Storage for SAP

A comprehensive portfolio of primary storage and data protection solutions for SAP, an integral part of your complete SAP/SAP HANA infrastructure.

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The right storage is key to SAP HANA success

To meet the needs of SAP HANA, storage needs to be performant, highly available and scalable. All-flash storage is the right way to go: Old school media can’t match its performance, efficiency or TCO. To protect your investments, you should choose storage that can be used for SAP and SAP HANA, so make sure that the storage you choose for your traditional SAP environments can be moved to SAP HANA.

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Choose the leader in SAP and SAP HANA

Don’t go piecemeal, and don’t go with fly-by-nights. We have installed more of SAP and SAP HANA than anyone else in the industry. And we have the best all-flash storage platform certified for HANA.¹

Performance

Meet the performance objectives for HANA with highly performant all-flash storage for SAP HANA.

Availability

Experience six nines availability or more.

Efficiency

3PAR all-flash is the most efficient all-flash storage for SAP HANA.¹

INNOVATIONS

All-flash architecture

All-flash is the right storage infrastructure for HANA: it offers the high bandwidth and low latency needed for the write-dominated, large IO patterns of SAP HANA. This helps to meet SAP HANA performance KPIs with a fraction of resources.

All-flash architecture

All-flash is the right storage infrastructure for HANA: it offers the high bandwidth and low latency needed for the write-dominated, large IO patterns of SAP HANA. This helps to meet SAP HANA performance KPIs with a fraction of resources.

Primary storage

Data protection

Multi-tenancy

Primary storage

Primary storage

All-flash storage is the right technology to meet the performance, availability, and scalability needs of SAP HANA. Spinning or HDD-based media might not keep up with performance or efficiency demands – and come with a higher TCO in the end.

Data protection

Data protection

Data protection solutions help to mitigate disaster issues. They should include snapshot-based backup technology, because traditional backup is too slow to keep up with SAP HANA. HPE has industry leading, integrated snapshot-based data protection.

Multi-tenancy

Multi-tenancy

All-flash eliminates the need to deploy and maintain separate storage silos for different QoS levels. You can enhance QoS levels without service disruption, pre-planning, or the need to purchase separate arrays to support different service levels.

The best all-flash array for SAP HANA

Taneja Group concludes that HPE best meets SAP HANA workloads requirements, and has a compelling case for being best-in-class.

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Featured products

Choose from one of HPE's world class HANA certified storage products.

Shared storage

HPE MSA for SAP HANA

The most affordable, shared storage for HANA, without the learning curve. Balanced performance scales to eight HANA server nodes.

Tier 1 Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

Radically simplify operations with powerful predictive analytics. Deploy workloads on flash arrays, converged infrastructure and public cloud.

Capabilities

99.9999

guaranteed availability ¹

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base. ²

86

issue resolution ³

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved. ⁴

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array. ⁵

All-Flash Storage

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Built for the extreme requirements of mission-critical workloads, HPE 3PAR Storage enables the highest levels of resiliency, performance and capacity for enterprises and service providers. Protect your apps with full stack predictive analytics.

Key capabilities

99.9999

data availability guaranteed*

Only HPE has storage smart enough to promise that.⁸

1

midrange storage array

HPE 3PAR StoreServ architecture has helped thousands modernise storage.¹¹

92

recommendation rate

Organisations that work with us, recommend us.¹²

Hybrid Flash Storage

HPE XP8

The storage for mission-critical apps that simply can't afford a single second of downtime.

Benefits

100

data availability guarantee ⁶

Avoid disasters before they happen

21

IOPS ⁷

Reduce total cost of ownership

>7

data points analysed per hour ⁸

Predict, prevent, optimise and report

Virtual storage

HPE StoreOnce

A space saving virtual appliance that delivers high backup performance and deduplication-optimised replication.

Mission-critical solutions

HPE Mission Critical Solutions

Manage SAP HANA with the flexibility of an x86 platform and the reliability and availability of HPE Integrity servers to get an edge in revenue and reputation.

