SAP on SLES Business Critical Systems on SLES Wednesday 8

SAP on SLES
Business Critical Systems on SLES
Wednesday 8 th of October 2014
Agenda
• Swiss Re – a short overview
• SAP in Swiss R E
• The journey to SLES
• SLES is ready for business critical applications
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Swiss Re is a leading and highly diversified global
re/insurance company
Headquarters, Zurich
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151 years of experience in providing wholesale
re/insurance and risk management solutions
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We deliver both traditional and innovative offerings
in Property & Casualty and Life & Health that meet our
clients' needs
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A pioneer in insurance-based capital market solutions,
we combine financial strength and unparalleled
expertise for the benefit of our clients
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Our financial strength is currently rated:
Standard & Poor’s: AA-/stable; Moody’s: Aa3 /stable;
A.M. Best: A+/stable
Armonk, New York
The “Gherkin”, London
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SAP in S wiss Re
SAP on S LES supports business critical
application such as HR , S R M, CR M,
Finance and Insurance
All 8 4 SAP S ystems are running on S LES
Database size between 10 0 GB up to 2 .5
Terabyte
110 0 0 employees using daily/weekly SAP
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The journey to SLES
2015
2014
2013
Upgrade from
SLES10 to SLES11.
Successful
migration from SAP
on W indows to
SAP on SLES on
VmW are.
Further SAP
migrations of
physical servers to
VmW are.
2011
Swiss R e
migrated all SAP
Systems from
Solaris to
SLES10 .
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SLES is ready for business critical applications
Availability
Continuity
• In 2013 the production SAP Systems on SLES achieved a 99.95%
availability over the year.
• From January to August 2014 we have reached 99.99% availability.
• Yearly SAP system recovery exercise.
• Disaster Recovery exercise successfully performed in 2013 and 2014 .
Capacity
• Swiss Re SAP Systems are handling 11000 users but could handle more.
• Simple scale out SAP Systems by adding more SLES servers.
• Scale up for one system to 100GB possible.
Performance
• No performance complaints from our customers due to 10GB Ethernet and
8GB FC adapters.
• Peak scale for Year-End or for Compensation Cycles are handled without
any issues.
Security
• SLES can handle Swiss Re security requirements (ssh login).
• Netgroups, LDAP integration.
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Q&A's
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thereof or for any damage or loss resulting from the use of the information contained in this
presentation is expressly excluded. Under no circumstances shall Swiss Re or its Group
companies be liable for any financial or consequential loss relating to this presentation.
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