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Dell Technologies has certified the following PowerStore models for running SAP HANA: PowerStore 500T, 1000T, 1200T, 3000T, 3200T, 5000T, 5200T, 7000T, 9000T, and 9200T: Table 1 shows high-level specifications for the new platform refresh models with PowerStoreOS 3.0, and Table 2 shows high-level specifications for the PowerStoreOS 1.0 models.
For more information, see the following specification sheets:
Note: Dell Technologies performed SAP HANA certification tests for both FC SAN and NAS/NFS on the 500T, 1000T, 5000T, and 9200T models with a base enclosure configuration of 21 x NVMe SSD drives and Dynamic Resiliency Engine (DRE) double tolerance protection (R6). The PowerStore X models are not certified for SAP HANA TDI production deployments, but these models can be used for nonproduction deployments.
Specification | 500T | 1200T | 3200T | 5200T | 9200T |
CPUs per appliance | 2 x 12c Intel CPUs @ 2.2 GHz | 4 x 10c Intel CPUs @ 2.4 GHz | 4 x 16c Intel CPUs @ 2.1 GHz | 4 x 24c Intel CPUs @ 2.2 GHz | 4 x 28c Intel CPUs @ 2.2 GHz |
Memory | 192 GB | 384 GB | 768 GB | 1152 GB | 2,560 GB |
NVRAM drives per appliance | N/A | 2 | 4 | ||
Maximum number of storage drives per appliance | 25 | 93 | |||
Supported drives | NVMe Flash/SCM | NVMe SSD, NMNe SCM | |||
Embedded ports | 4 x 25/10 GbE optical | 4 x 25/10 GbE optical or 4 x 10 GbE Base T | |||
Supported I/O modules (two slots per node) | 4 x 32/16/8 GB FC | 2 x 100 GbE Optical, 4 x 32/16/8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) 4 x 25/10 GbE Optical, 4 x 10 GBase-T | |||
Supported expansion shelves | N/A (cluster only) | 24-drive NVMe SSD | |||
Clustering | Up to four appliances (mix and match any model) |
Specification | 1000T | 3000T | 5000T | 7000T | 9000T |
CPUs per appliance | 4 x Intel CPUs, 32 cores, 1.8 GHz | 4 x Intel CPUs, 48 cores, 2.1 GHz | 4 x Intel CPUs, 64 cores, 2.1 GHz | 4 x Intel CPUs, 80 cores, 2.4 GHz | 4 x Intel CPUs, 80 cores, 2.4 GHz |
System cache/Memory | 384 GB | 768 GB | 1152 GB | 1536 GB | 2560 GB |
NVRAM drives per appliance | 2 | 4 | |||
Maximum number of storage drives per appliance | 96 | ||||
Supported drives | NVMe flash/SCM, SAS SSD | ||||
Embedded ports | 4 x 25/10 GbE optical or 4 x 10 GbE Base T | ||||
Supported I/O modules (two slots per node) | 4 x 32/16/8 GB FC | ||||
Supported expansion shelves | 25-drive SAS SSD | ||||
Clustering | Up to four appliances (mix and match any model) |
PowerStore storage systems are certified for SAP HANA with both SAN and NAS:
Note: PowerStore 3.0 1200T, 3200T, 7200T, and 9200T new models are certified as SAP HANA enterprise storage for NAS and FC SAN connectivity. These models are presented in bold in Table 3 and Table 4.
SAP has certified PowerStore storage for SAP HANA for using the FC protocol and the SAP fcClient storage connector. For information about the host and network requirements for the FC connectivity protocol, see Network design considerations.
To determine the proper storage system model, number, and type of front-end I/O modules and disk configuration for an SAP HANA TDI deployment, you will need the following information:
An SAP HANA node can be either a single (scale-up) SAP HANA server or an SAP HANA worker node that is part of an SAP HANA multihost cluster. Multiple SAP HANA nodes can be connected to a PowerStore T storage system up to a recommended maximum number. For more information, see SAP HANA capacity requirements.
