MySQL and MariaDB are two very popular database engines (Source – DB-Engines Ranking). Both are open source (licensed as GPLv2 or proprietary for MySQL or LGPL for some scenarios with MariaDB) which allows for abundant support , lower software costs and no vendor lock-in. There are many reasons an organization would want to make use […]
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There are a number of ways in which data protection/data mobility can be done with MySQL. The documentation splits backups into two categories. Physical Backups – Raw copies of directories and files which store database contents Logical backups – Logical backups save information in the form of reproducing the database object structure to the point
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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
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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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The release of SAP HANA 2.0 SPS05 brings some great new capabilities to the platform , among them Native Storage Extension support for Scale Out Landscapes , significant improvements to the startup initialization of hybrid LOBs and support for having an NFS server for the hana-shared directory on the Master host of a scale out
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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
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