The SAP Standard Application Benchmarks are designed to help customers and partners find the most appropriate hardware configuration for their IT solutions by establishing strict SAP requirements for performance, speed, and data scalability. Version 2 of the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) benchmark, SAP HANA edition, fully evaluates a system's ability to process workloads running on SAP HANA to achieve optimal performance in SAP HANA environments. Fujitsu recently successfully completed the benchmark using its PRIMEQUEST 2800B3 servers running SAP HANA on virtualized and non-virtualized VMware vSphere 6.5. The respective benchmark results with 4 and 8 SAP HANA nodes have been certified by SAP.¹.
Subsequently, SAP announced its support for the latest version of VMware vSphere 6.5 for SAP HANA, with scalability up to 16 nodes. This provides good performance levels for SAP HANA environments with up to 64 (16x4) TB of system RAM. The VMware vSphere solution is based on Fujitsu's PRIMEFLEX Integrated Systems for SAP HANA².
The Fujitsu-compatible SAP BW application, SAP HANA edition, helps maximize return on investment and enables dynamic business continuity by flexibly allocating system resources for scale-out SAP HANA deployments, using high-end Fujitsu PRIMERGY 4 or 8 socket systems or PRIMEQUEST systems for maximum scalability.
Customers can benefit from a fully scalable and reliable infrastructure that is ready for the demands of digitization, quick to set up, and easy to manage, while protecting their investment. Data growth can be easily accommodated with additional capacity and performance as needed, without requiring changes to existing hardware or the virtualization platform.
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¹Benchmark Details
Certification Number 2018007: SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA version 2, 4 x FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2800B3 server with 8 processors/176 cores/352 threads, Intel Xeon E7-8800 v4 processor, 8 VMs on VMware vSphere 6.5, 10,400,000,000 initial records, 116169 seconds total execution time of load/transform data, 7239 query executions per hour, 240 seconds total execution time of complex query phase.
Certification number 2017052: SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA version 2, 4 x FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2800B3 server with 4 processors / 88 cores / 176 threads, Intel Xeon E7-8800 v4 processor, 4 virtual machines in VMware vSphere 6.5, 3,900,000,000 initial records, 61418 seconds total execution time of data load / transformation, 5772 query executions per hour, 254 seconds total execution time of complex query phase.
Certification number 2017051: SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA version 2, 4 x FUJITSU PRIMEQUEST 2800B3 server with 4 processors / 88 cores / 176 threads, Intel Xeon E7-8800 v4 processor, not virtualized, 3,900,000,000 initial records, 56174 seconds total data load/transformation execution time, 6405 query executions per hour, 256 seconds total execution time of complex query phase.
All benchmarks were run on three-tier configurations with SUSE Linux Enterprise 12, SAP NetWeaver® 7.50, SAP HANA 1.0.
The Fujitsu PRIMEFLEX Integrated System for SAP HANA is an all-in-one infrastructure solution for fast and secure SAP HANA deployments. At the core of this infrastructure, the Fujitsu 8-socket PRIMEQUEST 2800B server delivers unprecedented performance and memory capacity, combined with high reliability for business-critical workloads. This makes it ideal for big data applications and in-memory databases such as SAP HANA. The server's hardware architecture allows for system upgrades of up to eight CPUs, as well as the ability to double RAM resources as needed, enabling customers to fully leverage the potential of their PRIMEFLEX environments for SAP HANA.
