How to find the SAPS of my hardware?

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I apologize for posting it if it has already been address in some other post. But I couldn't find it. I looked up in the link provided in the SAP B4 Sizing guide but the link isn't working anymore and neither was I able to find information on how to find the number of SAPS my hardware has.

Can someone please tell me how do I calculate what SAPS my hardware is capable of?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Check this KB article - 1994117  - What is SAPS?

[Former Member]

It is rather simple and straight-forward... Use transaction ST03N Workload Overview .. and find out teh total number of  steps for everything during a given period....    If you want to do this for a month divide it by number of days and 24 to arrive at average number of steps in an hour. Then divide this number by 60 and you will get your SAPS...

[Former Member]

It is rather simple and straight-forward... Use transaction ST03N Workload Overview .. and find out teh total number of  steps for everything during a given period....    If you want to do this for a month divide it by number of days and 24 to arrive at average number of steps in an hour. Then divide this number by 60 and you will get your SAPS...

[former_member182521]

In general 2000 SAPS refers a Core, 256 MB memory equivalent to 100 SAPS and 1000 MB of disk space is equivalent to 100 SAPS. Your sizing process has to go something from SAPS to CPU cores conversion, not viceversa.

Refer here for complete details

SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Sizing and Deployment

[Former Member]

Hi Mani,

Thank you for the response. I have read the document you provided and other sizing documents and article available but I still couldn't understand how SAP's are known. Your document and SAP Sizing Document assumes the SAPs rating of certain machines and then distributes it to different components of BI Infrastructure. But how do I calculate it when I don't have the machine itself yet?

Say if I have option for only one physical server, with 3000 users accessing just webi (10,000) and crystal (5000) reports. What should be the minimum hardware for this kind of setup with the scope of Mobile BI as well ?

I'm able to come up with memory but not for Cores (or SAP). Can you please help?

[former_member191664]

Hi,

Please check out http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx and found out the SAPS based on your hardware vendor and OS release.  Detail is listed in Certification Number.

Hope this helps,

Jin-Chong

[Former Member]

Hi JinChong,

We don't have the machine yet. We need to order the hardware and I'm trying to figure out how many SAPs (or Cores) will I be needing?

Also is there a way to convert SAP's into number of Cores?

Thanks

[former_member191664]

Hi,

"is there a way to convert SAP's into number of Cores?"

The benchmarked SAPS is calculated based on the hardware been tested.  For example, 67,020 SAPS is achieved on a Cisco UCS B260 M4, 2 Processors / 30 Cores / 60 Threads machine.  See the detail below.

"5/5/2014  Cisco Systems  12280  0.99  4021000  67020  1340330  Windows Server 2012 Datacenter Edition  SQL Server 2012  SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0   Cisco UCS B260 M4, 2 Processors / 30 Cores / 60 Threads, Intel Xeon Processor E7-4890 v2, 2.8 Ghz, 64 KB L1 cache and 256 KB L2 cache per core, 37.5 MB L3 cache per processor  524288  2014018"

Not sure if there is any formula for you to convert SAPS back into a HW combination, CPU, RAM, etc.

Hope this helps,

Jin-Chong

[Former Member]

Hi,

SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) is a hardware-independent unit of measurement that describes the performance of a system configuration in the SAP environment. It is derived from the Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark, where 100 SAPS is defined as 2,000 fully business processed order line items per hour.

In technical terms, this throughput is achieved by processing 6,000 dialog steps (screen changes), 2,000 postings per hour in the SD Benchmark, or 2,400 SAP transactions.

In the SD benchmark, fully business processed means the full business process of an order line item: creating the order, creating a delivery note for the order, displaying the order, changing the delivery, posting a goods issue, listing orders, and creating an invoice.

Please refer below url

http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx

http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd.epx

http://www50.sap.com/benchmarkdata/sd2tier.asp

Regards,

Deepanshu Sharma

[Former Member]

Hi Deepanshu, none of the links are working. can you please doublecheck?

thanks again

[Former Member]

Hi

My mistake Ihaven't checked those links

check this

https://service.sap.com/sizing

Regards,

Deepanshu Sharma