HOPE - HANA on POWER Enhanced

This project is intended to accelerate SAP HANA Deployments on POWER Systems, helping to create SAN Storage based LVM Components: /etc/multipath.conf file, wwids and aliases, Physical Volumes, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File Systems.

Getting Started

With root user, create a directory called /opt/hope, download the files and place under it.

Prerequisites

• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP 4 or later
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP 3 or later
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP 4 or later
• Python 3.6 or later

Examples:

To Open a Menu:

hope -m

To create a /etc/multipath.conf file: interactively (flags c and S):

hope -cS

To create Volume Groups interactively (flags c and V):

hope -cV

To list current Logical Volumes (flags l and L):

hope -lL

To remove File Systems (flags r and F):

hope -rF

To list all resources (flags l and a):

hope -la

To create Logical Volumes from a JSON config file (flags C and L):

hope -CL

To create all resources from a JSON config file (flags C and a):

hope -Ca

To remove all resources (flags r and a):

hope -ra

Features

• Automated creation and management of SAN Storage LVM components
• Interactive menu-driven interface
• JSON-based configuration support
• SAP HANA installation automation
• Hardware Configuration Check Tool (HWCCT) integration
• Support for IBM Storwize Storage

Known Issues

• Only IBM Storwize Storage is supported at this time (more storage vendors coming soon!)

Versioning

SemVer is (tentatively) used for versioning.

Authors

Juliano Fernandes Baeta - jfbaeta

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.