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HANA Advance Features - Level 2 !

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One of the benefits

of running IBM Power Systems in a hybrid
environment is that customers can
benefit from the same
performance, scalability and flexibility of running
on-premises.
How would you recommend to a customer on a hybrid set-up?

Best practice is to run all development, QA and

production on-premises and only setup a disaster
recovery (DR) site on the cloud
Run the production instances on the IBM Cloud (PowerVS)
and development/QA instances on-premises
Separate the SAP applications, for example, by running 
all S/4HANA instances (prod, dev and QA) on-premises
and BW/4HANA on the cloud
Run their production instances on-premises and
development/QA instances on the IBM Cloud (PowerVS)
or deploy a private cloud for all instances
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What is the
preferred alternative to IBM Power Systems’
implementation of vPMEM that can speed
up SAP HANA startup
times and is Logical Partition Mobility (LPM) capable?

NVM/SCM backed storage backends (SAN) or SAP 

HANA fast Restart (tmp-fs)

Rapid Cold Start
Internal NVMe PCIe drives
All of the above

Question 3

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To what extend can

NSE reduce the data footprint?

It can be from 0% to a workload and/or data specific

percentage
up to 40%

75%


100%

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In the standard naming convention what does the

abbreviation
“umh” stand for ?

Ultra Memory HANA

Uber Mechanism HANA
Unclassified Memory Holistic
Unified Memory HANA 
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How would you

describe Native Storage Extension (NSE)?

NSE is a feature of SAP S/4HANA for warm data that is

only page-loaded into a smaller portion of memory known
as buffer cache. The majority of transactional data
remains on persistent storage and only pages of data that
are required for processing are loaded into the buffer
cache. This helps in reducing the amount of CPU cores
and RAM required
NSE is released with HANA 2 SPS5 and became the 

favored solution from SAP to reduce the server size,

predominantly memory. It addresses data that is
occasionally loaded into a smaller portion of
memory/RAM known as buffer cache. The majority of
warm data remains on persistent storage without any
backend changes
NSE is a feature of SAP HANA for warm data that does not
require it to be loaded in memory. Processing of the warm
data is done directly on storage. The buffer cache is used
for any overflow of hot data that cannot be contained in
main memory. This helps in reducing the memory
footprint and IO transfer requiring a server with fewer
cores and RAM
NSE is a feature of SAP applications for warm data. It
eliminates the need for indexes and aggregate data and
only loads pages of table data into the buffer cache. This
reduces the size of the database and therefore, requires
fewer server resources (cores and RAM)
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You’re having
a conversation with the CIO of a Managed Service
Provider (MSP) and she’s
concerned about the differences
between on-premises Power Systems servers and
PowerVS.
Which of the following statement about IBM PowerVS for SAP
HANA would
you mention?

IBM PowerVS has the same proven reliability, security, 

scalability as on-premises IBM Power Systems servers
IBM PowerVS is hosted on the IBM Cloud at many
locations including Dallas, Toronto, Frankfurt, Sydney, etc.
SAP HANA on IBM PowerVS can be deployed on any IBM
Power Systems servers from S922, S924, E950 and E980
IBM PowerVS is SAP certified to the same memory size as
on-premises IBM Power Systems i.e. 28TB

Question 7

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Which of the
following options provide customers with better
uptime for planned and
unplanned downtime?

Any of the solutions supporting SAP HANA PMEM

Logical Partition Mobility (LPM)
SAP HANA System Replication 

Backup and Restore of the SAP HANA database

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In the ASUG
Pulse survey, it showed that there was a trend of
customers shifting away from
Hybrid cloud back to on-
premises. What was the change in response of customers
intending to deploy on Hybrid cloud from 2020 to 2021?

+16%
53% 

-13%
24%

Question 9

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What is one
of the benefit of using Red Hat Openshift
containerization for SAP?

It is an alternative to virtualization hypervisors like 

VMware, KVM or PowerVM. For IBM Power Systems,

this can be avoid having to configure LPARs
No specialized SAP skills are required to create and
deploy a Red Hat Openshift containerized environment
Any SAP instance environment, for example, single,
distributed and HA are fully support in a containerized
deployment
All container instance built from the same SAP system
share a single copy of the centrally accessible NFS shared
source database but have their own delta database
storage. This leads to a significant storage savings
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When calculating the SAP Workloads during the

planning phase
for the IBM Power System Virtual Server what are the main
points
to consider ?

Early Watch Report data

The latest version of Solution Manager is able to run on
the Provisioned Server
Criticality, Legal Requirements, RPO & RTO, Creation of 
Migration Candidates, Minimum OS levels for AIX &
Linux, Best Suited Public Cloud for Enterprise
Workloads.
Age of the Hardware

Question 11

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What are the two main server Types available when

provisioning an IBM Power Systems Virtual Server and using
the Linux Operating
System?
 

