This is a follow up to an earlier blog where we tested a SAP HANA system on stretched cluster in VMware Cloud on AWS. Testing showed that running the application and database server virtual machines of the same SAP system within the same Availability Zone in a stretched cluster scenario can improve performance (the degree Read more...
VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster configurations (referred to as stretched storage clusters or metro storage clusters) are implemented across two datacenters with limited distance to provide benefits like: Workload mobility Cross-site automated load balancing Enhanced downtime avoidance. Stretched cluster deployment includes: maintaining two datacenter locations; deploying a single storage subsystem spanning both sites; stretching the Read more...
In this article we investigate the functionality of Persistent Memory (PMEM) in vSphere 6.7 with an SAP HANA system. vSphere 6.7 introduces support for PMEM which is a storage class that resides between DRAM and disk storage in the data storage hierarchy. This is a follow up from an earlier blog where we examined an Read more...
As of September 14, 2018, SAP HANA is supported for production use on Intel Skylake SP and Broadwell based server systems on vSphere 6.5 and 6.7. Please review SAP note “2393917 – SAP HANA on VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 in production” for details. The table below summarizes the current support for and SAP HANA with Read more...
In this article we investigate the performance of an SAP NetWeaver system with Persistent Memory (PMEM) on vSphere 6.7 (SAP NetWeaver is supported on vSphere 6.7). vSphere 6.7 introduces support for PMEM which is a storage class that resides between DRAM and disk storage in the data storage hierarchy. It includes advantages of DRAM-like latency Read more...
