Huawei SAP HANA Appliance Cluster Installation Guide (RH5885H V3&RH8100 V3+5500 V3+ ...

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Huawei SAP HANA Appliance Cluster
Installation Guide (RH5885H V3&RH8100

V3+5500 V3+SLES11 SP4)

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Date 2017-04-10

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About This Document
Purpose
This document describes how to install SAP HANA cluster on the Huawei FusionServer
RH5885H V3/RH8100 V3(RH5885H V3/RH8100 V3 for short) SLES11 SP4 and Huawei
OcanStor 5500 V3 (5500 V3 for short). It covers the software and hardware planning and
configurations on the RH5885H V3/RH8100 V3and 5500 V3, dedicated operating system
(OS) installation, and database installation and installation verification of the SAP HANA.
This document provides guidance on installing SAP HANA Database Software SP09_091.0
or later and SAP HANA Database Software SP10_100.0 or later.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for:
 Technical support engineers
 Maintenance engineers
 Users
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Change History
Changes between document issues are cumulative. The latest document issue contains all the
changes made in earlier issues.
Issue 01 (2016-11-21)
This issue is the first office release.
Issue 02 (2017-04-10)
Update LVM partitioner.
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Contents
About This Document ............................................................................................................ ii
Contents .................................................................................................................................. iv
1 Installation Planning ............................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Hardware Planning ............................................................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Software Planning ................................................................................................................................................................. 1
1.3 Capacity Planning ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1.3.1 RH5885H/RH8100 V3 OS disk planning ........................................................................................................................ 2
1.3.2 5500V3 Capacity Planning for RH5885 H V3 ................................................................................................................ 3
1.3.3 5500V3 Capacity Planning for RH8100 V3 .................................................................................................................... 3
1.4 Storage Planning ................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1.4.1 Storage Planning for RH5885H V3 .................................................................................................................................. 4
1.4.2 Storage Planning for RH8100 V3 ..................................................................................................................................... 5
1.4.3 Storage pool Planning........................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.4.4 File system planning and Logical port planning.............................................................................................................. 6
1.5 Network Planning ................................................................................................................................................................. 9
1.6 Default Parameters.............................................................................................................................................................. 12
1.7 Installation Process ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
2 5500 V3 Deployment ........................................................................................................... 15
2.1 5500 V3 Installation ........................................................................................................................................................... 15
2.2 Configuration Overview ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
2.3 Physical Environment Deployment ................................................................................................................................... 15
2.4 Storage Space Configuration.............................................................................................................................................. 15
3 RH5885H V3/RH8100 V3Deployment ............................................................................... 30
3.1 Preparing for Installing the OS .......................................................................................................................................... 30
3.1.1 Logging In to the RH5885H V3/RH8100 V3 Remote Control Interface .................................................................... 30
3.1.2 Setting the BIOS .............................................................................................................................................................. 31
3.1.3 Configuring the RAID Controller Card.......................................................................................................................... 37
3.1.4 Mounting the OS ISO File .............................................................................................................................................. 42
3.2 Installing an OS................................................................................................................................................................... 43
3.3 Installing the gcc48 package .............................................................................................................................................. 67
3.4 Installing the Kernel Patch ................................................................................................................................................. 67
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3.5 Update the Multipath .......................................................................................................................................................... 68
3.6 Configuring Network IP Addresses ................................................................................................................................... 69
3.7 Configuration on the CLI ................................................................................................................................................... 75
3.8 Modify /etc/hosts file .......................................................................................................................................................... 76
3.9 Configuring the SSH Interconnection Service .................................................................................................................. 77
3.10 Configuring the NFS Service ........................................................................................................................................... 78
3.11 Configuring the DM Multipath Service .......................................................................................................................... 79
4 Switch Configuration .......................................................................................................... 85
4.1 CE6800 Switch Stacking .................................................................................................................................................... 85
4.2 SNS2124 FC Switch Zone Configuration ......................................................................................................................... 86
5 Basic Service Configuration ............................................................................................... 88
5.1 Configuring the NTP Service ............................................................................................................................................. 88
5.1.1 Configurations on the Server .......................................................................................................................................... 88
5.1.2 Configurations on the NTP Client .................................................................................................................................. 89
5.2 Configuring the DNS Service ............................................................................................................................................ 91
5.2.1 Configurations on the Server (for Linux)....................................................................................................................... 91
5.2.2 Configurations on the DNS Client.................................................................................................................................. 92
6 Performance Optimization ................................................................................................. 94
6.1 Configuring the acpi_idle Mode ........................................................................................................................................ 94
6.2 Configuring THP ................................................................................................................................................................ 94
6.3 Configuring the UUID Service .......................................................................................................................................... 95
6.4 Configuring Process Resource Restriction........................................................................................................................ 96
6.5 Optimizing Sysctrl.conf Parameters .................................................................................................................................. 96
6.6 Optimizing Network Performance ..................................................................................................................................... 96
6.7 Optimizing Storage Performance....................................................................................................................................... 98
6.7.1 Optimization on the Storage ........................................................................................................................................... 98
6.7.2 Optimization on the Server ............................................................................................................................................. 98
7 SAP HANA Database Installation ..................................................................................... 99
7.1 Preparing for the Installation.............................................................................................................................................. 99
7.1.1 Obtaining HANA Software Packages ............................................................................................................................ 99
7.1.2 Installing the SAP Host Agent (Optional) ...................................................................................................................... 99
7.1.3 Configuring global.ini ..................................................................................................................................................... 99
7.1.4 Creating HANA Installation Paths ...............................................................................................................................101
7.2 Installing a SAP HANA Database ...................................................................................................................................101
7.2.1 One-Click Installation on the Master Node .................................................................................................................101
7.2.2 Installation on Nodes One by One ................................................................................................................................108
7.3 Checking the Database Installation ................................................................................................................................. 114
7.4 Checking the HANA Cluster Status ................................................................................................................................ 115
7.5 Adjusting hdbparam parameter ........................................................................................................................................ 116
7.6 Adjusting the performance of the Cluster........................................................................................................................ 117
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8 SAP HANA Database Uninstallation .............................................................................. 118
8.1 Preparing for the Uninstallation ....................................................................................................................................... 118
8.1.1 Stopping Services .......................................................................................................................................................... 118
8.1.2 Backing Up Data............................................................................................................................................................ 118
8.2 Uninstalling the SAP HANA Database ........................................................................................................................... 118
8.2.1 One-Click Uninstallation............................................................................................................................................... 118
8.2.2 Uninstallation from Nodes One by One .......................................................................................................................120
A ntp.conf .............................................................................................................................. 122
B global.ini ............................................................................................................................ 125

