SAP on Google Cloud release notes

This page contains announcements that are important to users of SAP on Google Cloud, including:

• SAP certifications of Google Cloud products and services
• Releases, updates, or deprecations of the Google Cloud products, services, and support that are used with SAP on Google Cloud
• Relevant known issues and bug fixes

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December 09, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: 24 TB and 32TB X4 bare metal machine types for OLAP workloads

SAP has certified the Compute Engine x4-megamem-1440-metal and x4-megamem-1920-metal machine types for use with SAP HANA OLAP workloads in scale-out configurations with up to 8 nodes.

For more information, see X4 memory-optimized bare metal machine types.

October 29, 2024

BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.8

Version 2.8 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP is generally available (GA). This version offers several enhancements and bug fixes, including the record compression option at field level, a transaction to view the version of BigQuery Connector for SAP, and an enhancement spot for HTTP error handling.

For more information, see What's new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

October 14, 2024

New SAP certification for operating system: SLES 15 SP6 for SAP

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP6 for SAP.

For more information, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

October 09, 2024

SAP HANA: support for deploying striped disk to host the data directory

To enable you to deploy striped disks for hosting the /hana/data directory, we have done the following:

• Updated our documentation with the minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes.

  For more information, see Minimum sizes for SSD-based persistent disks and Hyperdisks in the SAP HANA planning guide.

• Introduced deployment automation support through the enable_data_striping Terraform argument. You can use this argument to provision a striped disk to host the /hana/data directory while deploying SAP HANA scale-up, scale-up HA, and scale-out HA systems with Terraform.

  This argument is available from version 1.3.674800406 of the Terraform modules sap_hana and sap_hana_ha, provided by Google Cloud. For more information, see the deployment guide for your SAP HANA scenario.

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.6

Version 3.6 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces striped disk support for SAP HANA backup and recovery by using the disk snapshot feature, metric enhancements for monitoring SAP HANA, and other minor enhancements.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

September 23, 2024

New SAP HANA certifications: X4 bare metal machine types for OLTP workloads

SAP has certified the Compute Engine bare metal machine types x4-megamem-960-metal, x4-megamem-1440-metal, and x4-megamem-1920-metal, for use with SAP HANA OLTP workloads in scale-out configurations with up to 4 nodes.

For more information, see X4 memory-optimized bare metal machine types.

Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes version 2.8

Version 2.8 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is generally available (GA). This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the storage manager, see Storage Manager for SAP HANA.

September 13, 2024

Support for version 1 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP has ended

Version 1 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP has reached the end of support.

If you're using version 1 of the agent, then we strongly recommend that you update to using a supported version as soon as possible. For information about supported versions, see Supported versions for SAP on Google Cloud. For information about how to update to a supported version of the agent, see Update Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

September 10, 2024

New SAP certification for operating system

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 8.10.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

September 09, 2024

ABAP SDK for Google Cloud version 1.8 (On-premises or any cloud edition)

Version 1.8 of the on-premises or any cloud edition of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). This version introduces the Vertex AI SDK for ABAP, a dedicated toolset for seamless interaction with Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform from SAP environment.

The SDK lets you build AI-powered enterprise features and applications with reduced complexity and development efforts from within your SAP systems.

For more information, see:

• What's new with the on-premises or any cloud edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud
• Overview of the Vertex AI SDK for ABAP

August 16, 2024

New SAP certifications: C4 series of general-purpose machine types

For use with SAP HANA scale-up (OLAP and OLTP) and SAP NetWeaver workloads, SAP has certified the Compute Engine C4 series of general-purpose machine types.

For more information, see the following:

• C4 general-purpose VM types, for SAP HANA.
• Certified machine types for SAP applications

August 15, 2024

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.5

Version 3.5 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces enhancements to support Workload Manager's observability service for SAP, metric enhancements, and some minor fixes.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

July 18, 2024

New SAP certifications: C3 bare metal machine types

SAP has certified the following Compute Engine bare metal machine types:

• c3-highmem-192-metal for use with SAP HANA OLAP and OLTP workloads.
• c3-standard-192-metal and c3-highmem-192-metal for use with SAP NetWeaver workloads.

For more information, see the following:

• Bare metal machine types for SAP HANA
• Certifications for SAP applications on Google Cloud
• C3 machine series

July 16, 2024

New SAP certification for operating systems

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 9.4.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

July 08, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: 16 TB X4 bare metal machine type for OLAP workloads

SAP has certified the Compute Engine 16 TB x4-megamem-960-metal machine type for use with SAP HANA OLAP workloads in scale-out configurations with up to 8 nodes.

