All SAP HANA guides

Explore guides, architectures, and automated deployment scripts to plan, provision, configure, and operate SAP HANA environments on Google Cloud.

Planning for SAP HANA

Use our comprehensive planning guides to evaluate deployment architectures, system sizing, high-availability clusters, disaster recovery, and operating system support on Google Cloud.

Explains how to plan an SAP HANA deployment on Google Cloud, including deployment architecture, resource sizing, pricing, and licensing requirements.

Explains how to architect high-availability options and failover cluster topologies for SAP HANA databases on Google Cloud.

Explains how to design cross-region disaster-recovery solutions and asynchronous replication workflows for enterprise SAP HANA systems on Google Cloud.

Explains how to plan and evaluate storage tiers and memory requirements for SAP HANA dynamic tiering deployments on Google Cloud.

Explains how to verify SAP-certified operating systems (such as RHEL and SLES) supported for running SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

Deploying scale-up systems

Provision single-node SAP HANA scale-up database configurations by using Terraform.

Explains how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of single-node SAP HANA scale-up systems on Google Cloud.

Deploying multi-host scale-out systems

Provision multi-host SAP HANA scale-out database topologies by using Terraform.

Explains how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of multi-host SAP HANA scale-out systems on Google Cloud.

Deploying scale-up high-availability clusters

Automate or manually configure scale-up high-availability database clusters on RHEL and SLES by using pacemaker and SAP HANA system replication on Google Cloud.

Explains how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of SAP HANA scale-up systems inside Linux high-availability clusters on Google Cloud.

Explains how to manually configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) high-availability scale-up clusters for SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

Explains how to manually configure SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) high-availability scale-up clusters for SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

Deploying scale-out high-availability clusters

Deploy multi-host SAP HANA scale-out clusters with high availability across distributed nodes using automated or manual configuration workflows.

Explains how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of SAP HANA scale-out systems inside SLES high-availability clusters on Google Cloud.

Explains how to manually configure SLES Pacemaker high-availability scale-out cluster topologies for distributed SAP HANA deployments on Google Cloud.

Deploying scale-out systems with host auto-failover

Configure multi-host SAP HANA database topologies featuring built-in standby nodes and automatic standby host failover capabilities on Google Cloud.

Explains how to use Terraform to automate the deployment of SAP HANA scale-out systems featuring standby node auto-failover fault recovery on Google Cloud.

Migrating virtual IP addresses across HA clusters

Migrate legacy alias IP configurations across existing SAP HANA high-availability clusters right over to internal load balancers on RHEL and SLES.

Explains how to migrate virtual IP (VIP) implementations inside Red Hat Enterprise Linux HA clusters right over to internal load balancers.

Explains how to migrate virtual IP (VIP) implementations inside SUSE Linux Enterprise Server HA clusters right over to internal load balancers.

Monitoring and operating SAP HANA

Monitor real-time database metrics using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP and follow best-practice operational playbooks for routine maintenance, administration, and performance management on Google Cloud.

Explains how to monitor SAP HANA instances on Linux by collecting server metrics through version 2.0 or later of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP for visualization in Cloud Monitoring.

Explains how to administer, maintain, and manage SAP HANA database systems running across Linux instances on Google Cloud.

Backint backup and recovery by using Google Cloud's Agent for SAP

Configure and operate enterprise database backup and recovery workflows directly between SAP HANA and Google Cloud storage layers by using our integrated Backint feature.

Explains how the integrated Backint feature inside Google Cloud's Agent for SAP backs up and restores SAP HANA databases.

Explains how to configure and operationalize the Backint feature of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP for automated SAP HANA backup and recovery workflows on Google Cloud.