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Installation Planning
1.1 Hardware Planning
Table 1-1 describes the hardware planning for SAP HANA.
Table 1-1 Hardware planning
Hardware Model Type Description
RH5885H Rack server Provides computing resources.
V3/RH8100 V3
5500 V3 Storage system Provides the Network File System
(NFS) service and storage resources.
CE6800 10GE switch Provides service and high availability
(HA) networks.
/ (Optional) Domain Provides the Network Time Protocol
name server (NTP) and domain name server (DNS)
services.
/ (Optional) Provides the device management
Management switch network.
Cable Power cable Connects hardware devices or used for
configuring parameters.
PGND cable
10GE stacking cable
Ethernet cable
Optical fiber

1.2 Software Planning
Table 1-2 describes the software planning for SAP HANA.
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Table 1-2 Software planning
Software Name and Version Source Description
SLE-11-SP4-SAP-DVD-x86_64-G https://www.suse.com/ Customized SAP
M-DVD1.iso OS
multipath-tools-0.4.9-115.1.x86_64. https://www.suse.com/ Multipath
rpm package
kpartx-0.4.9-115.1.x86_64.rpm
libgcc_s1-4.8.3+r212056-2.17.x86_ https://www.suse.com/ SUSE gcc file
64.rpm
libstdc++6-4.8.3+r212056-2.17.x86
_64.rpm
kernel-default-base-3.0.101-77.1.x8 https://www.suse.com/ SUSE kernel
6_64.rpm patch file
kernel-default-3.0.101-77.1.x86_64.
rpm
IMDB_SERVER100_122_5-10009 https://launchpad.support.sap.c HAHA database
569.SAR om/#/softwarecenter software
SAPCAR_617-80000935_Linux_64
bit.EXE

1.3 Capacity Planning
1.3.1 RH5885H/RH8100 V3 OS disk planning
Table 1-3 Built-in disk planning
Raid Physical
Volume Partition File Mount Description
Volume.
Group Size System Point
VD0 — — 1GB Ext4 /boot Standard Partition
(Raid 1)
600GB
lv_usrsap vg_os 200GB Ext4 /usr/sap .
Used to
install the lv_swap vg_os 20GB swap swap .
OS
lv_root vg_os Remaining Ext4 /

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1.3.2 5500V3 Capacity Planning for RH5885 H V3
Table 1-4 SAN storage mount planning (using 2 TB memory capacity as an example)
Partition File System Partition Partition Source Description
Type planning Size
/hana/data xfs 3 x RAM 6 TB SAN Used for a
storage single HANA
node.
/hana/log xfs >=512G 512 GB SAN Used for a
storage single HANA
node.

Table 1-5 File system mount planning (using eight 2 TB nodes as an example)
Partition File System Partition Partition Source Description
Type planning Size
/hana/shar nfs 2x RAM(every 4 TB File engine Used for a
ed 4 nodes need HANA
1xRAM) cluster.

1.3.3 5500V3 Capacity Planning for RH8100 V3
Table 1-6 SAN storage mount planning (using 2 TB memory capacity as an example)
Partition File System Partition Partition Source Description
Type planning Size
/hana/data xfs 3 x RAM 12 TB SAN Used for a single
storage HANA node.
/hana/log xfs >=512G 512 GB SAN Used for a single
storage HANA node.

Table 1-7 File system mount planning (using eight 2 TB nodes as an example)
Partition File System Partition Partition Source Description
Type planning Size
/hana/shared nfs 2x RAM(every 8 TB File Used for a
4 nodes need engine HANA
1xRAM) cluster.

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