For the SAP HANA certification, Dell Technologies performed extensive testing using the SAP HANA-HWC-ES-1.1 certification scenario to determine the scalability of the PowerStore product family. The following table shows the number of SAP HANA nodes that are supported on a specified PowerStore storage system model or cluster. These numbers represent the recommended maximum number of SAP HANA production nodes that can be connected to the PowerStore system in block-only deployments with either single parity or dual parity tolerance levels while still meeting the SAP performance KPIs. For PowerStore unified deployments, some additional system resources are used to provide the FILE capabilities. The overhead could reduce the SAP HANA scalability by up to a maximum of two SAP HANA nodes per single appliance.
Scalability refers to the supported number of worker nodes. The following table shows the supported number of nodes per appliance and cluster in production deployments:
Appliance | Number of SAP HANA nodes per single appliance | Number of SAP HANA nodes per two-appliance cluster | Number of SAP HANA nodes per three-appliance cluster | Number of SAP HANA nodes per four-appliance cluster |
500T | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |
1000T | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 |
1200T | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 |
3000T | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 |
3200T | 14 | 28 | 42 | 56 |
5000T | 22 | 44 | 66 | 88 |
5200T | 24 | 48 | 72 | 96 |
7000T | 24 | 48 | 72 | 96 |
9000T | 26 | 52 | 78 | 104 |
9200T | 28 | 56 | 84 | 112 |
Table 3 shows the PowerStore T appliance models that can be clustered with up to four appliances. Each appliance has two active/active storage nodes, and each node has two four-port front-end (FE) I/O (I/O) modules.
The table shows the number of production SAP HANA nodes that can be deployed on the specified single appliance model and in two-appliance, three-appliance, and four-appliance cluster configurations using FC SAN connectivity. A PowerStore cluster of appliances has linear scalability. PowerStore supports clustering for block-only for up to four appliances. In a four-appliance cluster, only the first or primary appliance can be unified while the other three must be block-only. For example, in a 4 x 9200T appliance cluster, the primary 9200T appliance could be a unified configuration supporting 26 SAP HANA nodes while the remaining three 9000T appliances would be configured as block-only in the cluster, with each appliance supporting 28 SAP HANA nodes. In this example, a total of 110 SAP HANA nodes is therefore supported.
Note: SAP HANA standby nodes in an SAP HANA scale-out cluster are not counted for scalability because they do not have storage persistence.
Achieving these numbers in a customer environment requires:
Note: An I/O module with four FE ports per PowerStore node (eight FE ports per appliance) are required for the maximum number of SAP HANA nodes.
SAP has certified PowerStore storage for SAP HANA for use with NAS and the NFS protocol and with the Dell custom HA/DR STONITH provider. For more information about the host and network requirements for the NAS connectivity protocol, see Network design considerations.
To determine the proper storage system model and the disk configuration for an SAP HANA TDI deployment, you will need the following information:
An SAP HANA node can be either a single (scale-up) SAP HANA server or an SAP HANA worker node that is part of an SAP HANA multihost cluster.
Multiple SAP HANA nodes can be connected to a PowerStore T storage system up to a recommended maximum number, as specified in the following table. For more information, see SAP HANA capacity requirements.
As part of the SAP HANA certification, Dell Technologies performed extensive testing using the SAP HANA-HWC-ES-1.1 certification scenario to determine the scalability of the PowerStore product family. The following table shows the recommended maximum number of SAP HANA production nodes that can be connected to a specified PowerStore model while still meeting the SAP performance KPIs:
Appliance | Number of SAP HANA nodes |
500T | 4 |
1000T | 6 |
1200T | 10 |
3000T | 10 |
3200T | 12 |
5000T | 16 |
5200T | 18 |
7000T | 20 |
9200T | 22 |
Table 4 shows the number of production SAP HANA nodes that can be deployed on the specified configuration using NAS/NFS connectivity. SAP HANA standby nodes in a HANA scale-out cluster are not counted for scalability because they do not have a storage persistence.
Note: PowerStore appliance clustering for NAS storage is not yet available.
Achieving these numbers in a customer environment requires: