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Learn about SnapCenter supported configurations for SAP HANA

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SnapCenter supports a wide range of SAP HANA system architectures and deployment scenarios across on-premises and cloud storage platforms. Learn about supported SAP HANA configurations, platform combinations, storage protocols, and available backup and restore operations for each environment.

Supported SAP HANA configurations

SnapCenter supports the following HANA configurations and features:

  • SAP HANA single host systems

  • SAP HANA multiple host systems

  • SAP HANA MDC systems

    • with a single or with multiple tenants

  • SAP HANA systems with multiple partitions

  • SAP HANA System Replication

  • SAP HANA encryption (data, log, backup)

Supported platform and infrastructure configurations

SnapCenter supports the following combinations of host platforms, file systems and storage platforms.

Host platform SAP HANA storage connection and file system Storage platform

VMware

In-guest NFS mounts

ONTAP AFF

VMware

FC datastore with VMFS
VM with XFS w/ or w/o Linux LVM

ONTAP AFF or ASA

KVM

In-guest NFS mounts

ONTAP AFF

Bare metal server

NFS mounts

ONTAP AFF

Bare metal server

FC SAN
and XFS w/ or w/o Linux LVM

ONTAP AFF or ASA (*)

Azure VM

NFS mounts

Azure NetApp Files

AWS EC2

NFS mounts

FSx for ONTAP

(*): ASA support available starting with SnapCenter 6.2 release

Note The HANA and Linux plug-ins are only available for the Intel CPU platform. For Linux on IBM Power a central HANA plug-in deployment needs to be setup as described in "Deployment options for SnapCenter plug-in for SAP HANA".

Supported features and operations

Abbreviation explanation

  • VBSR: Volume based SnapRestore
    A volume based SnapRestore reverts the volume back to the state of the Snapshot.

  • SFSR: Single file SnapRestore
    A single file SnapRestore can be used to restore specific file(s) or LUN(s) within a volume.

See also Types of restore operations for auto discovered SAP HANA databases

ONTAP AFF and FSx for ONTAP

Note Only column 1 (NFS mounts) of the table below is relevant for FSx for ONTAP.
Operation NFS mounts
Bare metal or in-guest with VMware or KVM		 FC SAN
Bare metal		 FC datastore
VMware VMFS

Snapshot backup and restore operations for HANA database

Snapshot backup

Yes

Yes

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

Yes

Yes

Yes

Full restore

VBSR or SFSR (selectable)

SFSR of complete LUN

Clone, mount, copy

Single tenant restore

SFSR

Clone, mount, copy

Clone, mount, copy

SnapVault backup and restore operations for HANA database

SnapVault replication

Yes

Yes

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

Yes

Yes

Yes

Full restore

Yes

Yes

Clone, mount, copy

Single tenant restore

Yes

Clone, mount, copy

Clone, mount, copy

HANA recovery operation from primary Snapshot or SnapVault target

Automated recovery MDC single tenant

Yes

Yes

Yes

Automated recovery MDC multiple tenants

No

No

No

Backup and restore non-data volumes

Snapshot backup

Yes

Yes

Yes (*)

Restore from Snapshot

VBSR or SFSR (selectable)

SFSR of complete LUN

VBSR (*)

SnapVault replication

Yes

Yes

Yes (*)

Restore from SnapVault target

Yes

Yes

Yes (*)

SAP System Refresh

From primary Snapshot

Yes

Yes (**)

Yes (**)

From SnapVault target

Yes

Yes (**)

Yes (**)

HA and DR

HSR support Snapshots and SnapVault

Yes

Yes

Yes

SnapMirror replication updates with SC

Yes

Yes

Yes

SnapMirror active sync

NA

Yes

Yes

(*): No VMware integration - crash image Snapshot and full volume restore

(**): Workarounds required for SnapCenter releases < 6.2

ONTAP ASA

Operation FC SAN
Bare metal (*)		 FC datastore
VMware VMFS

Snapshot backup and restore operations for HANA database

Snapshot backup

Yes

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

No

No

Full restore

SFSR of complete LUN

Clone, mount, copy

Single tenant restore

Clone, mount, copy

Clone, mount, copy

SnapVault backup and restore operations for HANA database

SnapVault replication

Yes

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

No

No

Full restore

Yes

Clone, mount, copy

Single tenant restore

Clone, mount, copy

Clone, mount, copy

HANA recovery operation from primary Snapshot or SnapVault target

Automated recovery MDC single tenant

Yes

Yes

Automated recovery MDC multiple tenants

No

No

Backup and restore non-data volumes

Snapshot backup

Yes (*)

Yes (*)

Restore from Snapshot

SFSR of complete LUN (*)

SFSR of complete LUN (*)

SnapVault replication

Yes (*)

Yes (*)

Restore from SnapVault target

Yes (*)

Yes (*)

SAP System Refresh

From primary Snapshot

Yes (**)

Yes (**)

From SnapVault target

Yes (**)

Yes (**)

HA and DR

HSR support Snapshots and SnapVault

Yes

Yes

SnapMirror replication updates triggered by SnapCenter

Yes

Yes

SnapMirror active sync

Yes

Yes

(*): Support starting with SnapCenter 6.2 release

(**): Workarounds required for SnapCenter releases < 6.2

Azure NetApp Files

Operation NFS mounts

Snapshot backup and restore operations for HANA database

Snapshot backup

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

No

Full in-place restore

Volume revert or SFSR (selectable)

Single tenant restore

SFSR

ANF backup and restore operations for HANA database

ANF backup replication

Yes

Tamperproof Snapshot

No

Full in-place restore

Yes

Single tenant restore

Yes

HANA recovery operation from primary Snapshot or ANF backup

Automated recovery MDC single tenant

Yes

Automated recovery MDC multiple tenants

No

Backup and restore non-data volumes

Snapshot backup

Yes

Restore from Snapshot

Volume revert

ANF backup replication

Yes

Full in-place restore from ANF backup

No (*)

SAP System Refresh

From primary Snapshot

Yes

From ANF backup

Yes

HA and DR

HSR support Snapshots and ANF backup

Yes

Cross region replication update triggered by SnapCenter

No

(*): With the current version, a restore operation must be done using Azure portal or CLI