SAP Business One, Version for SAP HANA

Speed up your SAP applications with Lenovo enterprise servers optimized for SAP HANA®. The faster you get to insights, the faster your business can respond. With the combination of SAP Business One®, version for SAP HANA on Lenovo servers you can take advantage of extremely high application performance and real-time analysis to help you make fast, informed decisions.

Lenovo servers are validated by SAP to be an ideal platform to deploy SAP Business One®, version for SAP HANA and to help accelerate time to value for your SAP implementations. Lenovo provides the robust base for highly reliable configurations and provides the ultimate balance of uptime, performance, density and cost efficiency to help your business.

A range of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers are available for SAP Business One®, version for SAP HANA:

• ThinkSystem SR630 V3 1U & SR650 V3 2U 2-socket servers with 4th Gen and 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
  ThinkSystem SR630 V2 1U & SR650 V2 2U 2-socket servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
  ThinkSystem SR630 1U & SR650 2U 2-socket servers with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

  These mainstream servers provide high performance processing power, flash storage options and energy efficient features. They have been designed to handle a wide range of workloads such as databases, virtualization and cloud computing, VDI, enterprise applications, collaboration & email, business analytics and big data.

• ThinkEdge SE450 3rd Gen Edge servers

  The ThinkEdge SE450 is a single-socket server with a 2U height and short depth case, making it suitable for shallow cabinets. It can also be mounted on a wall, stacked on a shelf or placed on the floor like a tower server and can handle continuous operating temperatures from 5°C and 45°C.

• ThinkSystem ST650 V3 4th Gen and 5th Gen servers
  ThinkSystem ST650 V2 3rd Gen & ST550 2nd Gen servers

  These provide the same impressive capabilities as the mainstream rack servers but in tower form-factor. They can also be rack-mounted.

• ThinkSystem SR950 4U and SR850 2U 4-socket servers with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

  These servers provide mission-critical reliability and best-in-class flexibility and expandability.

Using Intel Xeon Scalable processors and all-flash based SSD technology with the ThinkSystem RAID 9350, RAID 940 and RAID 930 storage adapters or VROC for NVMe, these configurations provide the best performance at optimal cost for your business.

The following table lists the configurations using ThinkSystem V3 servers with 4th Gen and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors.

Processor Options:

These ThinkSystem servers when configured with one processor are certified by SAP for 50 - 300 users. When configured with two processors they are certified for 100 - 600 users.

Operating System:

SLES 15 SP4 and later releases are supported for Gen 4 systems.
SLES 15 SP5 and later are supported for Gen 5 systems.

Disk Options:

SSD Disk Options are available on SR630 V3, SR650 V3 and ST650 V3 servers. Mixed Use and Read Intensive SATA SSDs, NVMe SSDs and SAS SSDs are supported.
A ThinkSystem RAID 9350 or RAID 940 controller is required:

1. SSD RAID5 – the traditional SAP Business One RAID configuration for high performance at lowest cost.
2. SSD RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for highest performance.

NVMe Disk Options are available on SR650 V3 and SR630 V3 servers: 

1. VROC RAID5 – leveraging the latest onboard VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) functionality to provide RAID capability, NVMe SSD drives maximize I/O throughput and latency drive performance.
   RAID functionality is provided by onboard VROC. No additional hardware RAID controller is required.
2. VROC RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for even higher NVMe performance.

Note 3: The Disk Options shown here are sufficient to meet SAP HANA TDI guidelines. For higher performance requirements, larger disk sizes and or quantities may be necessary.

Ordering information

Configuration templates for these servers are available from DCSC Deployment Ready Solutions and from the Lenovo LETS website.

The following table lists the ThinkEdge servers that are compatible.

ThinkEdge SE450:

A single-socket only server, with 2U height and short depth chassis of either 300mm or 360mm. It can be mounted in a rack, placed on the floor like a tower server, or mounted on a wall. For more details see the Product Guide.

Processor Options:

These ThinkEdge servers are certified by SAP for 50 - 200 users when configured with one processor.

Operating System:

SLES 15 SP4 and later releases are supported.

Disk Options:

SSD Disk Options are available on SE450 Edge servers. Mixed Use and Read Intensive SATA SSDs, NVMe SSDs and SAS SSDs are supported.
A ThinkSystem RAID 5350 controller is required:

1. SSD RAID5 – the traditional SAP Business One RAID configuration for high performance at lowest cost.
2. SSD RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for highest performance.
3. VROC RAID5 – leveraging the latest onboard VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) functionality to provide RAID capability with SATA SSD drives maximize I/O throughput and latency drive performance.
   RAID functionality is provided by onboard VROC. No additional hardware RAID controller is required.
4. VROC RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for even higher NVMe performance.

