The following table shows the PowerFlex system components that are certified for SAP HANA:
Table 1. SAP HANA-certified PowerFlex components
Consumption model |
Dell EMC PowerFlex integrated rack Dell EMC PowerFlex appliance |
Compute |
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers: PowerFlex-R640, PowerFlex-R740xd, PowerFlex-R840 |
CPU architecture |
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Skylake and Cascade Lake): Silver, Gold, Platinum |
Storage |
Local SSD/NVMe drives |
Storage virtualization |
PowerFlex 2.6.1 and 3.0 |
Networking |
Cisco Nexus switches |
Hypervisor support |
VMware vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 |
Bare-metal support |
Not supported; SAP certification applies only to PowerFlex HCI nodes running VMware vSphere |
Management infrastructure |
PowerFlex Manager, PowerFlex GUI, VMware vCenter |