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XC Family systems are SAP HANA-certified for two-socket and four-socket CPUs with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Gold or Intel Xeon Platinum Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with at least 8 cores/16 threads (more is preferred).
Hyperthreading is a hardware technology on Intel processors that lets a physical processor core act like two processors. Enabling hyperthreading on the newer Intel processors generally yields a performance advantage.
NUMA node sharing—the sharing of CPU sockets between SAP HANA production VMs—is not allowed under SAP HANA certification rules. The Nutanix CVM occupies one NUMA node, and the remaining NUMA nodes are available for SAP HANA. Always set production SAP HANA VMs to one or more specific NUMA nodes. In SAP HANA production environments, set NUMA node affinity for the Nutanix CVM and the SAP HANA VMs to ensure that there is no sharing of resources and that all the socket cores are entirely allocated for the intended VM.