Introduction
CS500 Scale-up introduction
HPE ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA Scale-up Configurations provides a highly available and
resilient HANA in-memory database. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise solution for the SAP HANA
configuration is a hardware and software solution that integrates SAP HANA with HPE ProLiant DL580
Gen9 enterprise servers. The ConvergedSystem 500 for SAP HANA Scale-up Configuration is available
in ten configuration sizes: 128GB, 256GB, 384GB, 512GB, 768GB, 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB.
These solutions are optimally configured software and hardware appliances for your SAP application
environment.
These configurations, in an appliance delivery model, provide the following benefits:
• Fully vetted hardware and software infrastructure architected by Hewlett Packard Enterprise product
engineers to host HANA and certified by SAP.
• Assembled and tested as a unit before shipment to customer datacenters.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise on-site installation and configuration.
• Each release is subject to a full suite of validation and verification tests.
• Redundant network pathways for resilient highly available access to components and data.
• Disk redundancy using mirroring or parity.
• Each size compute engine is a ProLiant DL580 Gen9 server with either two or four Intel E7-8880 v4 or
E7-8890 v4 processors. This is a total of 24 cores per socket for high performance computing and
memory ranging from 128GB to 4TB of RAM.
• Each 128GB, 256GB, 384GB, 512GB, 768GB, 1TB, and 1.5TB model can be optionally paired with a
D3700 one I/O controller enclosure with fifteen 1.8TB SAS disks and five SSD disks (SmartCache) for
maximum availability and performance.
• Each 2TB, 3TB and 4TB model is always paired with a D3700 one I/O controller enclosure with fifteen
1.8TB SAS disks and five 400GB SSD (SmartCache) for maximum availability and performance.
An in-memory database requires high performance storage for data and log storage to preserve the
integrity and availability of information across shutdown and fail-over scenarios. The ConvergedSystem
500 for SAP HANA single system relies on HPE SmartArray 12G internal SAS Controller for internal
storage for the smaller and medium configurations up to 1.5TB models. For higher configurations
SmartArray 12G internal SAS Controllers are used for internal and external storage in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB
models and HPE Networking controller cards to best meet this requirement.
The SAP HANA platform, running on SUSE/Red Hat Enterprise Linux, provides the basis to dramatically
increase the performance of your applications. Customers are adopting SAP HANA quickly because they
value the ability to aggregate and analyze data in real time. HANA compression, in-memory caching, and
connections to big data technologies provide key elements in the formula for faster response times.
HANA is a database and must be integrated into your environment and applications to be useful. The
purchase of a ConvergedSystem 500 for HANA includes the installation and startup of HANA. Loading
operational data and integration with your applications are additional to this effort. It is important for the
success of your HANA implementation to engage the Hewlett Packard Enterprise sales team to plan the
extract, transform, and loading of data into HANA and integration with your applications.
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