Merge pull request #264612 from AbhishekMallick-MS/Jan-30-2024-SAPOS

SAP HANA backup OS update - RHEL 9.2

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articles/backup/sap-hana-backup-support-matrix.md

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 title: SAP HANA Backup support matrix
 description: In this article, learn about the supported scenarios and limitations when you use Azure Backup to back up SAP HANA databases on Azure VMs.
 ms.topic: conceptual
-ms.date: 12/06/2023
+ms.date: 01/30/2024
 ms.custom: references_regions 
 ms.service: backup
 author: AbhishekMallick-MS
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 | -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
 | **Topology**               | SAP HANA running in Azure Linux  VMs only                    | HANA Large Instances (HLI)                                   |
 | **Regions**                   | **Americas** – Central US, East US 2, East US, North Central US, South Central US, West US 2, West US 3, West Central US, West US, Canada Central, Canada East, Brazil South <br> **Asia Pacific** – Australia Central, Australia Central 2, Australia East, Australia Southeast, Japan East, Japan West, Korea Central, Korea South, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central India, South India, West India, China East, China East 2, China East 3, China North, China North 2, China North 3 <br> **Europe** – West Europe, North Europe, France Central, UK South, UK West, Germany North, Germany West Central, Switzerland North, Switzerland West, Central Switzerland North, Norway East, Norway West, Sweden Central, Sweden South <br> **Africa / ME** - South Africa North, South Africa West, UAE North, UAE Central  <BR>  **Azure Government regions** | France South, Germany Central, Germany Northeast, US Gov IOWA |
-| **OS versions**            | SLES 12 with SP2, SP3, SP4 and SP5; SLES 15 with SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, and SP5 <br><br>  RHEL 7.4, 7.6, 7.7, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, and 9.0.               |                                             |
+| **OS versions**            | SLES 12 with SP2, SP3, SP4 and SP5; SLES 15 with SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, and SP5 <br><br>  RHEL 7.4, 7.6, 7.7, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 8.8, 9.0, and 9.2.               |                                             |
 | **HANA versions**          | SDC on HANA 1.x, MDC on HANA 2.x SPS 04, SPS 05 Rev <= 59, SPS 06 (validated for encryption enabled scenarios as well), and SPS 07.      |                                                            |
 | **Encryption** | SSLEnforce, HANA data encryption |            |
 | **HANA Instances**         | A single SAP HANA instance on a  single Azure VM – scale up only | Multiple SAP HANA instances on a  single VM. You can protect only one of these multiple instances at a time.                  |
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 | **Number of full backups per day**     |   One scheduled backup.  <br><br>   Three on-demand backups. <br><br> We recommend not to trigger more than three backups per day. However, to allow user retries in case of failed attempts, hard limit for on-demand backups is set to nine attempts.  |
 | **HANA deployments** | HANA System Replication (HSR) |           |
 | **Special configurations** |                                                              | SAP HANA + Dynamic Tiering <br>  Cloning through LaMa        |
+| **Compression** | You can enable HANA Native compression via the Backup policy. [See the SAP HANA document](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_PLATFORM/6b94445c94ae495c83a19646e7c3fd56/86943e9f8d5343c59577755edff8296b.html). |       |
+| **Multi-streaming backup** | You can increase your streaming backup throughput from *420 MBps* to *1.5 GBps*. [Learn more](#support-for-multistreaming-data-backups). |      |
 
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 - **VM configuration applicable for multistreaming**: To utilize the benefits of multistreaming, the VM needs to have a minimum configuration of *16 vCPUs* and *128 GB* of RAM.
 - **Limiting factors**: Throughput of *total disk LVM striping* and *VM network*, whichever hits first. 
 
-Learn more about [SAP HANA Azure Virtual Machine storage](/azure/sap/workloads/hana-vm-operations-storage) and [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine Premium SSD storage configurations](/azure/sap/workloads/hana-vm-premium-ssd-v1) configurations.
+Learn more about [SAP HANA Azure Virtual Machine storage](/azure/sap/workloads/hana-vm-operations-storage) and [SAP HANA Azure virtual machine Premium SSD storage configurations](/azure/sap/workloads/hana-vm-premium-ssd-v1) configurations. To configure multistreaming data backups, see the [SAP documentation](https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_PLATFORM/6b94445c94ae495c83a19646e7c3fd56/18db704959a24809be8d01cc0a409681.html).