This book provides system architects, technical consultants, and IT management the tools to design a system architectures to deploy SAP applications on SAP HANA. Explore production and non-production systems, deployment options, backup and recovery, data replication, high-availability, and virtualization in detail. Dive into on-premise deployment options and data provisioning scenarios. Walk through scale-up and scale-out options and data partitioning considerations. Review the advantages and disadvantages of storage and system replication options and when to use each. Clarify how to leverage HANA for single node and distributed systems. Dive into a discussion on software and hardware virtualization.
Compare the options available and guide your decision using flowcharts your organization can leverage to choose the proper technology for your environment and specific needs. This book enables readers to carefully evaluate and implement a well-considered SAP HANA scenario.
Bert Vanstechelman
Bert Vanstechelman is a Partner and principal technical consultant at Expertum. He has more than 20 years of experience in SAP technical consulting, covering countless SAP versions in combination with all kinds of databases and operating systems supported by SAP. Bert specializes in platform migrations, SAP release upgrades, and SAP HANA conversions. Bert is the founder of Logos Consulting, now a part of Expertum.
Bert is a member of the board of advisors of the SAP Professional Journal. He is the author of “SAP HANA Implementation Guide” and co-author of “Securing S/4HANA”, both published by Espresso Tutorials. He is also the co-author, with Mark Mergaerts, of the following SAP PRESS books: “Upgrading SAP”, “SAP NetWeaver Application Server Upgrade Guide”, “The OS/DB Migration Project Guide”, and the “mySAP ERP Upgrade Project Guide”.
He can be contacted at bert.vanstechelman@expertum.net.
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