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

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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 […]

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

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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: 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 support for vVols

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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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Updated! SAP HANA Scripts with recovery automation

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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

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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

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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

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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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