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Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas

Data Tiering Options in SAP HANA Webcast Recap

This was another great SAP User Group webcast this week.

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Data tiering introduced to help manage data growth in SAP HANA

Data is rising, increasing costs, additional hardware, additional license volume

Data tiering manages data in cost efficient way

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Native storage extension, a new feature

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Mission critical data is in Hot (main memory tier)

Data not as critical; certain aging aspect, older data becomes less important; not accessed as often, performance not as critical as hot data

Cold data – old, voluminous (data lakes)

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DRAM – main memory for hot data, need performance there for most important data

Persistent memory – like DRAM, available in larger sizes

Warm tier – 3 technologies – dynamic tiering, extension node has been around for a while

Native storage extension is a new feature introduced in April

Cold store – nearline storage for SAP BW been around for a while, before HANA

Hot Store, Persistent Memory

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Developed with Intel

Persistent memory – replaces some DRAM – compared to DRAM it does not lose its data; if shut down database, and restart, persistent memory doesn’t take as long to reload data compared to DRM

Reduce total startup – from 50 minutes to 4 minutes

Increased memory capacity

DRAM – 128GB sizes, some 256 – prices increase; most common is 64GB

Persistent memory is available in larger sizes – 128GB, 256 GB, 512GB; cheaper than DRAM (per TB)

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Also known as non-volatile memory

Two operating modes – memory mode, application does not need to be changed; still need DRAM on server, DRAM acts as cache, address data volume of persistent memory

SAP HANA – app direct mode, take advantage of technology, application will need to be changed

Application will have DRAM available

Direct access enabled file system

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Column store main in persistent memory

Column store delta stored in DRAM

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Size your application to handle workload

This is an example

Different ratios possible

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Impacts on data tiering

Separates storage tier

Can keep more data in HOT with persistent memory

Not a data tiering solution but impacts it

Warm Storage, Native Storage Extension

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Simpler landscape, integrated into server of SAP HANA

SAP HANA Cloud Services – NSE is a strategic role

Plan to make available for any SAP HANA application

Complement to other data tiering solution

Strategic solution is NSE

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Column loadable is default

Declare partitions to page loadable

Access data on NSE will load little as possible

Buffer cache – configurable size, to buffer to pages in main memory

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Define a whole table as page loadable

Can do on partition level (with data aging)

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Sizing and limitations

Soft limits, hope to lift limits soon, hope to before SPS05

Size of buffer cache recommendation is shown above, according to SAP’s experience

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Tools for NSE include HANA Cockpit

Recommendation engine – can activate in HANA database to monitor query patterns executed to help you decide what is warm and partition; first step to automate data tiering in SAP HANA to make things easier

DLM is planned later this year

Warm Store new feature

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Timestamp support

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Getting started with warm store

NSE is limited to 10TB; plan to extend, plan to come close to what dynamic tiering

Which options to use

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Data Lifecycle Management

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Q&A

Q: Will data aging in Suite on HANA automatically move warm partitions to NSE?

A: Default SPS04

Q: Persistent Memory concept is available in SPS03 or not

A: Yes

Q: Is it Appliance dependent?

A: Yes, some hardware dependencies

 

The link to the recording is here.

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      Author's profile photo Arash Shojaei
      Arash Shojaei

      Hello Tammy,

      As is understood Native Storage Extention as an option for Warm Tier base on Page-loadable columns which we define for columns, partitions or tables.

      can we consider such enabled page-loadable columns or tables in the warm tier as an extended table or multi-store tables? I mean after deployment multi-temperature option for a specific table and deploy NSE for warm tier, can we consider our page-loadable columns or tables as an extended or multi-store table like the type of tables in warm partitions in dynamic tiering?

      Also in NSE, can we say buffer cache in memory is part of warm tier?

      Thanks,

      Arash

      Author's profile photo Tammy Powlas
      Tammy Powlas
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Arash -

      Thank you for your comment.

      We just implemented SoH, so I am not an expert in this area.  Would you please ask this as a question at answers.sap.com?  Thank you

      Author's profile photo Robert Waywell
      Robert Waywell

      Hi Arash,

       

      The term "multi-store table" is exclusively used in the documentation to refer to a partitioned table splitting data between in-memory HANA storage and disk based storage using HANA dynamic tiering. In that context the term "multi-store table" only applies to DT.

       

      From a conceptual standpoint, data can be assigned to be PAGE LOADABLE at a table, column, or partition level and a single table can have data that is in-memory COLUMN LOADABLE and disk-based PAGE LOADABLE which is the same modeling concept as for a multi-store table with DT.

       

      Rob