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...
This blog was authored by Sudhir Balasubramanian,Vas Mitra and Oleg Ulyanov. With this post we are starting a blog series dedicated to the Persistent Memory (PMem) feature introduced in vSphere 6.7. We will cover initial configuration of the PMem in vSphere and the way how different virtualized business critical applications (like SQL Server, Oracle, SAP) Read more...
SAP HANA based applications support critical business processes which typically require disaster recovery (DR) solutions to minimize downtime in case of site failure. This requirement can be addressed by Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). DRaaS has now evolved into a mainstream offering that can provide cost benefits and DR design flexibility for SAP customers. Read more...