7mm 2.5-inch trayless PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Disk Options are available on SE450 servers: 

1. VROC RAID5 – leveraging the latest onboard VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) functionality to provide RAID capability, NVMe SSD drives maximize I/O throughput and latency drive performance.
   RAID functionality is provided by onboard VROC. No additional hardware RAID controller is required.
2. VROC RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for even higher NVMe performance.

The following table lists the configurations using ThinkSystem V2 servers with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon processors.

Processor Options:

These ThinkSystem servers when configured with one processor are certified by SAP for 50 - 200 users. When configured with two processors they are certified for 100 - 400 users.

Operating System:

SLES 15 SP2 and later releases are supported for Gen 3 systems.

Disk Options:

SSD Disk Options are available on SR630 V2, SR650 V2 and ST650 V2 servers. Mixed Use and Read Intensive SATA SSDs, NVMe SSDs and SAS SSDs are supported.
A ThinkSystem RAID 9350, RAID 940 or RAID 930 controller is required:

1. SSD RAID5 – the traditional SAP Business One RAID configuration for high performance at lowest cost.
2. SSD RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for highest performance.

NVMe Disk Options are available on SR650 V2 and SR630 V2 servers: 

1. VROC RAID5 – leveraging the latest onboard VROC (Virtual RAID on CPU) functionality to provide RAID capability, NVMe SSD drives maximize I/O throughput and latency drive performance.
   RAID functionality is provided by onboard VROC. No additional hardware RAID controller is required.
2. VROC RAID10 – an alternative RAID configuration for even higher NVMe performance.

Ordering information

Configuration templates for these servers are available from DCSC Deployment Ready Solutions and from the Lenovo LETS website.

There are also SAP Business One pre-configured models of the SR630 V2  that are available for customers in the following for markets. See the models tables of the SR630 V2 product guide for details:

• Preconfigured SR630 V2 models for EMEA
• Preconfigured SR630 V2 models for Latin America
• Preconfigured SR630 V2 models for Brazil

The following tables list the configurations using ThinkSystem servers with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon processors.

Operating System:

SLES 12 SP4 and later releases (including SLES 15) are supported for Gen 2 systems.

The SR650/SR630/ST550 servers are certified by SAP for 35 - 500 users when configured with two processors.

The SR550/SR530 servers are certified by SAP for 35 - 250 users when configured with two processors.

The SR950/SR850 servers are certified by SAP for 75 - 500 users when configured with four processors.

Lenovo certifications for SAP Business One can be found on the SAP HANA Hardware Directory.

The Hardware Directory lists the minimum Linux operating system used at the time of Business One certification (e.g. SLES 15 SP4/SP5 on V3 systems and SLES 15 SP2/SP3 on V2 systems).
Note that this certification also includes support for all subsequent SLES versions throughout the lifecycle of a certification.
ThinkSystem V1 systems are supported for both SLES 12 and SLES 15 - for more information see SAP Note 2592452 (SAP ID required).

SAP Business One version for SAP HANA is supported on all ThinkSystem servers in a virtualized environment using a supported SAP HANA hypervisor, i.e. ESXi.

The ThinkAgile VX series provides VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN support for the platform for SAP Business One version for SAP HANA. All editions including vSphere Essential Kits, vSphere Standard and vSphere Enterprise Plus are supported. For more information see SAP Note 2020657. Any SAP HANA HCI certified server can be used for running SAP Business One version for SAP HANA.

The ThinkAgile HX series provides Nutanix Foundation support for SAP Business One version for SAP HANA with the AHV Acropolis and ESXi hypervisors. For more information see SAP Note 2836729. Any SAP HANA HCI certified server can be used for running SAP Business One version for SAP HANA.

Lenovo provides a range of DCSC CTO server template configurations for Business One via Lenovo LETS and Deployment Ready Solutions within the DCSC configurator.

For presales support on how to configure an SAP Business One solution for SAP HANA please contact Lenovo LETS or Lenovo’s SAP Centre of Competence SAPSolutions@lenovo.com

For more information, see the following links:

• SAP Business One with Microsoft SQL Server on AMD-based Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers
• SAP Business One with Microsoft SQL Server on Intel-based Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers
• ITIC Reliability Study for Lenovo servers
• SAP product overview for SAP Business One