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

  • If you are using a separate log storage policy:

    • Enable resource caching for log storage policy

    • Disable deduplication on log storage policy as logs are not deduped

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.

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