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The number of front-end ports to use for the ESXi hosts cluster depends on the number of virtualized SAP HANA production nodes. Treat a virtualized SAP HANA node like a physical SAP HANA node. For more information, see the storage configuration best practices document for the corresponding SAP HANA certified Dell EMC storage array.