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.
Run your largest SAP HANA workloads 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 certified for SAP HANA with scale up to 4 TB.
- Purpose-built SAP HANA instances that scale up to 20 TB on a single node.
- Scale out SAP HANA capabilities up to 60 TB.
- A 99.99 percent service-level agreement for large instances in a high-availability pair, and a 99.9 percent SLA for a single SAP HANA large instance.
"By moving SAP HANA to Azure, we have been able to speed up planning cycles and accelerate delivery of finished goods to our customers. Our whole production engine can now speed up."
This intelligent ERP suite is designed specifically for in-memory computing. Whether you want to run SAP S/4HANA in a new implementation or migrate from SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4HANA, Azure has you covered.
SAP S/4HANA on Azure offers:
- Seamless connectivity for end users who need to access SAP Fiori-based applications when using Azure ExpressRoute.
- A 99.99 percent SLA for your critical ERP instances by running all product instances of SAP S/4HANA in a high-availability pair in two Azure regions.
- Backup for SAP S/4HANA and SAP B/4 HANA in seconds, with a low recovery-time objective—even for multi-terabyte databases.
- Certification that SAP S/4HANA runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Plus, SAP HANA on Azure Virtual Machines and SAP HANA on Azure large-instance machines are certified to run SAP S/4HANA.
"We’re looking at a 40 percent reduction in ERP maintenance costs by using Azure, compared to using the closest competitor for hosting SAP S/4HANA on a cloud platform or even hosting it on premises."
Collect and connect to any data in real time with next-generation data warehouses built entirely on SAP HANA.
SAP BW/4HANA/SAP BW on HANA on Azure offers:
- Optimization of your SAP Business Warehouse and analytics environments.
- An SAP Business Warehouse configuration that’s resilient to failures.
- Flexible scaling—SAP HANA large instances support up to 60 TB in scale-out SAP Business Warehouse configurations, with a configuration of up to 15 nodes of 4 TB instances.
- Certification that SAP BW/4HANA runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Plus, SAP HANA on Azure Virtual Machines and large instance machines are certified to run SAP BW/4HANA.
"We are running one of the largest SAP HANA business warehouses on Azure for our own business, giving us the reliable performance and agility we need for our financial reporting systems."
Develop, provision, and manage your SAP and non-SAP applications across a heterogeneous software environment. SAP NetWeaver provides the foundation for operating and customizing products such as SAP Business Suite, a set of fully integrated applications including SAP ERP, SAP CRM, SAP SCM, and SAP SRM.
SAP NetWeaver on Azure offers:
- Cost savings and agility for non-production environments by spinning VMs on demand, as well as cost-effective storage options.
- Industry-leading SLAs for VMs running SAP NetWeaver with 99.9 percent availability for a single VM and 99.95 percent for VMs in an availability set.
- Certification that SAP NetWeaver will run on Windows, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
"We acquired a supply-chain modeling solution, and we were able to spin up the necessary compute in Azure in literally hours. In our traditional datacenter model, that would have taken us weeks, since we would have needed to acquire and install a new server."
Run SAP S/4HANA in a managed cloud. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud combines managed services for SAP S/4HANA and cloud infrastructure for seamless enterprise-grade sales and support.
"Our new implementation of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud on Microsoft Azure is a significant step forward in our enterprise digital transformation. The SAP and Microsoft partnership continues to create powerful solutions that combine application management and product expertise from SAP with a global, trusted, and intelligent cloud from Microsoft Azure."
Increase control over your small business with an ERP application that captures all your business data in a single system. Get more agility with an on-demand VM infrastructure from Azure by spinning up VMs in minutes. Lower your non-production system costs by using automation capabilities in Azure to shut down VMs.
SAP Business One on Azure offers:
- Industry-leading SLAs for virtual machines—99.9 percent availability for a single VM and 99.95 percent availability for VMs in an availability set.
- Certification that SAP Business One will run on Azure Virtual Machines.
Get more agility with an on-demand virtual machine infrastructure from Azure by spinning up VMs in minutes. Lower your non-production system costs by using automation capabilities to shut down VMs.
SAP Hybris on Azure offers:
- Business continuity by using high availability and disaster recovery services such as Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
- Industry-leading SLAs for virtual machines—99.9 percent availability for a single VM and 99.95 percent availability for VMs in an availability set.
- Certification that SAP Hybris Commerce Platform 5.x and 6.x runs on Windows Server, SQL Server, and Oracle databases. Plus, SAP Hybris runs on all SAP NetWeaver-certified Azure Virtual Machines.
"By running SAP Hybris on Azure at scale, we gained business agility with real-time insights into our supply chain, and we automated orders and drop shipments for our dealers across Europe."
Give developers the choice to build and extend cloud applications faster using an open platform as a service (PaaS) with integrated services.
SAP Cloud Platform on Azure offers:
- Cloud Foundry to manage cloud environments.
- The ability to co-locate applications using SAP ERP data.
- Fast application development using Azure Event Hubs for event-data processing and Azure Storage for unlimited storage.
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/4HANA on HANA large instances with HA and DR
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. This system takes advantage of OS clustering for database performance, high availability using HANA system replication, and a full disaster recovery (DR) configuration for guaranteed system availability.
- 1 In this example, an on-premises SAP user executes a sales order via Fiori interface, custom interface, or other.
- 2 Azure high speed express route gateway is used to connect to Azure Virtual Machines.
- 3 Request flows into highly available ABAP SAP Central Services (ASCS) and then through application servers running on Azure Virtual Machines in an availability set offering a 99.95 percent uptime SLA.
- 4 Request is sent from App Server to SAP HANA running on primary large instance blades.
- 5 Primary and secondary blades are clustered at OS level for 99.99 percent availability, and data replication is handled through HANA System Replication in synchronous mode (HSR) from primary to secondary enabling zero RPO.
- 6 In-memory data of SAP HANA is persisted to high-performance NFS storage.
- 7 Data from NFS storage is periodically backed up in seconds, using built-in storage snapshots on the local storage, with no impact to database performance.
- 8 Persistent data volume on secondary storage is replicated to dedicated DR system through a dedicated backbone network for HANA storage replication.
- 9 Large instance on DR side can be used for nonproduction to save costs by mounting both the QA storage and DR replicated volume (read-only).
SAP S/4HANA VM on Linux
This SAP S/4HANA on Azure VM solution architecture illustrates how a user request flows through an SAP landscape built using high-performance Azure Virtual Machines and in-memory SAP HANA databases running on Azure Virtual Machines for unparalleled scalability and performance. This system takes advantage of Linux OS clustering for high availability, premium storage for performance, data replication for high availability via HANA System Replication (HSR), and a full disaster recovery (DR) configuration for guaranteed 99.95% system availability with asynchronous HSR.
- 1 In this example, an on-premises SAP user executes a sales order request via SAP’s S/4HANA Fiori interface, custom application interface, or others.
- 2 Azure high speed express route gateway is used to connect securely from On-premises network to Azure Virtual Machines and other Azure resources
- 3 Request flows into highly available SAP ABAP SAP Central Services ASCS and then through SAP application servers running on Azure Virtual Machines in a Azure VM Availability Set offering a 99.95 percent uptime SLA.
- 4 Request is sent from app server to SAP HANA running on on an Azure Virtual Machine optimized for large memory SAP HANA workloads.
- 5 Primary (active) and secondary (standby) running on SAP certified M-series virtual machines with Write Accelerator are clustered at OS level for 99.95 percent availability, and data replication is handled through HANA System Replication in synchronous mode (HSR) from primary to secondary enabling zero RPO.
- 6 In-memory data of SAP HANA is persisted to high-performance Azure Premium Storage.
- 7 In-memory HANA data is replicated to a disaster recovery (DR) region virtual machine through an Azure high-speed backbone network and HSR in asynchronous mode. The disaster recovery VM can be smaller than the production VM to save costs.
- 8 VMs on the DR region can be used for nonproduction to save costs by mounting both the non-production storage and DR replicated volume (read-only).
- 9 SAP App Server with ASCS on the DR side can be in standby shutdown mode, and can be started when needed to save costs.
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. This system takes advantage of OS clustering for high availability, premium storage for faster storage performance and scalability, SQL Server AlwaysOn capability for replication, and a full disaster recovery (DR) configuration for 99.95 percent system availability.
- 1 Using Azure Active Directory synchronized with on-premises Active Directory, SAP application user authenticates from on-premises to SAP landscape on Azure with single sign-on credentials.
- 2 Azure high speed Express Route Gateway connects on-premises network to Azure virtual machines and other resources securely.
- 3 Sales order request flows into highly available SAP ABAP SAP Central Services (ASCS), and then through SAP application servers running on Azure Virtual Machines scale out file server in an Azure VM
- 4 The request moves from the SAP app server to SQL Server running on a primary high-performance Azure VM.
- 5 Primary (active) and secondary (standby) servers running on SAP certified virtual machines are clustered at OS level for 99.95 percent availability. Data replication is handled through SQL Server AlwaysOn in synchronous mode from primary to secondary, enabling zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
- 6 SQL Server data is persisted to high-performance Azure Premium Storage.
