PAS-C01 Migration Practice Question
A company is migrating an SAP system from on-premises to AWS. The migration involves rehosting SAP HANA on EC2. Which of the following is the best practice for sizing the EC2 instance?
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Why each option matters
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Use an EC2 instance that is listed in the SAP Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
SAP HANA instances must be SAP-certified. The AWS instance types that are SAP-certified for HANA (e.g., r5.metal, u-6tb1) should be used. General-purpose instances are not certified. Memory optimized instances are correct but must be specific certified types. Compute optimized are not suitable.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
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Use a memory-optimized EC2 instance with the required memory.
Why it's wrong here
Not all memory-optimized instances are SAP HANA certified.
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Use an EC2 instance that is listed in the SAP Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.
Why this is correct
Only instances listed in the SAP HANA hardware directory are supported.
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Use a general-purpose EC2 instance with sufficient vCPUs and memory.
Why it's wrong here
General-purpose instances may not be SAP HANA certified.
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Use a compute-optimized EC2 instance to ensure high CPU performance.
Why it's wrong here
SAP HANA is memory-intensive, not compute-optimized.
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