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Updates to the SAP HANA platform since its initial release as a physical appliance have provided more flexible deployment and scalability for customers while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO). The enhancements include:
While these updates make the SAP HANA deployment easier and help customers with the integration into their existing data center, businesses must still meet strict SAP HANA requirements relating to their compute, network, and storage environments.
The VMware Virtualized SAP HANA with Dell EMC Storage solution offers SAP customers a data center platform that provides agility, high availability, cost savings, and easy provisioning. The solution enables SAP customers to provision SAP HANA instances more quickly in virtual machines.
Using the SAP HANA platform with the VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure provides the best environment for achieving a unique, cost-effective solution. This solution is enabled by VMware vSphere vMotion, VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and VMware vSphere High Availability (HA), ensuring the best operational performance and availability.
VMware provides best practices for deploying SAP HANA scale-up and scale-out systems under vSphere. In vSphere virtualized environments, you can use this solution guide to supplement the VMware documents and other Dell EMC documents that describe storage configuration best practices for SAP HANA in physical TDI environments. For more information, see References.