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

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / October 19, 2020

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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Using hdbpersdiag To Check For Volume Corruption

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / July 15, 2020

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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Updated! SAP HANA Scripts with support for vVols

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / June 29, 2020

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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Updated! SAP HANA Scripts with recovery automation

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / June 18, 2020

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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FlashArray Snapshot Consistency and SAP

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / May 26, 2020

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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Configuring SAP HANA Scale Out on VMware with vVols

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / April 23, 2020

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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New! SAP HANA Scripts for Automating Storage Operations

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / April 14, 2020

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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Configuring VERITAS Netbackup using FlashArray//C for Scale Up SAP HANA

In the Lab / Andrew Sillifant / April 2, 2020

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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