Landscape Planning, Sizing & Deployment Models

Which cloud service model is SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), and on what is it built?

What does SCOS (single component on one system) mean as an SAP HANA deployment option?

What is the difference between vertical and horizontal standardization in an SAP landscape?

Which ABAP sizing report estimates memory/disk requirements when migrating SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA to SAP HANA?

What is a split-brain situation in an HA cluster, and why is it dangerous?

How is the SAP HANA global allocation limit calculated by default, and why must it be adjusted under MCOS?

What distinguishes a hyperconverged infrastructure from a converged infrastructure?

What is the documented scale-up memory limit for a single SAP HANA appliance, and what must be done when that limit is reached?

What is a SAPS value, and what does the Quick Sizer compute alongside it?

In SAP HANA easy/lazy sizing, what are the default formulas for the shared volume and the backup volume?

Under SAP HANA TDI, what is the recommended log volume size formula based on system memory?

In a distributed SAP HANA system, why should all potential master hosts be listed in the client connection string?

Which logical-partition and operating-system options are supported for SAP HANA on IBM POWER?

In the SAP HANA sizing report, what does the "Size data that is currently unloaded" scope option control?

In a distributed SAP HANA system, which name server persists the topology to disk?

How often does the SAP message server query application servers for status, and what is the user impact if it fails?

What are the two ways to make SAP HANA database clients aware that a takeover occurred?

Which client protocols does the SAP HANA client support?

What does a PaaS model provide beyond IaaS, and what is its main drawback?

In SAP HANA easy/lazy sizing, what are the default formulas for the data volume and the log volume size?

Without HA cluster software, what is the limitation of plain SAP HANA system replication on a primary failure?

What are statement routing, connection selection, and command splitting in a distributed SAP HANA system?

Which four network zones does SAP recommend for an SAP HANA landscape?

How is the SAP HANA installation disk space sized for a scale-out system?

In an IaaS deployment of SAP HANA, who remains responsible for the operating system and SAP HANA system administration?

As of which VMware version are vMotion, DRS, HA, and FT supported in combination with SAP HANA?

Which sizing report is used for SAP BW on SAP HANA / SAP BW/4HANA, and via which SAP Note?

What does MCOS (multiple components on one system) mean for SAP HANA?

When sizing a SAP HANA scale-out system's data volume, how are standby nodes treated?

Under SAP HANA TDI, who is responsible for verifying that the existing storage and network are certified for SAP HANA?

Why must logical (virtual) hostnames be used for applications/databases protected by an HA cluster?

Why is the core-to-memory ratio central to SAP HANA hardware certification, and why does it differ by application type?

Why is VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) not suitable for SAP HANA workloads?

What is the showstopper that makes MCOD (multiple components one database) unsuitable for production SAP HANA systems?

What is the key advantage of SAP HANA tailored data center integration (TDI) over the appliance?

On a SAP HANA appliance, who installs the hardware, OS, and SAP HANA system, and who is the main support contact?

What are the minimum logical partition sizes for production and nonproduction SAP HANA on IBM POWER?

How do the appliance and SAP HANA TDI differ on who provides support for storage and network?

As of which SAP HANA release did multitenant database containers (MDC) become the default installation option?

How does a cluster file system make SAP HANA volumes available to a standby node during failover?

Why does the SAP HANA appliance model rule out virtualization and storage replication?

In an SAP S/4HANA system, which components are single points of failure (SPOFs) requiring HA protection?

On a SAP HANA appliance, what are the storage sizing formulas for the data volume and the log volume relative to RAM?

In an SAP HANA MDC system, which database initiates recoveries of the tenant databases?

On large systems, why must the SAP HANA sizing report be run in background, and what parameter should be raised?

Under SAP HANA TDI, what is the recommended disk space for the SAP HANA installation on a single-node system?

What is the key backup/recovery advantage of MDC over MCOD in SAP HANA?

During SAP HANA startup, in what order is data made available, and what happens to column tables?

In an SAP HANA storage zone using fiber channel, which component is responsible for remapping LUNs during a failover?

Under SAP HANA tailored data center integration (TDI), who must perform the SAP HANA installation?

By how much does SAP recommend padding the SAP HANA memory sizing when copying data from a non-Unicode source system?

What is the Quick Sizer, and who should use it?

Which IBM POWER processor generations are supported for production SAP HANA systems, and which are limited to nonproduction?

What is the role of the enqueue replication server (ERS) in an SAP system?

What is the default memory-sizing formula for SAP HANA "easy and lazy" sizing, and what do its constants 7 and 2 represent?

What does VMware High Availability monitor, and what is its blind spot for SAP HANA?

Since which release does SAP support codeploying SAP HANA with the SAP NetWeaver AS on the same hardware, and what are the implications of doing so?

Which operating systems are supported to run the SAP HANA system itself?

What are the two on-premise deployment options for SAP HANA?

In SAP HANA CPU sizing, what default user distribution and average resource requirement are assumed?