VMware SDDC certified profiles for SAP NetWeaver 



  Profiles list 

The published names are subject to change.

The following table is an overview of the SAP-certified profiles with either:



*  Intel Bare Metal and VMware vSphere (ESXi), manual VMware setup and configuration
*  IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated, automated VMware SDDC setup and configuration





Table 1. SAP NetWeaver servers

 Profile                  CPU Cores      CPU Threads (also known as. vCPU)       Memory (RAM GB)      SAPS (after VMware hypervisor 10%)     

 BI.S3.NW192 (VMware)     36             72                                      192 GB               70,965                                 
 BI.S3.NW384 (VMware)     36             72                                      384 GB               71,487                                 
 BI.S3.NW768 (VMware)     36             72                                      768 GB               71,667                                 
 BI.S4.NW192 (VMware)     32             64                                      192 GB               74,223                                 
 BI.S4.NW384 (VMware)     32             64                                      384 GB               76,617                                 
 BI.S4.NW768 (VMware)     40             80                                      768 GB               101,547                                
 BI.S4.NW1500 (VMware)    56             112                                     1536 GB              132,498                                
 BI.S4.NW3000 (VMware)    56             112                                     3072 GB              121,614                                







  Understanding Bare Metal profile names 

The Bare Metal profile names are contextual and sequential, below uses an SAP HANA certified server as an example:



Table 2. Profile naming for SAP NetWeaver

 Profile name   Naming convention component  What it means                                                                                                                                                                                                    

 BI.S3.H8401    BI                           IBM Cloud Infrastructure                                                                                                                                                                                         
                S2                           Series 2 (processor generation) \n<br><br><br><br> *  S2 is Intel Broadwell<br> *  S3 is Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake<br> *  S4 is Intel Cascade Lake<br><br><br>  
                H                            HANA-certified server                                                                                                                                                                                            
                8                            8-socket server                                                                                                                                                                                                  
                4                            4 TB RAM                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                01                           Revision number (00 is launch, 01 is first revision, and so on)                                                                                                                                                  
                A or B                       Available as appliances with preconfigured built-in disks (A) or as boot servers only (B)