Best Practice 14.3 - Evaluate Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx performance suitability for your SAP use case - SAP Lens

Best Practice 14.3 - Evaluate Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx performance suitability for your SAP use case

Amazon EFS (Linux) and Amazon FSx (Windows) provide highly durable and available file systems that can span multiple Availability Zones. Both solutions are designed to deliver high performance, however, when choosing to use network file systems consider the access patterns. For example, many small files, highly parallel writes or high write/read ratios might not be suitable. For SAP workloads, this might apply to SAP HANA XSA, Java executables, or large numbers of job and spool logs.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is also a SAP-certified storage type for workloads including S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, BW/4HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and Data Mart Solutions on HANA. FSx for ONTAP allows you to easily create application-consistent snapshots, space-efficient database clones in seconds and automatic replication of your database across AWS Regions.

Suggestion 14.3.1 – Evaluate scale and performance options

Amazon EFS has two modes for performance (general purpose and max I/O) and two different performance modes (bursting mode and provisioned). For SAP applications, general purpose performance mode usually provides sufficient I/O. There may be scenarios in which provisioned throughput should be considered, such as when the amount of data in your file system is low relative to throughput demands.

Suggestion 14.3.2 - Consider temporary provisioning for short-term requirements

Use cases related to migrations or one-off activities might benefit from a temporary file system where performance characteristics can be adjusted for the duration of the event.