December 2019

By Markus Berg

Best Practices Guide

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Used for the SAP HANA Platform with Hitachi Storage Adapter

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Revision History

Revision Changes Date

MK-SL-184-00 Initial release December 27, 2019

Table of ContentsSolution Components 2

Software Components 3

Hardware Components 6

Best Practices 8Use Cases and Benefits 8

Reference Architectures 10

Adapter Deployment Scenarios 11

System Requirements 15Management Server Requirements 15

Network Hardware Requirements 15

Software Requirements 16

Technical References 17

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Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Used for the SAP HANA Platform with Hitachi Storage AdapterBest Practices Guide

Read this to see how to configure your Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure for with the SAP HANA Platform using HItachi Storage Adapter.

Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure with SAP HANA is a pre-validated and highly configurable integrated infrastructure in which server, network, and storage can be scaled independently to optimize performance and eliminate overprovisioning costs. This enables you to deploy exactly what you need and then scale it to keep pace with business growth without the need to commit massive capital up front. With Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure, you can optimize your data center to run an SAP HANA application workload at any possible scale.

Each Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure is designed to have the following:

Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS)

Fault tolerance

Business continuity

The solution is delivered as a factory loaded converged infrastructure. Cisco and Hitachi Vantara provide a single point of support for all included software and hardware. Cisco and Hitachi partner to roll out joint solutions to address market requirements to solve your real-world problems.

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform is a great option to assist SAP administrators using storage technologies from a well-known user interface. It provides the greatest integration with SAP HANA. It expands on the native SAP HANA XS engine functionality by offering your SAP Basis administrator the ability to monitor and manage the supporting Hitachi storage as well as SAP HANA.

Using Storage Adapter for SAP HANA, SAP Basis administrators can create their own snapshots and clones (thick or thin) of SAP HANA environments, as well as forecast storage resources based on advanced analytics. The ability to accurately forecast infrastructure needs for an SAP HANA environment has several benefits:

Improve forecasting accuracy

Reduce planning costs

Ensure business-critical applications are properly resourced

Reduce overspending on the environment

This document is intended for users of Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solution for Converged Infrastructure using SAP HANA, including Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA. This addresses database administrators, storage administrators, and architects implementing backup, recovery, and cloning solutions for SAP HANA databases. Ideally, you understand the architecture, administration, and backup, and recovery concepts of SAP HANA databases.

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Note — These procedures were developed in a lab environment. Many things affect production environments beyond prediction or duplication in a lab environment. Follow recommended practice by conducting proof-of-concept testing for acceptable results before implementing this solution in your production environment. Test the implementation in a non-production, isolated test environment that otherwise matches your production environment.

Solution ComponentsFigure 1 shows the architecture of Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Solutions using SAP HANA. It uses Cisco Unified Computing System server blades with the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform family. The components are configured using the configuration and connectivity best practices from both companies to implement a powerful and scalable Infrastructure for SAP HANA in a TDI environment validated for either SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

This design is a validated reference architecture that covers specifics of products utilized within the Cisco lab. However, equivalent supported products can be replaced which are listed within Cisco and Hitachi’s published compatibility matrixes.

Figure 1

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For more information, read the design guide and a more detailed deployment guide on the following.

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure

Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Design Guide

Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure Deployment Guide

Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure with a SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI)

Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI Design Guide

Adaptive Solutions for SAP HANA TDI Deployment Guide

These design and deployment guides have details on the following:

Compute

This incorporates servers based on the latest Intel x86 processors. The servers are available in Cisco’s advanced blade factor, managed by Cisco UCS Manager.

Network

The integrated network fabric in the system provides a low-latency, lossless, 10/25/40/100 Gb/s Ethernet fabric. Networks for LAN, SAN, and management access are consolidated within the fabric.

The unified fabric uses the innovative single-connect technology to lower costs by reducing the number of network adapters, switches, and cables. This also lowers the power and cooling needs of the system.

Storage access

Cisco UCS system provides consolidated access to SAN storage and network attached storage over the unified fabric. This provides storage choices and investment protection.

Also, server administrators can pre-assign storage-access policies to storage resources, for simplified storage connectivity and management leading to increased productivity.

