SAP on Linux under Hyper-V : plans?

[#1]

We are aware of the statements in SAP note 1122387 on the support status for SAP on Linux under Hyper-V (and also aware that on Azure the situation is different – there Linux guests are supported):

• Unsupported virtualization products for SAP on Linux environments
• Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
• Virtual Iron
• SUN/innotek VirtualBox
• Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual PC, Virtual Server
• Linux Containers (LXC, Docker etc)
• and all others

Does SAP (at some point in time) plan to support SAP on Linux under Hyper-V (since “Linux-without-SAP” is today possible under Hyper-V)?

We don’t consider such deployment on short term – and anyway we will aim only for officially supported configurations .But we are investigating to reduce the number of hypervisor platforms and today this would mean that we would have to migrate systems to Windows if Hyper-V would be selected.

Such migration would incur a high migration effort and cost – something we prefer to avoid.

But mid- / long-term : does SAP consider supporting SAP on Linux under Hyper-V?

Is there demand/pressure from customers (a.k.a. “the market”) to look into this?

[Former Member]

Hello Goran,

Thank you for following up and explaining the current strategy for this specific scenario.

I'll take your answer forward in our organization so we can discuss this before deciding on next steps, strategy, etc.

Kind regards,

Frank