SAP HANA: check_pse_store.cc(00178) : Trying to add invalid certificate as part of own certificate PEM

If you try to manage your HANA certificates via SQL you might want to set the “OWN CERTIFICATE” where you come across the following error in your SQL Commandline: 1 2 Could not execute 'ALTER PSE HANA\_X509 SET OWN CERTIFICATE '-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ...' SAP DBTech JDBC: [5634]: Certificate definition inconsistent Looking at the indexserver trace you will find: 1 2 [113263]{213394}[35/-1] 2016-05-24 15:44:56.384001 e Crypto check\_pse\_store.cc(00178) : Trying to add invalid certificate as part of own certificate PEM: exception 1: no....

SAP HANA virtualized on VMware vSphere

Today i found a helpful Link at SAP regarding the virtualization of SAP HANA on VMware vSphere: http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-3334 

SAP HANA SPS 10 What's New: SAP DB Control Center

http://scn.sap.com/community/hana-in-memory/blog/2015/06/30/sap-hana-sps-10-whats-new-sap-db-control-center--by-the-sap-hana-academy 

Performance difference of SAP HANA on virtualization versus native

I just researched how much the difference between a virtualized versus a native Installation of SAP HANA might be in terms of performance. When looking at the different sites, i was finally able to be find a blog entry of VMware  where the author describes the result of the SAP BW-EML Benchmark which was run on native and virtual environments using a HP DL580 Gen8, 4 processors with 60 cores / 120 threads....

Enabling autostart of SAP HANA Database on serverboot

A while ago one of our HANA appliances crashed due to a hardware failure and i recognized that not all databases had started properly. This can be chose during the installation and different persons have installed the databases differently. But how to fix that? Logon to the operating system of the SAP HANA Appliance with adm or change to adm. Edit: /hana/shared/#SID#/profile/#SID#_HDB#INSTANCE_NUMBER#_#HOSTNAME#: 1 vi /hana/shared/$SAPSYSTEMNAME/profile/$SAPSYSTEMNAME\_HDB\* Change "Autostart = **0**" to "Autostart = **1**"...

Creating SAP HANA User IDs from Netweaver 7.40 ABAP Stack

If you want to create users on the HANA Database from the Netweaver 7.40 ABAP Stack, you might want to take a look at this tutorial on SAP SCN  . As of the writing of this post, currently Netweaver 7.40 SP5 is the latest version which still does only support creating a user on the database without further synchronization of roles or other properties. Also users may only be created with a password not with Kerberos or X509 Certificate authentication....