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.

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
• 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.

This image supports both AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX. This is a special release image, and will not be updated according to the SUSE Lifecycle; it is recommended that any running instance be regularly updated via zypper.