Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments

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General prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments are outlined in SAP Note #1380654 and include the following items:

  • Licensing for SAP software to be deployed.
  • SAP system sizing and knowledge of resource requirements of SAP workloads to be deployed.
  • Certified virtual machine instance sizes and total capacity required by SAP software on the cloud provider platform.
  • Sufficient network connectivity (for bandwidth, latency, and package loss) to the cloud environment that will host SAP workloads.
  • Certified operating systems on which the SAP workloads will be deployed.
  • Support agreement available from the cloud provider.
  • Experience with technical operation of SAP systems and the infrastructure of the cloud provider pertinent to the shared responsibilities model.

To implement SAP workloads on Azure in a supported manner, customers should follow SAP certified configurations, which consist of a combination of the following four elements:

  • SAP product
  • Operating system
  • RDBMS
  • Azure offering, including Azure Virtual Machine SKUs

This information is summarized at SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure.