As previously announced (4th Gen Intel® Xeon® on IBM Cloud expands with VMware, SAP, and more), IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure expands its compute capabilities for running SAP HANA and SAP workloads on VMware. 

 Today we are releasing three new bare metal server profiles based on high end 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids-SP (Scalable Performance) Processor 8490H, certified by SAP to run SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA workloads. These new offerings complement the existing bare metal server profiles based on 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Sapphire Rapids-SP (Scalable Performance) Processor 8474C: 

* SAP Standard Application Benchmarks 

These new offerings will help our customers adapt to new business challenges by running bigger and faster SAP HANA databases or updating virtualized environments for SAP workloads to VMware vSphere 8. 

Further details about full portfolio of IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure for SAP workloads can be found in SAP Note 2414097 - SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure environment (SAP Support Portal access is required).  

A list of all certified and supported servers for running SAP HANA (both OLTP and OLAP) is available in SAP HANA Hardware Directory. 

To further help our customers optimize the TCO of their SAP infrastructure we are launching special promotions that include SAP-certified servers.   

We offer 69% off for Intel Xeon 8280 and Intel Xeon 8474-based servers (see SAP Note 2414097 - SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure environment for the list of SAP certified servers leveraging these processors). This promotion is valid for servers in certain locations/data centers and under some terms and conditions. To find out more, you may contact IBM sales or your IBM Customer Success Manager.