HANA on POWER

“More flexibility for P9 EnergyScale settings for SAP HANA workloads”
SAP Note update 2777782 – SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS Settings for RHEL 8
Refer to IBM’s EnergyScale documentation for this feature at https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/6GZMODN3

New SAP Blog –

Automating SAP S/4HANA and HoP installations with RedHat Ansible: https://blogs.sap.com/2020/11/03/automating-the-installation-of-sap-s-4hana-and-sap-hana-on-ibm-power-systems-using-red-hat-ansible/

IBM Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1 – with new release – re-certified –
also with the new backint interface ! – for SAP applications!
For details please look into the following
SAP Note 2031547:
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2031547
and Support Process for IBM Spectrum Protect for ERP 8.1
SAP Note 1913500:
https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1913500

Published: a paper how to decide on the best network virtualization for your workload and how to configure it in special for SAP HANAonPower:
“HANA_vNIC_Planning_and_configurationV1.1.pdf”
LINK: http://ibm.biz/HoPvNICPlanningPDF

For more HANAonPOWER planning documentation please see WP102502
on IBM Techdocs: http://ibm.biz/IBMTechdocsHoPGuidesWP102502

HANAonPOWER Planning Guide has been updated also:
http://ibm.biz/HoPPlanningGuideV5-201030

SLES15 SP2 is now supported for HANA (HANA 2.0 SPS04 revision 48.01 and newer) – for details pls read SAP Notes 2235581 – SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems and 2684254 – SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 15 / SLES for SAP Applications 15