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Two new coverstories about HANAonPOWER available in current June edition of
E-3 Magazine (in german language): Power9 – a new milestone in the POWER
success story (with SAP HANA) by Andreas Span, IBM and practical experiences
with HANAonPOWER by Dr. Michael Missbach @ FIT / Syntax
Links to both 2 articles and June 2019 edition of E-3 magazine:
https://e-3.de/category/mag-1906/
Since yesterday (May 15, 2019) SAP has released usage of HANA ScaleOut for Power9 (max 16 nodes in a ScaleOut Cluster)
BW and BW/4: 16 nodes x 16 TB = 256 TB max cluster size
S/4: 4 nodes x 24 TB = 96 TB max cluster size (min node size 6TB or higher)
Details: SAP Note 2055470 V75
Good News: Update of SAP Note 2230704 over the weekend – on Power9 E950
and E980 – without any further restrictions – up to 16 productive LPARs
(or 15 + 1 shared pool) are now allowed!
Did you ever notice that your linux can swap if you are running #SAPHANA on it even though there is enough phys. memory for it?
If your are using sapconf/saptuned you are safe because vm.swapiness will be set to 25(%) => default: 60%.
Details:
(link: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002779331)
launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002779331
#SLES4SAP
Thx to Jens for this info
Nice new storage generation, very useful for HANAonPower implementations..
The IBM Storwize V5000 family brings the performance advantages of end-to-end #NVMe and hybrid #multicloud into a new affordable system that is:
✅ easy-to-consume
✅ easy-to-deploy
✅ cost-efficient
Learn more: (link: http://ibm.biz/Bd2UeN) ibm.biz/Bd2UeN