For more information, see X4 memory-optimized bare metal machine types.

June 27, 2024

New SAP certification: 16 TB X4 bare metal machine type

The Compute Engine memory-optimized bare metal machine type x4-megamem-960-metal is generally available (GA) and certified by SAP for use with SAP HANA scale-up (OLAP and OLTP) and SAP NetWeaver workloads.

For more information, see:

• Bare metal machine types for SAP HANA
• Certified machine types for SAP applications

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.4

Version 3.4 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces a workload performance diagnostic tool, and enhancements to the Backint and disk snapshot features.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

June 03, 2024

New SAP certifications: X4 series of memory-optimized bare metal machine types

For use with SAP HANA scale-up (OLAP and OLTP) and SAP NetWeaver workloads, SAP has certified the following Compute Engine memory-optimized bare metal machine types: x4-megamem-1440-metal and x4-megamem-1920-metal.

For more information, see:

• Bare metal machine types for SAP HANA
• Certified machine types for SAP applications
• X4 machine series

May 27, 2024

ABAP SDK for Google Cloud version 1.7 (On-premises or any cloud edition)

Version 1.7 of the on-premises or any cloud edition of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). This version brings in expanded support for more Google Cloud APIs, authentication improvements for Cloud Functions, SDK feature enhancements, and bug fixes.

For more information, see What's new with the on-premises or any cloud edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

May 23, 2024

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.3

Version 3.3 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces enhancements to back up SAP HANA while using the agent's Backint and disk snapshot features. It also introduces support for using hdbuserstore keys to authenticate SAP HANA users.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

May 22, 2024

Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes version 2.7

Version 2.7 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is generally available (GA). This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the storage manager, see Storage Manager for SAP HANA.

May 10, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Balanced usage with M1 machine types

For use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the usage of Hyperdisk Balanced with the M1 series of memory-optimized machine types.

For more information, see:

• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• The "Hyperdisk Balanced" tab in Minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes

April 17, 2024

BigQuery Connector for SAP version v2.7

Version 2.7 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP is generally available (GA). This version extends support for using the SAP SLT add-on DMIS 2018 SP 11.

For more information, see What's new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

April 16, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Balanced usage with M2 machine types

For use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the usage of Hyperdisk Balanced with the M2 series of memory-optimized machine types.

For more information, see:

• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• The "Hyperdisk Balanced" tab in Minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes

April 05, 2024

SAP BTP edition of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud

Version 1.0 of the SAP BTP edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). With the BTP edition of the SDK, developers can create innovative solutions using Google Cloud APIs in their SAP BTP, ABAP environment.

For more information, see:

• What's new with the SAP BTP edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud
• Overview of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

April 03, 2024

BigQuery Connector for SAP version v2.6

Version 2.6 of the BigQuery Connector for SAP is generally available (GA). This version offers several enhancements and bug fixes, including the addition of the Create Table tool, the Mass Field Conversion tool, a custom transaction designed to only display the BigQuery Connector for SAP settings, and support for replicating cluster tables to BigQuery.

For more information, see What's new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

April 02, 2024

ABAP SDK for Google Cloud version 1.6 (On-premises or any cloud edition)

Version 1.6 of the on-premises or any cloud edition of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). This version brings in expanded support for more Google Cloud APIs, including support for multi-modal LLMs such as Gemini, SDK feature enhancements, and bug fixes.

For more information, see What's new with the on-premises or any cloud edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

April 01, 2024

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.2

Version 3.2 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces the default collection of Workload Manager evaluation metrics for new agent installations, configuration commands for updating the agent configuration, and enhancements to the Backint, disk snapshot, and Process Monitoring features.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

March 11, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Balanced usage with C3 machine types

For use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified using Hyperdisk Balanced with c3-standard-44, and c3-highmem machine types with 44 vCPUs or more.

For more information, see:

• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• The "Hyperdisk Balanced" tab in Minimum sizes for SSD-based Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk volumes

March 06, 2024

Generally available: Guided Deployment Automation in Workload Manager for SAP

The Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager is generally available (GA). You can use this tool to configure and deploy supported SAP workloads directly from the Google Cloud console, or choose to generate and download the equivalent Terraform and Ansible code.

The GA launch adds support for custom OS images, Shared VPC configurations, and increased deployment customization.

