Using the Everpure SAP HANA Toolkit

SAP

Audience
Public
Product
FlashBlade
FlashArray
FlashStack
FlashBlade > Purity//FB
FlashArray > Purity//FA
Technology Integrations
SAP
Source Type
Documentation

The SAP HANA toolkit is a set of executables packaged in an rpm for Redhat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux.

The following tasks can be accomplished with the toolkit:

  • Check for and apply best practice recommendations for Everpure FlashArray when used as persistent storage for SAP HANA deployments.
  • Create application consistent and crash consistent storage snapshots for the following deployment types:
    • Scale Up bare metal
    • Scale Out bare metal
    • Scale Up on VMware using vVols
    • Scale Out on VMware using vVols
  • Recover from application consistent storage snapshots for the following deployment types:
    • Scale Up bare metal
    • Scale Up on VMware using vVols.

The toolkit is based on python scripts located on Everpure Open-Connect.

Note:

Python 3 must be available on the system to use any of th tools in the SAP HANA Toolkit. To check what python revision is currently being used execute the following


python --version

If both Python 2 and Python 3 are on the system then use the following to set the primary python version to 3.x


update-alternatives --config python