SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01 is now generally available. Here’s the link to the latest enhancements and the session overview. If you can’t make it, webinar recordings and presentation materials will be available in the SAP HANA iFG Community.
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VMware finished the Multi SAP HANA VM and NUMA Node Sharing (CPU socket sharing) tests with vSphere 6. Due to the good results, SAP granted full production level support for multiple SAP HANA systems deployed on a single SAP HANA certified server virtualized with vSphere 6. See here for more.
Furthermore the new Architecture Guidelines and Best Practices for Deployments of SAP HANA on VMware vSphere Guide is now available here.
Don’t miss the SAP HANA 2 live expert sessions starting DEC 1. Here’s the link to the session overview. If you can’t make it, webinar records and presentation materials will be available in the SAP HANA iFG Community.
Furthermore VMware announced that vSphere 6.5 is certified for SAP HANA 1.0 and 2.0. See here for more.
In my last blog post I had mentioned self-service SAP provisioning. To give you an idea how that looks like from a user’s perspective I’m adding a 2-min-video from our last Enterprise Hybrid Cloud for SAP validation. No marketing video, just a documentation from my engineering colleagues (thanks guys!) how things are working.
The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud for Solution has been updated to 3.5 a couple of weeks ago, so let’s take a look at SAP specific enhancements to this release, especially the current architecture, integration points, self-service SAP provisioning, NSX as well as SAP monitoring and root cause analysis with the help of vRealize Operations and ViPR SRM. Continue Reading
IDC interviewed 10 customers running ScaleIO software-only and/or VxRack FLEX Nodes. These customers represented a cross-section of industries and were evenly split between enterprises and providers of IT and cloud services. At the time of the interviews, the organizations were using ScaleIO for an average of 96 physical servers, with an average of 408TB of storage and 2,071 virtual machines running in their EMC ScaleIO environments. IDC’s study shows that organizations are deriving significant business value from their investment in software-defined storage with EMC ScaleIO. IDC calculates average annual benefits per organization of $1.74 million and a break even on their investment in eight months.
Great news from from SAPPHIRE in Orlando: VMware vSphere 6.0 is now in General Availability with SAP HANA SPS 11 (or later releases) for production single-VM use cases. This allows you to assign up to 4 TB of RAM and up to 128 vCPUs to a VM. See SAP Note 2315348 for specific information and constraints. For the full picture please also visit the SAP HANA on VMware vSphere SCN page.
EMC and VMware have combined forces to take converged and hyper-converged infrastructure to the next level. As a result of their exclusive partnership they launched the VCE VxRail hyper-converged appliance, delivering virtualization, compute, storage, networking and data protection in an agile, scalable, easy to manage 2U, 4-Node, SDDC Building Block. So let’s have a closer look at some of the highlights. And before getting into the specifics of the VxRail SDDC Building Block I’d like to emphasize the big picture with the 5 accelerators that will lead to a quantum leap in your data center.
How do I configure storage for vHANA in scale-up and scale-out deployments? How do I implement application aware SAP HANA host auto-failover in virtual environments? What steps need to be taken in order to setup a simple and efficient VMware HA solution? What are the pro’s and con’s of these two options? RDMs vs vmfs? Do you want to see an elegant solution to build a HANA shared filesystem with fault tolerance?
Here’s a summary of the major announcements I’ve captured from VMworld 2015 Barcelona
The SAP Data Center of the Future 