Intel Bare Metal server certified profiles on Classic infrastructure for SAP application server

Profiles list for Intel servers

The following tables provide an overview of the SAP-certified profiles with Bare Metal Intel servers.

Intel servers certified for SAP application server
Profile	CPU Cores	CPU Threads (aka. vCPU)	Memory (RAM GB)	SAPS
BI.S3.NW32	4	8	32 GB	11,970
BI.S3.NW64	4	8	64 GB	12,750
BI.S3.NW192	36	72	192 GB	78,850
BI.S3.NW384	36	72	384 GB	79,430
BI.S3.NW768	36	72	768 GB	79,630
BI.S4.NW192	32	64	192 GB	82,470
BI.S4.NW384	32	64	384 GB	85,130
BI.S4.NW384_v3	16	32	384 GB	60,420
BI.S4.NW768	40	80	768 GB	112,830
BI.S4.NW768_v2	48	96	768 GB	124,620
BI.S4.NW768_v3	16	32	768 GB	60,420
BI.S4.NW1500	56	112	1.5 TB	147,220
BI.S4.NW3000	56	112	3 TB	135,127

Intel servers certified for SAP application server
Profile	CPU Cores	CPU Threads (aka. vCPU)	Memory (RAM GB)	SAPS	aSAPS ⁽¹⁾
BI.S5.NW256	36	72	256 GB	132,630	25,300
BI.S5.NW512	36	72	512 GB	128,750	24,600
BI.S5.NW1024	36	72	1,024 GB	125,920	24,600

⁽¹⁾: aSAPS is the metric that is derived from the SAP quote-to-cash (Q2C) Benchmark.

The Bare Metal profile names are contextual and sequential, below uses a server that is certified for SAP application server as an example:

Profile naming for Intel servers certified for SAP application server
Profile name	Naming convention component	What it means
BI.S3.NW384	BI	IBM Cloud Infrastructure
	S3	Series 3 (CPU generation) S3: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake S4: Intel Cascade Lake S5: Intel Sapphire Rapids
	NW	SAP application server (NetWeaver) certified server
	H2	HANA-(*) and SAP application server certified server, 2 sockets
	384	384 GB RAM

(*) Only the servers that are listed in the SAP Hardware Directory are supported for HANA workloads.

The following Bare Metal servers are available on Hourly Consumption Billing: