Hana Enterprise Cloud with Suse SLES and SLES HAE

Specifically, the solutions from Suse are used in the Hana Enterprise Cloud (in addition to other SAP cloud solution services). SLES for SAP Applications and SLES Linux High Availability Extension run on around 6,600 servers with over 12,000 CPUs and around 16,000 virtual machines.

But that's not all. SAP runs around 100,000 virtual machines in 50 data centers for internal and external workloads. The majority of these servers run Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

According to SAP, it has its sights set on further standardizing its entire IT environment. The goal here is to reduce operating costs by increasing the degree of automation in the operational processes, while at the same time increasing the number of virtual systems.

With the SAP HEC OpenStack solution used to date, Suse has long proven itself as the ideal platform for mission-critical deployment, as well as for the overall SAP cloud strategy.

SAP is thus able to benefit from an open, robust and highly flexible operating system platform that ideally supports or participates in SAP's business expansion in cloud computing.

Faster Hana development

Incidentally, SAP also relies on SLES for SAP Applications to develop, build, and test SAP applications. Furthermore, with Suse support, the SAP Linux Lab was able to develop a reliable reference architecture for SAP Hana more quickly.

In addition, Hana Automated System Replication is based on the Suse High Availability Extension (HAE) and is part of the SLES for SAP Applications platform.

Suse technologies help SAP to provide extremely high high availability on the HEC platform. According to SAP's experience, this is 99.999 percent.

In addition, SAP is able to patch servers faster, with lower downtimes. Which in turn means that the uptime for users has increased.

By using Suse Enterprise Live Patching, SAP promises to get a lot closer to "Towards Zero Downtime" as part of an ongoing initiative.