT environment to an IBM Z server with seven central processors to run z/OS workload, … to run specific DB2 transactions, and six IFL processors to support the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server hosted on z/VM.
Benefits:
Consolidating multiple workloads to IBM Z has avoided the need to add smaller systems to the data center, making space available while cutting energy and cooling requirements
Internal connections between applications and database eliminate external cabling, network switches and power supplies, further simplifying the system landscape, which is now easier to understand and maintain
The ability to run the Linux operating system alongside IBM z/OS made the platform a strong candidate for the new applications.
This commercially attractive solution gave Embasa the confidence to go ahead with the implementation of SAP applications on Linux on the IBM z Systems (IBM Z) platform.
Pre-approved for external use - IBM Internal reference: (Empresa Baiana de Águas e Saneamento S.A.)
(Last update Jul 2016)
(Jul 2011)
Published workloads: SAP applications
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10. Published workloads: SAP applications NO IBM Internal reference
University of Arkansas
Creates new learning with SAP and IBM
Business need: Ensuring students gain access to commercial-scale databases, enterprise software and high-performance infrastructure can strain the resources of even the most progressive institutions.
Solution: The University of Arkansas, supported by local businesses, and by SAP and IBM, has implemented a complete SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse application landscape on an IBM Z server running Linux. Businesses have contributed copies of anonymized commercial databases, which run on IBM DB2 for z/OS, to provide a real-world education environment.
Benefits:
Students have access to a world-class enterprise-scale server, complete with commercial data and the latest software and applications
Free licenses for the entire SAP application suite for IBM Z server and IBM software components allow students to learn the latest techniques on the most current software.
"The emphasis is on business intelligence, which requires high- performance infrastructure such as Linux on z Systems (IBM Z).
A typical example would be finance students accessing the SAP Controlling and Profitability Analysis application.“
—Christine Davis, Executive in Residence at Walton College
(Jul 2009)
Published workloads: SAP applications
NO IBM Internal reference
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