How common is it to install SAP on a local disk?

Bert Vanstechelman, Logos Consulting

Published: 07 Jul 2005

My experience has been that most SAP systems are installed on a box with independent diskspace. How common is it to see some type of network or SAN storage with SAP systems?

To be honest, about 90% of my customers use SAN storage. Local disks are merely used in small environments or for non-critical SAP systems.

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