Different SAP workloads are certified to run on Microsoft Azure and that does also counts for Microsoft Azure Germany. But which SAP solutions can be run on Azure Germany?
First of all, all the necessary OS images are available in the Azure Marketplace in both regions Germany Central and Germany Northeast.
But have a look at the following tables to get the information in which region in Azure Germany you can deploy the different SAP solutions.
SAP HANA on Azure Germany:
| Supported VM size | Supported OS | SAP solution | Germany Central | Germany Northeast |
| A7 | RHEL SLES |
SAP HANA Developer Edition (including the HANA client software comprised of SQLODBC, ODBO-Windows only, ODBC, JDBC drivers, HANA studio, and HANA database) |
ü |
ü |
| A8 | RHEL SLES |
SAP HANA Developer Edition (including the HANA client software comprised of SQLODBC, ODBO-Windows only, ODBC, JDBC drivers, HANA studio, and HANA database) |
û |
û |
| DS14_v2 | RHEL SLES |
HANA One |
ü |
ü |
| GS5 | RHEL SLES |
SAP S/4HANA |
ü |
û |
| SAP HANA on Azure (Large instances) | RHEL SLES |
SAP S/4HANA |
û |
û |
| SAP HANA on Azure (Large instances) | RHEL SLES |
Suite on HANA |
û |
û |
| GS5 for single node | RHEL SLES |
HANA Enterprise for BW, OLAP |
ü |
û |
| SAP HANA on Azure (Large instances) | RHEL SLES |
HANA Enterprise for BW, OLAP |
û |
û |
| GS5 for sinlge node | RHEL SLES |
SAP BW/4HANA |
ü |
û |
| SAP HANA on Azure (Large instances) | RHEL SLES |
SAP BW/4HANA |
û |
û |
SAP NetWeaver on Azure Germany:
| Supported VM size | Supported OS | SAP solution | Germany Central | Germany Northeast | Notes |
| A5 to A11 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business Suite Software |
ü |
ü |
Only A5 to A7 available |
| D11 to D14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business Suite Software |
ü |
ü |
|
| DS11 to DS14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business Suite Software |
ü |
ü |
|
| GS1 to GS5 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business Suite Software |
ü |
û |
|
| A5 to A11 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business All-in-One |
ü |
ü |
Only A5 to A7 available |
| D11 to D14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business All-in-One |
ü |
ü |
|
| DS11 to DS14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business All-in-One |
ü |
ü |
|
| GS1 to GS5 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP Business All-in-One |
ü |
û |
|
| A5 to A11 | Windows | SAP BusinessObjects BI |
ü |
ü |
Only A5 to A7 available |
| D11 to D14 | Windows | SAP BusinessObjects BI |
ü |
ü |
|
| DS11 to DS14 | Windows | SAP BusinessObjects BI |
ü |
ü |
|
| GS1 to GS5 | Windows | SAP BusinessObjects BI |
ü |
û |
|
| A5 to A11 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP NetWeaver |
ü |
ü |
Only A5 to A7 available |
| D11 to D14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP NetWeaver |
ü |
ü |
|
| DS11 to DS14 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP NetWeaver |
ü |
ü |
|
| GS1 to GS5 | Windows RHEL SLES |
SAP NetWeaver |
ü |
û |
SAP HANA on Azure Large instances:
| SAP solution | VM size | CPU | RAM | Storage | Germany Central | Germany Northeast |
| Optimized for OLAP: SAP BW, BW/4HANA or SAP HANA for generic OLAP workload | SAP HANA on Azure S72 | 2x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3 | 768 GB | 3 TB |
û |
û |
| — | SAP HANA on Azure S144 | 4x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3 | 1,5 TB | 6 TB |
û |
û |
| — | SAP HANA on Azure S192 | 4x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v4 | 2 TB | 8 TB |
û |
û |
| Optimized for OLTP: SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA or S/4HANA (OLTP), generic OLTP | SAP HANA on Azure S72m | 2x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3 | 1,5 TB | 6 TB |
û |
û |
| — | SAP HANA on Azure S144m | 4x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3 | 3 TB | 12 TB |
û |
û |
| — | SAP HANA on Azure S192m | 4x Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v4 | 4 TB | 16 TB |
û |
û |
Links:
-> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/sap-hana/
-> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/sap-hana-overview-architecture
-> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-windows-sap-get-started
-> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/virtual-machines-linux-sap-get-started
-> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2016/12/16/sap-support-for-azure-resource-manager/
-> https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/VIRTUALIZATION/SAP+on+Microsoft+Azure