It was a nice experience !!
I traveled from San Jose to Minneapolis to do the FIRST Customer Implementation of SAP HANA Solution from Cisco.
I was alone. Actually, I was working in Cisco,SAVBU Group and but for this I have to represent myself from Cisco Advanced Services as at that time, myself and Ulrich were only capable guys to complete the task.
For SAP HANA 1.0 validation/certification, Cisco C460 UCS Server is used. The Cisco UCS C460 M2 High-Performance Rack-Mount Server is designed with the performance and reliability to power compute-intensive, enterprise-critical standalone applications and virtualized workloads. The system is a four-rack-unit (4RU) rack-mount server supporting up to four Intel Xeon E7-4870 series processors, up to 1 TB of DDR3 memory in 64 slots, and 12 small form-factor (SFF) hotpluggable SAS and SATA disk drives.
Abundant I/O capability is provided by 10 PCI Express (PCIe) slots supporting the Cisco UCS C-Series network adapters, with an eleventh PCIe slot reserved for a hard disk drive array controller card. Additional I/O is provided by two Gigabit Ethernet LAN-on-motherboard (LOM) ports, two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and two dedicated out-of band (OOB) management ports. The following list summarizes the specifications:
● Two or four multicore Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800s, for up to 40 processing cores
● 64 dual inline memory module (DIMM) slots for industry-standard DDR3 memory
● Up to 12 front-accessible, hot-swappable, 2.5-inch SAS, SATA drives or SSDs
● Ten PCIe slots: eight Generation 2 and two Generation 1, and four half-length and six three-quarter-length
● Remote management through an integrated service processor that also implements policy established in Cisco UCS Manager
● Local keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) access through front console ports on each server
● OOB access by remote KVM, Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, and virtual media (vMedia) as well as Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
Cisco UCS C460 M2 Rack Server
2.40GHz Intel Xeon CPU E7-4870
8GB DDR3 : Qty 64
300 GB SAS Drive : Qty 12
LSI MegaRAID Controller 9260-8i : Qty 1
Fusion-IO 320GB MLC ioDrive : Qty 2
Broadcom 5709 Quad Port 10/100/1GB NIC : Qty 1
Consulted SAP Note Details for the installation
1523337 SAP In-Memory Computing Engine 1.0: Central Note
1514967 Information about SAP HANA 1.0 that was released after the documentation was published
1514966 SAP HANA 1.0: Sizing SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance 1.0 / Information about the sizing of this release
1513496 Release Restrictions for SAP HANA 1.0 / Customer information about restrictions for the production use of certain functions in this release
1560398 SAP HANA 1.0: Statistic Server In-Memory Computing Engine Describes features and functions of the IMCE statistics server
1555691 SAP HANA 1.0: Manual Update Describes the manual update of SAP HANA and its components
Within Data Center, I have done the following:
- LSI MegaRAID Controller Configuration of disks required for OS and DB/SAP
- Basic Configuration e.g. RAID for Internal Storage Disks
- OS Installation & Configuration as per Medtronic requirement
- Fusion IO Cards Installation & Configuration
- .rpm Builds for IO Cards
- Loading and Setting the ioDrive ioMemory VSL Facility (Driver)
- Creating RAID, Mounting File Systems for Fusion IO Cards
- Firmware Update
- Basic I/O,Throughput Testing and checking output with SAP Benchmark data
- JAVA Installation
Along with Greg Monaco, SAP HANA Server, Client and Studio installed.
Version used : HANA 1.0 Rev.5, later Rev.6
People associated/interacted with -
Medtronic : Jon Despotes, Parthiban Krishnaswamy
SAP : Greg Monaco, Mary Foster, John Leighton, Hari Ashvini, Austin Chinn
CISCO : Satinder Sethi, Ulrich Kleidon, Ben Eiref, Siva Sivakumar, Michael Missbach, Rajiv Thomas, George Chen
What is the outcome of this project/assignment :
It was the first SAP HANA Implementation from Cisco side.
So, there were lot of doubts or questions came in front of SAP, Customer and Cisco.
I recommended that, Cisco has to have an agreement with SAP to design responsibility matrix for SAP HANA Installation and SAP HANA Support :
- What steps need to be done from Cisco
- SAP is responsible for which steps
- What are the areas – customer can take care on its own.
About Medtronic:
Medtronic is the world’s largest medical technology company, offering an unprecedented breadth and depth of innovative therapies to fulfill our Mission of alleviating pain, restoring health, and extending life. Last year, more than 9 million people benefited from our medical therapies, which treat cardiac and vascular diseases, diabetes, and neurological and musculoskeletal conditions.
Founded 1949; Employees 46,000; Countries Served 140
World Headquarters Minneapolis, Minnesota
Business Units Cardiac & Vascular Group
•Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management
•Coronary
•Endovascular Therapies
•Structural Heart
Restorative Therapies Group
•Neuromodulation
•Spine
•Surgical Technologies
Diabetes Group