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Crank Your BI Performance up to 11 - Sizing, T

Performance TestingJames Rapp Jonathan Brown

Innovation Center Network, Silicon Valley Active Global Support



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Pattern Book Overview

H o w - T o

• A pattern bookis a 'how to' ofan actualdeployment /upgrade of SAPBusinessObjectsBI softwaredocumented asprecisely as

possible. L i v e E x a m p l e

• A pattern bookis a manual withstep by stepinstructions onhow tosuccessfullydeploy / test /upgrade SAPBusinessObjects

BI softwareusing a liveexample E

x i s

t i n g P a t t e r n s

• BI 4.1 Releasehow to Upgrad(from 3.1) andUpdate (from 4.0) Patterns

• BI 4.0 Release on Linux andWindows Patterns

• BOE XI 3.1Release - on WindowsPattern

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Pattern+Books+-+Pattern+Book+on+BI+4.1+Upgrade

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Pattern+Books+-+Pattern+Book+on+BI+4.1+Update


http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BIP+on+Linux+with+Tomcat+and+Sybase+ASE+Pattern+Book

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BIP+on+Windows+with+Mobile+and+Explorer+Pattern+Book


http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+Business+Intelligence+Platform+Pattern+Books






http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/BIP+on+Linux+with+Tomcat+and+Sybase+ASE+Pattern+Book


http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/SAP+BI+Pattern+Books+-+Pattern+Book+on+BI+4.1+Upgrade




Phase 4 – Detailed Objectives

Showcase… that the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 release is capable of providing rapid acanalytical content under load

Document… the seamless integration of SAP Lumira for BI Platform Edition with SAP BuBI 4.1 and how customers can benefit from the ultimate combination of poPlatform and sophisticated data governance foundation with SAP Lumira

Highlight… common use cases / scenarios in developing BI content and share the optof consuming them through tuning, testing, and assorted best practices

Underscore… the importance of optimally configuring the platform in order to achieve hperformance

Share… a repeatable way of conducting performance and load testing in SAP Busin4.1 release using third party solutions such as JMeter




Key Tools & Technologies

1. Server

o SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 SP06 release

o Design Studio 1.5 add-on for BIPo Lumira 1.27 for BIP

2. Client Tools

o Web Intelligence

o Design Studio

o Lumira

3. Others

o Testing Tool – Apache JMeter

o Data Sources – 2 Data Sources – SAP HANA, AnyDB


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Pattern Book architecture

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12 CP



Performance TestingValue Proposition

PerformanceTesting

Increased

CustomerSatisfaction

ImprovedROI

ExpandedUsage

Lower TCO

As business applications become more complex, it is imperative to consider the impact performance

on our end users. By testing and tuning performance-related aspects, such as response time and

throughput, we enable a number of benefits.

Users are happier with applications that per

Business use is more effective, res

increased returns on the investmeDrive additional consumption and

wide-spread usage based on

confidence in platform response

Effective use of server resources results in

lower total cost of ownership



Apache JMeter – An Overview

Apache JMeter is open source software, a 100% pure

Java desktop application designed to load test functionalbehavior and measure performance.

May be used to test performance both on static and dynamic

resources (Files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Databases and

Queries, FTP Servers, and more).

Can be used to simulate heavy load on a server, network, or object

to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different

load types.

Used to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your

server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load.



Wily IntroscopeOverview

MonitoringDashboards Root Cause Analysis

ServiceDelivery

EnhancedSupportability



Wily Introscope Architecture

9

WorkstationWebview

SmartStor Database C++ BI Servers

Java BI Servers Application Server

Operating Systems

CMS Metadata

CMS Database

Reporting Database



Wily IntroscopeTop Down Root Cause Analysis

BI Platform Tracelog Introscope Investigator Transaction Trace

Dashboards




Results




Things to Consider

Array Fetch Size Override

• Array Fetch Size is automatically optimized by

default

• Sometimes overriding this can result in fasterthroughput

• Benchmark to find the optimal setting for your Universes

• DISABLE_ARRAY_FETCH_SIZE_OPTIMIZATION = “Yes” param

• Once disabled, it will use the AFS from the universe

• TIP: You can see the optimized values in the Connection Serv




Things to Consider

Query Stripping for Relational DBs

• Query Stripping feature remov

objects from a query

• This results in smaller queries

• Enabled by default for BICS co

• Needs to be enabled for RelatDatabases

• TIP: Can be set at Universe, and Query Level so check a




Things to Consider

Index / Aggregate Awareness at the Semantic Layer

• Index Awareness takes advantage of indexes on key columns to

performance

• Aggregate Awareness uses pre-aggregated data from the DB to queries

• These features take more time to setup correctly but can greatly im

performance

• More Info on Index / Aggregate Awareness:DOC - Information Design Tool User Guide - Chapter 12

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp4_info_design_tool_en.pdf

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp4_info_design_tool_en.pdf




Things to Consider

Platform Search Tweaking

• Platform Search is set to “Continuous Crawl” and “Metadata” by default

• This can greatly reduce available resources for Reports

• Schedule Indexing to non-peak hours whenever possible

Benefits

• Ensures Processing Servers are not heavily used for indexing

at peak hours

• Reduces impact when large # of documents is imported during

an upgrade/migration




Things to Consider

Balancing your BI Platform Timeouts

• Timeouts should be tweaked to balance usability and resources

• Really long timeouts can cause issues with resources

• Really short timeouts can cause failures and loss of work/productivity

• BI Launch Pad Default Session Timeout = 20 Mins

• Webi Idle Document Timeout = 20 Mins

• A lot of customers set these to 60 minutes which increases session/thread count

Server. Ensure you account for this in your sizing and performance testing

BI L

KBA

Web

Adm

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp5_webi_user_guide_en.pdf

http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41sp5_webi_user_guide_en.pdf




Things to Consider

Do not reuse sizing from previous versions

• Sizing recommendations have changed for BI Platform 4.x (vs XI 3.1 and prior)

• 64-bit processing server + Architectural changes invalidate previous sizing

• Heavy usage of Adaptive Processing Server for Service distribution changes the g

• Be sure to redo your sizing if you are upgrading

Resources

DOC Sizing and Deploying SAP BI 4 and SAP Lumira

DOC SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Sizing Guide

XLS SAP BI 4x Resource Usage Estimator

BLOG Revisit the Sizing for your deployment of BI 4.x Web Intelligence Processin

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-33183



http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/1055c550-ce45-2f10-22ad-a6050fff97f1

http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-intelligence/blog/2014/12/18/revisit-the-sizing-for-your-deployment-of-bi-4x-web-intelligence

http://scn.sap.com/community/businessobjects-web-intelligence/blog/2014/12/18/revisit-the-sizing-for-your-deployment-of-bi-4x-web-intelligence

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/1055c550-ce45-2f10-22ad-a6050fff97f1






Things to Consider

A Few Resource Considerations

• Network can become a

bottleneck for large data

transfers (DB to WIPS)

• Utilizing network storage for

IO intensive workflows is a

bad idea (Cache, etc…)

• Virtualized servers can compete

for resources from other VMs

• CPU speed vs # of CPUs can

be a factor to consider

• Process Explorer is a Great Tool for monitoring live on Windows

https://sap.na.pgiconnect.com/I819630






Thank you

Contact information:

James Rapp Jonathan Brown

Principal Technical Specialist Support Architect

[email protected] [email protected]

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