HANA on POWER

A new revision has been released for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS05
3409433 – SAP HANA 2 SPS05 Revision 059.12

Most important fixes are based on rare scenarios FEMS, HSR and ESX engine. Some fixes regarding resource consumption and admission control.

But there is also one general one which may be interesting for all running SPS05:
3403622 – Delta Merge is Stuck in Phase prepareDeltaMergeSave And so Blocking Other SQL Queries on Same Table

Thanks to Jens Gleichmann for sharing!

Today HANAonPOWER Advanced Operation Guide has been updated to Version 1.4!

You may download directly from IBM BOX
https://ibm.box.com/v/HoPAdvancedOperationGuide

or – as well you may want to have a look on more available guides – have a look here:
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/sap-hana-on-ibm-power-systems-and-i-1?CommunityKey=8c615abe-2a29-4437-a0c5-ce1065dccaa1&tab=librarydocuments

NEW!
Ansible Playbooks for SAP v1.0.0 released Feb 02, 2024
See matrix below for what is available with IBM PowerVS or IBM PowerVC:
https://github.com/sap-linuxlab/ansible.playbooks_for_sap/tree/main/docs#available-scenarios-with-ansible-playbooks-for-sap
SLES HA compatibility coming in the near future.

For more details see SAP Note “3414279 – SAP HANA 2 SPS07 Revision 076.00”

240112 A new Ansible Collection for AIX has been published:
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/blogs/shreyansh-chamola/2024/01/12/aix-ansible-collection-version-180-available-now

The new AIX 1.8.0 collection can be found at the following locations:
Red Hat Automation Hub:
https://console.redhat.com/ansible/automation-hub/repo/published/ibm/power_aix/
Ansible Galaxy:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ibm/power_aix
GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix

You find all Power related ansible collections here:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/collections/?page_size=10&view_type=null&keywords=power&page=1

Power HMC and VIOS collections:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_hmc/
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_vios/

SAP on Power Linux collection:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ibm/power_linux_sap

Power AIX, SAP and Oracle collections:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_aix/
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_aix_sap/
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_aix_oracle/

Power i, and Power I SAP collections:
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_ibmi/
https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ibm/power_ibmi_sap/