SAP System Refresh and Cloning operations on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
Discover the power of SAP HANA on Azure NetApp Files with seamless system refresh and cloning operations using SnapCenter. This innovative solution leverages Azure NetApp Files snapshot and volume cloning capabilities to provide end-to-end workflows for data protection and SAP system refresh operations. Whether you need to create system copies for testing, address logical corruption, or perform disaster recovery failover tests, SnapCenter ensures quick and efficient processes, saving you time and resources.SAP HANA data protection on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter
Efficient and fast data protection and recovery of SAP HANA running on Azure NetApp Files with SnapCenter introduction, configuration, backup and restore. Ensure the highest level of data protection for your SAP HANA systems with Azure NetApp Files. Leveraging the robust capabilities of Azure NetApp Files, NetApp SnapCenter backup and recovery offers seamless snapshot-based backup and restore operations. This solution provides the ability to efficiently offload snapshots to an Azure storage account for longer term retention, ensuring fast data protection and recovery for SAP applications.
Optimize HANA deployments with Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
This article describes the value and use cases for Azure NetApp Files (ANF) volume provisioning using Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA. The article refers to a series of videos, which explain the pre-requisites as well as the different deployment scenarios in detail.SAP on Azure NetApp Files Sizing Best Practices
This article provides guidelines for properly sizing SAP deployments on Azure NetApp Files (ANF) to achieve optimal performance and cost-effectiveness. It emphasizes the importance of accurate capacity and performance estimation to avoid overprovisioning or underutilization of resources. The article introduces the "SAP on Azure NetApp Files Sizing Estimator" tool, which automates the sizing process and helps customers and partners to make informed decisions. By following these sizing guidelines and leveraging the tool, customers and partners can optimize their SAP landscapes on ANF for improved efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.Using Azure NetApp Files AVG for SAP HANA to deploy HANA with multiple partitions (MP)
For larger HANA systems such as the new 24TiB VM's a single data volume does not deliver enough performance and capacity. For such a scenario SAP supports "Multiple partitions" (MP) where the SAP HANA database, stripes I/O across multiple data volumes. Application Volume Group (AVG) for SAP HANA optimizes the ANF volume deployment for SAP HANA for single data volumes but can also be tailored to deploy multiple data volumes.SAP Oracle 19c System Refresh Guide on Azure VMs using Azure NetApp Files Snapshots with AzAcSnap
This document provides guidance on using Azure NetApp Files snapshots to refresh SAP Oracle 19c systems on Azure NetApp Files quickly. This guide has step-by-step screenshots to understand the primary method of refresh SAP systems from a snapshot taken using the Microsoft provided AzAcSnap Tool.
