Migrating SAP from UNIX to SUSE Linux

Migrating SAP solutions from
UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise
When it's Business Critical, make the smart choice

Joanne Harris
Marketing Director
jharris@suse.com

SAP installations on Linux steadily
increasing each year (SCN)
• Most SAP UNIX migration goes to Linux
• Most SAP solutions on Linux are on SUSE

Source: The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data-Centers, RealTech Consulting, Oct 2012

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Why are customers moving away from RISC?

Cost Reduction Demand for Performance

IT Budget Squeeze New projects
Increasing project costs User growth
Support, maintenance costs Regulatory requirements

Business Challenges Platform Strategy

Server utilization
Standards based architecture
Space / Consolidation
Broadest solution portfolio
Power & Cooling
New platform for innovation
HW, OS, SW refresh

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Triggers for a SAP migration

• Lower TCO / Budget Constraints
– License and Maintenance
– Administrative Efficiency
– HW Standardization / Alignment Initiative
• Hardware / Technology Refresh
• New SAP workloads (i.e. HANA)
• SAP Upgrades
• Supportability issues with the Legacy UNIX/DB combination
• Virtualization of SAP landscapes
• Cloud Integration/Migration

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UNIX to SUSE Linux Enterprise

Typical benefits can include:

80% TCO Savings

99.999% Availability

60% Performance Improvement

Opportunity to realign funds to create Competitive Advantage

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SAP Migration Example

Source: The Trend from UNIX to Linux in SAP Data-
Centers, RealTech Consulting, Oct 2012

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Migrating to SUSE

80%

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When it’s business critical,
make the smart move…
#1 The leading platform for SAP solutions on Linux

#1 The recommended and supported OS of choice for SAP HANA

#1 SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications is the only
Enterprise Linux optimized for all SAP solutions

#1 The Linux and UNIX development platform for
SAP solutions

#1 First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for integration with
SAP NetWeaver

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SAP and SUSE
13+ years of technology and engineering collaboration

• Front runner technologies
‒ 1st Amazon EC2 OS for SAP
‒ 1st validated open source HA
‒ 1st validated virtualization

• Strategic OS for:
‒ SAP HANA
‒ SAP BWA
‒ SAP Business ByDesign

• Integrated Enterprise Support

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
The leading Platform for SAP Solutions on Linux

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
The only operating system optimized for SAP Applications

• Built in HA components to enable
you to protect Mission Critical
Applications
• Extended Update Cycle (18 months)
to fit your needs
• Enables High Performance of Large
Workloads
• Integrated Priority Support from
both SUSE and SAP
• Enables Fast and Easy Deployment
with Installation Wizard

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High Availability
with SUSE® Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension

• Service availability 24X7
• Shared and Scaled data-

24/7
AVAILABILITY
•

•
access
Virtualization Agnostic
Disaster tolerance
Goal: 100% UPTIME! • Scale network service
• User friendly tools
• Free Resource Agents

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High Availability Solutions for SAP
Validated best practices with partners at SAP Linux Lab
The First Linux distributor to certify HA extension for integration with SAP NetWeaver
Simple Stack Enqueue Replication

DRBD Data Sync HA in Virtual Environments

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SAP HANA: In-Memory Appliance
SUSE Linux Enterprise is the recommended and supported
Operating System of choice for SAP HANA

Major SAP customers that have deployed SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 pre-
SAP HANA, a real-time platform for loaded by all SAP HANA hardware vendors
analytics and applications

More on why SAP selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for use with SAP HANA
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Comprehensive Portfolio

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Software Deployment Simplified
with SUSE Studio
• Standardized software
delivery
• Cloud-ready images in
minutes
• Virtual applications at a
push of a button
• Reduced development
costs
• Accelerated time-to-
market

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SAP Solution Migration to
SUSE Linux Success
(see also Success Stories on SUSE.com)

CIR Food
Watch Video

CIR Food is a leading Italian food catering group which provides services to
over 1,000 small, medium and large companies across all industries in the
public and private sectors.

• Massive increase in data Moved SAP solution from 70% Savings from
UNIX to SUSE Linux migrating to SUSE Linux
volumes driven by
Enterprise Server for SAP
business expansion over CIR Foods can now
the years generate reports in
SUSE Linux Enterprise
seconds, not 20 minutes
Server for SAP Applications
• Existing UNIX based allows CIR Food to Enabled new analysis that
system struggled to leverage SAP enables them to proactively
perform analysis BusinessObjects Predictive adjust resources and
Analysis and perform operations
• Processes were slow and analysis in two main areas:
Savings were reinvested
generated inaccurate business forecasting and
into purchasing SAP HANA
reports budget planning

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Geberit

Read Full Case Study

Geberit, Switzerland, is a leading manufacturer of sanitary products with 16 production
facilities in Europe, China and the USA, and sells its products in 41 countries worldwide
sales of CHF 2.1 billion in 2011. Geberit relies on SAP applications for many of its
business processes, including sales, materials management, and invoicing.

• To standardize its IT server HP-UX Migration to Migration completed in
landscape to reduce the cost SUSE Linux Enterprise less than 12 months
and complexity of IT Server for SAP
operations Applications Hardware and software
licensing cost reduction
• To increase the flexibility of Virtualized servers around 50%
its SAP ERP solution by running on VMware
SAP ERP Performance
migrating from Intel Itanium-
Intel Xeon processors improvements of 22%
based servers to blade
servers based on Intel Xeon
processors
• To ensure High Availability

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Burton Snowboards


As a dynamic global enterprise, Burton operates 24/7 and requires the flexibility
to react quickly to changes in the marketplace. The IT department, in particular,
needs to provide consistent uptime and to be able to adapt to changing
business needs.

• HP-UX platform for SAP SAP BI, CRM, ERP, Portal 80% less server-related
required costs
- expensive hardware SUSE Linux Enterprise
- time-consuming Server 99.999% uptime
administration
- frequent downtimes Dell INTEL servers Reduced power consumption
by 30%
• SAP and Oracle upgrade SUSE Linux build-in
prompted platform evaluation automation tools Reduced administrative time
and costs by 40%
• UNIX replacement was cost
prohibitive

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When it’s Business Critical
Make the smart choice

www.suse.com/smart

More Information
SUSE Websites
• www.suse.com/smart

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications

• SUSE and SAP Alliance

• SUSE Linux Enterprise and SAP HANA

SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications
• Overview and Features

• Video Introduction

• Solutions Guide

• Success Stories

• Whitepapers

• Best Practice Guides (High Availability)

• FAQ

• Technical Information

• Evaluation Download

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