SAP HANA on SUSE KVM: Support for 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor
SAP HANA is now supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 for 2-socket Emerald Rapids systems, allowing for single virtual machines with up to 256 vCPUs and 4TB of RAM. This update is reflected in SAP Note 3538596. While currently only a single VM per hypervisor is supported, multi-VM validation is underway and will be followed by an update here and to the best practices documentation.
This brief table outlines the supported configurations for running SAP HANA within a KVM virtual machine on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server hypervisor:
| CPU Architecture | SAP HANA scale-up (single VM) | SAP HANA scale-up (multi VM) |
| 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Skylake) | Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP2
Guest: SLES for SAP 15 SP2 onwards Size: max. 4 sockets, 3 TiB RAM |
not supported |
| 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Cascade Lake) | Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP4
Guest: Any supported guest OS(1) Size: max. 4 sockets, 6 TiB RAM |
Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP4
Guest: Any supported guest OS(1) Size: One VM per socket (max. 4 VMs per host) |
| 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Sapphire Rapids) | Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP5
Guest: Any supported guest OS(1) Size: max. 4 sockets, 8 TiB RAM |
Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP5
Guest: Any supported guest OS(1) Size: One VM per socket (max. 4 VMs per host) |
| 5th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Emerald Rapids) | Hypervisor: SLES for SAP 15 SP5
Guest: Any supported guest OS(1) Size: max. 2 sockets, 4 TiB RAM |
not supported (work in progress) |
- Any OS that is supported for the use with the desired CPU platform and SAP HANA may be used as guest OS.
Our current best practices guides are available here for more information.
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