The tests that the Dell SAP engineering team carried out on SAP HANA with PowerMax 2500 and 8500 arrays showed that:
- The PowerMax 2500 and 8500 arrays provide significant performance and scaling benefits for SAP HANA.
- The PowerMax 2500 and 8500 arrays provide unified file and block. PowerMax File can provide shared file systems such as /hana/share/sapmnt, which are required for SAP system deployments.
- The use of NVMe flash drives for the SAP HANA persistence provides benefits such as reduced time for SAP HANA startup, host autofailover, and backup.
- PowerMax advanced data reduction with inline compression and deduplication provides storage efficiencies and capacity savings.
- Data Domain systems and DDBEA enable you to consolidate backups and archive SAP HANA systems with greater network efficiency, reducing your storage protection footprint through deduplication and compression.