Updated on 2023-05-29 GMT+08:00

File System Planning

SAP HANA File System Planning

Table 1 describes the specifications of the file system planned for SAP HANA.

Table 1 File system planned for SAP HANA

Mount Point

File System Capacity (GB)

File System Type

Shared

Remarks

/

40 GB or larger

N/A

No

OS volume

/hana/data

400

xfs

No

Data volume: ultra-high I/O; it is recommended that the capacity of the data volume be at least one time the size of the memory; use two physical disks to make a data volume in using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

/hana/log

200

xfs

No

Log volume: ultra-high I/O; when the memory is less than or equal to 512 GB, the log volume capacity is half of the memory and rounded up for decimal places.

When the memory is greater than 512 GB, the log volume capacity is 512 GB.

/hana/shared

400

xfs

No

Shared volume. If the memory size is smaller than 1 TB, the recommended volume size is at least one time that of the memory size. If the memory size is larger than or equal to 1 TB, the recommended volume size is up to 1 TB.

/hana/backup

Auto expansion

(Optional) SFS/SFS Turbo

No

Create an SFS or SFS Turbo file system as the backup volume.

/usr/sap

50

xfs

No

/usr/sap volume

N/A

10

swap

No

Swap volume

N/A

10

N/A

Yes (SCSI)

SBD volume. You need to create this volume on the active HANA node and mount this volume to the standby HANA node. The SBD volume does not need to be formatted.

You only need to create an SBD volume on the active ECS and mount it to the standby ECS.

SAP S/4HANA File System Planning

Table 2 describes the specifications of the file system planned for SAP S/4HANA.

Table 2 File system planned for SAP S/4HANA

Mount Point

File System Capacity (GB)

File System Type

Shared

Description

/

40 GB or larger

N/A

No

OS volume

/usr/sap

50

xfs

No

/usr/sap volume

/sapmnt

40

SFS

Yes

Shared to all nodes in the SAP S/4HANA system

/sapcd

Auto expansion

SFS

Yes

Stores the SAP installation package, which is shared to all nodes in the SAP S/4HANA system.

/usr/sap/trans

60

SFS

Yes

Shared to all nodes in the SAP S/4HANA system

/usr/sap/<SID>/ASCS##

80

xfs

Yes

Shared to the active ASCS node, which is used to install the ASCS instance.

/usr/sap/<SID>/ERS##

80

xfs

Yes

Shared to the standby ASCS node, which is used to install the ERS instance.

N/A

10

N/A

Yes

SBD volume, which is shared to the active and standby nodes.

N/A

30G

swap

No

Swap volume

SID is the SID parameter specified when SAP S/4HANA is installed., and ## indicates the instance number when ASCS and ERS are installed. For details, see SAP S/4HANA ECS Planning.