Discover SAP-certified operating systems for Azure Virtual Machines
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
- 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:
- SAP Note #2243692 - Linux on Microsoft Azure (IaaS) virtual machine SAP license issues
- SAP Note #2513384 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications on Azure
- SAP Note #2694118 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux HA Add-On on Azure
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.