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In today’s competitive, data-intensive world, businesses require instantaneous access to information insights. Dell’s SAP HANA solutions dramatically increase the speed of access to business information.
SAP HANA is a multipurpose, data-source-agnostic, in-memory database. Dell’s SAP HANA solutions are optimized to run SAP HANA software on Dell servers, networking, and storage.
The Tailored Data Center Integration (TDI) approach to SAP HANA deployment enables you to use your existing data center resources, providing a strong return-on-investment (ROI) case for SAP HANA adoption. The flexibility and cost-effectiveness of SAP HANA TDI make it a future-proof option for organizations that are planning to make SAP HANA mainstream in their data centers. For more information, see SAP HANA TDI deployment.
Effective from SAP HANA TDI Phase 5, SAP supports the complete family of Intel® Xeon™ 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Generation Platinum, Gold, And Silver Scalable processors, featuring eight+ cores per processor and a minimum of two sockets. The increased variety of CPU processor options provides more flexibility in hardware choices for customers. For more information, see the SAP Knowledge Base article SAP HANA TDI Phase 5 (access requires SAP login credentials).
The Certified and Supported SAP HANA® Hardware Directory lists the Dell PowerEdge systems that SAP has certified for SAP HANA TDI deployments. Listings under Certified Appliances or Intel® Systems are certified for use with any Dell storage system that is listed in the directory under Certified Enterprise Storage.
The latest PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon 2nd Generation (14G), 3rd Generation (15G), and 4th and 5th Generation (16G) Scalable processors are certified for SAP HANA single-server and scale-out solutions and include everything that is required to support your SAP HANA implementation.
For information about an SAP HANA TDI scale-out implementation on PowerEdge infrastructure, see https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/en-us/t/dell-validated-design-for-sap-hana-scale-out-tdi-solutions-on-dell-poweredge-servers/.