Thursday, February 11, 2016

1903576 - SAP HANA DB: additional main memory in exceptional cases

Symptom
regular shortages of main memory of a BW on HANA system


Other Terms
Sizing, RAM, cpu memory ratio, BW, HANA, NewDB, unloads, OoM


Reason and Prerequisites
Prerequisites:
  • BW on HANA production system
  • Nodes of each:
    512GB on 4 Socket Westmere EX CPUs,
    1 TB RAM on 8 Socket Westmere EX CPUs,
    1 TB RAM on 4 Socket IvyBridge EX CPUs or
    2 TB RAM on 8 Socket IvyBridge EX CPUs
    Eligable IBM Power Server partitions (see SAP Note 2133369)
  • Current landscape fits to the sizing
Reason:
Due to the specific workload of your BW on HANA you face regular shortages of main memory.


Solution
Open a CSS ticket on component HAN-DB and ask for an exception to add additional memory to the landscape.
SAP HANA BW development and SAP HANA DB development will verify whether the prerequisites are met. If applicable a statement will be made in the CSS ticket, which allows to increase the main memory of each node accordingly.
A detailed description of required informations, prerequisits and procedure for getting approval to increase memory, can be found attatched to this note.

Note: This exception must not result in a subsequent undersizing of the landscape



Header Data

Released On 14.09.2015 09:43:09
Release Status Released for Customer
Component HAN-DB SAP HANA Database
Other Components
HAN-DB-ENG-BW SAP HANA BW Engine
Priority Recommendations / Additional Info
Category FAQ

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