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VMware SDDC certified profiles for SAP HANA

VMware SDDC certified profiles for SAP HANA

SAP HANA profile naming convention

SAP HANA profile names follow a contextual and sequential naming convention. The following table illustrates an example of an SAP HANA certified instance profile:

Profile naming for SAP HANA
Profile name Naming convention component Description
BI.S4.H4.3000 BI IBM Cloud Infrastructure
S3

Series 3 (processor generation)

  • S3 is Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake
  • S4 is Intel Cascade Lake
H HANA-certified server
4 socket server 4
3000 3000 GiB RAM

Profiles list

The following table is an overview of the SAP-certified profiles with either:

  • Intel Bare Metal and VMware vSphere (ESXi), manual VMware setup and configuration
  • IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated, automated VMware SDDC setup and configuration
SAP HANA servers
Profile CPU Cores Virtual CPUs Memory (GiB) SAPS (after VMware hypervisor 10%) Workload Type
BI.S3.H2.192 (VMware) 36 72 192 70,965 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S3.H2.384 (VMware) 36 72 384 71,487 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S3.H2.768 (VMware) 36 72 768 71,667 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H2.192 (VMware) 32 64 192 74,223 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H2.384 (VMware) 32 64 384 76,617 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H2.768 (VMware) 40 80 768 101,547 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H2.1500 (VMware) 56 112 1536 132,498 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H2.3000 (VMware) 56 112 3072 121,614 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H4.3000 (VMware) 112 224 3072 257,373 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H4.6000 (VMware) 112 224 6144 257,373 OLAP, OLTP
BI.S4.H8.6000 (VMware) 224 448 6144 495,603 OLAP, OLTP