From Traffic Jams to Scaling Your SAP HANA and Oracle ERP Databases

Living near Frankfurt in central Germany, I often drive through the bustling streets of this financial hub, where every business seems to pulse with ambition. A few months ago, I helped a friend who works at a small logistics company in Offenbach. His ERP system was struggling to keep up with growing orders, causing delays that frustrated his team and clients.

Watching his business stall reminded me of a traffic jam on the A5 (the Autobahn connecting cities like Heidelberg, Baden-Baden, Karlsruhe and Frankfurt) – everything slows down when the system can’t handle the load. That experience drove home the importance of a scalable, high-performance enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, which is exactly what Hitachi Vantara and Eviden deliver for businesses facing similar challenges.

At the heart of every successful business lies a robust ERP system, powered by critical databases like SAP HANA and Oracle. But as transaction volumes grow and data demands skyrocket, slow databases can bottleneck operations, stalling business growth. The solution? A high-performance infrastructure solution – e.g., one offered by Hitachi Vantara and Eviden – that accelerates your ERP, drives efficiency and maximizes your investment.

The ERP Challenge: Speeding Up Critical Databases

Modern businesses depend on ERP to optimize operations, from supply chain management to financial reporting. As databases expand, handling millions of daily transactions, performance can slow. This is particularly noticeable in online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, where speed is often important. Sluggish performance from your SAP HANA or Oracle databases can hinder insights, frustrate users and weaken your competitive edge.

Investing in a solution that speeds up these databases isn’t just a technical upgrade – it’s a strategic move to drive business growth. A solution including Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) and Eviden BullSequana SH series servers delivers a modular, high-performance application and data infrastructure that transforms your ERP environment, on-premises or in the cloud.

Delivering Unmatched Scalability for Growing Businesses

Scalability is the cornerstone of a future-proof ERP system, ensuring it can keep pace with your business, as well as handle increasing transaction volumes. Not to mention making sure your in-memory database grows without compromising performance.

Hitachi Vantara and Eviden’s joint solution offers:

• Storage Scalability: VSP One Block scales to 33M IOPS and 69 petabytes per VSP 5600, supporting up to 500 SAP HANA nodes in a VSP E1090 virtual storage scale out (VSSO) configuration. It also integrates with Oracle.
• Compute Scalability: Eviden BullSequana SH servers, powered by Intel 4th-generation Sapphire Rapids processors, scale from 2 to 16 sockets with up to 32TB of memory in a single node. This supports massive SAP HANA and Oracle workloads, enabling seamless growth.
• Granular Growth: Unlike competitors, which either do not allow scalability with additional CPUs and memory or requires larger incremental upgrades with 4 socket step-size, this solution provides finer granularity with 2 sockets per additional module, protecting your investment as your in-memory database and/or your required CPU performance grows.

Transform Your ERP Environment with Scalability to Drive Growth

Experience rapid data loading from multiple sources, enabling quicker consolidation in your data warehouse. Enhanced query performance makes accessing and extracting critical data faster than ever, accelerating time to insights and value.

Performance That Drives Business Value

Performance is where this solution shines. With 39-microsecond latency and up to 33M IOPS, VSP One delivers lightning-fast data access with VSP 5600. Eviden’s BullSequana SH servers, the world’s fastest for SAP HANA, offer up to 260% higher performance and double the memory of previous generations. Recent SAP Business Warehouse benchmarks demonstrate scalability from 6.5B to 78.3B records, ensuring rapid query responses for SAP HANA and Oracle.

For ERP systems, this translates to faster application response times and insights, and a significant boost to your return on investment (ROI). If you’re consolidating with Virtual storage scale out configuration for SAP HANA workloads, this solution delivers efficiency and speed.

Sustainability and Reliability

Hitachi Vantara leads the industry in sustainability, offering the highest IOPS per watt and independently certified carbon footprint reports for VSP One platforms. The 100% Data Availability Guarantee, backed by eight nines of hardware availability, ensures your ERP system is always online.

Why Invest in Your ERP Database

A faster ERP database doesn’t just improve IT performance – it accelerates your entire business. By modernizing your SAP HANA or Oracle environment with Hitachi Vantara and Eviden, you empower your workforce with real-time insights, streamline operations, and stay ahead of the competition. The money is in the ERP, and this solution maximizes its value.

Conclusion: Get Ready to Accelerate Your ERP

Just like my friend’s logistics company in Offenbach now thrives with a smoother ERP system, your business can avoid the bottlenecks that inhibit growth. Don’t let slow databases hold you back.  With over 25 years of expertise working with SAP, and our collaboration with Eviden since 2016, we can help you get moving quickly.

Find out more about transforming your enterprise apps or connect with your Hitachi Vantara representative to explore how we can help.

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• Solution Profile: Accelerate SAP HANA Performance With Hitachi Vantara and Eviden
• Solution Profile: Maximize Your SAP HANA Investment
• Webpage: Enterprise Applications | Application Modernization
• Reference Architecture Guide: SAP HANA Platform in a Scale-up TDI Configuration using the Eviden BullSequana SH Series