| Aspect | Risk | |--------|------| | Integrity | Unknown – no checksums from SAP | | Updates | Can’t apply official patches reliably | | Support | SAP will reject any support requests | | Performance | Untested for production workloads |

Deploy the repacked OVA to vSphere. Boot the VM. Immediately run HDB info. You should see:

Developers need a pristine, updated HANA instance every few weeks. Instead of running post-installation scripts to clean logs and reset data, they download a base image, repack it with latest patches, and deploy a "new" clean instance.

To repack a SAP HANA VMware image, you need three core competencies: Disk manipulation, OVF templating, and Sysprep/Cloud-init (for Linux).

A repacked image is only as good as its performance profile. Here are the non-negotiable VMware parameters for HANA.

7z x SAP_HANA_2.0_SPS06_VMware.ova -o./hana_source

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