SAP HANA Best Practices

For SAP HANA best practices in Amazon and Azure environments, see the following links:

Backup Operations Considerations

Storage Policies

Use the following guidelines when you assign a storage policies:

Configure the following options for the data storage policy:
- Enable deduplication
- Compression
Enable resource caching for the log storage policy

Commvault Parameters

MediaAgent Settings

Set the number of pipeline buffers to 600 (this must be a multiple of 30) by using the nNumPipelineBuffers additional settings. For more information about configuring additional settings see, Adding or Modifying Additional Settings from the CommCell Console.

Networking

Configure a one-way direct connection between the SAP HANA clients and the CommServe computer. For more information, see Setting up a One-Way Direct Connection.

Linux Kernel Parameters

For information on Linux kernel parameters, see the following SAP Notes:

SAP HANA Parameters

Set the following parameters in the SAP HANA global.ini file.

Parameter	Value
parallel_data_backup_backint_channels	4
data_backup_buffer_size	2048
backint_response_timeout	1800
catalog_backup_using_backint	TRUE
catalog_backup_parameter_file	/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/global/hdb/opt/hdbconfig/param
tcp_backlog	2048

Set the following parameters in the SAP HANA indexserver.ini > [communication] for data backups (applicable for HANA 1.0 SPS10 to HANA 1.0 SPS12):

Parameter	Value
maxendpoints	35000
maxchannels	35000

Note

Some of these parameters are set automatically when you run the backups from the CommCell Console. When you use HANA Studio or the command line to run the backups, you must set these parameters manually.