Andrew Sillifant

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MySQL Backup and Recovery

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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SAP HANA Data Mobility Part 3 : pHANA to vHANA and vHANA to pHANA

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

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SAP HANA Data Mobility Part 2 : pHANA on-premises migration techniques

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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Updated! SAP HANA Scripts with recovery automation

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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