HPE Health Check Service for SAP HANA

HPE Lifecycle Services

Service overview

Keeping your HPE Solutions for SAP HANA® running at peak performance is critical. But maintaining the overall health and versioning of the HPE Solutions for SAP HANA infrastructure — servers, storage, and networking — as well as their associated firmware and drivers, can be daunting. The HPE Health Check Service for SAP HANA provides a one-time remote technical assessment of your HPE Solutions for SAP HANA computing environments on specific data points as identified in the Service features table below.


This service is designed to help identify potential system configuration and availability problems on your designated HPE Solutions for SAP HANA before they might affect your critical operations. HPE consultants use HPE software tools that collect and analyze the specified static and dynamic information and configuration information characteristics. A report is developed after careful analysis of this collected information, resulting in a Health Check report that is delivered electronically. This service is recommended for Customers who are familiar with self-help tools and who have an interest in managing their own systems.

  • Service benefits

    • Reduce risk of unplanned disruption to your IT environment
    • Improve possibility to optimize system performance
    • Enable your IT resources to stay focused on core tasks and priorities
    • This Service is designed to help uncover potential configuration and availability problems on your HPE Solutions for SAP HANA before they might affect your business operations or impact your SAP HANA KPIs
  • Service feature highlights

    • Remote system data collection
    • Data analysis on HPE Solutions for SAP HANA
    • Delivery of Health Check report
  • Specifications

    Table 1. Service features

Feature

Delivery specifications

Remote system data collection

The HPE service specialist will:

Verify that all service prerequisites have been met, including active support coverage on the HPE Solutions for SAP HANA. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide you with the required system access details for delivery of the HPE Health Check Service. This will include details on system access and data collection requirements. Collected data will include information on OS Kernel parameters, OS drivers, compute configuration and firmware, storage configuration and firmware, and network configuration and firmware on HPE Serviceguard, if applicable. HPE will remotely access your designated systems to collect this data. Any work outside of HPE business hours is subject to additional after-hours charges as specified in the Service limitations section.

Data analysis on HPE Solutions for SAP HANA

HPE will perform a detailed HPE Solutions for SAP HANA analysis, based on the collected information defined above, evaluating system configuration, revision levels, and HPE Serviceguard availability elements, if applicable.

Delivery of the Health Check report

The Health Check report will document the analysis results for the HPE Solutions for SAP HANA compute, storage, and networking elements, highlighting certain conditions and settings that HPE recommends that you either address immediately and/or which require a more in-depth assessment that is outside the scope of these services but which can be provided at a separate charge.

Recommendations will be provided based on HPE best practice configuration settings and recommended component version levels. The HPE Solutions for SAP HANA Health Check report is delivered electronically after completion of the data analysis.

  • Coverage

    This service is available on regular HPE workdays (excluding weekend days and HPE holidays) during country-specific HPE standard business hours. After-hours delivery is available upon request, refer to the Service limitations section for after-hours details.

  • Customer responsibilities

    The Customer will:

    • Assign a designated person to participate in the service planning meeting and follow-on service activity.
    • Perform all identified Customer responsibilities in a timely manner.
    • Ensure that a designated person is assigned and who, on behalf of the Customer, will grant all approvals, provide information, and confirm that the hardware, firmware, and software needed to deliver this service are available. They will also make sure that software products are properly licensed and otherwise be available to assist HPE in facilitating the delivery of this service.
    • The designated person will be:
      • Responsible for all the Customer aspects of the assigned work efforts
      • Authorized to make all decisions relative to the project, including identification and assignment of Customer resources
      • Available and able to interface with the HPE assigned resources on day-to-day issues throughout the project
      • Authorized to sign status reports and approve project changes
      • Able to coordinate all work efforts and meeting schedule
    • Provide suitable virtual private network (VPN) or other suitable connectivity as required for the delivery of remotely delivered services.
    • Provide HPE with the necessary access to Customer building facilities and computer room facilities, as well as access credentials for logging into all servers, databases, and services for the service planning, as applicable.
    • Provide a suitable work area for delivery of the service, including access to an outside telephone line, power, and any network connections required.
    • At the discretion of HPE, install remote connectivity tools and proprietary software service tools.
    • Allow HPE full and unrestricted network access to all locations where the service is to be performed on-site.
    • Ensure that all service prerequisites have been met.
    • Advise HPE of any special security, health, and safety matters applicable to the Customer site where the service is to be provided.
    • Provide to HPE, on request, any information that HPE may reasonably request about the implementation of the service.
    • Coordinate all required internal/third-party participation and cooperation.
    • Assign or make available experienced subject matter and technical experts, upon request or as needed.
    • Purchase or provide all hardware, software, licenses, staff, current maintenance contracts, and environments necessary for HPE to deliver the service.
    • Ensure that all information provided by the Customer is complete, accurate, and up to date.
    • Perform other reasonable activities to help HPE identify, implement, or resolve problems, as requested by HPE.
    • Ensure system availability at a mutually agreed upon time. If system availability delays exceed 120 minutes from the agreed upon time, service delivery may be cancelled and rescheduled by HPE.
    • Provide contact information, including email address details, for delivery of service materials.
    • Be responsible for all SAP HANA database activities as requested by HPE including startup and shutdown, backup and restore operations, fail-over and fail-back testing, replication validation, and SAP HANA database operational testing of applications.
    • Be responsible for the re-installation of third-party software removed during the delivery of this service.
  • Service limitations

