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Scale up means increasing the size of a physical machine by increasing the amount of RAM that is available for processing.
Scale out means combining multiple independent computers into one system. The main reason for distributing a system across multiple hosts is to overcome the hardware limitations of a single physical server. In an SAP HANA system where a load is distributed between multiple servers, each index server is usually assigned to its own host to achieve maximum performance. For more information, see Scaling SAP HANA.