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13 Mar 2024
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DS0068
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Deploy and Manage SAP HANA with Simplicity and Scalability

For decades, customers have trusted their mission-critical workloads to run on Lenovo’s ultra-reliable, high-performing platforms. Now Lenovo offers businesses with SAP HANA deployments an opportunity to reap the efficiencies and cost savings of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software.

By migrating SAP landscapes and SAP HANA workloads from complex, multi-tiered legacy architectures to hyperconverged clusters, customers can enjoy the simplicity, scalability, and cost-savings of HCI, which consolidates storage and compute into a single virtual pool with a simple management interface. At the same time, hyperconverged customers can leverage their existing IT to deploy SAP HANA with the same streamlined results.

Engineered and optimized for SAP HANA, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX solution for SAP HANA 1U and 2U 4th generation Intel Xeon 2-socket platforms, delivers extreme speed, availability, and data-center efficiency for SAP HANA workloads in hyperconverged clusters while the 4U 2nd generation Intel Xeon 2- or 4-socket platforms can handle the largest virtualized SAP HANA databases. All solutions come backed by Lenovo Professional Services so you can rely on Lenovo’s deep SAP expertise to deploy SAP HANA with confidence.

Developed in close collaboration with Lenovo's long-standing partners, SAP and Nutanix, the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX solution for SAP HANA includes:

  • Mission-critical performance and ultra-reliability of Lenovo’s platforms married with the dramatic efficiency and cost savings of the industry-leading Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS
  • Factory-integrated, validated, and configured with preloaded Nutanix software on Lenovo HX platforms, using best-recipe firmware
  • Lenovo Professional Services deployment of SAP HANA software onsite for a seamless customer experience
  • 24/7 Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage Single Point of Support, plus SAP HANA solution support from Lenovo's SAP experts

Deliver Greater Reliability

Successfully running SAP HANA analytics workloads requires outstanding performance and 24/7 availability, plus easy scalability. Businesses that can accomplish this with minimized operating expenses and footprint can gain a long-term advantage over their competition. You can't do any better than Lenovo for reliability.

In fact, for the 9th year in a row, Lenovo servers have ranked as the industry´s #1 most reliable x86 platforms (ITIC). As a result, you can run your SAP HANA workloads with outstanding uptime on ThinkAgile HX.

As an SAP HANA market leader, Lenovo has teamed with SAP for more than 30 years and has shipped more than 50,000 SAP HANA systems. Lenovo's deep heritage with SAP translates into a seamless customer experience — from initial planning and architecture through deployment, lifecycle management, and support.

Accelerate SAP HANA Workloads

Now updated with the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the ThinkAgile HX solution for SAP HANA offerings enable you to run your SAP HANA databases even faster. Lenovo servers currently hold more than 530 world records for performance (as of January 1, 2024) including records for SAP BW and SD 2-tier performance. You can run your SAP HANA workloads with confidence, knowing you have blazing-fast speed, industry-best uptime, and Nutanix simplicity.

Support for SAP HANA with your Hypervisor

Customers now can run their SAP HANA and SAP applications using either Nutanix’ own supported Acropolis (AHV) Hypervisor, or using VMware ESXi to virtualize their environments with ThinkAgile HX Series.

Bottom Line

ThinkAgile HX Series appliances, powered by Intel Xeon processors, enable you to simplify your IT infrastructure and drive down costs through the combination of preloaded easy-to-use software on powerful, extremely reliable hardware. All ThinkAgile HX Series models are backed by world-class Lenovo services and support.

SAP HANA for ThinkAgile HX Series

The Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series for SAP HANA includes the ThinkAgile HX7820 Appliance, HX630 V3 Integrated System and Certified Node, as well as the HX650 V3 Integrated System and Certified Node servers all enabled for use with the SAP HANA in-memory database.

Specifications

Model HX630 V3 Integrated System and Certified Node for SAP HANA, 1U form factor HX650 V3 Integrated System and Certified Node for SAP HANA, 2U form factor HX7820 Appliance for SAP HANA, 4U form factor
Target Audience Small and Medium Businesses Mission critical workloads SAP HANA
Processor 2x 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold, or Platinum processor, up to 350W 2x 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold, or Platinum processor, up to 350W 4x 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Silver, Gold, or Platinum processor, up to 205W
Memory 256GB - 8TB 256GB - 8TB 384GB – 6TB
Drive Bays 10x 2.5" + 2x 2.5” (Optional) 24x 2.5" 24x 2.5"
Hybrid Configuration Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
All-Flash Configuration SAS/SATA: 2-12x 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
NVMe: 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.2TB, 3.84TB, 6.4TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB
SAS/SATA: 4-24x 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
NVMe: 2-8x 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.2TB, 3.84TB, 6.4TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB
SAS/SATA: 4-24x 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
NVMe: 2-4x 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 3.2TB, 3.84TB, 6.4TB, 7.68TB
10GBASE-T 2-8 2-12 0-10
25GbE SFP28 Ports 2-8 2-12 0-16
GPU No GPU Support No GPU Support No GPU Support
Hypervisors Supported Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (preloaded), VMware ESXi (optional preload)
Systems Management Hardware management via Lenovo XClarity
Software management through Nutanix Prism
Firmware upgrade via Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
License Options Nutanix New Packaging & Pricing (PnP) Nutanix New Packaging & Pricing (PnP) Life of device (LOD) license
Deployment Services Lenovo Professional Deployment services available for Integrated Systems/Appliances and optional with Certified Nodes

About Lenovo

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #171 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo is expanding into new growth areas of infrastructure, mobile, solutions and services. This transformation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere.

For More Information

To learn more about Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Solution for SAP HANA, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner or visit lenovo.com/thinkagile.

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Document number DS0068, published March 13, 2024. For the latest version, go to lenovopress.lenovo.com/ds0068.

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