Different Azure VM types have different minimum operating system releases for SUSE Linux or Red Hat Linux.The units starting with S are HANA Large Instances units and not Azure VMs. The source of truth for SAP HANA certified Azure VMs is the website SAP HANA hardware directory. Not all the VMs that are certified for SAP NetWeaver, as documented in SAP support note #1928533, are SAP HANA certified. Assuming that you have a rough idea on your memory requirement for your SAP HANA deployment, you need to find a fitting Azure VM.If the scenario is not listed, you need to assume that it has not been tested and, as a result, is not supported Therefore, you should check the document SAP workload on Azure virtual machine supported scenarios for the scenario you have in mind with your SAP HANA deployment. Not all possible deployment scenarios are supported on Azure.The order is enumerated and as such should be followed through as enumerated: In this section, the different steps are listed that you need to perform before starting with the installation of SAP HANA in an Azure virtual machine. High availability concepts for SAP HANA as documented in SAP HANA high availability for Azure virtual machines.See Azure Virtual Machines deployment for SAP Deployment principles and ways to deploy VMs in Azure.See SAP NetWeaver on Azure Virtual Machines - Planning and implementation guide Planning for SAP deployment on Azure, which includes Azure Virtual Network planning and Azure Storage usage.The concepts and procedures documented in:.
For information on how to deploy SAP HANA into HANA large instances, see How to install and configure SAP HANA (Large Instances) on Azure. This guide describes deployments of SAP HANA into Azure VMs.