Management

The system uniquely integrates compute, network and storage access subsystems, enabling it to be managed as a single entity through Cisco UCS Manager. This increases IT staff productivity by enabling storage, network, and server administrators to collaborate on service profiles that define the desired physical configurations and infrastructure policies for applications.

Service profiles increase business agility by enabling IT to automate and provision resources in minutes instead of days.

Software ComponentsFind the supported SAP HANA operating systems, storage microcode versions, and replication software versions for in Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Cockpit User’s Guide (MK-92ADPTR111-07 or latest).

SAP HANA CockpitSAP HANA cockpit provides a single point of access to a range of administration and detailed monitoring tools of SAP HANA databases. Also, it integrates development required administrative capabilities through the SAP database explorer.

SAP HANA cockpit is a web based HTML5 user interface that you access using a browser. It provides aggregate, system, and database administration features, such as database monitoring, user management and data backup.

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Administrators can use SAP HANA cockpit to start and stop services, forecast storage and server resources storage pools and more. Monitored server resources include filesystem, CPU, and memory usage.

There now is support for the following:

Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure for SAP HANA

SAP HANA tailored datacenter integration configurations for Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure

SAP HANA administrators can create their own snapshots and clones (thick or thin) of SAP HANA environments. Also, they can forecast storage and server resources, based on advanced analytics. Monitored storage resources include device mapping, LUN performance, port performance, storage pools, and more.

SAP HANASAP HANA converges database and application platform capabilities in-memory to transform transactions, analytics, text analysis, predictive and spatial processing so businesses can operate in real-time. This combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in a single in-memory platform. Also, the platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics — all on the same architecture.

By eliminating the divide between transactions and analytics, SAP HANA allows you to answer any business question anywhere in real time.

As a SAP customer, you can log on and download more information about SAP HANA, including the following:

SAP HANA Master Guide

This is the central starting point for the technical implementation of the SAP HANA platform. Use this for basic concepts and for planning the SAP HANA application system landscape.

SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide

This provides an overview of how to install and update a SAP HANA system with the SAP HANA lifecycle management tools.

SAP HANA Administration Guide

This explains how to configure, manage, maintain and optimize your SAP HANA installation using SAP HANA administration tools.

SAP HANA hardware directory provides information about SAP HANA appliances certified by SAP hardware partners.

Operating System OptionsThe following options are available as operating system:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Compete more effectively though improved uptime, better efficiency, and accelerated innovation using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This is a versatile server operating system for efficiently deploying highly available enterprise-class IT services in mixed IT environments with performance and reduced risk.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was the first Linux operating system certified for use with SAP HANA. It remains the operating system of choice for the vast majority of SAP HANA customers.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers military-grade security, 99.999% uptime, support for business-critical workloads, and so much more. Ultimately, the platform helps you reallocate resources from maintaining the status quo to tackling new challenges.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for SAP HANA provides an open, reliable, and scalable foundation for your most demanding data solutions. This ready-to-use environment is preconfigured for performance and optimized for SAP HANA.

Changing the configuration settings is only supported along the guidelines of SAP and the operating system distributor and may otherwise cause significant performance problems. The following SAP Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are a good starting point for information on this topic:

1944799 - SAP HANA Guidelines for SLES Operating System Installation

2009879 - SAP HANA Guidelines for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA PlatformHitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform runs as a web application. When needed, the adapter calls the web service on the management server. Then the web service communicates to the attached Hitachi storage and returns the information to the adapter. In addition, the web service collects device-mapping information from the SAP HANA host by using SSH. The web service executes SQL queries for retrieving information from the SAP HANA database. The web service manages all configuration information, storing it in the local disk of the management server. Then, the adapter passes configuration information to the web service.

Hitachi ShadowImageHigh-speed, nondisruptive local mirroring technology of Hitachi ShadowImage, a part of Hitachi In-System Replication Bundle, rapidly creates multiple copies of mission-critical information within all Hitachi storage systems.

ShadowImage keeps data RAID-protected and fully recoverable, without affecting service or performance levels. You can split replicated data volumes from the host applications and used for system backups, application testing, and data mining applications, while business continues to run at full capacity.

Hitachi Thin ImageThe high-speed, nondisruptive snapshot technology of Hitachi Thin Image snapshot software rapidly creates up to one million point-in-time copies of mission-critical information within any Hitachi storage system or virtualized storage pool without impacting host service or performance levels.

