SAP HANA Scalability

With SAP-HANA, scalability is translated to scale-up and scale-out.

Scale-up is straightforward — add capacity! Increase memory, CPU and storage as needed or up the hardware limit of the SAP HANA appliance. If the hardware limit is reached, move your SAP HANA to a new, larger appliance.

Scale-up is currently limited to 12 TB of memory but this limit will probably already have been exceeded by the time you read this book.

Please note that the scale-up server hardware for OLAP applications, such as SAP Business Warehouse, differs from server hardware for OLTP applications, such as SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA products. The amount of memory is always related to the amount of CPU cores. For OLTP applications, more RAM per CPU core is possible.

Figure 3.1: Scale-up versus Scale-out

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Keep reading in The SAP HANA Deployment Guide by Bert Vanstechelman.

This book provides system architects, technical consultants, and IT management the tools to design a system architectures to deploy SAP applications on SAP HANA. Explore production and non-production systems, deployment options, backup and recovery, data replication, high-availability, and virtualization in detail. Dive into on-premise deployment options and data provisioning scenarios. Walk through scale-up and scale-out options and data partitioning considerations. Review the advantages and disadvantages of storage and system replication options and when to use each. Clarify how to leverage HANA for single node and distributed systems. Dive into a discussion on software and hardware virtualization. Compare the options available and guide your decision using flowcharts your organization can leverage to choose the proper technology for your environment and specific needs. This book enables readers to carefully evaluate and implement a well-considered SAP HANA scenario.

• SAP HANA sizing, capacity planning guidelines, and data tiering
• Deployment options and data provisioning scenarios
• Backup and recovery options and procedures
• Software and hardware virtualization in SAP HANA

Bert Vanstechelman is the founder of and principal technical consultant at Logos Consulting. He has more than 20 years of experience in SAP Basis consulting, running many SAP versions in combination with all possible databases and operating systems supported by SAP. Bert specializes in platform migrations, SAP release upgrades, and Unicode conversions.