    • HPE delivers the service remotely at a mutually scheduled time window convenient to your organization between Monday 8:00 a.m. and Friday 5:00 p.m. local time, excluding HPE holidays. Local time is defined as the location time of the physical location of the system. For HPE CS500 and HPE CS900 solutions, after-hours delivery can be provided at an additional charge.
    • The HPE Lifecycle Services listed above are not available for delivery during the HPE shutdown — the last two weeks of December.
    • Follow-up activities including, but not limited to, the implementation of any HPE recommendations or further analysis based on report output are not included in this service offering but may be obtained in a separate Hewlett Packard Enterprise services engagement subject to additional charges.
    • The HPE Health Check Service for SAP HANA Service report is delivered electronically upon completion.
    • All HPE activities including documents and reviews are delivered in English.
    • HPE recommendations are provided with the intention of helping you address the health of their HPE Solutions for SAP HANA infrastructure based upon the specific data collected on the identified infrastructure and as reported by the HPE tools for these services.
    • Deliverables are accepted upon delivery.
    • Activities such as, but not limited to, the following are excluded from this service:
      • Installation or configuration of any hardware or software products except as described above
      • Loading, management, migration, or manipulation of your production data
      • Operational testing of applications and/or the SAP HANA database
      • This service does not include updates or installation of any remote tools present (such as HPE Systems Insight Manager, HPE Insight Remote Support, and HPE 3PAR Service Tools)
  • Service eligibility

    Customers are eligible for the delivery of this service if you meet the following prerequisites:

    • The HPE Health Check Service for SAP HANA is available on HPE CS500 and HPE CS900 appliances with a valid support contract as referenced in the HPE Lifecycle Services for SAP HANA supported products list.
    • Only SLES for SAP® or RHEL for SAP Solutions operating systems are eligible for this service.
    • For all software, including non-HPE branded software SLES for SAP or RHEL for SAP Solutions operating systems, you must have:
      • Rightfully acquired the license or subscription as well as the updates to be implemented and be properly licensed to use the software that includes the provision for operating system and the updates
      • Retain and provide to HPE upon request, evidence that the license or subscription was purchased
      • Have a valid HPE support contract and provide a valid service agreement ID (SAID) for the HPE CS500 and HPE CS900 appliances that will receive this service
    • You must be running or allow HPE to run the appropriate HPE tools to perform this service.
    • HPE Solutions for SAP HANA that have been modified and/or customized into unsupportable configurations are not eligible for this service.
    • This service is not available on virtualized HPE Solutions for SAP HANA environments.
  • General provisions / other exclusions

    • Any documentation provided as part of the service will be provided electronically in Microsoft Office and/or Adobe Acrobat formats.
    • HPE resource time is dependent upon the Customer’s compliance with required prerequisites and participation.
    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise reserves the right to charge, on a time and materials basis, for any additional work over and above the service package pricing that may result from work required to address service prerequisites or other requirements that are not met by the Customer.
    • HPE’s ability to deliver the services is dependent upon Customer’s full and timely cooperation with HPE, as well as the accuracy and completeness of information and data the Customer provides to HPE.
    • To the extent HPE process personal data on the Customer’s behalf in the course of providing services, the HPE Data Privacy and Security Agreement Schedule — HPE Support and Professional Services found at hpe.com/us/en/legal/customer-privacy.html shall apply.
    • Customer acknowledges and agrees that HPE may use resources outside the country of purchase for delivery of these services.
    • Activities such as, but not limited to, the following are excluded from this service:
      • Service deployment on hardware not covered by an HPE warranty or service maintenance contract
      • Service deployment on hardware covered by a third-party maintenance contract
      • Services that, in the opinion of HPE, are required due to unauthorized attempts by non-HPE personnel to install, repair, maintain, or modify hardware, firmware, or software
      • Service required due to causes external to the HPE maintained hardware or software
      • HPE reserves the right to reprice for services not scheduled and delivered within 180 days. Backorders or shipment delays may affect the delivery timeline. Orders for services will expire after 365 days (1 year) from the order acceptance date for services not scheduled and delivered and Customer will not be entitled to a refund for the unused services
  • Ordering information

    For HPE CS500 and HPE CS900 appliances, ordering and eligibility information for this service are listed in the HPE Lifecycle Services for SAP HANA supported products list available at hpe.com/psnow/doc/a50000884enw? from=app&section=search&isFutureVersion=true.


    For assistance with HPE Service Credits, contact your Hewlett Packard Enterprise Sales representative for details.

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