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The purpose of this article is to provide a single source of commonly used, hard to find and convenient material to help SAP shops and Architects properly evaluate, design, deploy and support SAP HANA using IBM Power Systems.
This article is a living document updated and supported by Brett Murphy and his SAP Practice at Clear Technologies. With over 25 years of industry experience working with Enterprise solutions, Brett is an IBM Champion specializing in SAP and SAP HANA environments.
Are you running SAP ECC today? Consider scheduling an SAP HANA Readiness Workshop or schedule a meeting to learn how other clients saved 35% over competing solutions.
To learn more, please visit Clear Technologies SAP Practice.
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- Home Page: Visual One Intelligence®
- Visual One Overview
- *OFFER: Cost Avoidance with Visual One Offer – To help industries and businesses impacted by COVID-19 to find cost-savings across their current storage footprint.
- Video: Identifying Orphaned Space <= Ideal Use Case for SAP HANA
- Video: Managing Unstructured Data
- Video: 3 Minutes to Insight: Storage Space Fragmentation Part 1 Part 2
- Blog: Optimizing NetApp storage
- Blog: Throw out your Spreadsheet; Bring in Efficiency
SAP Resources
- *News: SAP Extends End of Support for SAP Business Suite 7 and here
- Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory
- TDI FAQ
- *Help Portal: What’s new in SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS04
- *Help Portal: SAP S/4HANA 1909
- Blog: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems
- Blog: SAP HANA support of Persistent Memory using Intel’s DCPMM (i.e. Optane) or IBM’s (i.e. POWER9) vPMEM
- *Blog: SAP HANA Persistent Memory using IBM’s vPMEM – Configuration
- Blog: SAP Netweaver High-Availability Cluster 7.40 for IBM Power
- FAQ: SAP on RHEL
- Misc: SAP on Red Hat Landing Page
- Blog: Does Infrastructure Matter for SAP HANA?
- Blog: Are SAPS for HANA a Red Herring Part 1 Part 2
- Blog: Planned Release of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS05 and Impact on Maintenance for SAP HANA
- Cloud: SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
- *Blog: What does HANA mean?
SAP Press
Influencers
- Brett Murphy LinkedIn Articles
- Power the Enterprise blog
- Jay Kruemcke blog
- Michael Tabron blog
- HANA on Power blog
- Denys van Kempen SAP blog
- Dennis Padia SAP blog
- Vince Michaelis
- Alfred Freudenberger blog
IBM Resources
- Product Pages: SAP HANA Power Servers for Infrastructure Solutions
- Webinar: Forrester Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA
- Redbook: SAP Landscape Management 3.0 and IBM Power System Servers
- Redbook: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation Updates
- Redbook: IBM Geographic Dispersed Resilience for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver(Note: GDR has been renamed “VM Recovery Manager for DR”)
- *Redbook: SAP HANA Platform Migration
- *Redbook: IBM Power Systems Virtualization Operation Management for SAP Applications
- *Redbook: SAP HANA Data Management and Performance on IBM Power Systems
- Case Studies
- *Redbook: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems Architectural Summary
- IBM Systems Magazine: RAS Differentiates IBM Power Systems Platform
- Misc: IBM Power Systems Resources
- Docs: SAP HANA on IBM Power Planning Guide
- Docs: SAP HANA on Power Advanced Operations Guide
- *Docs: Fast-Start Solutions for SAP HANA on Power, Overview & Comparison. Planning and Implementation Guide
- Docs: How to configure internal PCIe NVMe cards and expected performance benefit to SAP HANA startup
- Docs: Comparison of available Fast-Restart-Solutions on IBM Power for SAP HANA
- Docs: Network Configuration for HANA Workloads on IBM Power Servers
- HowTo: Linux Device Mapper creation on Persistent Memory device on IBM POWER9 Systems
- Docs: Supported Linux Distributions & Virtualization Options for POWER8 & POWER9
- *News: IBM Power Systems Certified for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) as a provider for large SAP HANA systems
IBM Blogs
- Blog: Choice and Flexibility with IBM & SAP
- Blog: Doing more with less: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems
- *Blog: Why IBM Power Systems mean business for SAP
Persistent Memory (PMEM)
- Guide: SAP HANA and PowerVM Virtual Persistent Memory Planning Implementation Guide written by IBM SAP International Competence Center
- Blog: Persistent Memory Enhancements on IBM Power Systems for SAP HANA
- Blog: Simplify, accelerate and exploit your SAP HANA deployments
- Blog (non-IBM): Comparing PMEM Options
SUSE Resources
- Blog: Using IBM POWER9 PowerVM Virtual Persistent Memory for SAP HANA with SUSE Linux
- Blog: SUSE SLES for SAP Applications product page
- Blog: SUSE Live Patching for Power – a key tool for availability
- Blog: POWER9 is here – SUSE is ready
- Blog: SUSE & IBM – 4 years supporting SAP HANA & 1000’s of customers
- Blog: SUSE Manager Server supported on IBM Power
- Announcement: SAP HANA is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1
- References: SUSE SAP HANA References
- HowTo: Migrate a SLES 12 SP4 system to SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP4
- HowTo: Migrate a SLES 15 system to SLES for SAP Applications 15
- Blog: HANA Scale-up HA with System Replication & Automated Failover using SUSE HA on SLES SP3 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
- Docs: SUSE Product Support Lifecycle
- Blog: Supported OS Versions for SAP HANA
- Blog: Comparing SUSE and Red Hat SAP Bundles for SAP HANA
Red Hat Resources
- Product Page: Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions
- Docs: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lifecycle
- Blog: Comparing SUSE and Red Hat SAP Bundles for SAP HANA
- Blog: Supported OS Versions for SAP HANA
*ASUG Resources
Reliability
As of 2019, for the 11th straight year, IBM Power Systems were named the most reliable platform in Information Technology Intelligence Consulting’s (ITIC) 2019 Global Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey.
- Article: Power Systems Receive Top Reliability Ranking in latest ITIC Survey
- Full Report: ITIC 2019 Global Reliability Survey Mid-Year Update
Common SAP Notes
- *2235581: SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems
- 2055470 HANA on POWER Planning and Installation Specifics
- 2230704 SAP HANA on Power Systems with multiple LPARs per physical host
- *2188482 SAP HANA on Power Systems: Allowed Hardware
- 2526952 Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions
- 2009879: SAP Guidelines for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 1944799 SAP HANA Guidelines for SLES Operating System Installation
- 1943937 Hardware Configuration Check Tool
- 2656575 SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS 04 Release Note
- 1999997 FAQ: SAP HANA Memory
- 2700084 FAQ: SAP HANA Persistent Memory
- 2777782 SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS Settings for RHEL 8
Learn More
Consider scheduling a no-cost SAP HANA Readiness Workshop to discover how prepared your business is to move to HANA as well as hosting options. To learn about hosting a workshop or for general questions about our SAP practice, please visit Clear Technologies SAP Practice. To learn about our core business offerings, visit Clear Technologies, Visual One Intelligence®, and the AI practice; Clear Intelligence.
About the author: Brett Murphy is a Client Executive and Executive Architect at Clear Technologies. With over 25 years of industry experience working with Enterprise solutions, Brett is an IBM Champion specializing in SAP and SAP HANA environments. Follow on twitter @PowerMan4EVR and blog https://powertheenterprise.wordpress.com.
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