Because snapshots store only the changed data, the volume of storage capacity required for each snapshot copy is substantially smaller than the source volume. As a result, Thin Image snapshot software can provide significant savings over full volume cloning methods.

Thin Image snapshot copies are fully read/write compatible with other hosts. They can be used for system backups, application testing, and data mining applications while the business continues to run at full capacity.

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform uses Thin Image to create snapshots.

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Hardware ComponentsUse the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform series in Table 1, “Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series,” on page 6 and Table 2, “Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G Series,” on page 7 for Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure.

TABLE 1. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM F SERIES

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform F350

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform F370

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform F700

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform F900

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform F1500

Performance (IOPS) 600K 1.2M 1.4M 2.4M 4.8M

Maximum Raw Internal Capacity

2.8 PB (15 TB SSD)

4.3 PB (15 TB SSD)

6.0 PB (14 TB FMD)

13.0 PB (15 TB SSD)

8.1 PB (14 TB FMD)

17.3 PB (15 TB SSD)

8.1 PB (14 TB FMD)

34.6 PB (15 TB SSD)

Total Efficiency Guarantee Ratioa

Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 2:1 Data Reduction

Host Port Counts (Maximum without drives)

16 Fibre Channel

8 iSCSI

16 Fibre Channel

8 iSCSI

48 Fibre Channel

24 iSCSI

64 Fibre Channel

32 iSCSI

176 Fibre Channel

176 IBM® FICON®

176 Fibre Channel over Ethernet 88 iSCSI

Value Added Bundled Features

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Adaptive Data Reduction

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Adaptive Data Reduction

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Adaptive Data Reduction

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Adaptive Data Reduction

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Adaptive Data Reduction

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

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a.The total efficiency guarantee of up to 7:1 for the VSP F350, VSP F370, VSP F700, and VSP F900 covers savings from data de-duplication, compression, thin provisioning and snapshots. VSP F1500 is eligible for a data reduction guarantee of 2:1 for capacity stored on Hitachi flash modules with data compression enabled.

TABLE 2. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM G SERIES

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G350

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G370

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G700

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G900

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G1500

Performance (IOPS) 600K 1.2M 1.4M 2.4M 4.8M

Maximum Raw Internal Capacity

2,467 TB (10 TB LFF HDD)

442 TB (2.4 TB SFF HDD)

2,889 TB (15 TB SSD)

3,642 TB (10 TB LFF HDD)

664 TB (2.4 TB SFF HDD)

4,333 TB (15 TB SSD)

11.7 PB (10 TB LFF HDD)

1.9 PB (2.4 TB SFF HDD)

6.0 PB (14 TB FMD)

13.0 PB (15 TB SSD)

14.0 PB (10 TB LFF HDD)

2.6 PB (2.4 TB SFF HDD)

8.1 PB (14 TB FMD)

17.3 PB (15 TB SSD)

6.7 PB (6 TB LFF HDD)

5.3 PB (2.4 TB SFF HDD)

8.1 PB (14 TB FMD)

34.6 PB (15 TB SSD)

Total Efficiency Guarantee Ratioa

Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 Up to 7:1 2:1 Data Reduction

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Best PracticesFollow these best practices when designing your Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure for SAP HANA with Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA.

Use Cases and BenefitsThese are the main use cases and benefits of using Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA.

Host Port Counts (Max. without drives)

16 Fibre Channel

8 iSCSI

16 Fibre Channel

8 iSCSI

64 Fibre Channel

32 iSCSI

80 Fibre Channel

40 iSCSI

192 Fibre Channel

176 IBM FICON

192 Fibre Channel over Ethernet

96 iSCSI

Value Added Bundled Features

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Dynamic Tiering

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Dynamic Tiering

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Dynamic Tiering

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Dynamic Tiering

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

100% Data Availability Guarantee

Storage Virtualization

In System Replication

Copy Management

Dynamic Tiering

Infrastructure Analytics

Non-disruptive Migration

Total Efficiency Guarantee

a.The total efficiency guarantee of up to 7:1 for the VSP G350, VSP G370, VSP G700, and VSP G900 models, when configured entirely with flash drives, covers savings from data de-duplication, compression, thin provisioning, and snapshots. VSP G1500 is eligible for a Data Reduction Guarantee of 2:1 for capacity stored on Hitachi flash modules with data compression enabled.

