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Documents regarding SAP Products with IBM Cloud
Important: IBM Cloud is available in several flavors: bare metal only (Classic) and virtual server instances (VPC). In addition, IBM Cloud offers the managed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 that has been verified for SAP Data Hub 2.7 application.
MUST READ | For the "must read" IBM whitepapers regarding planning, implementation and deployment for SAP applications with IBM Cloud, see the following links:
- SAP NetWeaver based software and DBMS
- SAP HANA
- SAP Applications
- SAP Reference Architecture on IBM Cloud
SAP Notes Related to Public Cloud or Virtualized Environments
| Information | Where to find |
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| SAP Central Note for Public Cloud Environments |
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| Linux in Virtual Environments |
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| Windows in Virtual Environments |
SAP Notes Related to IBM Cloud
| SAP Note | Relevant for IBM Cloud flavor |
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| 2414820: SAP on IBM Cloud Infrastructure: Support prerequisites |
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| 2414097: SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Infrastructure: Supported DB/OS and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Server Types |
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| 2927211: SAP Applications on IBM Virtual Private Cloud: Supported DB/OS and IBM Gen 2 Virtual Server Instances (VSI) |
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| 2134316: Can SAP ASE run in a cloud environment? |
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| 2279688: Support of SAP BusinessObjects BI platform on IBM Cloud |
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| 2058870: SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA on public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms |
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| 2686169: Prerequisites for installing SAP Data Hub 2 |
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Supported SAP Applications
SAP supports all applications listed in SAP Note 2414097 and SAP Note 2927211. For details on configuration requirements and supported versions, check the mentioned SAP Notes.
| Supported SAP Applications | on IBM Cloud flavor |
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| Applications running on WebAS ABAP and/or Java as part of SAP NetWeaver or ABAP Platform |
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| TREX |
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| SAP Content Server |
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| SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (SAP BI) |
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| SAP Business One on HANA |
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Supported IBM Cloud Bare Metal and Virtual Instance Server Types
With IBM Cloud Classic, SAP supports its applications on the bare metal server types that are listed in SAP Note 2414097. Additionally, the SAP applications which are supported on IBM Cloud bare metal server types are also supported with VMware ESXi. For details on VMware versions and configuration requirements,see SAP Note 2414097. Be aware that in this case the ESXi host is customer-managed which means that customers must take care of the proper maintenance and operations so that the server and the whole software stack complies to SAP requirements and remains supported.
With IBM Cloud VPC, SAP supports its applications on the virtual instance server types that are listed in SAP Note 2927211.
Supported Guest Operating Systems by SAP
The table below provides a short overview on supported guest operating systems. For detailed information on your SAP product, check SAP Note 2414097 and SAP Note 2927211.
| SAP Application Guest OS | Applications based on SAP NetWeaver AS IBM Cloud Classic | Applications based on SAP NetWeaver AS IBM Cloud VPC |
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| Windows Server | supported (*1) | not supported |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) | supported (*2) | supported (*3) |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | supported (*4) | supported (*5) |
| Oracle Linux | not supported | not supported |
(*1) released as of Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016
(*2) released as of RHEL 6 or higher
(*3) released as of RHEL 7 or higher
(*4) released as of SLES12 SP2 or higher
(*5) released as of SLES12 SP4 or higher
Supported Databases
The table below provides a short overview on supported databases. For detailed information on your SAP product, check SAP Note 2414097 and SAP Note 2927211.
| SAP Application Database | Applications based on SAP NetWeaver AS IBM Cloud Classic | Applications based on SAP NetWeaver AS IBM Cloud VPC |
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| SAP HANA | supported (*1) | supported (*1) |
| IBM Db2 for LUW | supported (*2) | supported (*2) |
| SAP MaxDB, liveCache | supported (*3) | supported (*3) |
| Microsoft SQL Server | supported (*4) | not supported |
| Oracle Database | not supported | not supported |
| SAP ASE | supported (*5) | supported (*6) |
(*1) for SAP HANA support, see HANA Directory
(*2) released as of IBM DB2 LUW 10.5 or higher
(*3) released for MaxDB 7.9 most recent patch highly recommended
(*4) released for MS SQL Server 2012 or higher
(*5) released for ASE 16.0 SP03 or higher on RHEL7 or higher, Windows Server 2016, SLES12 SP2 or higher
(*6) released for ASE 16.0 SP03 or higher on RHEL7 or higher, SLES12 SP4 or higher
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3 Comments
Arnaud LE FUR
An update would be needed, with the IBM Cloud Power VS capability (OSS 2923984 & 2855850) . Embedding a support for SAP / Oracle / IBM Cloud
Gregory Misiorek
Would this help?
Rainer Vetter
Note, that IBM Power Systems Virtual Server is a separate offering, apart from IBM Cloud Infrastructure that is described above. Thus the table “Supported Databases” is still valid.
See here more details about the IBM Power Systems Virtual Server offering → https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6QJ7/about-power-virtual-server.html.