HP AppSystems for Virtualized SAP HANA

Technical white paper | HP AppSystem for Virtual SAP HANA
HP D2700 disk enclosure with twenty-five 300GB small form factor disk drives configured as a single file system for a
total of 7.5TB (5.46 TB usable space) for HANA data
HP P410i with 512MB flash-backed write cache internal disk storage controller
Two 300GB internal SAS disks in RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration (274 GB effective internal storage) for VMwareESXi
Hypervisorand the four provided virtual machine templates
Two HP NC550 SFP Dual-port 10GbE network interface card
HP NC357T Quad-port 1GbE network interface card
SAP HANA server key software components
The software components for the SAP HANA database server diverge slightly from the HP AppSystem SAP HANA large,
single-node appliance configuration. An HP specific VMware ESXi hypervisor is added as the base on which you install the
rest of the system software. This base software includes drivers and firmware specific to the appliance. The following list
shows the remainder of the software, which is the same that is hosted on the large, single-node appliance:
HP VMware ESXi (a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the hardware)
Virtual machine instance of SAP HANA running on the hypervisor
HP Insight & System Insight Management Agents (system management)
A virtual machine instance is generated from a template. Each template is configured to include:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 for HANA
SAP HANA SP05 Rev51
SAP HANA Studio
System, data, and log storage assignments
Required network connections
Prerequisites
The deployment and configuration instructions assume that the HP AppSystem for Virtual SAP HANA is installed by HP
service teams, connected to your network, and that you have been shown the operational components, their location, how
to address them, and how to log in, and also are prepared to provide the following information:
Management system IP and login information
vCenter login information
vSphere login information
HANA Studio login information
Root password for virtual machines
HANA system administrator user ID
HANA administration password
SSL Keystore password
Database user SYSTEM password
Network Information for the ESXi Host Server, HP AppSystem Virtual HANA, Virtual Machines:
Fully qualified hostnames for each virtual machine
Important
It is critical to utilize fully qualified hostnames for the proper functioning of your HANA environment.
Each virtual machine, by default, has two virtual network interfaces
Subnet mask
Primary and secondary DNS addresses
Gateway address
HANA system identifiers (SID), each virtual machine needs a unique SID
HANA instance identifiers (HID), each HANA instance needs a unique HID