The SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM) requires certain file

systems in order to successfully install an SAP HANA system.

The file systems can be defined manually before installation and then
specified during installation, or the default file systems can be used. It is
important that the file systems listed below are available and have the
recommended disk space before starting the SAP HANA database lifecycle
manager.
Table 1: Default File Systems
File System Default Path Recommendations

Root /  

Installation path /hana/shared/ The mount directory is used for shared

(sapmnt) files between all hosts in an SAP HANA
system. This directory needs to be
accessible to each of the servers in the
SAP HANA cluster.
Subdirectories:
• /hana/shared/<SID> - Contains
executable programs (exe), globally
shared data (global), instance
profiles (profile), and SAP HANA
configuration files.
• /hana/shared/<SID>/hdbclient - The SAP
HANA client installation path.
The following paths apply when the SAP
HANA studio is installed:
• /hana/shared/<SID>/hdbstudio_update -
The studio repository installation
path. The studio repository is used
to update the local SAP HANA
studio installation.
• /hana/shared/<SID>/hdbstudio - The SAP
HANA studio installation path.

System instance /usr/sap This is the path to the local SAP system
instance directories. It is possible to join
this location with the Linux installation.
Subdirectories:
• /usr/sap/hostctrl - The SAP host agent
 directory.
• /usr/sap/<SID> - Contains symbolic links
to system executables (SYS) and
the home directory (home) of the
<sid>adm user.

Data volume /hana/data/<SID> The default path to the data directory

depends on the system ID of the SAP
HANA host.

Log volume /hana/log/<SID> The default path to the log directory

depends on the system ID of the SAP
HANA host.
It is strongly recommended to use the SAP HANA file system layout shown
in the figure below:

Note
An SAP HANA system in a production environment must not share any
infrastructure with another SAP HANA system.
Hosts running more than one SAP HANA system (sometimes referred to as
multiple-SID installations) can only be used for non-production purposes
such as development, quality assurance, or testing.
The installation path, data path, and log path must not point to the same
directory.
As of SAP HANA Support Package Stack (SPS) 11, a SAP HANA system
cannot be installed under /usr/sap/<SID>. The directory /usr/sap must not
be shared across other hosts.
For production systems with high availability, it is possible to share some
temporarily unused resources from the standby hosts. As soon as the
standby resources are needed, they must become exclusively available for
the production system and no longer shared. For more details, refer to the
high availability information in the SAP HANA Administration Guide.
The file systems /hana/data/<SID> and /hana/log/<SID> may use shared
file systems like NFS, or block storage using the SAP HANA storage
connector API with non-shared file systems. For more details, see Related
Information.
The installation path (/hana/shared) is visible on all hosts. By default, the
installation path is also used for backup. However, backup directories
should be manually configured, and must belong to a shared file system