- 7 SQL Server data is replicated Disaster recovery virtual machine in another Azure region through Azure’s high speed backbone network and using SQL Server’s AlwaysOn replication in asynchronous mode. The disaster recovery VM can be smaller than the production VM to save costs.
- 8 VMs on the disaster recovery region can be used for nonproduction work to save costs.
- 9 SAP app server with ASCS on disaster recovery side can be in standby shutdown mode, and can be started when needed to save costs.
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.
Virtual machines
Set up high availability for SAP HANA in multiple cloud environments using Azure Virtual Machines.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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:
- Copy data from SAP HANA into Azure data services using the Azure Data Factory connector for SAP HANA, SAP ECC, and SAP BW.
- Store data inexpensively using Azure Data Lake Storage.
- Learn from your data using Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning service.
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.
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.
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SAP-certified configurations
SAP offers customer-specific sizing for SAP HANA with TDIv5 (Tailored Datacenter Integration version 5). The list of SAP HANA on Azure large instances is available for deployment with TDIv5 authorization from SAP. With these instances, you get more memory per core, allowing for a cost-effective implementation. You must work with SAP to get certification for their specific project and workload.
| SKU | SAP Products | CPUs | CPU threads | Memory | Storage | Available regions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S192xm** | SAP Business Suiteon SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA | 4 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 192 | 6 TB | 16 TB | US West andUS East,Australia East,Australia Southeast,Japan East,Japan West,West Europe,and North Europe |
| S384xxm** | 8 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 384 | 12 TB | 28 TB | ||
| S576xm** | 12 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 576 | 18 TB | 41 TB | ||
| S768xm** | 16 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 768 | 24 TB | 56 TB |
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 | WindowsSUSE Linux EnterpriseRed Hat Enterprise Linux | A5 to A11D11 to D14DS11 to DS14DS11_v2 to DS15_v2GS1 to GS5D2s_v3 to D64s_v3E2s_v3 to E64s_v3M-series | Premium storage32 GB–4 TB(recommended for DB and I/O intensive workloads)Standard storage32 GB–4 TBManaged Disks are recommended | Pro DirectPremier |
| Business All-in-One | ||||||
| Business Suite Software | WindowsSUSE Linux EnterpriseRed Hat Enterprise LinuxOracle Linux | |||||
| BusinessObjects BI | N/A | Windows | ||||
| SAP Business One on HANA | SAP HANA 1.0 SP12 or higher | SUSE Linux Enterprise on Azure | DS14v2,M32ls,M32ts,M64ls,M64s | |||
| SAP HANA,SAP Business Suite on HANA,SAP S/4HANA (OLTP workloads) | SAP HANA | SUSE Linux EnterpriseRed Hat Enterprise Linux | M32ls,M32ts,M64s,M64ls,M64ms,M128s(scale-out),M128ms | |||
| SAP BW on HANA,SAP BW/4HANA (OLAP workloads) | GS5M32ls,M32ts,M64s,M64ls,M128s |
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 and 60 TB for scale-out BW configurations. You get:
- SAP HANA-certified IaaS instances with memory from 768 GB to 20 TB.
- SAP HANA TDIv5-capable instances with memory up to 24 TB.
- 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 E7-8890 V4 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.
| SKU | SAP Products | Workload | CPUs | CPU threads | Memory | Storage | Available regions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S72 | SAP BW,SAP BW/4HANA or SAP HANA,SAP Business Suiteon SAP HANA,SAP S/4HANA | OLAP/OLTP | 2 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v3 | 72 | 768 GB | 3 TB | US West andUS East,Australia East,Australia Southeast,Japan East,Japan West,West Europe,and North Europe |
| S192* | 4 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 192 | 2 TB | 8 TB | |||
| S384 | 8 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 384 | 4 TB | 16 TB | |||
| S72m | SAP Business Suiteon SAP HANA or SAP S/4HANA | OLAP/OLTP | 2 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v3 | 72 | 1.5 TB | 6 TB | |
| S192m | 4 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 192 | 4 TB | 16 TB | |||
| S384m | 8 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 384 | 6 TB | 18 TB | |||
| S384xm | 8 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 384 | 8 TB | 22 TB | |||
| S576m | 12 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 576 | 12 TB | 28 TB | |||
| S768m | 16 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 768 | 16 TB | 36 TB | |||
| S960m | 20 x Intel®Xeon®Processor E7-8890 v4 | 960 | 20 TB | 46 TB |
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