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1. Not all possible deployment scenarios are supported on Azure. Therefore, you should check the document [SAP workload on Azure virtual machine supported scenarios](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/sap-planning-supported-configurations) for the scenario you have in mind with your SAP HANA deployment. If the scenario is not listed, you need to assume that it has not been tested and, as a result, is not supported
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2. Assuming that you have a rough idea on your memory requirement for your SAP HANA deployment, you need to find a fitting Azure VM. Not all the VMs that are certified for SAP NetWeaver, as documented in [SAP support note #1928533](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1928533), are SAP HANA certified. The source of truth for SAP HANA certified Azure VMs is the website [SAP HANA hardware directory](https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure). The units starting with **S** are [HANA Large Instances](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-overview-architecture) units and not Azure VMs.
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3. Different Azure VM types have different minimum operating system releases for SUESE Linux or Red Hat Linux. On the website [SAP HANA hardware directory](https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure), you need to click on an entry in the list of SAP HANA certified units to get detailed data of this unit. Besides the supported HANA workload, the OS releases that are supported with those units for SAP HANA are listed
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3. Different Azure VM types have different minimum operating system releases for SUSE Linux or Red Hat Linux. On the website [SAP HANA hardware directory](https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure), you need to click on an entry in the list of SAP HANA certified units to get detailed data of this unit. Besides the supported HANA workload, the OS releases that are supported with those units for SAP HANA are listed
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4. As of operating system releases, you need to consider certain minimum kernel releases. These minimum releases are documented in these SAP support notes:
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- [SAP support note #2814271 SAP HANA Backup fails on Azure with Checksum Error](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2814271)
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- [SAP support note #2753418 Potential Performance Degradation Due to Timer Fallback](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2753418)
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## Step-by-step VM deployment and guest OS considerations
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In this phase, you need to go through the steps deploying the VM(s) to install HANA and eventually optimize the chosen operating system after the installation.
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1. Chose the base image out of the Azure gallery. If you want to build your own operating system image for SAP HANA, you need too know all the different packages that are necessary for a successful SAP HANA installation. Otherwise it is recommended using the SUSE and Red Hat images for SAP or SAP HANA out of the Azure image gallery. These images include the packages necessary for a successful HANA installation. Based on your support contract with the operating system provider, you need to choose an image where you bring your own license. Or you choose an OS image that includes support
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2. If you chose a guest OS image that requires you bringing your on licenses, you need to register the OS image with your subscription, so, that you can download and apply the latest patches. This step is going to require public internet access. Unless you set up your private instance of, for example, an SMT server in Azure.
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1. Chose the base image out of the Azure gallery. If you want to build your own operating system image for SAP HANA, you need to know all the different packages that are necessary for a successful SAP HANA installation. Otherwise it is recommended using the SUSE and Red Hat images for SAP or SAP HANA out of the Azure image gallery. These images include the packages necessary for a successful HANA installation. Based on your support contract with the operating system provider, you need to choose an image where you bring your own license. Or you choose an OS image that includes support
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2. If you chose a guest OS image that requires you bringing your own license, you need to register the OS image with your subscription, so, that you can download and apply the latest patches. This step is going to require public internet access. Unless you set up your private instance of, for example, an SMT server in Azure.
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3. Decide the network configuration of the VM. You can read more information in the document [SAP HANA infrastructure configurations and operations on Azure](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations). Keep in mind that there are no network throughput quotas you can assign to virtual network cards in Azure. As a result, the only purpose of directing traffic through different vNICs is based on security considerations. We trust you to find a supportable compromise between complexity of traffic routing through multiple vNICs and the requirements enforced by security aspects.
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3. Apply the latest patches to the operating system once the VM is deployed and registered. Registered either with your own subscription. Or in case you chose an image that includes operating system support the VM should have access to the patches already.
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4. Apply the tunes necessary for SAP HANA. These tunes are listed in these SAP support notes:
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- [SAP support note #2455582 - Linux: Running SAP applications compiled with GCC 6.x](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0002455582)
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- [SAP support note #2382421 - Optimizing the Network Configuration on HANA- and OS-Level](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2382421)
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1. Select the Azure storage type for SAP HANA. In this step, you need to decide on storage layout for SAP HANA installation. You are going to use either attached Azure disks or native Azure NFS shares. The Azure storage types that or supported and combinations of different Azure storage types that can be used, are documented in [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations-storage). Take the configurations documented as starting point. For non-production systems, you might be able to configure lower though or IOPS. For production purposes, you might need to configure a bit more throughput and IOPS.
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1. Select the Azure storage type for SAP HANA. In this step, you need to decide on storage layout for SAP HANA installation. You are going to use either attached Azure disks or native Azure NFS shares. The Azure storage types that or supported and combinations of different Azure storage types that can be used, are documented in [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations-storage). Take the configurations documented as starting point. For non-production systems, you might be able to configure lower throughput or IOPS. For production purposes, you might need to configure a bit more throughput and IOPS.
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2. Make sure that you configured [Azure Write Accelerator](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/virtual-machines/linux/how-to-enable-write-accelerator) for your volumes that contain the DBMS transaction logs or redo logs when you are using M-Series or Mv2-Series VMs. Be aware of the limitations for Write Accelerator as documented.
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2. Check whether [Azure Accelerated Networking](https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/maximize-your-vm-s-performance-with-accelerated-networking-now-generally-available-for-both-windows-and-linux/) is enabled on the VM(s) deployed.
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> [!NOTE]
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> Not all the commands in the different sap-tune profiles or as described in the notes might run successfully on Azure. Commands that would manipulate the power mode of VMs usually return with an error since the power mode of the underlying Azure host hardware can not be manipulated.
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## Step by step preparations specific to Azure virtual machines
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## Step-by-step preparations specific to Azure virtual machines
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One of the Azure specifics is the installation of an Azure VM extension that delivers monitoring data for the SAP Host Agent. The details about the installation of this monitoring extension are documented in:
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-[SAP Note 2191498](https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2191498/E) discusses SAP enhanced monitoring with Linux VMs on Azure
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