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SAP HANA on Azure | SAP HANA 2.0 - An Introduction

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‎01-23-2020 2:43 PM






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In this blog series you will find quotes, backgrounds, suggested further readings and other information related to my latest book SAP HANA 2.0, An Introduction published by SAP Press.

As the goal of the book is to provide an introduction, we could not spend as much time and pages on each and every topic as we wished at times. One of those topic was SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure. In this blog, I will cover it in a bit more detail and include references where to find more information.

Last Update: May 2020




Better Together


Right from the start, SAP has worked closely together with partners to deliver SAP HANA and many of its innovations. In the early days, as High Performance Analytical Appliance, this mainly involved hardware partners like Cisco, Dell, IBM, Hitachi, NEC, and Fujitsu with SUSE for Linux. Later, under the tailored datacenter integration (TDI) program, this was extended to include IBM Power Systems (see blog SAP HANA on Power) and virtualisation solutions like VMware. More recent examples include the partnership with Intel on persistent memory.

Now that future development of SAP is taking place in the cloud first, of course, it was time to add the hyperscalers (and global strategic service partners) to the list as announced at SAPPHIRE last year with project Embrace. One thing led to another, and 6 months later SAP and Microsoft made a public announcement about their expanded partnership.

Several service partners have already welcomed the relationship.



https://youtu.be/uyIt9OCkPJ0?list=PLLasX02E8BPAUk4axXO-weIlsxlCKamtd

YouTube Playlist: Microsoft and SAP are Better Together (Microsoft Azure, 2019)


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Microsoft Docs




There is extensive documentation about SAP on Azure. For SAP HANA, there are two sections in Microsoft Documentation zooming in.

HANA Large instances (HLI) covers running SAP HANA on dedicated bare-metal servers. For a bit of privacy on the public cloud, that is. Installation and administration (operations) remains customer responsibility.

SAP HANA on Azure VMs is the regular virtualised IaaS offer. Installation guides and High Availability guides help you get started plus a number o f tutorials.




SAP Developer Center


There are several missions and tutorials related to Azure on the SAP Developer Center.









Implementation Guide


Packt has published the SAP on Azure Implementation Guide, which is available for download as free e-book from Microsoft, about how to architect your SAP environment on Azure, covering topics like SAP HANA on Azure, identity management, SAP Hybris, and SAP Data Hub.





Get Certified


You can get certified on Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty.



Microsoft Certifications [aka.ms/TrainCertPoster]

Exam AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads tests on

  • Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure (10-15%)

  • Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads (20-25%)

  • Build and Deploy Azure SAP Workloads (35-40%)

  • Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads (10-15%)

  • Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture (10-15%)




Learning Path



For those that can access the Microsoft Partner Network, you can find them listed here



For a more comprehensive list about what you need to know to get certified see the excellent blog post by chthe on LinkedIn:



What is in the Box? 


Supported configurations are documented in section Certified IaaS Platforms in the hardware directory.

Availability depends per region




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SAP HANA 2.0 - An Introduction


Just getting started with SAP HANA? Or do have a migration to SAP HANA 2.0 coming up? Need a quick update covering business benefits and technology overview. Understand the role of the system administrator, developer, data integrator, security officer, data scientist, data modeler, project manager, and other SAP HANA stakeholders? My latest book about SAP HANA 2.0 covers everything you need to know.

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