Chapter 4. Data Storage for SAPA Strategic Resource
The most valuable asset a company possesses, besides its employees and processes, is information. Information in an SAP system is data stored on the disks attached to the production database server(s). These disks, and their storage systems, must be chosen wisely from both a performance and availability perspective, as well as from a capacity planning and growth perspective.
Production SAP systems can generate quite large volumes of data, which needs to be accessed with low response times for the online users and must be managed when the data volume outgrows the available disk storage. Consolidation of storage resources for multiple smaller SAP systems is also a growing trend. Data storage ...
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