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articles/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-available-skus.md

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| Optimized for OLTP: SAP Business Suite<br /> on SAP HANA or S/4HANA (OLTP),<br /> generic OLTP | SAP HANA on Azure S72m<br /> – 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3<br /> 36 CPU cores and 72 CPU threads | 1.5 TB | 6 TB | Not offered anymore |
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|---| SAP HANA on Azure S144m<br /> – 4 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v3<br /> 72 CPU cores and 144 CPU threads | 3.0 TB | 12 TB | Not offered anymore |
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|---| SAP HANA on Azure S192m<br /> – 4 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4<br /> 96 CPU cores and 192 CPU threads |  4.0 TB |  16 TB | Not offered anymore |
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| --- | SAP HANA on Azure S224m<br /> – 4 x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276 processor (also known as Cascade lake)<br /> 112 CPU cores and 224 CPU threads |  6.0 TB |  10.5 TB | Available in Revision3 and Revision4 stamps |
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|---| SAP HANA on Azure S384m<br /> – 8 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4<br /> 192 CPU cores and 384 CPU threads |  6.0 TB |  18 TB | Available in Revision4 stamps|
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|---| SAP HANA on Azure S384xm<br /> – 8 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4<br /> 192 CPU cores and 384 CPU threads |  8.0 TB |  22 TB | Available in Revision4 stamps |
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|---| SAP HANA on Azure S576m<br /> – 12 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8890 v4<br /> 288 CPU cores and 576 CPU threads |  12.0 TB |  28 TB | Available in Revision4 stamps|
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The hardware base for the offers, except units for customer-specific sizing projects, are SAP HANA TDI-certified. Two different classes of hardware divide the SKUs into:
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- S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, S192xm, and S224, which are referred to as the "Type I class" of SKUs.
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- S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, S192xm, S224, and S224m which are referred to as the "Type I class" of SKUs.
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- S384, S384m, S384xm, S384xxm, S576m, S576xm S768m, S768xm, and S960m, which are referred to as the "Type II class" of SKUs.
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- If you are interested in other S224 SKUs offering from 4.5TB to 9TB with Optane, contact your Microsoft account team to get more information.
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articles/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-know-terms.md

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Domain users of the on-premises domain can access the servers and run services on those VMs (such as DBMS services). Communication and name resolution between VMs deployed on-premises and Azure-deployed VMs is possible. This scenario is typical of the way in which most SAP assets are deployed. For more information, see [Azure VPN Gateway](../../../vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-about-vpngateways.md?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2flinux%2ftoc.json) and [Create a virtual network with a site-to-site connection by using the Azure portal](../../../vpn-gateway/vpn-gateway-howto-site-to-site-resource-manager-portal.md?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2flinux%2ftoc.json).
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- **Tenant**: A customer deployed in HANA Large Instance stamp gets isolated into a *tenant.* A tenant is isolated in the networking, storage, and compute layer from other tenants. Storage and compute units assigned to the different tenants can't see each other or communicate with each other on the HANA Large Instance stamp level. A customer can choose to have deployments into different tenants. Even then, there is no communication between tenants on the HANA Large Instance stamp level.
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- **SKU category**: For HANA Large Instance, the following two categories of SKUs are offered:
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- **Type I class**: S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, S192xm, and S224
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- **Type I class**: S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, S192xm, S224, and S224m
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- **Type II class**: S384, S384m, S384xm, S384xxm, S576m, S576xm, S768m, S768xm, and S960m
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- **Stamp**: Defines the Microsoft internal deployment size of HANA Large Instances. Before HANA Large Instance units can get deployed, a HANA Large Instance stamp consisting out of compute, network, and storage racks need to be deployed in a datacenter location. Such a deployment is called a HANA Large instance stamp or from Revision 4 (see below) on we use the alternate of term of **Large Instance Row**
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articles/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-storage-architecture.md

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| S192 | 4,608 GB | 1,024 GB | 1,536 GB | 1,024 GB |
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| S192m | 11,520 GB | 1,536 GB | 1,792 GB | 1,536 GB |
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| S192xm | 11,520 GB | 1,536 GB | 1,792 GB | 1,536 GB |
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| S224 | 4,224 GB | 512 GB | 1,024 GB | 512 GB |
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| S224m | 8,448 GB | 512 GB | 1,024 GB | 512 GB |
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| S384 | 11,520 GB | 1,536 GB | 1,792 GB | 1,536 GB |
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| S384m | 12,000 GB | 2,050 GB | 2,050 GB | 2,040 GB |
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articles/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations-storage.md

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- Azure Ultra disk at least for the /hana/log volume. The /hana/data volume can be placed on either Premium SSD without Azure Write Accelerator or in order to get faster restart times Ultra disk
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- **NFS v4.1** volumes on top of Azure NetApp Files for /hana/log **and** /hana/data. The volume of /hana/shared can use NFS v3 or NFS v4.1 protocol. The NFS v4.1 protocol is mandatory for /hana/data and/hana/log volumes.
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Some of the storage types can be combined. For example, it is possible to put /hana/data onto Premium Storage and /hana/log can be placed on Ultra disk storage in order to get the required low latency. However, if you use an NFS v4.1 volume based on ANF for /hana/data, you are required to use another NFS v4.1 volume based on ANF for /hana/log. Using NFS on top of ANF for one of the volumes (like /hana/data) and Azure Premium Storage or Ultra disk for the other volume (like /hana/log) is **not supported**.
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