Cisco IT Case Study Summary

Migrating Enterprise Applications from HP Superdome to Cisco UCS

How Cisco IT Migrates Critical Applications from HP

Superdome to Unified Computing System
Moving Oracle and SAP environments to
BUSINESS BENEFITS
private cloud supports enterprise goals for
● Use s one-tenth the space
capacity, resiliency, and innovation.
● Use s less than one-third the power
● Use s fewer than half the cables
Cisco is m oving its production environment to Richardson,
● Increases business agility by enabling
15-minute server provisioning Texas. Major goals include are minimizing total cost of ow nership
● Accelerates performance for Oracle (TCO), acquir ing adequate capacity for grow th, ensuring business
applications and SAP transactions
continuity, and enabling business innovation through rapid
provisioning.
“Moving the Oracle and SAP environments
to the Cisco Unified Computing System has
been transformative. Performance To meet these goals, Cisco is consolidating to the x86 processor
increased, total cost of ownership platform and tw o operating systems: Linux and Unix. Prev iously,
decreased, and the conversion has been
extremely smooth.” approximately 200 HP Superdome and mid-range HP- UX servers in
Jag Kahlon, IT Architect the U.S. and Europe hosted Oracle RA C and Oracle eBusiness Suite.
In the Georgia data center, Cisco used HP- UX Itanium servers to host
SA P ECC 6 and SA P Exchange Infrastructure (XI).

To continue the journey to the private cloud, Cisco is system atically m oving Oracle and SAP applications
and databases from the HP- UX platforms to Cisco Unified Com puting System . Four Cisco UCS Blade Servers
in Richardson houses the Oracle RA C 11g database, Goal to Commission ( G2C) applications, and Cisco channel
partner database. SA P ECC 6 and SA P XI operate on a Cisco Un ified Computing System in Georgia, in a test
environment.

Cisco is saving on data center space, power, and cooling. The four-node Cisco Unified Computing System
occupies one-tenth the space of the tw o-node HP Superdome it replaced, consumes less than one-third the pow er,
and uses few er than half of the cables. Licensing, support, and maintenance costs are also low er on the x86
processor.

Business agility has increased. Deploy ing a new server takes 15 minutes, compared to six to eight w eeks on HP
Superdome.

Cisco has im proved resilience. If a Cisco UCS blade server fails, Cisco can provision another server in a few
minutes by applying a Cisco UCS Manager service profile, and then use V Mw are tools to move the application.

Oracle and SAP application perform ance has increased, im proving the user experience. Response times for a
G2C application decreased from 3.6 to 2.9 milliseconds. Average processing time for SA P Dialog transactions
decreased from 217.7 to 90.7 milliseconds, and average processing time for SA P HTTP transactions decreased from
7.1 to 6.3 milliseconds.

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