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SAP solutions on Azure

Run SAP solutions across development, testing, and production scenarios in Azure.

Run the SAP solutions you already use on Azure

SAP on Azure solutions help you optimize your enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud using the security features, reliability, and scalable SAP-certified infrastructure of Azure.

From small to big: Run your largest SAP HANA workloads on SAP certified VMs on Azure. Handle transactions and analytics in-memory on a single data copy to accelerate your business processes, gain business intelligence, and simplify your IT environment.
 

  • SAP HANA on Azure offers:

  • On-demand M-series virtual machines (VMs) certified for SAP HANA, with scale up to 4 TB.

  • Up to 12 TB memory with Mv2 VMs, the largest certified SAP HANA VMs in the public cloud.

  • Purpose-built SAP HANA instances that scale up to 20 TB on a single node also supporting persistent memory.

  • Ability to scale out SAP HANA capabilities up to 60 TB with TDIv4, and up to 120 TB with TDIv5 authorization.

  • A 99.99-percent service-level agreement (SLA) for large instances in a high-availability pair, and a 99.9-percent SLA for a single SAP HANA large instance.

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Refer to the pricing calculator to calculate your estimated hourly or monthly costs for using Azure.

Demo your SAP solutions on Microsoft Azure

Deploy a fully configured SAP solution on Microsoft Azure using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library. Whether you want to demo and test new functionalities or quickly build an SAP sandbox environment on Azure, select one of the available solutions and run them within minutes on Microsoft Azure.

SAP solution architectures

Read the technical SAP documentation and solution architectures to learn how to quickly design and implement highly available, performant, and resilient solutions.

SAP S/4 HANA for Large Instances solution architecture diagram

SAP S/4 HANA for Large Instances

This solution architecture illustrates how a user request flows through an SAP landscape built on high-performance Azure Virtual Machines and an in-memory HANA database running on HANA large instances for unparalleled scalability and performance.

Run SAP BW/4HANA with Linux virtual machines on Azure solution architecture diagram

Run SAP BW/4HANA with Linux virtual machines on Azure

SAP BW/4HANA is an enterprise data warehouse solution designed for the cloud and optimized for the SAP HANA platform.

SAP NetWeaver on SQL Server solution architecture diagram

SAP NetWeaver on SQL Server

This NetWeaver on SQL Server application solution illustrates how a user request flows through an SAP landscape built on NetWeaver using Azure Virtual Machines to host SAP applications and a SQL Server database.

SAP technical scenarios

  • Get high availability of critical systems and robust disaster-recovery capabilities when you run your SAP landscape in Azure. Use Azure Virtual Machines if your organization requires heavy compute, storage, and network resources, in minimal time, to avoid lengthy procurement cycles of on-premises cloud setups.

    SAP HANA

    Achieve high availability with a resilient architecture that includes active and standby systems with data replication. Azure takes advantage of SAP HANA high-availability and disaster-recovery capabilities with SAP HANA large instances, including:

    • Storage replication—replicate data to a SAP HANA large-instance stamp in another Azure region.
    • SAP HANA system replication—replicate data to a separate SAP HANA system.
    • Host auto-failover—recover from the failure of a SAP HANA host with a local fault-recovery solution.

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    Virtual machines

    Set up high availability for SAP HANA in multiple cloud environments using Azure Virtual Machines.

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    SAP NetWeaver

    Quickly deploy classic applications—including SAP NetWeaver-based advanced business application programming (ABAP), Java, or an ABAP and Java stack—using Azure Virtual Machines. Integrate Virtual Machines into your organization’s on-premises infrastructure, private cloud, and SAP landscape.

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    Disaster recovery

    Exceed the capabilities of most on-premises disaster-recovery solutions, and at a low total cost of ownership, with Azure Site Recovery—tested and integrated with SAP applications.

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  • Replace your on-premises or remote backup solution with a more secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud-based solution. Back up and restore your SAP data in the cloud using Azure Backup. Help protect the critical SAP applications running in your datacenter with Azure Site Recovery, offering flexible recovery plans, low recovery-point objectives, and low recovery-time objectives. Back up your data using industry-leading solutions from Microsoft partners including Commvault.

    SAP NetWeaver

    Instead of treating the cloud as an endpoint or static storage destination, use Azure Backup to access a richer set of tools and capabilities that benefit SAP NetWeaver installations, including:

    • Automatic storage management
    • Unlimited scaling
    • Multiple storage options
    • Unlimited data transfer
    • Data encryption
    • Application-consistent backup
    • Long-term retention

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    SAP HANA

    Use Azure storage blob snapshots for SAP HANA large instances to ensure data consistency and backup your SAP HANA workloads running on virtual machines in Azure.

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    Manage large-scale SAP HANA implementations on Azure Virtual Machines, without infrastructure for backup, using Azure Backup for SAP HANA.

  • Deliver SAP features faster and keep a comprehensive and collaborative set of development and testing tools for your team on a scalable, high-fidelity, on-demand infrastructure. Azure development and test environments help you:

    • Build better applications for all the platforms you use.
    • Create dev-test environments in seconds, not weeks.
    • Minimize waste while maximizing control.
    • Stretch your budget, with low dev-test rates and the ability to spin up resources only when needed.