Shared storage

HPE MSA for SAP HANA

The most affordable, shared storage for HANA, without the learning curve. Balanced performance scales to eight HANA server nodes.

Tier 1 Storage

HPE Nimble Storage

Radically simplify operations with powerful predictive analytics. Deploy workloads on flash arrays, converged infrastructure and public cloud.

Capabilities

99.9999

guaranteed availability ¹

Eliminates the gap across the entire HPE Nimble installed base. ²

86

issue resolution ³

Issues are automatically predicted, automatically resolved. ⁴

1

in data capacity, guaranteed

Store more data per terabyte than any other all-flash array. ⁵

All-Flash Storage

HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

Built for the extreme requirements of mission-critical workloads, HPE 3PAR Storage enables the highest levels of resiliency, performance and capacity for enterprises and service providers. Protect your apps with full stack predictive analytics.

Key capabilities

99.9999

data availability guaranteed*

Only HPE has storage smart enough to promise that.⁸

1

midrange storage array

HPE 3PAR StoreServ architecture has helped thousands modernise storage.¹¹

92

recommendation rate

Organisations that work with us, recommend us.¹²

Near-zero downtime for SAP HANA

You gain valuable customer and cross-business insights with SAP HANA. Now, reduce the risk of downtime with worry-free HPE solutions for SAP.

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Success in action

JK Tyre rolls out fast migration to SAP HANA

Indian tire giant JK Tyre replaced its aging UNIX-Oracle platform with HPE ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA, achieving up to 20X faster reporting, slashing cycle times in half and reducing drive backups from six hours to instantaneous.

Challenge

Replace aging hardware environment which had become inefficient.

Solution

Migrate from Unix® to standard x86 servers and from an Oracle database to SAP HANA.

“HPE ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA is an optimal solution both in terms of performance and reliability.”

Sharad Agarwal, JK Tyre & Industries Ltd.

Result

Vast improvement in speed, including up to 10-20 times faster reporting and cycle times reduced from five minutes to two minutes.

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Featured resource

The Most Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution for Hosting SAP HANA

SAP HANA running on 3PAR StoreServ and protected by HPE StoreOnce storage platforms beats the competition. This DCIG analyst report explores the comprehensive data protection solution that HPE provides for SAP HANA environments and how the solution is differentiated relative to competitors such as EMC, Pure and NetApp.

The Most Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution for Hosting SAP HANA

SAP HANA running on 3PAR StoreServ and protected by HPE StoreOnce storage platforms beats the competition. This DCIG analyst report explores the comprehensive data protection solution that HPE provides for SAP HANA environments and how the solution is differentiated relative to competitors such as EMC, Pure and NetApp.

Analyst White Paper

The most comprehensive infrastructure solution for hosting SAP HANA

Using HPE’s infrastructure solution, enterprise IT may continue to meet escalating demands for business agility more easily and at a lower cost regardless of how the enterprise grows and evolves.

Analyst White Paper

¹The Best All Flash Array for SAP HANA, June 2017 - link to https://www-prod-auth-west.ext.hpe.com/content/hpe/base/blueprint/pdfViewer.html?docId=a00000330&parentPage=/content/hpe/base/blueprint/products/storage/sap-polaris&resourceTitle=The+Best+All+Flash+Array+for+SAP+HANA

⁸HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee, HPE Nimble Storage, September 2017

⁹ HPE Business White paper "Redefining the standard for system availability", August 2017

¹⁰HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays solution brief

¹¹ IDC WW Disk Storage Systems Tracker CQ4 2016, March 2017

¹²HPE 3PAR StoreServ - Collection of Proof Points

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1,3 Up to
2 "HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage", September 2017
4 HPE Business White paper "Redefining the standard for system availability", August 2017
5 HPE Store More Guarantee for HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays brochure
6 HPE Solution Brief: "HPE XP8 100% Data Availability Guarantee Programme", October 2019
7 Based on HPE internal performance testing on HPE XP8 Storage
8 Typical component metrics pulled and analysed by HPE Performance Advisor per hour. Including IOPS, MBPS, Response Time, utilisation and LDEV parameters.