S922 & E980 

S922 & E950

E980 & L922
E980 & S914
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The following
are warm data tiering features of SAP HANA
except for:

Extension Node
PMEM 

Dynamic Tiering
Native Storage Extension

Question 13

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The SAP HANA PMEM

feature was built by SAP to address

Reduce the memory/RAM usage by the SAP HANA

database
Hardware failure
Planned Maintenance of SAP HANA and the operating 
system
Accelerate SAP HANA workload performance
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Which of the
following statement about using Red Hat
Openshift for SAP on IBM Power Systems
is false?

Containerized SAP instances can co-exist with SAP

production system
Red Hat Openshift containerization of SAP instances is 
the preferred method of SAP Landscape Management
(LaMa) as it is free and has the same functionality to
copy and rename SAP instances
IBM has provided a methodology to provision SAP HANA,
S/4HANA or SAP Netweaver applications in Red Hat
Openshift containers
Containerized SAP deployment is currently not certified
by SAP and should only be considered for non-production
SAP HANA deployments

Question 15

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SAP
introduced data tiering for SAP HANA applications to
mitigate the size of the
data it needs to accommodate in
memory. The data is classified as “hot”, “warm”
and “cold”.
Which of the following statement is true?

Hot data are considered all data that are required for
daily/weekly/monthly processing including those needed
for regulatory requirements
Hot and Warm data are indistinguishable based on age of
data but is dependent on the memory size of the server
and the amount of data that can be processed within the
confines of the given memory
Warm data is data that is required occasionally for 

processing
Cold data are data that will never be used
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Which of the
following data tiering statement is true?

Data tiering features is dependent on the SAP 

application support
Data tiering enables a faster backup of the database as it
reduces the amount of active data
Data tiering should be implemented for all new clients
implementing S/4HANA
The primary purpose of data tiering is to enable SAP
HANA to have a fast restart capability

Question 17

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NSE targets to reduce

the data footprint for which data
temperatures?

Cold

Warm


Hot

Any

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Which options
can technically coexist with any of the SAP HANA
PMEM features (vPMEM, Optane,
SAP HANA Fast Restart?

SAP HANA Native Storage Extensions, Dynamic Tiering

and Extension Nodes (Warm Data)
SAP HANA System replication
Faster Storage backends

All of the above 

Question 19

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Which of the
following options listed below is not correct when
talking about exploiting the
SAP HANA PMEM feature?

Internal NVMe PCIe storage 

IBM virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM)

Optane DC persistent memory
SAP HANA Fast Restart, tmp-fs

Question 20

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What is the published SAP Benchmark for an IBM

Power
Systems Virtual Server E980 ?

480,600
892,270
907,820 

803,000
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You are at
a customer briefing to talk about the close
development relationship between
IBM and SAP and some of
the SAP features that have been implemented on Power. How
would you describe the value of Native Storage Extension as it
pertains to IBM Power
Systems?

NSE can reduce the amount of hot data in the SAP HANA
database resulting in a proposal for a smaller configured
POWER server
The IBM Power implementation of vPMEM and tmpfs
together with the reduced size of hot (active) tables will
contribute to a faster HANA restart times
A consequence of the reduced size of RAM required for
SAP HANA data is the possibility of a reduction in SAP
HANA licensing cost for customers that use SAP HANA
Enterprise and licensed by RAM size
All of the above 

Question 22

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RISE with SAP

is a recently announced offering from SAP.
Which of the following is NOT part
of this offering?

IBM Cloud was part of the initial announcement as a 

provider of cloud infrastructure

This offering promises to lower Total Cost of Ownership
(TCO) by up to 20%
RISE is meant as a one-stop shop for clients looking to
move workload to the cloud, with SAP as the primary
contract holder
RISE with SAP will be hosted on hyperscalers such as
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud as well as SAP’s own cloud
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The following are IBM

PowerVS for SAP HANA offerings except
for

Free migration services 

IBM PowerVS offers different configuration profiles to

meet customer’s Quality of Service (QoS) requirements
such as Ultra-memory, memory-intensive, balanced
workloads and compute-intensive
Test/Dev (non-production) configuration starting at
$0.83/hr
Bring your own SAP license (BYOL)

Question 24

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Which SAP
application does not support NSE?

BW/4HANA
SAP HANA Native applications
S/4HANA
BW on HANA 
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In the IDC
Special Report on Infrastructure Adoption paper for
SAP HANA infrastructure, it
shows the growth opportunity for
IBM Power Systems. What takeaway message did
you get from
it?

With the off-premises sector growing at +40%, IBM and

its business partners should concentrate on only selling
IBM PowerVS offerings
While CAGR of +37.7% for IBM Power Systems is 

strong, it shows that the largest growth rate is in the

off-premises sector
The on-premises sector of the CAGR is the most
significant of the two and growing at the fastest rate
Growth for both on-premises and off-premises have the
same trajectory of equal share