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SAP HANA TDI Versus SAP HANA Appliance
SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration, or SAP HANA TDI, allows customers to use existing hardware and
infrastructure components for their SAP HANA deployments.
Although SAP HANA TDI gives customers more flexibility, saving IT budget and existing investments, customers
choosing this approach also have increased responsibility. With the SAP HANA TDI approach, only hardware is
delivered. Finding a certified SAP HANA technician to install the SAP HANA software (including the Linux OS) is
the customer's responsibility.
Customers choosing the SAP HANA TDI delivery model are also responsible for the OS provider's service contract
and for end-solution validation, support, and security. Unlike the SAP HANA appliance approach, in which SAP and
its hardware partners validate the solution and provide ongoing maintenance, with the TDI approach the customer
is responsible for negotiating with all the OS and hardware partners to obtain individual agreements for solution
maintenance and support.
Several tools and services are available for SAP HANA TDI customers to help with end-solution validation, go-live
testing, and ongoing support:
●
Hardware Configuration Check Tool for SAP HANA (documentation attached to SAP note 1943937)
provides self-managed tests for customers to determine whether the hardware that they intend to use meets
the minimum performance criteria required to run SAP HANA in a production environment.
● SAP provides go-live-checks and other support services for SAP HANA customers as part of the SAP
support license (see SAP IT Planning for details).
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Cisco Advanced Service offers support to customers to set up an environment that meets all the SAP rules
to successfully pass the Hardware Configuration Check Tool test and help ensure a successful project
runtime environment.
Cisco Offering to Support SAP HANA TDI Customers
The Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) offers a Cisco Solution Support (SSPT) contract through which the
customer can purchase appliance-like support. Cisco SSPT for SAP HANA Infrastructure helps you resolve SAP
HANA infrastructure problems faster by adding a solution-level perspective to your device-level service contracts.
This service covers groups of Cisco UCS blade and rack server deployments as well as complementary Cisco and
technology partner products.
For a detailed description, see
saphana-defintion.pdf.
Also read Zora Caklovic's blog at
tdi-overview/.
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