TABLE 2. HITACHI VIRTUAL STORAGE PLATFORM G SERIES (CONTINUED)

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G350

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G370

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G700

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G900

Hitachi Virtual Storage

Platform G1500

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Storage ManagementThe enhanced feature set for Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA allows a SAP Basis administrator to address these storage functionality topics:

Monitor I/O performance

Capacity

Health status of the storage array

Also, trend analysis and forecast of storage resources is built into Storage Adapter for SAP HANA.

Advantage

Hitachi software provides you the ability to monitor and manage the supporting SAP HANA infrastructure using the familiar SAP HANA cockpit. This differentiation provides durability for your investment. Role-based access and enhanced visualizations further extend Hitachi’s capabilities in providing unified management of the SAP HANA infrastructure.

Benefits

Speed time to value with monitoring and management of the supporting SAP HANA infrastructure.

Provide a common view of the supporting infrastructure for the storage administrator and the SAP administrator.

Role-based access control provides greater security.

Enhanced visualizations for storage log analytics enable greater insight and faster analysis of the supporting infrastructure.

Disaster RecoveryPerform disaster recovery using Hitachi Universal Replicator (HUR) with scale-up and scale-out configurations Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Solutions using SAP HANA.

Advantage

Take advantage of a complete high availability and disaster recovery solution that compliments SAP HANA system replication. The SAP Basis administrator is now able to control Universal Replicator behavior, such as failover and failback scenarios without interruption.

Benefits

Universal Replicator compliments the SAP HANA system replication as the system replication can be used for high availability with Universal Replicator when used for disaster recovery. Universal Replicator also reduces the workload on the SAP HANA servers by off-loading replication to storage.

With Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAPA HANA, the SAP Basis administrator uses this functionality with a graphical user interface to more easily achieve higher availability.

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Storage FunctionsEnhanced feature set for Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA allows a SAP Basis administrator to address storage functionality like snapshot and cloning functionality without have a storage administrator involved.

Advantage

Hitachi provides the ability to generate clones from the SAP HANA instance using the familiar SAP HANA cockpit using Hitachi Thin Image. This is the competitive differentiation utilizing Hitachi storage integrated functionality.

Benefits

Hitachi’s capabilities provides unified management of the SAP HANA infrastructure. Use it to generate SAP system copies for different purposes, such as development, education, quality assurance, and more from Storage Adapter for SAP HANA. The SAP Basis administrator does this without waiting for a storage administrator to do the task. This shrinks the overall operation time to a minimum. This also helps storage administrators to focus on more important tasks.

Reference ArchitecturesThere are reference architectures of converged environments for SAP HANA with Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Solutions.

Advantage

This provides you more options to best address your present and future business requirements.

Benefits

You have flexibility to run your SAP workloads using Hitachi and Cisco products in production and nonproduction environments.

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Adapter Deployment Scenarios These deployment scenarios are an overview of different SAP landscape integration points where Hitachi Adapter for SAP HANA provides great operational benefits, especially to SAP operations.

Single SAP HANA InstanceYou can use Hitachi Adapter for SAP HANA to manage a single HANA instance on your environment. To do so, install the adapter and deploy the multi-target application to the specified HANA instance.

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Multiple SAP HANA InstancesTo manage multiple SAP HANA instances with one adapter installation, deploy the multitarget application to any of the HANA instances, and then remotely manage multiple HANA instances. Import the multi-target application to one HANA instance on your environment. Importing the multi-target application to every HANA instance is not necessary.

The adapter is the central management mode in this scenario. In other words, all HANA instances that import the multi-target application and share the adapter web service share the same data. It can be used for high availability purposes.

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For example, if one HANA instance is down on your environment, you can still use another HANA instance with this adapter for management operation.

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Multiple SAP HANA Instances with SAP HANA ExpressAlso, the multi-target application can be imported in the SAP HANA 2.0 express edition. You may use the SAP HANA 2.0 express edition only to manage multiple HANA instances on your environment.

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SAP HANA Scale-Out InstanceUse Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform to manage a scale-out SAP HANA instance in your environment. To do so, install the adapter and deploy the multi-target application to the master HANA host of the HANA scale-out instance.

