This is the final part of the blog series about moving seamlessly between SAP HANA hosting types using storage where the concepts and scenarios in Part 2 : pHANA on-premises migration techniques and Part 3 : pHANA to vHANA and vHANA to pHANA will be applied to showcase how a truly hybrid cloud environment could […]
SAP HANA Data Mobility Part 4 : Hybrid Cloud Read More »
SAP® Migrations are a daily part of any SAP BASIS administrator’s life and possibly one of the most meticulously planned processes which can happen in the lifecycle of an SAP landscape. The migration alone could be to move one or all of the SAP applications , data and technology to either the same or totally
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In this part of the blog series about moving seamlessly between SAP HANA hosting types using storage the following data mobility scenarios are explored: SAP HANA deployed on bare-metal server(s) (pHANA) being migrated or copied to a virtual machine(vHANA) using VMware Virtual Volumes(vVols) SAP HANA deployed on a VMware virtual machine being migrated to bare-metal
SAP HANA Data Mobility Part 3 : pHANA to vHANA and vHANA to pHANA Read More »
In this part of the blog series about moving seamlessly between SAP HANA hosting types using storage the following data mobility scenarios are explored: Copy an SAP HANA Instance to the same or a different FlashArray using storage snapshots and Asynchronous replication Move an SAP HANA Instances persistent storage to a different FlashArray non-disruptively using
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While creating and publishing the SAP HANA scripts , I wanted to bring some of the excellent design aspects of Pure Storage® products to customers running SAP HANA on FlashArray//X. Some of these excellent design aspects include a very well defined and easy to use REST API , the software developer kits (SDK’s) for Powershell
Updated! SAP HANA Scripts with support for vVols Read More »
One of the recent projects I have been very proud to deliver was the creation of an open source repository on GitHub, containing scripts to help customers automate SAP HANA storage operations with common scripting languages like Microsoft PowerShell and Python. The initial scripts committed to this public repository will help customers create application consistent
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Ever since I began working with enterprise storage arrays such as Pure Storage FlashArray//X, storage snapshots have been a constant presence. In my journey of fully understanding the various aspects of snapshots, I found myself looking to Wikipedia and found an excellent definition for a snapshot: “In computer systems a snapshot is the state of
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Virtual volumes(vVols ) have changed the way organizations think about how virtual machine storage operates.When using vVols, a layer of complexity is removed to allow the virtual infrastructure administrator to deliver more precise storage service levels and have more direct control over how storage is consumed by virtual infrastructure. Cody Hosterman blogged about the Introduction
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While writing and developing content for SAP HANA on Pure Storage® FlashArray™ or Pure Cloud Block Store™ (CBS), I have developed some scripts that speed up some of the operations which organizations using SAP HANA on Pure Storage products could also make use of. To that end, I have created a repository for SAP HANA
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Every so often I need to configure VERITAS Netbackup to backup one of my SAP HANA databases and sometimes I return to my notes on the process to remind myself how it’s done. The most recent time when using block storage volumes on FlashArray//C as the target for backup data , I decided to fully
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During the last year I have persistently explored how the SAP® HANA® in-memory data platform can be protected. Some of these explorations range from working with storage snapshots , protecting business operations through the use of ActiveCluster™ and creating resilient environments through the combination of both concepts. Recently I have embarked on creating demonstrations on
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