Sap hana power linux

[Luca82]

Hi , could someone tell me if is it supported the bachup of a SAP HANA under power Linux IBM?
Thank you

[HannesK]

Hello,
the HANA plugin today supports only x86.

See system requirements

Which Linux are you running on Power?

Best regards,
Hannes

[Luca82]

tank you!

[flow]

Good Morning

are there prospects for SAP Hana Database with log backups. We would like to get rid of TSM backup. We would also agree to test.

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, it's a topic that comes up from time to time. We count your request +1, but I cannot provide any timelines.

Best regards,
Hannes

[Dagr]

Just chiming in, to say that we have gotten this request to, and would love to see SAP HANA agent supported on IBM POWER servers.

[heinrichloewen]

Hello,

we've also linux on Power for our productive HANA databases.
Please add support for linux on power and hana on linux on power.

We are running SLES on our Power server.

[PTide]

Took a note. Thanks!

[GianlucaCroci]

Hello,
we've the same problem.

Would it be possible to use a "normal" Agent that allows saving the server without distinction from SAP HANA?
Perhaps you could do a local SAP save directly with SAP, and then take everything away with the "regular" Veeam Agent.

Thanks

[HannesK]

Hello,
the "normal" Veeam Agent for Linux only runs on x86. Not on Power.

But yes, one could dump all data to a folder and share that folder via NFS and back up that NFS share with NAS backup. One might even extend that by using another server for NFS server and in case of restore, one could use instant NFS publishing (V12 feature) and present a read-only share without copying files anywhere.

Best regards,
Hannes

[GianlucaCroci]

Hello Hannes,

thanks a lot.

Will V2 potentially have a linux Power agent or is it not expected?

We're already using the NFS solution, but it's very expensive in terms of licensing (1 license every 500 GB), and SAP HANA from this point of view is not a light product, especially when you then have various environments (mandatory) .

Thanks again
Gianluca

[HannesK]

No, there won't be a Veeam Agent for Linux on Power in the near future. We have plans, but cannot provide a timeline.

technically also the Veeam Agent for Linux can back up from NFS shares. But the performance is lower than NAS backup. That would only cost one license.

[GianlucaCroci]

yes, we can consider using the Linux agent to save a NAS.
As you say, to check the performance of one system rather than the other. The important thing is to have a solution that is simple to manage, and fast, both in backup and in restore.
True that the cost of 30 or 40 Veeam licenses compared to those of SAP Hana, there is no comparison

Thanks again

[stahly]

Hello,

Is there any news on the subject? (Veeam Agent for Linux on Power)
We are currently looking for a backup solution.

Thank you!

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, we announced it a month ago at Veeam ON (Veeam Agent for Linux on Power and SAP HANA plugin for Linux on Power).

It's planned for the upcoming release (12a). Tech preview / beta builds will be available via your local Veeam team.

Best regards,
Hannes

[GianlucaCroci]

No, there won't be a Veeam Agent for Linux on Power in the near future. We have plans, but cannot provide a timeline.

technically also the Veeam Agent for Linux can back up from NFS shares. But the performance is lower than NAS backup. That would only cost one license.

Hello,
now we've the V12.1 and we would like to do this backup via Agent installed on Linux.
we do the mount of the NFS share on a linux server, where is installed the Veeam Agent, but we can't do a backup, because Veeam don't see the data.

The Item written on the backup is not found on the filesystem and will not be backed up.

How we can do it, or better, how we've to mount the NFS (or SMB) share?

thanks a lot.

[HannesK]

Hello,
what do you like to back up? SAP HANA on Power or an NFS share that is somehow mounted to a Power machine?

Backup from NFS / SMB shares is best done with NAS backup. It does not need an agent for that.

If we talk about NFS backup with the agent, then file-based backup is the only option. Select the NFS mountpoint as source and then it backs it up. If not, please post the support case number.

Best regards,
Hannes

[GianlucaCroci]

we save the data of SAP on a NFS Share, and we would like to save it with a Ubuntu Linux server that mount the share. So we can use just a license and perhaps better than a job File-to-backup (worked well since v11, but with v12 very slow.. backup and copyjob)

[HannesK]

For SAP, there is the plugin

File-to-tape with SAP (and plugin data in general) makes no sense to me because restore is very complicated if not impossible.

In general: if something worked fine in V11, then it should also continue working fine in later versions. If not, then support should check why it got slower.

[GianlucaCroci]

thx for the reply.

I know that there is a plugin, but we've several servers and we wanted to save SAP in an external folder, and then with Veeam go and get these saves once a day.
We've already used the plugin for almost a year, but personally I didn't like it much. Mostly due to how it was configured by the SAP consultants, as every 3-4 minutes it performed a save (I think it save the logs).

But this post isn't only for SAP. We also have databases like MariaDB and MongoDB that perform a save to a share and I would like to get these.
I'm currently doing this with a File-to-Backup but with V12 it doesn't work very well anymore and has slowed down a lot, especially the CopyJob part, which fails almost every time even though both the backup and the CopyJob were recreated with V12.