SCALE UP/ SCALE OUT SAP HANA SYSTEM COPY USING PURE STORAGE SNAPSHOTS

#SAP #HANA system copy can be a time-consuming process for SAP Basis system administrators. Admins spend a considerable amount of time and effort preparing the software environment and going through complicated procedures to ensure that the backup and recovery process is carried out with minimum disruption to the business and in accordance with best practices. This white paper (link at end of the blog) describes the speed and efficiency of performing a homogeneous system copy of an SAP® HANA environment using #PureStorage FlashArray: #SAP #HANA SPS 11 (Single tenant) #SUSE ® #Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1 Pure Storage snapshots and copy methods to move source system data to the target system Pure Storage snapshots are instantaneous and do not depend on the capacity of the volume. Therefore, the entire process of an SAP HANA system copy refresh is accelerated. This saves SAP Basis consultants a great deal of time – so they can immediately start working on pre-refresh and post-refresh activities for the SAP application. Another great advantage that system copy offers is that the SAP HANA source system does not go offline. At a high level, these are the steps for performing an SAP HANA system copy: Prepare the source SAP HANA database: This creates an internal snapshot of the source SAP HANA database, which can take a few minutes as it depends on the change rate between SAP HANA savepoints. Take the storage snapshots of the SAP HANA data area. Apply this snapshot to the target SAP HANA data area. Confirm the snapshot in the source system, which clears the internal states of the SAP HANA source system and enters an external backup ID in the backup catalog. Recover the target SAP HANA system by initializing the logs. This white paper on SAP HANA system copy covers in detail for a Scale-up SAP HANA system, where you have an environment like below with source and target SAP HANA scale up systems.

https://blog.purestorage.com/scale-up-scale-out-sap-hana-system-copy-using-pure-storage-snapshots/