Discover SAP-certified operating systems for Azure Virtual Machines

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SAP-certified operating systems supported for SAP products on Azure Virtual Machines are listed in SAP Note #1928533 and, at the time of authoring, include:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 (R2), 2016, 2019, and 2022 (including Azure Edition for Windows Server as of May 2024)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (SLES12) and higher
  • SUSE SLES for SAP Applications (based on SLES12) and higher
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7) and higher
  • Red Hat RHEL for SAP (based on RHEL7) and higher
  • Red Hat RHEL for SAP HANA (based on RHEL7) and higher
  • Oracle Linux 7 (OL7)

When running SAP products on Linux, you should also review the following SAP Notes:

Note

Using multi-SID cluster configurations for SAP Central Services is supported with Windows Server as guest operating system on Azure Virtual Machines, but it's not supported with any of the Linux distributions.