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monitoring, and management, and reduce the time-to-value, costs, and risk of an overall
SAP HANA adoption.
Solution
Dell EMC midrange SC9000, SC7020F, SC5020F, and SCv3020 all-flash and hybrid
overview arrays are certified by SAP as meeting all performance and functional requirements for
SAP HANA. This certification means that customers can use SC Series storage arrays for
SAP HANA TDI deployments in a fully supported environment using their existing data
center infrastructures.
SC Series arrays with SAP HANA
SAP certifies the enterprise storage arrays that are used in SAP HANA TDI deployments
to ensure that they meet the SAP HANA performance and functional requirements. Dell
EMC engineers performed extensive testing on the SC9000, SC7020F, SC5020F, and
SCv3020 hybrid and all-flash storage arrays using the SAP HANA hardware configuration
check tool (hwcct) in accordance with the HANA-HWC-ES-1.1 certification scenario.
Note: SAP recommends that TDI customers run the hwcct tool in their environment to ensure that
their specific SAP HANA TDI implementation meets the SAP performance criteria. For more
information, see
requires an SAP username and password).
This guide provides storage configuration recommendations for the SC Series arrays
based on the results of those tests. The recommendations meet SAP performance
requirements and ensure the highest availability for database persistence on disk.
Key benefits The TDI model increases server and network vendor flexibility while reducing hardware
and operational costs. The SAP HANA TDI on SC Series storage solution provides the
following benefits:
SAP Note 1943937 - Hardware Configuration Check Tool - Central Note
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Integrates SAP HANA into an existing data center.
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Uses shared enterprise storage to rely on already-available, multisite concepts
to benefit from established automation and operations processes.
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Enables customers to transition easily from an appliance-based model to the
SC Series-based TDI architecture, while relying on Dell EMC Professional
Services to minimize risk.
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Achieves global data reduction with a highly integrated data deduplication and
compression architecture, increasing the return on investment in the SC Series
all-flash and hybrid arrays.
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Enables faster read operations with faster database restarts, host auto-failovers,
log backups, database recoveries, and table loads.
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Enables efficient storage protection and recovery with the Dell EMC Data
Domain system and Dell EMC Data Domain Boost (DD Boost) software.
Greater throughput, a reduced storage footprint, and reduced network
bandwidth requirements are achievable because only unique data is sent to the
Data Domain system.
Dell EMC SC Series Storage Configuration Best Practices for SAP HANA TDI
SC9000, SC7020, SC5020, and SCv3020 Storage Arrays
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