SAP Certified Offerings on Azure

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General Prerequisites (SAP support in public cloud environments)

As we all know, SAP provides scalable, compliant, and enterprise-proven platform for a range of SAP workloads which is based on the criteria stipulated by SAP. The general prerequisites for SAP supports in public cloud environments includes the following:
  • Licensing for SAP software to be deployed.

  • SAP system sizing and knowledge of resource requirements of SAP workloads to be deployed.

  • Certified VM instance sizes and total capacity required by SAP software on the cloud provider platform.

  • Sufficient network connectivity (in regard to bandwidth, latency, and package loss) to the cloud environment that will host SAP workloads.

  • Certified operating systems on which the SAP workloads will be deployed.

  • Support agreement available from the cloud provider.

  • Experience with technical operation of SAP systems and the infrastructure of the cloud provider pertinent to the shared responsibilities model.  

Deployment options of SAP solutions on Azure

Generally, customers have three options when deploying SAP products in Azure:
  • Azure VMs- There is a growing number of Azure VM SKUs certified for hosting SAP HANA including GS5 and a number of M family VM sizes. There is also much larger selection of Azure VM SKUs that supports non-HANA  workloads (NetWeaver and non-NetWeaver products).

  • SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)- There are several SKUs ranging from 2 TiB per node to 20 TiB per node. 

  • SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL)- SAP CAL offers you to deploy pre-configured software appliances on the different public clouds, including Azure. The primary benefit of SAP CAL is that, it offers an easy way to deploy and test pre-configured SAP solutions provided by SAP without having to provision underlying infrastructure. SAP CAL on Azure includes support for SAP S4/HANA or BW/4HANA.

Note- SAP performance can be measured by relying on the SAP Application Performance Standard metric or, in short, SAPS which 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 benchmark, where 100 SAPS is defined as 2000 fully business processed order line items per hour. Alternately, performance rating can also determined by considering that one SAPS is equal to 24 Sales and Distribution transactions per hour. Generally, SAPs are used to size CPU and memory of a SAP system. 









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