At Supermicro, Availability of SAP HANA Servers With Optane Certified by SAP for VMware HCI

Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced the availability of SAP HANA servers certified by SAP SE for VMware HCI.

With certification on vSphere and vSAN, the company’s servers fueled by 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors including Intel Optane persistent memory enable the integration of mission-critical SAP HANA deployments on HCI, giving customers enterprise database abilities and the opportunity to leverage the value, benefit, and simplicity of HCI for their SAP workloads.

“With Supermicro servers certified for VMware HCI powered by vSAN, SAP customers now have the best of breed solutions for enterprises to efficiently scale, manage, and virtualize their SAP infrastructures for maximum ROI,” said Raju Penumatcha, SVP and chief product officer.

The SYS-2029U-E1CRT and SYS-6029U-E1CRT4 systems have been certified on VMWare vSAN version 6.6, vSphere version 6.7, and SAP HANA 2.0. The company is one of the first hardware vendors using the 2nd gen Xeon Scalable processors as well as Optane persistent memory to enable enterprises to achieve performance, capability and value from their SAP HANA deployments. Moreover, since the CPUs include built-in AI acceleration capabilities of Intel DL Boost, these platforms provide the agility to extract further insights from AI-infused workloads.

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“SAP recognizes that HCI is one of the fastest-growing enterprise architectures in the industry,” said Martin Heisig, head, technology innovation network, SAP HANA. “When deploying SAP S/4HANA on VMware HCI, customers are able to gain tremendous benefit from the latest HW/SW technologies to drive scalability and lower operational costs for SAP HANA deployments.“

The company’s collaboration with VMware, Inc. delivers an alternative to the traditional FC SAN-based virtualization infrastructure, which is known for its complexity and interoperability challenges. HCI powered by VMware vSAN brings compute, storage, and the hypervisor together into a single system to reduce data center complexity and increase scalability. This approach overcomes the obstacles of conventional architectures, especially SAN and NAS storage, including their networking challenges or issues. HCI uses DAS in a SDS architecture backed by the growth of storage-dense servers and high-performance SSDs.

“VMWare is pleased to partner with Supermicro to bring the latest SAP HANA certified platforms based on VMware vSAN,” said Lee Caswell, VP, marketing HCI business unit, VMware. “High-performance databases are the latest workloads to embrace the undeniable price-performance of HCI. With VMware vSAN and Supermicro, customers can run their largest SAP HANA dev ops and production deployments with up to 64 nodes and a maximum of 192TB of memory.“

Resource:
Solution brief: SAP HANA Certified Appliance (PDF)

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