Review SAP application sizing guidance

This page provides guidance on when to select which application size in the SAP calculator depending upon your vCPU and memory requirements.

Sizing guidance for SAP BO

In case of SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO), as size increases from Small to X-Large, the number of instances of the machine in use increases instead of the machine size itself.

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP BO size that matches your requirements:

Number of instances Number of vCPUs for App, Production Memory Size for App (GB), Production SAP BO Size
1 16 64 Small
2 16 64 Medium
4 16 64 Large
8 16 64 X-Large

Sizing guidance for SAP BODS

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (SAP BODS) size that matches your requirements:

Number of vCPUs for App, Production Memory Size for App (GB), Production BODS Size
8 32 Small
16 64 Medium
32 128 Large

Sizing guidance for SAP BW/4HANA

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP BW/4HANA size that matches your requirements:

Number of vCPUs for DB, Production Memory size for DB (GB), Production BW/4HANA Size
32 256 X-Small
64 512 Small
96 1433 Medium
168 3844 Large
416 5888 X-Large

Sizing guidance for SAP Fiori

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP Fiori size that matches your requirements:

Number of vCPUs for App, Production Memory Size for App (GB), Production Fiori Size
8 32 XX-Small
8 32 X-Small
8 32 Small
16 64 Medium
16 64 Large
16 64 X-Large

Sizing guidance for SAP PO

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP Process Orchestration (SAP PO) size that matches your requirements:

Number of vCPUs for DB, Production Memory Size for DB (GB), Production PO Size
4 16 Small
8 32 Medium
16 64 Large

Sizing guidance for SAP S/4HANA

In the SAP calculator, S/4HANA is available in five different sizes. You can choose the size based on either the number of Full User Equivalent (FUE) or memory size. You must select the next tier of the application size if your memory size is higher than the FUE usage tier.

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP S/4HANA size that matches your requirements:

Usage Tier Memory size for HANA DB (GB), Production and QAS S/4HANA Size
136 to 550 FUE 256 X-Small
551 to 1000 FUE 512 Small
1001 to 2000 FUE 1024 Medium
2001 to 4000 FUE 2048 Large
4001 to 6000 FUE 3072 X-Large

Sizing guidance for SAP NW ABAP

Use the following sizing guidance to select the SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP (SAP NW ABAP) size that matches your requirements:

Memory size HANA DB (GB), Production NW ABAP Size
128 X-Small
128 Small
256 Medium
512 Large
961 X-Large