90% of SAP HANA deployments and 70% of SAP NetWeaver Applications run on SUSE. Increase uptime, security and performance of SAP systems, while reducing sysadmin workload.

This image has a number of security settings pre-applied. The applied setting are listed in the pcs-hardening-sap.profile

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP Applications is the leading Linux platform for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver solutions on Linux with built-in features to reduce downtime, enhance security, optimize performance, and reduce the maintenance workload of sys admins. SAP trusts SLES as a reference development platform and for its internal operations, along with over 30,000 SAP customers. SUSE-developed innovations in this product include:

• A full High Availability / Disaster Recovery solution
• Scurity settings applied according to the Compliance As Code project pcs-hardening-sap.profile
• SAP HANA System Replication automation agents
• SAP HANA Firewall with automated setup
• A KMIP-compliant key server for remote storage
• SAP configuration and tuning packages
• Automated configuration and installation of SAP HANA clusters
• A clustered SAP HANA software automated update wizard (tech preview)

This is a "Pay as You Go" subscription of SLES for SAP Applications, which includes 24 x 7 Integrated Support from Microsoft and SUSE.