Our new SAP internal SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA (hereafter referred to as “BW on HANA”) has a central role to play in the corporate analytics architecture, e.g. for the combined and integrated planning with BW IP and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation.
Over the last twelve months this system was part of various Proof-of-Concepts and Ramp-Up projects, now we switch to strict change management and stable operations. But there are two construction sets left for the project team:
Certified environments for infrastructure setups with up to 8TB from various hardware vendors are available. You can get the latest appliance overview at the SAP HANA Test Drive at SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando 2012.
The new SAP internal landscape is using an infrastructure setup certified for 8TB, but starts with 2TB for the development system and 4TB for each of the other tiers. This is the sizing for the current year and we aim to do a quarterly check to be able to increase the setup in time. First to 8TB and then beyond. The following criteria’s was very important for us
It is great to see that several hardware vendors are ready to support this list of requirements for their HANA appliance.
For our system the decision was made to go with a Fujitsu Scale-Out HANA solution based on PRIMERGY servers. Key features in a nutshell:
Picture courtesy: Fujitsu
The first tier (SID is BWT) is up and running on the 4TB setup since April 30 and the entire system landscape move will be completed end of June.
For the High Availability setup of the production system (SID is BWP) we will add additional application server, web dispatcher and other components
Important: Go to the latest HANA revision before the move to get maximum support for automated table distribution.
We started with HANA revision 25 and DB-export / DB-import method to move from single node to multi node. At this point in time additional reports and scripts from SAP HANA development were necessary to achieve the best distribution of tables in the target setup. In the future also backup-recovery and automated table distribution will be supported. Please check the revision notes for most current information, or contact your SAP account manager.
Tip: You can find more information for BW on HANA as well at the Experience SAP HANA site.
Get connected at SAPPHIRE in Orlando! Listen to Martin Heisig (@MTHei) at the SAP/Fujitsu Partner-Session on Monday or visit me (@MatthiasWild) at the SAP Runs SAP booth.
Best regards,
Matthias Wild - proud to be part of SAP Global IT where SAP runs SAP.
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