HP LeftHand P4000 iSCSI SAN for SAP landscapes with HP BladeSystem and HP ProCurve

White Paper Published By: Riverbed

For entry-level to mid-sized SAP customers who are already comfortable with an iSCSI-based, Microsoft Windows and SQL Server landscape, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN family offers a total storage solution for virtualized or non-virtualized HP servers.

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Published:	Nov 16, 2009
Type:	White Paper
Length:	24 pages

HP LeftHand P4000 iSCSI SAN for SAP
landscapes with HP BladeSystem and HP
ProCurve - configuration and performance
Table of contents Executive summary ............................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 2 Benefits of iSCSI for a SAN ............................................................................................................... 3 Why use an HP LeftHand SAN for SAP applications? ........................................................................... 4 Storage clustering ......................................................................................................................... 4 Network RAID .............................................................................................................................. 4 Thin provisioning .......................................................................................................................... 5 Sample SAP configurations based on a LeftHand SAN ............................................................................. 6 Changing the storage workload ......................................................................................................... 6 Physical SQL Server database design ................................................................................................. 7 Configuration A ............................................................................................................................... 8 Configuration B ............................................................................................................................... 9 Performance testing ............................................................................................................................ 10 Objectives ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Test scenarios ............................................................................................................................ 11 Workload ..................................................................................................................................... 11 Test results ..................................................................................................................................... 12 No server-side bottlenecks ........................................................................................................... 12 Bare-metal versus virtualized server ............................................................................................... 13 RAID level comparison ................................................................................................................ 14 Storage node scalability .............................................................................................................. 15 Failover and recovery ................................................................................................................. 16 SAN model performance comparison ........................................................................................... 17 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Appendix ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Setting up and integrating a storage node ........................................................................................ 19 Network recommendations .............................................................................................................. 19 For more information .......................................................................................................................... 23

Executive summary
For entry-level to mid-sized SAP® customers who are already comfortable with an iSCSI-based SAP landscape featuring Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft SQL Server, the HP LeftHand P4000 iSCSI SAN family offers a total storage solution for virtualized or non-virtualized HP server platforms. In addition to all-inclusive fun... [download for more]

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