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SAP has certified PowerStore storage for SAP HANA with NAS and the NFS protocol and with the Dell custom HA/DR STONITH provider. For more information about the host and network requirements for the NAS connectivity protocol, see Network design.
To determine the proper storage system model and disk configuration for an SAP HANA TDI deployment, you need the following information:
An SAP HANA node can be either a single (scale-up) SAP HANA server or an SAP HANA worker node that is part of an SAP HANA multihost cluster.
Validation tests
For the certification, the Dell SAP engineering team performed extensive performance and functional tests on the PowerStore 9200T model in accordance with the SAP HANA-HWC-ES-1.1 certification scenario, using the SAP HANA hardware and cloud measurement tool (HCMT). The test results enabled the team to determine the HANA scalability of the PowerStore family and confirmed that PowerStore file storage meets or exceeds the SAP performance requirements and ensures the highest availability for database persistence on disk.
The following table shows the recommended maximum number of SAP HANA production nodes that you can connect to a specified PowerStore T appliance model while still meeting the SAP performance KPIs. For more information, see SAP HANA capacity requirements.
Appliance model | Number of SAP HANA nodes |
500T | 4 |
1000T | 6 |
1200T | 10 |
3000T | 10 |
3200T | 12 |
5000T | 16 |
5200T | 18 |
7000T | 20 |
9200T | 22 |
Table 4 shows the number of production SAP HANA nodes that you can deploy on the specified configuration using NAS/NFS connectivity. SAP HANA standby nodes in a HANA scale-out cluster are not counted for scalability because they do not have a storage persistence.
Note: PowerStore appliance clustering for NAS storage is not yet available.
Achieving these numbers in a customer environment requires: