Virtualization For SAP HANA DATA BASE

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Hello everyone,

We are planning an on-premises SAP HANA deployment and are evaluating KVM-based virtualization platforms for the host. The guest operating system will be SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, running the SAP HANA database.

We are considering the following hypervisors:

1. Ubuntu Server with KVM/QEMU
2. Rocky Linux with KVM/QEMU
3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
4. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
5. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with KVM (including SUSE Harvester)
6. Proxmox Virtual Environment

My questions:

1. Which of these platforms are officially certified and supported by SAP for production SAP HANA deployments? Since they are all KVM-based, does SAP support depend on the specific hypervisor distribution and vendor, or on KVM itself?
2. Can SAP HANA run on a SLES for SAP guest hosted on Ubuntu KVM or Rocky Linux KVM and still be fully supported by SAP for production use?
   
   Thank you

[mamartins]

Virtualized instances of SAP HANA are only supported on VMware vSphere ESXi, Nutanix AHV, Red Hat Virtualization KVM and SUSE Linux Enterprise hypervisors. More info:

•  https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/#/solutions?filters=v:deCertified 
• 1788665 - SAP HANA Support for virtualized / partitioned (multi-tenant) environments - SAP for Me