Certified SAP HANA servers and NetApp storage systems. Refer to the SAP HANA Hardware Directory for available options:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5/SP6 as the KVM host

NetApp ONTAP storage system with Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) configured for NFS and/or FCP traffic

Logical interfaces (LIFs) created on the appropriate networks for NFS and FCP traffic

SR-IOV capable network adapters (e.g., Mellanox ConnectX series)

Fibre Channel HBA adapters for FCP storage access

Network infrastructure supporting the required VLANs and network segments

VM configured according to the SUSE Best Practices for SAP HANA on KVM

SR-IOV must be used for SAP HANA network communication and for storage access using NFS. Each virtual function (VF) assigned to a VM requires at least 10 Gbit/s bandwidth.

Physical FCP HBA ports must be assigned to the VM as PCI devices for using FCP LUNs. A physical port can only be assigned to one VM.

SAP HANA Multiple-Host systems are not supported in this configuration.

For the latest information including supported CPU architecture and limitations, refer to the SAP Note 3538596 - SAP HANA on SUSE KVM Virtualization with SLES 15 SP5 - SAP for Me.

For information about configuring ONTAP storage systems, refer to the ONTAP 9 documentation.

For SAP HANA storage configuration with NetApp systems, refer to the NetApp SAP solutions documentation.