For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.

February 28, 2024

Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA

From version 3.0, you can use the disk snapshot feature of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to perform backup and recovery operations for SAP HANA systems running on Google Cloud.

For more information, see Disk snapshot based backup and recovery for SAP HANA.

February 14, 2024

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.1

Version 3.1 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces enhancements for discovering SAP system information and for the Backint feature of the agent.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

January 29, 2024

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Balanced usage with M3 machine types

For running SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified using Hyperdisk Balanced with M3 machine types.

For more information, see:

• About Hyperdisks
• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• The Hyperdisk Balanced sizes tab in Minimum sizes for SSD-based persistent disks and Hyperdisks

January 11, 2024

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 3.0

Version 3.0 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces the following:

• The optional feature – Backint based backup and recovery for SAP HANA. Once you enable this feature, the agent becomes the successor to the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA.
• Improvement for the collection of Workload Manager evaluation metrics.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

The Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is deprecated, and is replaced by the Backint feature of version 3.0 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. For upgrade instructions, see Google Cloud's Agent for SAP operations guide.

Support for the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA ends on February 28, 2025.

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.33

Version 1.0.33 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version adds a message to the installation and update process that users should upgrade to the Agent for SAP.

For upgrade instructions, see Google Cloud's Agent for SAP operations guide.

December 19, 2023

New SAP certification for operating systems

For use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 9.2.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see Certified operating systems for SAP HANA.

November 27, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.8

Version 2.8 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). From this version, the agent additionally collects the SAP Host Agent metrics Guaranteed IOPS and Guaranteed Throughput for Google Cloud Hyperdisk volumes.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

November 20, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.32

Version 1.0.32 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version updates the JRE to the latest SAP JRE 21.0.1.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 13, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.7

Version 2.7 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version fixes the handling of SAP HANA database passwords that contain special characters, and introduces Process Monitoring metrics related to TCP network.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

October 30, 2023

Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes version 2.6

Version 2.6 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is generally available (GA). This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the storage manager, see Storage Manager for SAP HANA.

October 25, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.31

Version 1.0.31 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version fixes client libraries to enable Cloud Logging capabilities.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

October 18, 2023

New SAP NetWeaver certification: C3D series of general-purpose machine types

For use with SAP NetWeaver, SAP has certified the Compute Engine general-purpose machine types c3d-standard and c3d-highmem.

For more information, see Certified C3D machine types for SAP NetWeaver.

October 12, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.30

Version 1.0.30 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version reverts the google-cloud-storage client library to an earlier version so that API call retries work correctly.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

October 04, 2023

ABAP SDK for Google Cloud version 1.5 (On-premises or any cloud edition)

Version 1.5 of the on-premises or any cloud edition of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). This version of the SDK offers extended ABAP client libraries to build and deploy ML and AI-driven solutions using a wide range of Google Cloud services.

This SDK also enables use of the OAuth 2.0 framework to authenticate to Google Cloud APIs using OAuth 2.0 client credentials.

For more information, see What's new with the on-premises or any cloud edition of ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

October 02, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.29

Version 1.0.29 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version sets the default value of the HTTP_READ_TIMEOUT parameter to -1; no timeout.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

September 28, 2023

SAP HANA Fast Restart enabled using Terraform

SAP HANA Fast Restart is enabled when you deploy SAP HANA on Google Cloud using the sap_hana or sap_hana_ha Terraform module, version 202309280828 or later. The fast restart option is enabled through the enable_fast_restart Terraform argument, which by default is set to true.

For more information, see the deployment guide for your SAP HANA scenario.

September 21, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.6

Version 2.6 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces new options to configure the collection of Process monitoring metrics, and bug fixes for the collection of Workload Manager evaluation metrics.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

September 11, 2023

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Extreme usage with N2 machine types

For running SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified using Hyperdisk Extreme with N2 machine types that have 80 vCPUs or more.

For more information, see:

• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• The Hyperdisk Extreme sizes tab in Minimum sizes for SSD-based persistent disks and Hyperdisks

New OS certifications for SAP HANA

For use with SAP HANA on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the following operating systems:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8 for SAP
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP5 for SAP

For more information, see Certified operating systems for SAP HANA.

September 06, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.28

Version 1.0.28 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version includes a new HTTP_READ_TIMEOUT parameter.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

August 18, 2023

New SAP NetWeaver certification: N1 machine types on the Intel Skylake platform

For use with SAP NetWeaver, SAP has certified the Compute Engine N1 machine types that have 64 vCPUs or lower, with the Intel Skylake CPU platform.

