Requirements for HANA Target Hosts and Databases
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This section describes user privileges and other requirements for HANA target hosts and databases collectively referred to as the target environment.

A target environment is where virtualized databases run. A target environment must have a HANA instance installed and configured. The VDB will become a tenant on the target database instance.  Backup files are exported over the network to the target environment, where they are recovered to construct a tenant database.

Target Environment Requirements

  1. The operating system of the target environment must match the source environment.
  2. The SAP HANA installation on the target environment must have the same or higher version than the source environment.
  3. There must be an operating system user with the following privileges:
    1. The Delphix Engine must be able to make an SSH connection to the target environment using the operating system user.
    2. The operating system user must have read and execute privileges on the HANA binaries installed on the target environment.
    3. The operating system user must have permission to run mount and unmount as the superuser via sudo with neither a password nor a TTY. See Sudo Privilege Requirements for HANA Environments.
  4. Prior to discovery, a plugin directory on the target environment must exist with the following properties:
    1. The plugin directory must be writable by the operating system user mentioned above.
    2. The plugin directory must have at least 256 MB of available storage.
  5. There must be a mount point directory (for example, /mnt) that will be used as the base for mount points that are created when provisioning a VDB with the following properties:
    1. The mount point directory must be writable by the operating system user mentioned above.
    2. The mount point directory should be empty.
  6. The following two directories must not exist or be empty: /mnt1 and /mnt2. These directories will be used where recovery is required for provision. These directories are not required when provision is from a root VDB.
  7. TCP/IP connectivity to and from the source environment must be configured as described in General Network and Connectivity Requirements.
  8. Hostname and IP address must be correctly configured.