Ey SAP HANA™ Storage Requirements As an in-memory database, SAP HANA uses storage devices to save 2 copy of the data, for the purpose of startup and fault recovery without data loss. The choice of the specific storage technology is driven by various requirements like size, performance and high availability. This paper discusses the SAP HANA storage requirements. SAP A v2.10, February 2017Contents Legal Disclaimer... Change history. 1 Introduction. Conceptual Storage Layout... Physical Separation of Data and Log Volumes... 2 Storage Sizing . Preface... Memory Sizing. Disk Space Required for the Data Volume Disk Space Required for the Log Volume Disk Space Required for SAP HANA Installation. Disk Space Required for Backups... 10 Disk Space Required for ExPOMS surement ee eee HL 3 High Availabilty. Failure Recovery: Host Auto-FallOVEr..nnn ee eee HL Failure Detection and Failover... File Access and Fencing. 12 Non-shared Storage... ‘Shared Storage with Shared File Systems... Disaster Recovery Approaches... Backups.. Storage Replication .. System Replication ... 18 A Performance nnn a a senses: 17 Scenarios W/O Patterns WO Sizing..... summary... Acknowledgements.. Terminology Appendix... ee nn eee 22 ervau References. © 2017 SAP SE age 2123Legal Disclaimer “Hs DocUMeN s PROVIDED FOR INFORMTON PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT MODIFY THE TERMS OF ANT AGREEMENT. THE CONENTOF TAS USINESS CONNECTION I PLACE OR INTENDED AND YOU WAVE RECEME TMS COCUMINT WE STRONGLY REQUEST TAT YOU EP THE CONTENTS CONFIDENTIAL AND DELETE AND DESTROY ANY ELECTRONIC OR PAFER COPIES OF THS DOCUMENT. TIS DOCUMENT SHALL NOT B FORWARDED TO ANY “Tis document ovine or grea prod action and shoul ot ered onin aking a purchase acon, This document ot subject youre ‘reementor any athe apr th SA. SAF aero obestionto purse any ote of bse cuted nts resentation oo deep oleae ry ‘amctoralty manors nthe Gocumere. Ts document an aes rte nd pos ure development re set fo change and maybe carer by SAP at an tn flor any reson tht nce, amet roid without rary of anya he expres cr pie nang ro ited to,theimplad warrant of marchartabity fnes for a pata purpose or ranciingemart SAP sues esponsiy for eros orion ts cure a shal haveo Fit for damages of ny ind tat ay rel rom the se hee mates, xceat such derages were caused SAP btenorlly oF Bossy neceent © Copyign 2017 APSE. Alig reserve Change history Version Date Description 19 June 2013 Initial release 2.0 | November 2013 | Added Storage Sizing section Added Performance Section 21 | December 2013 | Improved information about 10 fencing with NFS based shared storages 22 May 2014 | Updated sizing formulas Minor fixes 23 july 2014 | Minor fixes 2.4 |" October 2014 | Updated Sizing chapter: New formula for redo log sizing 25 | January2015 | Updated Sizing chapter: Distinguish total memory and net data size on disk 26 March 2015 | Updated Sizing chapter: New recommendations for sizing of Jhana/shared 2.7_| February 2016 _| Added chapter: Physical separation of data and log volumes. 2.8 | December 2016 | Reworked Sizing chapter 2.9 | January 2017 | Updated Sizing chapter: Double disk space for data during table redistribution 210 | February 2017 | Updated storage sizing chapter: (1) New note in “preface” section (2) Improved wording for data volume formulas EF onirswese pave 23