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Use the guidelines in the following table to estimate the initial number of SAP HANA production nodes that can be connected to the SC Series arrays. These guidelines are based on our performance tests on an SC5020F and SCv3020 Series model using the SAP hwcct tool. We ran the tests without competing workloads.
Model |
Number of SAP HANA worker nodes |
Dedicated 16 GB/s FC ports |
SCv3020 |
6 |
3/6 |
SC5020F |
12 |
4/8 |
SC7020F |
18 |
6/12 |
SC9000 |
24 |
8/16 |
Note: We determined the scalability of other SC Series array models by extrapolating from the SC5020F and SCv3020 Series test results using the performance characteristics of the other models.
The number of nodes that are listed in Table 2 are an initial guideline to help you determine the number of SAP HANA worker nodes that can be connected to an array for an existing or planned SAP HANA production environment. The actual number of production nodes that can be connected in a customer environment might be higher or lower, depending on the workload. Use the SAP HANA hwcct tool with scenario HANA-HWC-ES 1.1 to validate the SAP HANA performance and determine the maximum number of SAP HANA hosts on a specific storage array.
We recommend running regular SAP HANA health checks to verify the performance of the underlying storage environment. The following documents describe SAP HANA configuration mini-checks:
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