Design Guide—Dell Validated Design for SAP HANA Deployments with Dell VxRail Infrastructure

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  Introduction
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  Solution overview
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  Key benefits
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  Document purpose
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  Audience
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  We value your feedback
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  Revision history

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  SAP-certified VxRail models
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  Sizing
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  CPU and memory considerations
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  Sizing a VxRail cluster
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  SAP HANA VMs per node and per total
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  Disks
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  Networks
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  vSphere Clustering Service and SAP HANA

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  SAP HANA deployment options
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  Linux kernel settings
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  CPU and memory
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  SAP HANA persistence
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  SAP HANA shared file system
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  High availability
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  Optimizing file IOPS after the SAP HANA installation

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  Network considerations

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  Contacting SAP Support
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  Contacting Dell Technologies Support

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  VMware documentation
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  SAP documentation

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  Appendix A: Deploying Dell Networking SmartFabric Services with VxRail HCI
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  SFS profile personalities
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  SmartFabric Service with VxRail nodes
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  Supported switches
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  Unsupported environments
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  Unsupported features
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  Topology deployment options
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  Uplink options
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  External switches
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  OpenManage Network Integration

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  Appendix B: VxRail stretched cluster validation environment

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  Appendix C: VxRail dynamic nodes