SAP HANA Sizing Essentials – A quick guide

to HANA Sizing for license calculation

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1. Overview and conciderations

A proper HANA Sizing is important for any customer who wants to switch to SAP HANA as platform to run
the SAP Business Suite or SAP Business Warehouse. It is mandatory for calculating the SAP license for
Enterprise Edition (in-memory metric based) and it is as well important to assure the optimal performance of
SAP HANA.

Whereas the SAP HANA memory requirement is most important for the license calculation there is also a
sizing for CPU cores, disk space and network load which are important for the expected performance of the
HANA-System. In this article we concentrate on the HANA-in-momory sizing.

SAP HANA memory size is determined by the data footprint of the system which consists of two main areas:
1. Column store (contains the business data)
2. Row store (contains mainly meta data like data dictionary, some system tables)
 

The HANA memory is also used by other processes like

 HANA caches
 Operating System
 Working Memory
 

A typical memory distribution of the HANA memory can look like this:
Typical HANA memory distribution