This Dell Validated Design (DVD) for SAP HANA TDI deployments on PowerEdge servers incorporates the latest Intel® Xeon™ CPU architectures, with PowerEdge servers providing an exceptional combination of performance, resiliency, and flexibility to meet the needs of the modern enterprise data center. This solution offers outstanding enterprise-class features and business continuity, including:
- Powerful technology: Single-server configurations ranging in size from 256 GB to 16 TB provide a consistent experience and a solid base for future expansion without forcing “rip and replace” as system requirements evolve.
- Virtualization: PowerEdge solutions are certified to run a virtualized SAP HANA implementation, which provides a more economical application development environment and is ready for deployment in production environments.
- Enterprise-class availability: With highly redundant hardware configurations and the use of both SAN/NAS technology and a highly available multinode design, Dell Technologies’ scale-out solutions for SAP HANA provide resiliency and easy expandability. For information about an SAP HANA TDI scale-out implementation on PowerEdge infrastructure, see Dell Validated Design for SAP HANA Scale-Out TDI solutions on Dell PowerEdge Servers.
- High performance: Automated data tiering with Dell storage software provides quick access to the datasets that are most needed for analysis.
- Backup and disaster recovery: Dell data protection solutions make it easy to support SAP mission-critical workloads with self-service solutions that leverage direct data paths and eliminate the need for expensive enterprise backup software. PowerProtect Data Domain (DD) Series Appliances are target systems that are capable of advanced deduplication to reduce unnecessary storage capacity, while providing consolidated backup, archive, and disaster recovery functionality at petabyte scale. For more information, see Dell PowerProtect Appliances. Dell solutions for SAP HANA can provide remote disaster recovery through SAP HANA system replication or storage-based replication to provide a high-performance, cost-effective solution.
- Modular growth: The scale-out solution can grow in modular increments without disrupting the existing system, preserving your investment as your system changes. For information about an SAP HANA TDI scale-out implementation on PowerEdge infrastructure, see Dell Validated Design for SAP HANA Scale-Out TDI solutions on Dell PowerEdge Servers..
- SAP applications in memory: Dell solutions for SAP HANA support application deployment that enables production business applications to benefit from the speed and performance of in-memory computing without the need for multiple compute environments.
- A single point of contact: Dell Technologies is your single source for all Dell hardware components of the SAP HANA solution.
- Documentation: Dell solutions for SAP undergo end-to-end validation, as described in Dell Validated Design documents. The documents include recommendations to enable repeatable and efficient deployments.