The document provides an overview of new and updated features in SAP HANA SPS12, focusing on administration aspects such as security, performance monitoring, and workload management. Key enhancements include new security administration tiles, improved performance monitoring through the HANA cockpit, and advanced workload management capabilities that allow better resource allocation. Additionally, features for capturing and replaying workloads are discussed, offering analysis tools for simulating changes in hardware or software configurations.

1. HANA SPS12 Upgrade and
Exploring New Features – Part 2
• This is collection of notes while exploring some of new features of SPS12.
Focus are applicable on a single-host HANA system.
• Part 1: http://www.itconductor.com/blog/sap-hana-sps12-upgrade-and-
exploring-new-features-part-1
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2. Part 2 - Exploring What’s new in SPS12
Reference:
What's New in the SAP HANA Platform (Release Notes)
Note that this is not an exhaustive list – only some ’new and
changed’ features were explored!, and more focused on
administration side:
• Security Administration
• System Administration
• Performance Monitoring
• Workload Management
• Capture and Replay
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3. References: OSS notes and references
1. 1948334 - SAP HANA Database Update Paths for
Maintenance Revisions to ensure the ’from level’ and
intended ‘to level’ does not have any restriction and
things ’general’ things to consider.
2. 2298750 - SAP HANA Platform SPS 12 Release Note
3. SAP HANA SPS 12 Database Maintenance Revision
122.03
4. What's New in the SAP HANA Platform (Release
Notes)
5. SAP HANA Administration Guide - SAP Help Portal
6. SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide - SAP
Help Portal
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4. Security Administration – new and changed
Security Administration with SAP HANA Cockpit – new tiles
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New/Changed
There are other DB security new and changed, besides the above

5. Performance Monitor – Monitor Statements
New HANA Cockpit tile
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List of long-running statements and long-running
blocking situations

6. Performance Monitor – Threads monitor
New HANA Cockpit tile
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List of long-running threads and quick analysis
of blocking situation

7. Performance Monitor – Workload Management
(New)
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Workload management
• Allows balancing and management of different workload types (OLAP,
ETL, etc.)
• Allows creation of workload classes to control resources for each class
There are several levels and options of configuring and controlling
resources
• CPU at the OS level – for MDC and multi-host systems
• CPU at HANA system level
• Global setting to limit memory use of expensive SQL
• Configuring workload class and mapping (new in SPS12)
For more detail, see section 4.7 of SPS12 Administration Guide

8. Workload Class and Mapping
Two steps in workload management within HANA, through
SQL or HANA Cockpit
1. Create workload class, with the following attributes
• Priority – allows prioritizing statements, form 0 (lowest) to 9
highest, with default of 5
• Thread limit – number of parallel JobWorker threads per
statement
• Limit memory usage of a SQL statement
2. Map a client (e.g. database user, application name, etc.) to
a workload class
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9. Workload Class and Mapping – using SQL (1)
1. Create Workload Class
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Display defined workload Class

10. Workload Class and Mapping – using SQL (2)
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Display defined mapping
2. Create workload mapping
Display Class and Mapping relationship

11. Workload Class and Mapping (HANA Cockpit)
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New Tile

12. Monitoring Workload
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HANA Cockpit
through ‘Monitor
Statement’ tile
In the Monitor Statement app, the related ‘workload class’ is displayed
There are more sample SQL codes from the Administration Guide

13. Recurring task – Backup (New)
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• Schedule
backup
through HANA
Cockpit tile
‘Backup’
• Schedule can
only be
deleted, or
change the
status to Pause
or Active

14. Performance - Capture and Replay
The Capture and Replay features allows analysis of workload, for several
purposes, e.g. simulation of impact of changing either hardware resource or
software configuration.
Reference:
• Capturing and Replaying Workloads - by the SAP HANA Academy ...
Prerequisite:
• Import Delivery Unit HANA_WORKLOAD
• assign required ‘hana.replay.roles’ to user
• New tiles – Capture and Replay
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15. Capture set-up (1)
Select the ‘Capture Workload’ app and click on ‘Start New Capture’.
Enter details below, then ‘start capture’.
Do some read-only activities, e.g. In HANA Studio, display overview,
performance, etc.
Create a database backup if the workload will be doing some
changes/update
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16. Capture set-up (2)
Progress Status of Capture
When done, Stop Capture
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17. Replay step (1)
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Start the replayer service
hdbwlreplayer –controlhost <hostname> -controlinstnum <instance#> -
controladminkey <User>,<KEY> -port (anyport)
Verify Replayer is active

18. Replay step (2)
Go to REPLAY Management app
Select the item, then click on ‘Start Preprocessing’
Once preprocessing is complete, select it to start replay
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19. Replay step (3)
First, click on configure
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20. Replay step (4)
• Enter details. For user authentication, you can use either secure store or
password.
• Then select ’start replay’
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21. Replay step (5)
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• Click on ‘Go to Report’

22. Replay report
• Asdadsf
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23. Performance Management - Analyze Workload
This app is a tool to analyze workload. Note that this is not related to the
capture and replay. Different dimension available for analysis.
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