Conclusion - Dell EMC SC Series Validation Manual

Conclusion

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36 Dell EMC SC Series Storage Configuration Best Practices for SAP HANA TDI
SC9000, SC7020, SC5020, and SCv3020 Storage Arrays
Validation Guide
Using SAP HANA in TDI deployments with Dell EMC SC Series storage arrays provides
many benefits, including reducing hardware and operational costs, lowering risk,
improving availability and performance, and increasing hardware vendor flexibility.
The SC Series arrays are certified by SAP and can be used for SAP HANA installations
on production and nonproduction systems and on scale-up and scale-out systems.
During our tests with SAP HANA on SC Series arrays, we observed the following:
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The SAP HANA-HWC-ES 1.1 certification scenario makes higher demands in
terms of disk configuration.
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SAP HANA production installations on SC Series systems require SSDs for the
SAP HANA persistence.
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Data Domain systems and DDBEA enable you to consolidate SAP HANA backups
and archives with greater network efficiency, reducing your storage protection
footprint through deduplication and compression.
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Using SSDs for the SAP HANA persistence provides significant benefits,
including:
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Reduced SAP HANA startup and host auto-failover times
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Reduced SAP HANA backup and recovery times
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No need to consider spindle count because initial array and disk configuration
can be performed based on capacity