SAP and ARM CPU Platform (Aarch64, ARM64, ARMv8, Apple Silicon, AWS Graviton)

[Cyclenerd]

Hi,

the ARM CPU platform is becoming more and more mainstream. Our mobile phones are using the ARM CPUs for a long time now. More and more servers and notebooks are also getting the CPU platform. Apple is now even using ARM. Soon there will be MacBooks with a ARM CPUs.

My question is: What is SAP's strategy for this topic?

Currently you are looking for people to help you port HANA to ARMv8. Is support also planned for other software products (SAP NetWeaver, SAP S/4, ...)?

To give a few actual examples from the point of view of a Basis-Admin or developer:

• SAP Router (niping)
• RFC SDK
• CLI for SAP Cloud Platform (sapcp CLI)
• Cloud Connector
• SAP JVM (SapMachine)

Many people will probably need this software soon for macOS and Linux on ARM.

Can you please publish or link more information about this. I can't find anything about it.

Best regards
Nils

[prakashkannan]

Hi Prasenjith,

Could you help me to instal SAP GUI in M1?

[prakashkannan]

Hi,

No I have checked , They said not possible and told to check with the software developer.

[Cyclenerd]

Not everything is AMD64 (aka x64). I personally have also supported SAP systems with PowerPC and IA64 CPUs. SAP supports a variety of CPU architectures and operating systems. So the question is still: Will SAP also support ARM?

Your answer describes the actual state. Many know this. Maybe that's why you got the downvotes.

[jrg_hirschi]

Hi everybody

i am also stuck with our Macbook Pro M1 machines as we see the following ->

- migration from Intel to M1 Macbook Pro, installed SAP Gui java transfered > works
- trying to install for the first time on a M1 machine or installing a later version does not work

first of all, the suffix of the installer must be in small letters .jar and not .JAR otherwise the installer will not even start.

once this is changed nothing happens except an icon "java" showing up in the Dock and dothing nothing.

so whats the official word how to install 7.50rev12 of Java Gui on a Mac with M1 processor?
thanks

Jürg

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[Cyclenerd]

SAP is planning to support Apple Silicon/M1 with SapMachine 17, due in September 2021. Source:

https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/issues/810#issuecomment-833612328

[nice2mitja]

Hi Nils,

thanks for raising the question. I would like to answer specifically your request concerning SapMachine. Currently we only have a "beta" release of SapMachine for aarch64. Check the release section on GitHub:

https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/releases

E.g. for Java 11: https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/releases/download/sapmachine-11.0.10/sapmachine-jdk-11.0.10-beta_l...

If and when aarch64 becomes an officially supported platform of SapMachine is still an ongoing discussion. Unfortunately, I don't know yet when a final decision will be taken and I'm not in a position to share information about SAP's overall strategy. Your request, however, helps us to better understand the demand and I will refer to it in our ongoing discussions.

See also my reply to your question on GitHub:

https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine/issues/810

Best regards,

Mitja

[prakashkannan]

Hi nils,

Do SAP support in the NEW MACBOOK M1 processors?

Looking forward for your support. Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Prakash Kannan

[Cyclenerd]

No. That's why I asked this question.

[prakashkannan]

Hi Prasenjith,

Could you help me to instal SAP GUI in M1?

[Former Member]

I have an old Intel based Mac Book.... But you can reach out to Apple Genius Bar at nearest Apple outlet and they will help you.

With the Rosetta emulator any x86 application should be working on the ARM M1 based new macbook.

[RMW]

Regarding SAP GUI for Java on Apple Silicon, see this blog.

[jeff_albion]

Hello,

The 2.14.18 HANA Client has now been released.

With this release, there is support for Linux ARM64 for all drivers, and macOS ARM64 support for the @sap/hana-client Node.js driver (now on npm).

Best regards,

Jeff

[dmcardlenl]

Tried it. Works. hdbsetup complains about some Wx.so library though.