SAP HANA Sizing

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 HANA Installation Preparation

Requirement Deployment Hardware

HANA Sizing
Scoping Planning Identification

Infrastructure Post
Pre-requisite Installation
Planning Installation

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 Requirement Scoping
• Identify SAP Products, components and versions
Product Stack • Determine HANA System and version
• Integration requirements

• Gather Landscape requirements – Non Prod, Prod

Landscape • Scalability and availability requirements
• Size and growth requirements

Deployment • Define landscape and HANA deployment scenario

Scenario • On-premise / Cloud / Virtualization etc

• Gather application and HANA sizing inputs

Sizing • Initial and ongoing growth parameters

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 Sizing SAP HANA Concept
• SAP HANA customer must perform a memory sizing
• New SAP HANA implementations
– SAP Quick Sizer
• Systems that are migrating to SAP HANA
– Migration is from an SAP NetWeaver
• Use sizing report on the source database
– Migration is from a non-SAP NetWeaver
• use the sizing as in SAP Note 1514966
• Any system that is large or complex
– SAP sizing expert
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 Sizing SAP HANA basics
• Sizing of the SAP HANA database is based mainly on the
required main memory size.
• The memory size is determined by the amount of data that is to
be stored in memory
• SAP HANA compresses the data.
– depends on the used scenario, you cannot estimate the amount of
memory needed
– The memory sizing must always be performed using the Quick Sizer
for SAP HANA , or the SAP HANA Sizing Reports and SAP Notes.

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 SAP HANA Sizing Scenarios
Scenario SAP BW/4HANA SAP HANA Non-NetWeaver
New Implementation Quick Sizer Quick Sizer Sizing guide as available
for SAP BW/4HANA for Suite on SAP HANA
Database SAP Note 1637145: Sizing for SAP Note 1514966 – SAP HANA 1.0 : SAP Note 1514966: SAP
migration SAP BW on HANA Sizing SAP HANA HANA: Sizing SAP In- Memory
Database
SAP Note 1736976 : Sizing SAP Note 1793345: Sizing for SAP
Report for SAP BW on HANA Suite on SAP HANA

SAP Note 2121330 - FAQ: SAP SAP Note 1872170: Suite on SAP
BW on HANA Sizing Report HANA memory sizing report

SAP Note 2296290 - New Sizing SAP Note 2367595 - Suite on HANA
Report for BW/4HANA memory Sizing

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HANA Sizing Methodology

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 SAP Quick Sizer
Go to →
https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark/sizing.html → Quick Sizer → HANA version → Create Project

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SAP Quick Sizer Tool

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 SAP Quick Sizer
• Calculate Results

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 Sizing Approach
• SAP In-Memory Appliance
– Certified SAP HANA appliances
– https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-
hardware/enEN/index.html

• Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI)

– To use available hardware
– To reuse hardware and save costs

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Sizing HANA Tailored Data Center Integration Setup
• RAM sizing for static and dynamic data
• Disk sizing for the persistence storage
• CPU sizing for the queries and calculations

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 Main Memory Sizing
• Sizing Report
– SAP Quick Sizer: http://service.sap.com/quicksizer
– SAP Note 1514966: SAP HANA: Sizing SAP In-Memory Database
– SAP Note 1637145: Sizing for SAP BW/4HANA
– SAP Note 1736976 : SAP BW/4HANA Sizing Report
– SAP Note 1793345: Sizing for SAP Suite on HANA
– SAP Note 1872170: Suite on SAP HANA Memory Sizing Report
– SAP Note 2055470: SAP HANA on POWER Planning and Installation
Specifics – Central Note

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Sizing for Suite on SAP HANA Using SAP Notes
1793345 and 1872170

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Sizing for SAP BW/4HANA Using SAP Notes
1637145 and 1736976

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 HANA Main Memory Sizing Approach
• Determine static + dynamic RAM requirement
– Calculate “uncompressed” data volume to be loaded into HANA
(tools provided)
– Apply compression factor (from attachment to sizing notes)
– Multiply result by 2 because we recommend
RAM dynamic = RAM static

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 Static vs. Dynamic Memory Requirements
• Static data memory requirements
– RAM requires to the amount of main memory used for holding the
table data

• Dynamic data memory requirements

– Additional memory for objects that are created dynamically when
new data is loaded or queries are executed

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 Disk Sizing
• While Sizing a HANA system, consider the disk requirements including
the following:
• Persistence area (Data Volume + Log volume)
– Software
– Configuration
– Logs and Traces
• Space for BACKUPS
– Data backup
– Log backup Each Backup Size >= Data Size + Redo Log Size
– Full backup
-> Consider multiple backup sets to be retained in the disk
-> Consider compression where possible
-> Move backups to external medium/storage through backup tools
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 Disk Sizing
Disk Space Required for the Data Volume
/hana/data/<SID>

Disk Space Required for the Log Volume

Examples: Log Volume Size
● 128 GB system ≥Size log volume = 64 GB
● 256 GB system ≥Size log volume = 128 GB
● 512 GB system ≥Size log volume = 256 GB
● 1 TB system ≥Size log volume min = 512 GB
● 2 TB system ≥Size log volume min = 512 GB
● 4 TB system ≥Size log volume min = 512 GB
/hana/log/<SID>

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Disk Space Required for SAP HANA Installation
Examples: Single Size node
● Single-node 128 GB ≥Size installation = 128 GB
● Single-node 256 GB ≥Size installation = 256 GB
● Single-node 512 GB ≥Size installation = 512 GB
● Single-node 1 TB ≥Size installation = 1 TB
● Single-node 2 TB ≥Size installation = 1 TB
● Single-node 4 TB ≥Size installation = 1 TB
Examples: Scale out HANA installation
● 3+1 system, 512 GB per node ≥Size installation = 1x 512 GB = 512 GB
● 4+1 system, 512 GB per node ≥Size installation = 1x 512 GB = 512 GB
● 5+1 system, 512 GB per node ≥Size installation = 2x 512 GB = 1 TB
● ...
● 9+1 system, 512 GB per node ≥Size installation = 3x 512 GB = 1.5 TB
● ...
/hana/shared/<SID> ● 3+1 system, 1 TB per node ≥Size installation = 1x 1 TB = 1 TB
● 4+1 system, 1 TB per node ≥Size installation = 1x 1 TB = 1 TB
● 5+1 system, 1 TB per node ≥Size installation = 2x 1 TB = 2 TB
● 9+1 system, 1 TB per node ≥Size installation = 3x 1 TB = 3 TB

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Disk Space Required for Backups

• Complete backup contains entire payload of all data volumes

• Backup directory also depending on number of backup generation on disk

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 DB CPU Sizing
• Sizing approach similar to user based CPU sizing of BW and BWA
• Maximize query throughout by multiuser scenarios with queries of
different complexity out of delivered content, 10-20 million records
• Assumptions:
– Three different query complexity classes
– Three different user profiles (click rate, query complexity)
• Normalization of query throughout per core resp, active per core:
– CPU:300 SAPS per active user / 0.65 for a CPU utilization buffer
– Note the CPU sizing has to be adjusted so that the server load does not
exceed 65% in average.

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