It is possible to create crash consistent SAP HANA storage snapshots on FlashArray when using a protection group to contain all of the data and log volumes for the instance. A crash consistent storage snapshot is not application consistent therefore point in time recovery cannot be guaranteed. Creating a crash consistent snapshot of an SAP HANA instances volumes can be used as a very fast and non-intrusive method of copying an SAP HANA system and all of its tenants to another location for test, development, and quality assurance purposes.