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Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Incremental backup is now generally available
Create cost-effective, faster backup policies with weekly full and daily HANA incremental and protect even large HANA databases.
February 2021
The GS5 Azure Virtual Machines will no longer be SAP HANA Certified on 28 February 2022
Target retirement date: February 28, 2022
Start using E64ds_v4 before 28 February 2022.
Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available
Today we're announcing the general availability of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Microsoft Azure Backup.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup.
Support for SAP Application (NetWeaver) and Operating System (Linux) telemetry in Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions (AMS) now supports SAP Application (NetWeaver) in private preview and Operating System (Linux) provider in Public Preview. Both providers are available in the following Azure regions - West Europe, US East, US East 2 and US West 2.
Support for more workloads, tag based policies now in Backup Center public preview
Target availability: Q1 2021
Backup Center now supports SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs and Azure Files. New Azure Policies allow you to deploy backup at scale based on resource group and tag information.
January 2021
Public preview | Azure NetApp Files : Application Consistent Snapshot tool (AzAcSnap)
AzAcSnap leverages the volume snapshot and replication functionalities in Azure NetApp Files and Azure Large Instance.
November 2020
Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup - User management improvements
The permissions required by a Azure Backup user for SAP HANA backup is now much simpler and automatically handled by a simple script from Azure Backup.
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups.
New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available
We are expanding our SAP HANA certifications, enabling you to run production SAP HANA workloads on the Edsv4 virtual machines sizes.
Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server and SAP HANA running in Azure VM
Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available.
September 2020
Shared disks on Azure Disk Storage is now available in broader set of regions
Shared disks is available for Premium SSDs in all regions and available for Ultra Disks in all regions that support Ultra Disks.
Introducing Azure Backup Center
Backup Center currently is in public preview for the workloads of Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Database for PostgreSQL servers and limited public preview for the workloads SQL in Azure VMs, SAP HANA in Azure VMs and Azure Files.
Cross Region Restore (CRR) for SQL/SAP HANA using Azure Backup
Following the introduction of Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs, Azure Backup has extended this capability to support SQL and SAP HANA backups.
Preview of Zonal redundant Storage for Backup data from Azure Backup
Azure Backup now supports storing backup data in Zone redundant storages (ZRS). Customers can leverage this capability to improve the resiliency of their backup data against data center outages.
Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 is now in preview
Azure Files now adds support for NFS v4.1 file system protocol for an easy migration of your Linux-centric workloads.
August 2020
Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases running on RHEL is now generally available
On August 1, 2020, Azure Backups support for HANA databases running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) became generally available. This offering is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.
July 2020
Shared disks in Azure Disk Storage are now available
Shared disks are now available in Azure Disk Storage—the only shared block storage in the cloud that supports both Windows and Linux-based clustered or high-availability applications.
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is now available in preview
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is a new Azure-native monitoring product for customers running SAP landscapes on Azure. It’s now available in public preview in US East, US East 2, US West 2, and West Eu regions.
May 2020
Backup your SAP HANA databases running on RHEL using Azure Backup
Azure Backup support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), one of the widely used Linux operating systems running SAP HANA, is now available in preview. This preview is available across all Azure regions except for Germany Northeast, Germany Central, France South, and US Gov IOWA.
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