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  • With a global footprint, a large compliance portfolio, and enterprise-grade SLAs and support, Azure provides a robust, resilient, and reliable environment for your SAP applications. Explore the tools and processes for migrating your critical SAP landscapes, including backup and restore, database replication, SAP system copy, and SAP Software Update Manager (SUM). Get information about migration scenarios, strategies for minimizing downtime, prerequisites for starting the migration process, and post-migration steps and health checks.

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  • Provide self-service visualization for data in your SAP ERP Central Component (ECC), SAP Business Warehouse (BW), and S/4HANA using the SAP HANA and SAP BW connector in Power BI Desktop. Access tools and services that help you:

  • Seamlessly access SAP applications—including SAP ECC, S/4HANA, SAP Concur, and SAP SuccessFactors¬—and non-SAP applications with a single credential using the Azure Active Directory single sign-on integration.

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  • Take advantage of customizable templates to automatically deploy complex SAP landscapes in Azure. Use open-source terraform modules to deploy the infrastructure components, and use Ansible playbooks to install and configure SAP HANA, to spin up entire SAP landscapes in minutes.

    Learn more

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SAP workload scenarios

SAP HANA on Azure

SAP NetWeaver on Azure

SAP-certified configurations

Get SAP-certified on-demand virtual machines (VMs) for SAP NetWeaver applications such as SAP Business Suite, as well as SAP HANA-based applications such as SAP S/4HANA.

  • Spin up your SAP infrastructure on-demand in minutes, instead of weeks on-premises.
  • Bring your own SAP licenses to the cloud and be fully supported.
  • Save 40 to 75 percent in infrastructure costs for development and test workloads.
  • Get memory up to 4 TB using SAP HANA-certified M-series virtual machines.
  • Simplify management by using built-in services for backup and disaster recovery.
SAP PRODUCT
LICENSING
DATABASE
OPERATING SYSTEM
SAP-CERTIFIED VMS
STORAGE
SUPPORT
SAP NetWeaver
Bring your own license SQL Server,
Oracle (Windows and Oracle Linux only),
DB2,
SAP ASE
Windows
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A5 to A11

D11 to D14

DS11 to DS14

DS11_v2 to DS15_v2

GS1 to GS5

D2s_v3 to D64s_v3

E2s_v3 to E64s_v3

M-series

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

Business All-in-One Bring your own license SQL Server,
Oracle (Windows and Oracle Linux only),
DB2,
SAP ASE
Windows
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

A5 to A11

D11 to D14

DS11 to DS14

DS11_v2 to DS15_v2

GS1 to GS5

D2s_v3 to D64s_v3

E2s_v3 to E64s_v3

M-series

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

Business Suite Software Bring your own license SQL Server,
Oracle (Windows and Oracle Linux only),
DB2,
SAP ASE
Windows
SUSE Linux Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Oracle Linux

A5 to A11

D11 to D14

DS11 to DS14

DS11_v2 to DS15_v2

GS1 to GS5

D2s_v3 to D64s_v3

E2s_v3 to E64s_v3

M-series

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

BusinessObjects BI Bring your own license N/A Windows

A5 to A11

D11 to D14

DS11 to DS14

DS11_v2 to DS15_v2

GS1 to GS5

D2s_v3 to D64s_v3

E2s_v3 to E64s_v3

M-series

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

SAP Business One on HANA Bring your own license SAP HANA 1.0 SP12 or higher SUSE Linux Enterprise on Azure

DS14v2,

M32ls,

M32ts,

M64ls,

M64s

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

SAP HANA, SAP Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA (OLTP workloads) Bring your own license SAP HANA SUSE Linux Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

M32ls,

M32ts,

M64s,

M64ls,

M64ms,

M128s

(scale-out),

M128ms,

M208s_v2,

M208ms_v2

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

SAP BW on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA (OLAP workloads) Bring your own license SAP HANA SUSE Linux Enterprise
Red Hat Enterprise Linux

GS5

M32ls,

M32ts,

M64s,

M64ls,

M128s,

M128ms,

M208s_v2,

M208ms_v2

Premium storage
32 GB–4 TB
(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)

Standard storage
32 GB–4 TB
Managed Disks are recommended

Pro Direct

Premier

Purpose-built SAP HANA infrastructure, called SAP HANA large instances, offers high-performance compute, storage, and network, supporting up to 24 TB RAM on a single node. The next generation HANA large instance are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon scalable processors (aka Cascade lake) and Intel Optane DC persistent memory offering higher performance and lower TCO benefits.

  • SAP HANA-certified IaaS instances with memory from 768 GB to 24 TB and 2 socket to 16 socket supporting upto 896 vCPUs.
  • Certification for SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP BW on SAP HANA, and Suite on SAP HANA.
  • Industry-leading performance with high-performance NFS storage and networking.
  • Intel Xeon scalable processors.
  • High availability, disaster recovery, scale-out configurations and built-in support for backups.
  • A 99.99 percent (SLA) for high-availability pairs and a 99.9 percent SLA for a single node.

SKUs for SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs

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