Bare Metal Server certified profiles on VPC Infrastructure for SAP NetWeaver
Profiles list
The published names are subject to change.
These tables give you an overview of the SAP-certified bare metal profiles for VPC that represent dedicated servers that provide physical cores. vCPU measurements are used in profile naming only. vCPU to physical cores are a 2:1 ratio (e.g 96 vCPU = 48 physical cores). The term vCPU is kept for comparison with their virtual counterparts.
Profiles hosted on Intel Cascade Lake CPU
| Profile | vCPU | Memory (RAM GiB) | SAPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute Optimized | |||
| cx2d-metal-96x192 | 96 | 192 | 101,070 |
| Balanced | |||
| bx2d-metal-96x384 | 96 | 384 | 124,130 |
| Memory Optimized | |||
| mx2d-metal-96x768 | 96 | 768 | 127,620 |
| Ultra High Memory Optimized | |||
| ux2d-metal-112x3072 | 112 | 3,072 | 140,730 |
| ux2d-metal-224x6144 | 224 | 6,144 | 294,730 |
Profiles hosted on Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU
| Profile | vCPU | Memory (RAM GiB) | SAPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced | |||
| bx3d-metal-48x256 | 48 | 256 | 93.670 |
| bx3d-metal-64x256 | 64 | 256 | 124.520 |
| bx3d-metal-192x1024 | 192 | 1.024 | 297.770 |
| Memory Optimized | |||
| mx3d-metal-64x512 | 64 | 512 | 128.750 |
| mx3d-metal-96x1024 | 96 | 1.024 | 182.670 |
| Very High Memory Optimized | |||
| vx3d-metal-16x256 | 16 | 256 | 35.520 |
| Ultra High Memory Optimized | |||
| ux3d-metal-16x512 | 16 | 512 | 34.320 |
For more information, see [SAP Note 2927211 - SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Infrastructure environment] (https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2927211){: external}.
Understanding Bare Metal Server profile names
With IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC, the profile families that are certified for SAP are: Compute Optimized, Balanced, Memory Optimized, and Ultra High Memory Optimized.
- Compute Optimized family profiles provide more compute power, and they have more cores with less memory.
- Balanced family profiles provide a good mix of performance and scalability for more common workloads.
- Memory Optimized, Very High Memory Optimized, and Ultra High Memory Optimized family profiles cater to memory intensive workloads, such as demanding database applications and in-memory analytics workloads, and are especially designed for SAP HANA workloads.
For more information, see x86-64 bare metal server profiles.
The first letter of the profile name indicates the profile family:
| First letter | Characteristics of the related profile family | Ratio Cascade Lake | Ratio Sapphire Rapids |
|---|---|---|---|
| c | Compute Optimized family | 1:2 | 1:2 or 1:2.67 |
| b | Balanced family | 1:4 | 1:4 or 1:5.33 |
| m | Memory Optimized family | 1:8 | 1:8 or 1:10.67 |
| u | Ultra High Memory Optimized family | 1:27.43 | from 1:21.33 to 1:42.67 |
| v | Very High Memory Optimized family | 1:27.43 | 1:16 |
The Bare Metal Server profile names are contextual and sequential. See the following example:
| Profile name | Naming convention component | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| mx2d-metal-96x768 | m | Memory Optimized family |
| x | Intel x86_64 CPU architecture | |
| 2 | Intel x86_64 Cascade Lake CPU - 3: Intel x86_64 Sapphire Rapids CPU | |
| d | the optional 'd' in the name indicates that the server is equipped with one or more additional NVMe SSD storage devices | |
| — | spacer | |
| metal | metal in the name indicates that this is a bare metal server | |
| — | spacer | |
| 96 | 96 vCPU | |
| x | spacer | |
| 768 | 768 GiB RAM |
Profiles available on Hourly Consumption Billing
All IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers for VPC are available with Hourly Consumption Billing, which includes Suspend Discounts and Sustained Usage Discounts. With Suspend Discounts, storage charges occur only if the server is in Shutdown state. With Sustained Usage Discount, the more a server is used, the less the cost per hour.
Storage specifications
When the bare metal server profiles for SAP NetWeaver are initially provisioned, the servers have one or more pre-configured disks attached.
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Servers that are hosted on Cascade Lake CPU have one disk (sda) with the following basic layout:
Storage configuration of the default bare metal server deployment (boot volume) File system Partition Storage type Size sda1Pre-configured BIOS volume 1 MB /boot/efisda2Pre-configured boot volume 100 MB /sda3Pre-configured root volume 9.9 GB -
Servers that are hosted on Sapphire Rapids CPU
See the appropriate profile in x86-64 bare metal server profiles.
Internal Storage
Your bare metal server on VPC comes with a number of internal NVMEs, depending on its size. For SAP NetWeaver based deployment, you can use the NVMEs that are listed as block devices to the operating system. The NVMEs are under “/dev/nvmeXn1” (X from 0 to the number of NVMEs in total, minus 1). Use the NVMEs according to your requirements and needs. However, to increase failure resilience, you might have to install Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to add RAID configuration, like RAID1 or RAID5. Since NVMEs are provisioned, performance considerations are mostly not an issue.
External Storage
If more storage needs are to be added to your bare metal server on VPC, for example, for backup purposes, NFS-based file shares can be created and mounted. Learn more details in the corresponding chapter Creating file shares and mount targets.