A company's basis administrator is planning to deploy SAP on AWS in Linux. The basis administrator must set up the proper storage to store SAP HANA data and log volumes. Which storage options should t

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Options

• AAmazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Throughput Optimized HDD (st1)
• BAmazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Provisioned OPS SSD (io1, io2)
• CAmazon S3
• DAmazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
• EAmazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) General Purpose SSD (gp2, gp3)

• A
  12% (7)
• B
  78% (47)
• C
  3% (2)
• D
  7% (4)

Explanation

SAP HANA has strict storage requirements: it requires low-latency, high-throughput SSD block storage for its data and log volumes. AWS certifies and supports Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1/io2) and General Purpose SSD (gp2/gp3) EBS volumes for SAP HANA workloads. Option A (st1 Throughput Optimized HDD) uses spinning-disk-based HDD technology with high sequential throughput but poor random I/O latency - SAP explicitly does not support HDD storage for HANA data/log volumes. Option C (Amazon S3) is object storage without block device semantics; it cannot be mounted as a block device for HANA volumes (though it is used for HANA backups via Backint). Option D (Amazon EFS) is a network file system (NFS); while EFS can be used for SAP shared directories (e.g., /sapmnt), it is not supported for SAP HANA data or log volumes, which require block storage with deterministic low latency.

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