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.
"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."
SAP HANA Pricing
One Azure Virtual Machine for the SAP HANA Server only DB platform
Example: Native HANA applications | Two-tier installation
| Database size | System type | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 192 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 256 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 512 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 1 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 1.7 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 2 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 3 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 4 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 6 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
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 by running in two Azure Availability Zones.
- Backup for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW/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."
SAP S/4HANA Pricing
One Azure Virtual Machine for the SAP HANA Server only DB platform
Example: Native HANA applications | Two-tier installation
| Database size | System type | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 192 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 256 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 512 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 1 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 1.7 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 2 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 3 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 4 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 6 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
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."
SAP BW/4HANA Pricing
One Azure Virtual Machine for the SAP HANA Server only DB platform
Example: Native HANA applications | Two-tier installation
| Database size | System type | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 192 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 256 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 512 GB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 1 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 2 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
| 3 TB | Single Instance | See estimate |
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 Azure Availability Zone.
- 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 Azure 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 with 99.9 percent availability for a single VM and 99.95 percent availability for VMs in an Azure Availability Zone.
- Certification that SAP Business One will run on Azure Virtual Machines.
SAP Business One Pricing
One Azure Virtual Machine for the SAP HANA Server only DB platform
Example: Business One Installation
| Database size | System type | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|---|
| 192 GB | Business One 75 User | See estimate |
| 256 GB | Business One 100 User | See estimate |
| 512 GB | Business One 200 User | See estimate |
| 1 TB | Business One 300 User | See estimate |
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 Business Technology Platform on Azure offers:
- Cloud Foundry to manage cloud environments.
- The ability to co-locate applications using SAP ERP data on Azure.
Explore our jointly developed use cases supported by reference architectures for integration across Azure, SAP services, and Microsoft offerings.
SAP Business Technology Platform services available on Azure by region
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
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
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
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
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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.
Learn moreSAP 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.
Learn moreDisaster 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
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.
Learn moreManage large-scale SAP HANA implementations on Azure Virtual Machines, without infrastructure for backup, using Azure Backup for SAP HANA.
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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:
- 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.
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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.
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Support documentation
SAP workload scenarios
Learn how to get startedSAP HANA on Azure
Read operations guideSAP NetWeaver on Azure
Read planning documentationSAP-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 |
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| 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,M208s_v2,M208ms_v2 | |||
| SAP BW on HANA,SAP BW/4HANA (OLAP workloads) | GS5M32ls,M32ts,M64s,M64ls,M128s,M128ms,M208s_v2,M208ms_v2 |
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