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Nongfu Spring’s IT department spent less than
two months between 27 June and 20 August 2011
completing the switchover and getting the database
online. In the rst phase, it removed only the links
from the Oracle data mart to the Business Objects (BO)
and, through data service, extracted the data in the
data mart and sent it to SAP HANA 1.0 to be displayed
on the portal through B04. This process solved two
problems: (1) data is presented quickly, and (2) some
logic calculations are done in SAP HANA 1.0, thus the
problem of some logic calculations being restricted in
traditional databases ceased to exist.
This way, Nongfu Spring was able to perform data
computing much faster. However, there was still no
real-time data analysis. As such, in the second phase,
Nongfu Spring extended the structure. It replaced its
traditional data mart with SAP HANA 1.0 and used it
as the database of its analysis system. This solved
the problem of not being able to perform real-time
data update and analysis. SAP HANA 1.0 supports only
certied products from HP, IBM and Fujitsu. As HP had
devised ve special server conguration solutions
(x-small, small, medium, medium+ and large) after the
introduction of SAP HANA 1.0 by SAP, Nongfu Spring
selected HP’s medium+ conguration as the hardware
platform. This decision was based both on the scale
of its business and its input-output ratio, and their
positive long-term relationship with HP. The company
also chose the HP ProLiant DL980 server with four
high-performance CPUs and 512GB internal memory
for the SAP HANA 1.0 hardware platform.
The HP ProLiant DL980 server has very powerful
scale-up capabilities. Even with higher business
volume in the future, Nongfu Spring will be able to
scale up to the large conguration. At the same time,
as a high-end x86 server, DL980 also uses HP’s unique
PREMA structure that comes with smart CPU caching
and redundant system fabric, giving it signicantly
higher performance. In addition, with DL980 being an
eight-socket server for mission-critical operations,
HP has, to a considerable extent, provided both the
manageability and recoverability of a small computer.
If the machine malfunctions, it is able to locate and
repair the fault quickly.
At the same time, HP has also added the Linux
operating system to the DL980 server to give Nongfu
Spring unparalleled system security and operability.
The Linux operating system is able to integrate
well with SAP HANA 1.0. Of note, the DL980 can be
congured with an input/output (I/O) acceleration
card independently, to load the data inside the hard
disk faster into the internal memory and signicantly
expand the I/O bus width between the hard disk
and internal memory. These characteristics make
HP ProLiant DL980 very suitable for large databases
such as SAP HANA 1.0, as well as virtualisation
and applications.