TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 SUPERMICRO SAP HANA CERTIFIEDAPPLIANCES
3 SAP HANA APPLIANCE CERTIFICATION
3 SAP HANA APPLIANCE—TAILORED DATACENTER INTEGRATION
4 SUPERMICRO SAP HANA HARDWARESIZING AND CONSULTING

SOLUTIONS BRIEF

SUPERMICRO® SAP HANA®
CERTIFIED APPLIANCE
SOLUTION BRIEFEXECUTIVE SUMMARYDigital transformation is a top priority for any enterprise or business looking to gain a competitive
advantage in the rapidly evolving information economy. Real time, actionable business insights
and continuous operational improvements, once just wishful thinking, have become standard
requirements for today’s information-driven CEOs. Your digital corporation now requires a powerful,scalable platform for enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), orcustomer relationship management (CRM) to run. You require the ability to manipulate, extract, andanalyze large volumes of live transactional data, all in real time, without interruption to business
operations. Supermicro and SAP are here to help.
SAP HANA enables your digital transformation by providing a real-time, in-memory computing
platform that is 10,000 times faster than traditional databases,* all while allowing real-time, Online
Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) on the same system orenvironment. Supermicro has partnered with SAP to pre certify, validate, and architect SAP HANA
appliances to power your digital transformation infrastructure.

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SUPERMICRO SAP HANA APPLIANCESKey Advantages:
2U 4 Socket SAP HANA
Appliance (SYS-2049U-TR4)•2Quad Socket 2nd GenerationIntel® Xeon® Scalable processors,up to 112 cores•Appliance model supports up to
6 TB DRAM•

Tailored Datacenter Integration(TDI) model supports up to 18
TB (DRAM + Intel® Optane™ DCPersistent Memory)•24 Hot-swap 2.5” SAS3/SATA3drive bays supported via
optional Add-on RAID controllercard; 4 Hybrid ports with NVMe
support via extra AOC•

Networking flexibility withchoices of 1Gb, 10Gb, 25Gb,40Gb, 100Gb, RJ45, SFP+, andFibre Channel•

SAP HANA Scale-Up/Scale-Out
appliance certified

The Supermicro quad-socket system, SYS-2049U, a multi-processor (MP) SuperServers were
designed for the most demanding, mission-critical workloads in use by top enterprises and cloudservice providers. The SYS-2049U with eleven PCI-E 3.0 slots for I/O expansion supports the highestperformance Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the largest memory capacity available, the latest inIntel® Optane™ DC persistent memory technology, and fastest all-flash NVMe or SSD storage options
available for the SAP HANA® platform. The combination of these cutting edge technologies makes
Supermicro MP Servers the most powerful 4 Socket single-node SAP HANA platforms available on themarket today. The SAP Appliance is the ideal building blocks for your SAP S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, orSAP HANA database deployments.
Supermicro has partnered with Intel and SAP to certify Intel Optane DC persistent memory for use
with SAP HANA version 2.0 SPS03, or higher, on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. Intel Optane
DC persistent memory is an innovative memory technology that delivers affordable large capacity
uniquely combined with support for data persistence. As validated by SAP and Intel, SAP HANA reboot
time using a 6TB database was dramatically reduced from 20 minutes down to 90 seconds—a 13x
improvement over traditional SSD to DDR load times1.
In addition to fast load times for HANA database, Intel Optane DC persistent memory delivers an
optimized balance between persistence and performance at a lower cost per Gigabyte than DRAM. For
large in-memory deployments, the use of Intel Optane DC persistent memory can dramatically lower
the initial acquisition cost of your SAP HANA hardware. Intel Optane DC persistent memory is not onlylower cost than DRAM, but is also available in larger sizes, up to 512GB per unit. The combination ofDRAM plus Intel Optane DC persistent memory allows for much larger SAP HANA deployments, persocket, than use of traditional DDR memory alone1.

