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Available SKUs for HANA Large Instances

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BareMetal Infrastructure availability by region

BareMetal Infrastructure (certified for SAP HANA workloads) service based on Rev 4.2* is available in the following regions:

  • West Europe
  • North Europe
  • Germany West Central with Zones support
  • East US with Zones support
  • East US 2
  • South Central US
  • West US 2 with Zones support

BareMetal Infrastructure (certified for SAP HANA workloads) service based on Rev 3* has limited availability in the following regions:

  • West US
  • East US
  • Australia East
  • Australia Southeast
  • Japan East

List of available Azure Large Instances

The following is a list of available Azure Large Instances (also known as BareMetal Infrastructure instances).

Important

Be aware of the first column that represents the status of HANA certification for each of the Large Instance types in the list. The column should correlate with the SAP HANA hardware directory for the Azure SKUs that start with the letter S.

SAP HANA certified Model Total Memory Memory DRAM Memory Optane Storage Availability
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S96
– 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
48 CPU cores and 96 CPU threads		   768 GB  768 GB --- 3.0 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		   3.0 TB  3.0 TB --- 6.3 TB Available
YES
OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224m
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		   6.0 TB  6.0 TB --- 10.5 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224om
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		 6.0 TB   3.0 TB   3.0 TB 10.5 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224oo
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		 4.5 TB   1.5 TB   3.0 TB 8.4 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224ooo
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		 7.5 TB   1.5 TB   6.0 TB 12.7 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S224oom
– 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads		 9.0 TB   3.0 TB   6.0 TB 14.8 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S384
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
192 CPU cores and 384 CPU threads		   4.0 TB  4.0 TB --- 16 TB Available
YES
OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S384m
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
192 CPU cores and 384 CPU threads		   6.0 TB  6.0 TB --- 18 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S384xm
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
192 CPU cores and 384 CPU threads		   8.0 TB  8.0 TB --- 22 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S448
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 6.0 TB   6.0 TB   --- 10.5 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S448m
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 12.0 TB   12.0 TB   --- 18.9 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S448oo
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 9.0 TB   3.0 TB   6.0 TB 14.8 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S448om
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 12.0 TB   6.0 TB   6.0 TB 18.9 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S448ooo
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 15.0 TB   3.0 TB   12.0 TB 23.2 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S448oom
– 8 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
224 CPU cores and 448 CPU threads		 18.0 TB   6.0 TB   12.0 TB 27.4 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S576m
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
288 CPU cores and 576 CPU threads		   12.0 TB  12.0 TB --- 28 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S576xm
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
288 CPU cores and 576 CPU threads		   18.0 TB 18.0 ---   41 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S672
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 9.0 TB   9.0 TB   --- 14.7 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S672m
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 18.0 TB   18.0 TB   --- 27.4 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S672oo
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 13.5 TB   4.5 TB   9.0 TB 21.1 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S672om
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 18.0 TB   9.0 TB   9.0 TB 27.4 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S672ooo
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 22.5 TB   4.5 TB   18.0 TB 33.7 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S672oom
– 12 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
336 CPU cores and 672 CPU threads		 27.0 TB   9.0 TB   18.0 TB 40.0 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S768m
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
384 CPU cores and 768 CPU threads		   16.0 TB  16.0 TB -- 36 TB Available
NO SAP HANA on Azure S768xm
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
384 CPU cores and 768 CPU threads		   24.0 TB  24.0 TB --- 56 TB Available
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S896
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 12.0 TB   12.0 TB   --- 18.9 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S896m
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 24.0 TB  24.0 TB -- 35.8 TB Available
NO SAP HANA on Azure S896oo
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 18.0 TB   6.0 TB   12.0 TB 27.4 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLAP, OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S896om
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 24.0 TB   12.0 TB   12.0 TB 35.8 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S896ooo
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 30.0 TB   6.0 TB   24.0 TB 44.3 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
NO SAP HANA on Azure S896oom
– 16 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor
448 CPU cores and 896 CPU threads		 36.0 TB   12.0 TB   24.0 TB 52.7 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
YES
OLTP		 SAP HANA on Azure S960m
– 20 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4
480 CPU cores and 960 CPU threads		   20.0 TB  20.0 TB -- 46 TB Available (Rev 4.2 only)
  • CPU cores = sum of non-hyper-threaded CPU cores of the sum of the processors of the server unit.
  • CPU threads = sum of compute threads provided by hyper-threaded CPU cores of the sum of the processors of the server unit. Most units are configured by default to use Hyper-Threading Technology.
  • Based on supplier recommendations, S768m, S768xm, and S960m aren't configured to use Hyper-Threading for running SAP HANA.

Important

The following SKUs, though still supported, can't be purchased anymore: S72, S72m, S144, S144m, S192, and S192m.

Specific configurations chosen are dependent on workload, CPU resources, and desired memory. It's possible for the OLTP workload to use the SKUs that are optimized for the OLAP workload.

Two different classes of hardware divide the SKUs into:

  • S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, S192xm, S224, and S224m, S224oo, S224om, S224ooo, S224oom are referred to as the "Type I class" of SKUs.
  • All other SKUs are referred to as the "Type II class" of SKUs.
  • If you're interested in SKUs that aren't yet listed in the SAP hardware directory, contact your Microsoft account team to get more information.

Tenant considerations

A complete HANA Large Instance stamp isn't exclusively allocated for a single customer's use. This applies to the racks of compute and storage resources connected through a network fabric deployed in Azure as well. HANA Large Instance infrastructure, like Azure, deploys different customer "tenants" that are isolated from one another in the following three levels:

  • Network: Isolation through virtual networks within the HANA Large Instance stamp.
  • Storage: Isolation through storage virtual machines that have storage volumes assigned and isolate storage volumes between tenants.
  • Compute: Dedicated assignment of server units to a single tenant. No hard or soft partitioning of server units. No sharing of a single server or host unit between tenants.

The deployments of HANA Large Instance units between different tenants aren't visible to each other. HANA Large Instance units deployed in different tenants can't communicate directly with each other on the HANA Large Instance stamp level. Only HANA Large Instance units within one tenant can communicate with each other on the HANA Large Instance stamp level.

A deployed tenant in the Large Instance stamp is assigned to one Azure subscription for billing purposes. For a network, it can be accessed from virtual networks of other Azure subscriptions within the same Azure enrollment. If you deploy with another Azure subscription in the same Azure region, you also can choose to ask for a separated HANA Large Instance tenant.

SAP HANA on HANA Large Instances vs. on VMs

There are significant differences between running SAP HANA on HANA Large Instances and SAP HANA running on VMs deployed in Azure:

  • There is no virtualization layer for SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances). You get the performance of the underlying bare-metal hardware.
  • Unlike Azure, the SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) server is dedicated to a specific customer. There is no possibility that a server unit or host is hard or soft partitioned. As a result, a HANA Large Instance unit is used as assigned as a whole to a tenant and with that to you. A reboot or shutdown of the server doesn't lead automatically to the operating system and SAP HANA being deployed on another server. (For Type I class SKUs, the only exception is if a server encounters issues and redeployment needs to be performed on another server.)
  • Unlike Azure, where host processor types are selected for the best price/performance ratio, the processor types chosen for SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) are the highest performing of the Intel E7v3 and E7v4 processor line.

Next steps

Learn about sizing for HANA Large Instances.

HLI Sizing