HANA on POWER

Great News… Current update of SAP Note 2947579 shows again the granularity available for HANA instances on IBM Power Virtual Server e.g. you can very flexibly choose your LPAR / VM size from 16 to 30.5 TB in 1 TB steps and with 1.254.000 SAPS each.

Scaling is key :-)) !

Now really large OLTP S/4HANA implementations are supported:
up to 128 TB (Scale-Out 4 nodes with each 32 TB) – on prem
and up to 4 nodes with 30.5 TB each on Power Virtual Server!

For details please have a look into SAP Note 2188482:
https://me.sap.com/notes/2188482

Just to mention it…:-))
“Classic” SAP Applications on Power AIX with “AnyDB” (Db2 LUW or Oracle DB) will be supported at least until YE 2030 ! (from a database support point of view…)

For details please see
DB6 – Db2 LUW on Power AIX
Source: SAP Note 1168456 (29.11.2024)
https://me.sap.com/notes/1168456

Oracle DB – on Power AIX
Source: SAP Note 2606828 (26.11.2024)
https://me.sap.com/notes/2606828

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS08 has been released!

For details see SAP Note https://me.sap.com/notes/3531605 and https://me.sap.com/notes/3411133 …

You may try it out but please take care when to go into production with SPS08, maybe wait for “golden code / revision” will be out then …

Current Update of SAP Note 2947579 has been released:

Now, additionally to current Power9 HANA Profiles,
Power10 Profiles are as well available,
in total nearly 200 granular profiles in terms of RAM and cores,
up to 165 cores and 30.5 TB Memory!

For details please see SAP Note

@ SAP Service Marketplace: https://me.sap.com/notes/2947579

or (without S-UID) @IBM BOX: https://ibm.box.com/v/SAPNote2947579PowerVS