This publication describes the powerful combination of a IBM Spectrum Scale RAID storage back end (IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS)) and POWER8 servers for building an SAP environment. This combination provides the highest performance specifications, while being less complex and more flexible.

The most important IBM Spectrum Scale RAID fundamentals and components to get started with an ESS environment for SAP HANA DB workloads were also described.

If you follow the suggestions that are described in Chapter 5, “IBM Spectrum Scale customization for HANA” on page 25 and configure your environment, you should get similar performance numbers out of your configuration, as described in Chapter 4, “IBM Spectrum Scale adjustments” on page 19.