Supermicro SAP HANA Certified Appliance Solution Brief

Supermicro SAP HANA Certified
Appliance Solution Brief

SAP HANA APPLIANCE CERTIFICATIONThe SAP HANA Appliance certification guarantees that the S/4 HANA database software performs as
intended on the certified system. SAP HANA Appliances are offered in various sizes with predefined,
fixed BOMs and sizing as listed on SAP’s HANA certified hardware directory. Scale-up appliances arespecifically designed to run as a single autonomous compute node with internal or, connected to,external storage. To increase the size and performance of a scale up system, you simply upgrade theCPU, RAM, or Disk in the node.
All SAP HANA Appliances are designed to be turn-key solutions. As such, Supermicro pre-installs
the HW components, operating system, and SAP HANA before delivering the appliance. (Seerecommended configuration below)

SAP HANA CERTIFIED APPLIANCES(Scale from 192GB to 24.6TB AEP + DRAM)

SYSTEM

SPECIFICATIONS (BWoH, BW/4H, S/4H and DM)

SYS-2049U-TR4
2 Socket configuration(Up to 56 cores)

192 GB to 7.6 TB(12 × 128GB DDR4) + (12 × 512GB Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory)

SYS-2049U-TR4
4 Socket configuration(Up to 112 cores)

192 GB to 15.4 TB(24 × 128GB DDR4) + (24 × 512GB Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory)

SAP HANA APPLIANCE —TAILORED DATA CENTER
INTEGRATIONAll SAP Certified Appliances are eligible for Tailored Datacenter Integration (TDI) deployment, whichallows the customer to build an SAP HANA server with their own choice of CPU, RAM, Disk, and add-on
cards. The SAP HANA TDI option offers you more flexibility and freedom of choice to deploy SAP HANA
hardware matching your existing data center infrastructure.
The Supermicro Intel Select Solution for SAP HANA leverage TDI phase 5 approach based on
Supermicro certified SAP HANA appliance, SYS-2049U-TR4 and Intel Optane DC persistent memory.
The latter is perfectly aligning with large database use case supporting up to hundreds of Gigabytes
or Terabytes of memory to reduce TCO by automatically placing large amount of warm data in the lesscostly persistent memory than DRAM drastically improve start-up time of the database while otherbusiness cases are coming in real-time.
Again, to emphasize, SAP HANA Appliances are designed as fixed BOM turnkey solutions, whereas
SAP HANA TDI deployments allow the customer to mix and match certified components. TDI open
architecture allows the customer to request a HANA system with a certified configuration fromSupermicro. SAP certifies computing nodes and storage products with SAP HANA hardware partners(e.g. Supermicro) and requires that customers only use these certified configurations for SAP HANATDI deployments.

Solutions Brief - November 20193

SUPERMICRO SAP HANA HARDWARE SIZING AND CONSULTING
To assist you on your SAP HANA infrastructure and hardware selection, Supermicro’s SAP architects and solutions managers offer free hardware sizing
and consulting services. Whether you are a greenfield customer considering SAP HANA adoption or brownfield customer looking to migrate SAP ECC toS/4HANA, Supermicro’s SAP HANA experts are available to guide you and help you optimize your hardware stack for performance and cost.
To get started, please contact sapexpert@supermicro.com.
Supermicro SAP HANA certified solutions: https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/sap

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ABOUT INTEL SELECT SOLUTIONSIntel is driving the next wave of data center innovation with Intel Select Solutions, based on Intel technologies. Intel Select Solutions are verified solutions
configurations that are aimed to speed selection and deployment of data center and communications network infrastructure. The solutions are developed
from deep Intel experience with industry solution providers, as well as extensive collaboration with the world’s leading data center and service providers.

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Legal Disclaimer for Faster Start Time and Increase Memory Capacity Claims. Based on Intel testing as of March 1, 2019. Columnar store entire reload into DRAM for 1.3 TB dataset is 20 mins. Entire system
restart before is 32 minutes and with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory is 13.5 minutes (12 mins for OS + 1.5 mins). Configuration details: baseline: 4S Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8280M processor (28 cores),
6 TB memory (48 x 128 GB DDR4 at 2,666 megatransfers per second [MT/s]), 10Gb Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520, 60 x 480 GB Intel® SSD DC S4600 Serial ATA (SATA), BIOS: WW48’18,SUSE 15*, Intel® IT workload, 3 TB SAP HANA® database, security mitigations: variants 1, 2, 3 enabled. AD 2-2-2 config: 4S Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L processor (28 cores), 9 TB memory (24 x 256 GB Intel®
Optane™ DC persistent memory, 24 x 128 GB DDR4 at 2,666 MT/s), 10Gb Intel Ethernet Converged Network AdapterX520, 90 x 480 GB Intel SSD DC S4600, BIOS: WW48’18, SUSE 15, Intel IT workload, 6 TB
SAP HANA database, security mitigations: variants 1, 2, 3 enabled.

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