The Latest:

Configuring and Monitoring SAP HANA 2 Extension Node


Image courtesy SAP SE IT-Conductor continues to stay on top of new release features of SAP HANA. In the previous presentations, we explored HANA’s warm data management offering – dynamic tiering. SAP HANA2 Dynamic Tiering Overview including HANA Monitoring SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Test-drive Continuing the warm data management exploration, we implemented and tested another feature – the Extension Node, which exists in scale-out landscape as a slave node, for use in either Native HANA or in BW scenarios. The worker/master node stores the ’hot’ ...

Oct 6 | Terry Kempis

Tips for HANA Monitoring of HA/DR with Virtual Host Failover


Introduction In HANA HA/DR design, a database virtual host is used as the logical SQL connection point for applications such as Netweaver ABAP or ...

Sep 26 | Terry Kempis

Monitoring HANA HA/DR with System Replication using IT-Conductor


As more sites are using system replication (SR) with the feature ‘active:active read_enabled’, it is of great benefit to perform SAP HANA monitoring ...

Mar 28 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA 2 SPS02 Upgrade and Dynamic Tiering Implementation


When we upgraded previously to SAP HANA 2, there were still quirks in how Dynamic Tiering work, so it's time to upgrade yet again, this time to SPS02 ...

Sep 13 | Terry Kempis

Installation and Monitoring SAP Frontend Server including NW Gateway


  If you use S/4HANA, HANA and Fiori, most likely you will need SAP Frontend Server (FES) which also acts as SAP Netweaver Gateway.  In prior ...

Aug 24 | Terry Kempis

SAP Basis Automation of HANA Backup and Cleanup


It's cool if you can perform SAP monitoring and SAP HANA monitoring without installing an army of agents, but that's not enough, we want to enhance ...

Aug 3 | Terry Kempis

S/4HANA Installation Quickstart Guide and Monitoring S/4HANA


Recently, our team has seen a lot of staffing requests for SAP Basis expertise with buzz words like "Must have at least X S/4HANA project/deployment ...

Jul 19 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA 2 Dynamic Tiering Overview including HANA Monitoring


This is a continuation of the first blog, SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering Test-drive, as we cover improvements in extended storage features of HANA 2.0, how ...

May 31 | Terry Kempis

Managing and Monitoring SAP HANA 2 Active:Active System Replication


Image courtesy SAP Blogs Previously we upgraded our HANA 1.0 SPS12 to HANA 2 SPS00, to test and explore new features. One of the main attraction of ...

Mar 14 | Terry Kempis

SAP HANA 2 Upgrade & Operations: Exploring Features of the New Cockpit


  HANA 2 "Database Management Transformed" We have recently upgraded our HANA 1.0 SPS12 to HANA 2 SPS00, to test and explore new features. Note that ...

Jan 30 | Terry Kempis