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Documentation regarding SAP Products with IBM Cloud

Important: IBM Cloud is available in several flavors:

IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure environment
The original environment and network, formerly known as the Softlayer network.
IBM Cloud VPC Infrastructure environment
The latest environment and network, with the newest technologies and networking capabilities.
Managed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Cloud
You can deploy applicationss on highly available Red Hat OpenShift clusters. SAP Data Hub 2 and SAP Data Intelligence 3 have been validated by SAP and Red Hat to run on IBM Cloud

MUST READ | For the "must read" regarding planning, implementation and deployment for SAP applications with IBM Cloud, see the following links:

SAP Notes Related to Public Cloud or Virtualized Environments

InformationWhere to find
SAP Central Note for Public Cloud Environments
  • 1380654: SAP support in IaaS environments
Linux in Virtual Environments
  • 1122387: Linux: SAP Support in virtualized environments
Windows in Virtual Environments
  • 1409608: Virtualization on Windows
  • 1409604: Virtualization on Windows: Enhanced Monitoring

SAP Notes Related to IBM Cloud

SAP NoteRelevant for IBM Cloud flavor
2414820: SAP on IBM Cloud: Support prerequisites
  • Classic
  • VPC
2414097: SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure environment
  • Classic
2927211: SAP Applications on IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Infrastructure environment
  • VPC
2134316: Can SAP ASE run in a cloud environment?
  • Classic
  • VPC
2279688: SAP on IBM Cloud: Support for SAP BusinessObjects
  • Classic
  • VPC
2058870: SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA on public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms
List of SAP Business One certified IaaS instances on IBM Cloud
  • Classic
  • VPC
  • 2686169: Prerequisites for installing SAP Data Hub 2
  • 2871970: Prerequisites for installing SAP Data Intelligence 3
  • Managed

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 Applicationson IBM Cloud flavor
  • SAP S/4HANA
  • SAP BW/4HANA
SAP Applications running on WebAS ABAP and/or Java as part of SAP NetWeaver
  • Classic
  • VPC
TREX
  • Classic
  • VPC
SAP Content Server
  • Classic
  • VPC
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (SAP BI)
  • Classic
  • VPC
SAP Business One on HANA
  • Classic
  • VPC
  • SAP Data Hub 2
  • SAP Data Intelligence 3
  • Managed


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, these SAP applications 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
Windows Serversupported (*1)supported (*2)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)supported (*3)supported (*4)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)supported (*5)supported (*6)
Oracle Linuxnot supportednot supported

(*1) released as of Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016
(*2) released as of Windows Server 2016
(*3) released as of RHEL 6 or higher
(*4) released as of RHEL 7 or higher
(*5) released as of SLES12 SP2 or higher
(*6) 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
SAP HANA (*1)supportedsupported
IBM Db2 for LUW (*2)supportedsupported
SAP MaxDB, liveCache (*3)supportedsupported
Microsoft SQL Server (*4)supportedsupported
Oracle Databasenot supportednot supported
SAP ASE (*5)supportedsupported

(*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

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3 Comments

  1. 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 (wink)

  2. Anonymous

    Would this help?

    1. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2855850 
    2. https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2923984

  3. 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.