Nutanix Certified for SAP HANA

Nutanix, Inc. announced that its AHV hypervisor and Enterprise Cloud OS platform hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, has met SAP’s criteria for running production SAP HANA deployments.

This will allow businesses that use SAP solutions to benefit from the simplicity and agility of HCI technology to deliver an IT architecture for SAP’s in-memory relational database platform.

SAP has certified the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS platform with AHV virtualization for SAP HANA as part of SAP’s HCI certification program.

Nutanix has  met the performance and scalability requirement for SAP HANA enterprise deployments, along with simple day-2 operations of SAP environments. This includes the ability to deliver throughput rates with minimal latency, as well as ensure HA during periods of heavy database usage.

“We are delighted to announce this achievement. As customers increasingly re-platform their portfolio of enterprise workloads on Nutanix, our certification will enable them to use a single platform for all their workloads,” said Sunil Potti, chief product and development officer, Nutanix. “The certification for SAP HANA gives our customers a more modern infrastructure option. Enterprises will be able to leverage Nutanix and SAP to deliver value to their organizations by powering their database services, analytics processing, app development and more – with predictable performance and linear scalability.“

Businesses that use SAP solutions will be able to leverage the Enterprise Cloud OS platform in production and non-production environments to provision, simplify management and scale their IT infrastructure for faster time to value for SAP HANA and other SAP applications.

Enterprise Cloud OS software is certified for SAP NetWeaver based landscapes including SAP S/4HANA application servers and can be used for production to scale-up SAP HANA databases.