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The SAP certification for SAP HANA on XC HCI limits the deployment to three production SAP HANA VMs per physical XC940 node and one SAP HANA VM for the XC740xd (full-socket) node.
Note: This limitation does not apply to nonproduction SAP HANA VMs.
For nonproduction SAP HANA systems, you can allocate one SAP HANA VM with a half-socket. Accordingly, you can host three SAP HANA nonproduction half-socket VMs on the XC740xd node and up to seven SAP HANA nonproduction half-socket VMs on the XC940 node.
Figure 3 shows an XC Family cluster configured with five SAP HANA production VMs. Three SAP HANA production VMs are hosted on an XC940 node, with one SAP HANA production VM per XC740xd node. Host affinity is set on each VM to comply with the configuration.