Hi @MS Techie ,
In general, there are 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 (with M208ms_v2, featuring 5.7 TiB of memory and with M128s supporting scale-out configuration). There is also much larger selection of Azure VM SKUs that support non-HANA workloads (NetWeaver and non-NetWeaver products).
SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances): There are several SKUs ranging from 2 TiB per node (S192 with scale-out support) to 20 TiB per node (S960m). Two different classes of hardware divide the SKUs into:
- S72, S72m, S96, S144, S144m, S192, S192m, and S192xm, which are referred to as the "Type I class" of SKUs.
- S384, S384m, S384xm, S384xxm, S576m, S576xm S768m, S768xm, and S960m, which are referred to as the "Type II class" of SKUs.
SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL): SAP CAL offers pre-configured software appliances on different public clouds, including Azure. The primary benefit of SAP CAL is that it provides an easy way to deploy and test pre-configured SAP solutions offered by SAP without having to provision underlying infrastructure. SAP CAL on Azure includes support for SAP S/4HANA or BW/4HANA.
For more information, see:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/get-started
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Leon