Case Study

SAP HANA Infrastructure Includes SUSE and VMware

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Critical Needs:

Keeping user experience at the focal point, we at Mafatlal Industries Ltd. offer the widest range of high quality fabrics. With the OEKO-TEX Quality Certification and the ISO 9001:2008 series of quality standards, we have been able to continuously meet the every shifting needs of our consumer.

From Shirting’s, Suiting’s, Denims, Corduroys, School, Corporate & Institutional Uniforms, Bed & Bath Linen and Ready-mades, each product at Mafatlal is an amalgamation of passion and research.

New SAP HANA infrastructure and VMware infrastructure which would serve fast production data’s and flexibility to access from anywhere through Secure tunnel; 

The Infrastructure is hosted in NETMAGIC Datacenter-Mumbai.

What Creative Infotech suggested:

• We had implementedPhysical and Virtualize infrastructure using VMWare hypervisor and SLES SAP Edition Linux.,
• 2xPhysical Appliance for Production under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Edition with OS Cluster,
• 2xVMWare HA Node withHPE DL360 Gen9which are direct connect to HPE MSA 2042 SAN for their workloads.
• 2xHPE 8Port SAN Switch for Servers and SAN Storage Connectivity
• 2xHPE 5510 24P Switches for Network Connectivity

Production Layer: two Production Appliances are running in SLES ENT SAP Edition with OS Cluster, which is give High-Availability when one server goes Failed.

Application Layer: Two VMware Server Appliance are running with vSphere 6.5 with shared SAN Storage under the High Availability Cluster which managed by vCenter Virtual Appliance.

How our solutions helped the client:

SAP HANA is tailored to enhance business outcomes as it is one of the prime data management platforms that came into being first and also is competent enough to handle all transactions and also memory analytics on a single data copy. Data integration and quality are other 2 key characteristics. It made a huge difference in terms of handling the data work and integration at the site. We set up a very simplified setup and configuration of new server deployment. Effortless management of their entire infrastructure. A fully secured DC site for customers. It enhanced the ease of customers.

Site Challenges:

Site having one of the SAP HANA Developer Vender, so we have to tune-up together as coming multiple configuration and patching as they required for their SAP HANA Develop and customization.

Solution Overview

Hardware:

	2 x HPE DL380 Gen9 8SFF(SLES Production Cluster)
	3 x HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF(VMware High-Availability Cluster for their Application Layer)
	1 x HPE MSA2042 SAN Storage (VMware Virtualization Workload)
	2 x HPE 5520 24P Network Switch
	2 x HPE 8Port SAN Switch

Software:

	VMware vSphere 6 Essential Plus 6P Kit
	SLES 12 for SAP Edition Two License for Production Cluster
	SLES 12 for SAP Edition Unlimited VM Three License for Application Layer as per Host

Business Benefits

By managing a virtual infrastructure, IT professionals can gain flexibility in systems and applications and have more time to help develop and drive key strategic initiatives for the business. Virtual infrastructures are separate from each other, which creates a security barrier between them. This makes them less vulnerable to viruses, bugs, and other problems that can be carried through a network.