v4 SAP HANA Cost-optimized Hardware for Non-Production

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SAP HANA Relaxed Hardware Specification for Non-Production
Intel Xeon E7 – Westmere EX (E7-x8xx v1) or IvyBridge EX (E7-x8xx v2) or Haswell EX (E7-x8xx v3), or Broadwell EX (E7-x8xx v4)
Intel Xeon E5 – (E5-26xx v2/v3/v4, min 8 cores); 2 socket, up to 1.5TB; scale-up only
IBM POWER 7+
128GB of RAM to Max memory supported on the box
Size: 2x Memory - Any local storage or shared storage w/ standard disk with RAID 1 or higher on proven file systems
NFS , XFS, or GPFS
Standard networking components (2 network ports required for secure HDB net communication)
SUSE Linux 11.x, 12, 12 SP1 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 7.2 (HANA on Intel platforms)
SUSE Linux 11 SP4 (HANA on Power platforms)
Virtualized or Bare Metal
Processor
Memory
Storage
Network
Operating
System
Note: Performance related support will only be provided on production grade hardware (Certified hardware)

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Relaxed LPAR Specification for Non-Production (For SAP HANA on
Power Platform only)
 See SAP Note 2055470 - HANA on POWER Planning and Installation Specifics - Central Note
• All POWER8 TM and POWER7+ TM servers are allowed
• No restrictions with regards to the maximum memory per HANA LPAR core.
• The minimum core count per HANA LPAR is 2.
• HANA LPARS can be run in a shared processor pool running with a performance penalty
(workload moves between CPUs)
• SAP HANA LPARS for test, development and quality assurance systems may run in parallel to
other LPARs (for SAP HANA or other purposes) on a single physical Power Server as long as
none of the participating LPARs runs a production SAP HANA system.