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SAP HANA Operations - Beginners

Tobias Niekamp SAP HANA Competence Center

Richard Bremer SAP HANA Product Management
Frank Bannert SAP HANA Product Management

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Agenda

Connect to a SAP HANA System

 First steps in SAP HANA Studio
Administration Console
 Overview on various tabs
Backup & Recovery
 Using the wizard
Upgrade
 Using hdblcm to upgrade SAP HANA

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Connect to SAP HANA

SAP HANA Studio at a glance

 The SAP HANA studio is a collection of applications
for SAP HANA.
 It enables technical users to manage the SAP HANA
database, to create and manage user authorizations, Application
and to create new or modify existing models of data Database
in the SAP HANA database. HANA
 It is a client tool, which can be used to access local or
HANA Operating
Server
HANA System
remote SAP HANA databases. Server Virtualization
Server (optional)
 The SAP HANA studio runs on the Eclipse platform.
Server

Network
Storage
Storage

SAP HANA system

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Connect to SAP HANA

Create System Connection

 Open SAP HANA Studio
 Choose SAP HANA Administration Console
 Click on “Add System” icon
 Insert Hostname, Instance Number, Description
 Provide user and password

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Agenda

Connect to a SAP HANA System

 First steps in SAP HANA Studio
Administration Console
 Overview on various tabs
Backup & Recovery
 Using the wizard
Upgrade
 Using hdblcm to upgrade SAP HANA

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Administration Console

Overview
Provides most important information
about the database at a glance
 Database status
 System information
 Alerts
 Memory usage
 CPU usage
 Disk usage
Detailed information available via
forward navigation
Database version history

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Administration Console

Landscape Volumes
 List of all services (processes), their  Details about storage size and usage
status and resource consumption  Access Statistics for different volumes
 Restart services
 Display and configuration of hosts
and their role (master, standby, …)

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Administration Console

Administration Dashboards
New Administration Dashboards
 Visualize key aspects of system health and configuration
 Drill down and forward navigation to more detailed views within HANA Studio

Dashboards available with SPS8

 Overview Dashboard
 Memory Utilization Dashboard
 Resource Utilization Dashboard

Requirements
 Role sap.hana.admin.roles::Monitoring
 Web browser configured in Eclipse must support HTML5 (e.g. Chrome, IE9)

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Agenda

Connect to a SAP HANA System

 First steps in SAP HANA Studio
Administration Console
 Overview on various tabs
Backup & Recovery
 Using the wizard
Upgrade
 Using hdblcm to upgrade SAP HANA

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SAP HANA Backup & Recovery

SAP HANA database Data backups

 Contain the current payload of the data volumes
Memory  Full online backup – read and write access possible
during backup creation (shadow page concept)
 Manual (SAP HANA studio, SQL commands), or
Savepoint COMMIT scheduled (DBA Cockpit)
Log backups
 Contain the content of closed log segments
Data Area Log Area
(disk)  Automatic (asynchronous) whenever a log segment is
(disk) full or the timeout for log backup has elapsed

Data Backups Log Backups File-based Backups, Storage Snapshots and Third
Party tools (Backint) are supported.

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SAP HANA Backup & Recovery
Only payload is backed up

SAP HANA Server Shared Backup Directory

(staging area)
Backup
Savepoint
DATA_BACKUP_0000
Data
Name Server
DATA_BACKUP_0001

Backup
Savepoint
Data
Data DATA_BACKUP_0002
Index Server

Backup
Savepoint
Data DATA_BACKUP_0003
Statistics Server

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SAP HANA Backup & Recovery

Start Backup
 Open SAP HANA Studio
 Right-click on your SAP HANA System in
Administration Console
 Select “Backup and Recovery” and click on “Back up
System…”
 Specify Backup Destination and Prefix
 Verify Settings
 Confirm

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SAP HANA Backup & Recovery

Start Recovery
 Open SAP HANA Studio
 Right-click on your SAP HANA System in
Administration Console
 Select “Backup and Recovery” and click on “Recover
System…”
 Provide <SID>adm Credentials
 Specify Recovery Type
 Specify the relevant data backup and log entries
 Confirm

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Agenda

Connect to a SAP HANA System

 First steps in SAP HANA Studio
Administration Console
 Overview on various tabs
Backup & Recovery
 Using the wizard
Upgrade
 Using hdblcm to upgrade SAP HANA

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SAP HANA platform lifecycle management
Service portfolio

Installation
• Single Host
• Multiple Hosts
• Single Software Component
Configuration
• Multiple Software Components SAP HANA • System Scale Up
Platform LCM • System Scale Out
• System Scale Down
Upgrade
• System Copy
• Single Host
• System Rename
• Multiple Hosts
• System Landscape Directory Registration
• Single Software Component
• Uninstallation of System
• Multiple Software Components

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SAP HANA platform lifecycle management
Tools portfolio

Previous
SAP SAP
SAP
HANA HANA
HANA
SPS 07 SPS 08
SPS

SAP HANA lifecycle manager *2,*3

SAP HANA lifecycle manager *2,*3 SAP HANA lifecycle manager *2,*3

SAP HANA - unified installer

SAP HANA - unified installer *1
(deprecated) *1

SAP HANA - on-site configuration tool SAP HANA - platform lcm tool
(OCT) *2 hdblcm(gui) *1, *3 SAP HANA - platform lcm tool
hdblcm(gui) *1, *2,*3
SAP HANA - software update manager
(SUM) *3

*1 Installation *2 Configuration *3 Upgrade

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SAP HANA Upgrade

Start Upgrade
 Open console and login as root
 Start hdblcmgui
 Select activity and SID
 Provide user and password
 Confirm
 SAP HANA will be restarted and then available with
then new SP Level

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The exercises

What’s coming next

Hands-on Exercises
What’s coming now?

Introduction Part
 Connect to SAP HANA Database
Initializing the backup system
 Create an initial data backup
Overview of the Administration Editor in the SAP HANA studio
 System overview
 Information on services, sessions and threads
 System configuration, trace settings and more
Restarting the database
 Restart individual processes or the entire database system
The Backup System
 Managing backups; recovring the database
Updating the SAP HANA system
 Update using the hdblcmgui tool

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Hands-on Exercises
Logon information

Each user group will have a dedicated SAP HANA database to work with, running on a dedicated
virtual machine.

The names of the hosts to connect to will be given by the session instructors

DB system information:
 Instance number: 00
 SAP System ID (SID): TDH

User for logon

 DB User: SYSTEM Password: Abcd1234
 Linux OS user: tdhadm Password: admin

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Further Information

SAP Public Web

SCN: SAP In-Memory computing: http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory
SCN: SAP HANA Developer center: http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana
Public HANA community: http://www.saphana.com/
Public documentation: http://help.sap.com/hana_platform

SAP Education and Certification Opportunities

https://training.sap.com/us/en/curriculum/hana_adm_sps07-sap-hana---administration-operations--
support-sap-hana-sps07-g-en/

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