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System RequirementsThis describes the system hardware and software requirements for the various components used in Cisco and Hitachi Adaptive Solutions for Converged Infrastructure when used with SAP HANA.

Management Server RequirementsThese are the requirements for the management server to run Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform.

Hitachi recommends at least 240 GB disk space for the configuration of two HANA hosts and two Hitachi storage systems. If you have more hosts and Hitachi storage arrays, then add additional disk space:

10 GB for each additional HANA host

100 GB for each additional Hitachi storage array

Use the following formula to calculate the disk space:

240 GB + (10 GB × number of additional HANA hosts) + (100 GB × number of additional Hitachi storage arrays).

For example, if you have a total of 5 HANA scale-up hosts (3 additional) and 4 Hitachi storage arrays (2 additional), then do this to calculate the disk space:

240 GB + (10 GB × 3 additional hosts) + (100 GB × 2 additional arrays) = 470 GB

Network Hardware RequirementsThese are the supported network hardware requirements for switches.

TABLE 3. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR MANAGEMENT SERVER FOR STORAGE ADAPTER FOR SAP HANA

Item Requirements

CPU 2 or more vCPUs

Memory 48 GB or more

Graphics 1 vNIC or more

HDD Capacity 240 GB or more

Supported HBAs All HBAs on the hypervisor certified by VMware are supported.

TABLE 4. SWITCH REQUIREMENTS

Network System Model Microcode or Firmware

Brocade VDX 6740 7.0.0a

Brocade FC 6505 v7.4.1f

Brocade FC 6510 v7.4.1f

Brocade ICX 7450 08040

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Software RequirementsThis describes the requirements to run the various software products.

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA PlatformThis adapter is pre-configured as a VMware virtual appliance or Microsoft® Hyper-V® virtual appliance. It can be hosted on a server running VMware ESXi 6.0 or ESXi 6.5, or on Microsoft Windows Server® 2012 R2.

If this adapter is used in a VMware environment, it can only be deployed using VMware vCenter web client 6.5.

SAP HANA Database Operating System OptionsTable 5 lists the three supported operating systems.

Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA supports MDC with single-tenant databases only.

Brocade FC G620 8.2.0b

Brocade FC 5460 7.3.2a

Brocade FC 6546 7.3.2a

Cisco 5548-UP 7.1(4)N1(1)

Cisco 9332-PQ 7.0(3)I4(7)

Cisco 9372-PX 7.0(3)I4(7)

Cisco 93180-YC 7.0(3)I4(7)

Cisco 3048-TP 7.0(3)I7(4)

Brocade VDX 6746 4.1.3d

TABLE 5. SAP HANA DATABASE OPERATING SYSTEM OPTIONS

Operating System Option Supported

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SP3-HANA 2.0 SPS03 Scale-up MDC with single tenant

Yes

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4-HANA 2.0 SPS03 Scale-up MDC with single-tenant Yes

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SP3-HANA 2.0 SPS02 Scale-Out MDC with single tenant

Yes

TABLE 4. SWITCH REQUIREMENTS (CONTINUED)

Network System Model Microcode or Firmware

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MCOD, virtualized, and MCOS databases are not supported. SAP HANA Deployment Types has more information on SAP HANA system configuration types.

See Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 1000 for the SAP HANA Platform in a Scale-up Configuration Using a Rack Optimized Server for Solutions, 2U Single Node Reference Architecture Guide and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform 1000 for the SAP HANA Platform in a Scale-up Configuration Using a Rack Optimized Server for Solutions, 2U Single Node Reference Architecture Guide for information about HANA installation with Hitachi hardware.

SAP HANA VolumesTable 6 lists the volumes you need for SAP HANA.

Technical ReferencesRead these references to see other options for your environment:

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Platform v03.1.0 Release Notes (RN-92ADPTR147-01, PDF)

Hitachi Storage Adapter for SAP HANA Platform User Guide (MK-92ADPTR146-01, PDF)

Hitachi Storage Adapter for the SAP HANA Cockpit in Hitachi Unified Compute Platform for the SAP HANA Platform in a Scale-Up Configuration Best Practices Guide (AS-517-01, PDF)

TABLE 6. SAP HANA VOLUMES

Volume Name Volume Type Supported

OS LVM Yes

OS Plain LUN Yes

Data, Log, and Share LVM Yes

Data, Log, and Share Plain LUN No

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