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The SAP certification for limits the deployment as follows based on the model:
Note: This limitation does not apply to nonproduction SAP HANA VMs.
While it is possible to deploy four production SAP HANA VMs on a physical host, Dell Technologies recommends that you consider having enough free resources to allow vSphere HA to perform an automatic restart of the SAP HANA VMs on another host if one host fails due to a hardware problem. See Table 3 for sizing recommendations for standby nodes.