T-Systems and Suse: Push for Hana Linux deployment

This is the conclusion reached at T-Systems, one of the largest SAP hosting providers and hyperscalers in the world and a successful player in the multicloud scene with more than 4,000 specialists in this IT work area, which supports around seven million SAP users.

This is based on the provision of Hana databases with a total database volume of around 800 TB. The largest of these, which runs on behalf of the customer, is around 36 TB.

In addition, there is operational provisioning or operational responsibility for Hana-based SAP application systems such as S/4.

Special team

Suse Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications (SLES for SAP) is used as the operating system. The partnership between Suse and T-Systems goes far beyond simply providing the market-leading Hana Linux operating system.

T-Systems is committed to the "Near Zero Downtime" or "Zero Outage (Program)" approach and also uses Suse technologies that best and ideally support this credo.

The ultimate aim is to provide SAP customers with high-quality services from T-Systems' large data centers with the highest possible high availability or, conversely, the lowest possible downtime (planned and unplanned).

On the Suse side, there is a dedicated account team that supports T-Systems in the operation of the SAP landscapes (Hana and Hana-based application systems).

In this context, Suse T-Systems helps to realize the goal of "zero unexpected downtime". Furthermore, the focus is on reducing planned maintenance work to a minimum wherever possible.

Various Suse technologies and options from SLES for SAP are used, including High Availability Extension, Hana HA Resource Agents, Workload Memory Protection and Live Patching, saptune/sapconf and more. All of these are designed to sustainably optimize the use of Hana.

According to T-Systems, "based on SLES for SAP, we operate the world's largest Hana system with more than 36 TB as a single Hana system. And with the same reliability as a traditional database.

That makes us proud. Our customers benefit from the reliability, also from a business perspective, thanks to reliable round-the-clock operation.

Suse today and tomorrow

The well-known service provider and also long-standing SAP partner emphasizes another aspect that concerns the future from the customer's point of view, in which increasing agility and increased business speed dominate.

The aim is to provide customers with a cloud basis on which they can roll out applications according to their requirements, closely interlinked with running SAP systems.

And all this without inconvenient latency times, but with high reliability - combined with the reference to the use of Suse technologies beyond SLES for SAP.