For more information, see N1 general-purpose machine types.

August 16, 2023

PD Async Replication support

For cross-region active-passive disaster recovery for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver, Persistent Disk Asynchronous Replication (PD Async Replication) is supported. You can use PD Async Replication with balanced persistent disks and SSD persistent disks up to a maximum size of 2 TB per volume in supported region pairs.

For more information, see:

• SAP HANA: Persistent disk storage
• SAP NetWeaver: Persistent disk storage

August 14, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.5

Version 2.5 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces the collection of SAP HANA database metrics for Workload Manager evaluation and includes bug fixes for the collection of Process monitoring metrics.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

August 09, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.27

Version 1.0.27 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version includes updated libraries.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

August 07, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.4

Version 2.4 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version includes bug fixes for the collection of Workload Manager Corosync evaluation metrics.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

August 02, 2023

New SAP HANA certifications: C3 series of general-purpose machine types

For running SAP HANA OLAP and OLTP scale-up workloads, SAP has certified the Compute Engine general-purpose machine types c3-standard and c3-highmem.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

New SAP NetWeaver certifications: C3 series of general-purpose machine types

For use with SAP NetWeaver, SAP has certified the Compute Engine general-purpose machine types c3-standard and c3-highmem.

For more information, see Certified C3 machine types for SAP NetWeaver.

July 27, 2023

Terraform support for deploying SAP HANA scale-out HA cluster on SLES

You can use Terraform to automate the deployment of an SAP HANA scale-out system in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) high-availability cluster on Google Cloud.

For more information, see Terraform: SAP HANA scale-out high-availability cluster configuration guide.

July 21, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.3

Version 2.3 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version includes bug fixes for SAP system discovery sending data to Cloud Logging.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

July 17, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.1

Version 2.1 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces the SAP system discovery and support bundle collection features, and includes bug fixes.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

July 14, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is packaged with "for SAP" OS images

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is packaged with the following "for SAP" OS images provided by Google Cloud:

• RHEL: all "for SAP" images
• SLES: SLES 15 SP4 for SAP and later versions

For information about the operating systems supported by Google Cloud's Agent for SAP, see Supported operating systems.

July 11, 2023

Preview: Guided Deployment Automation in Workload Manager for SAP

The preview release of the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager is available. You can use this tool to configure and deploy SAP systems on Google Cloud.

The preview release includes initial support for the deployment of SAP S/4HANA in the distributed and distributed with high availability (HA) architectures.

For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.

July 06, 2023

Backup disk updates for SAP HANA deployment automation

While automating the deployment of SAP HANA scale-up systems on Google Cloud using Terraform, the following updates are available for hosting the /hanabackup volume on a disk:

• You can use the backup_disk_type argument to specify the type of Persistent Disk or Hyperdisk that must be deployed.
• For compatibility across all machine families, the default disk type has been changed from Standard HDD Persistent Disk to Balanced Persistent Disk.

These updates are available when you use the sap_hana and sap_hana_ha Terraform modules, version 202307061058 or later, provided by Google Cloud.

For more information, see the deployment guide for your SAP HANA scenario.

June 26, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.26

Version 1.0.26 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version includes updated libraries and bug fixes.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

June 12, 2023

IP address support for SAP HANA deployment automation

You can assign static IP addresses to your VM instances while automating the deployment of SAP HANA on Google Cloud using the following Terraform arguments:

• vm_static_ip, worker_static_ips, and standby_static_ips represent the master, worker, and standby nodes in a scale-out system.
• primary_static_ip and secondary_static_ip represent the primary and secondary instances in a scale-up system.

These arguments are available when you use the Terraform module version 202306120959 or later, provided by Google Cloud.

For more information, see the deployment guide for your SAP HANA scenario.

June 05, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.0

Version 2.0 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA). This version introduces the opt-in feature of collecting SAP HANA monitoring metrics, making Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 2.0 the successor to Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP HANA is deprecated, and is replaced by the SAP HANA monitoring metrics collection feature of version 2.0 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. For upgrade instructions, see Google Cloud's Agent for SAP operations guide.

Support for the monitoring agent for SAP HANA ends on May 31, 2024.

May 17, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.6

Version 1.6 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is available. This version includes bug fixes for Process Monitoring metrics collection and agent instances running on Bare Metal Solution servers.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

May 12, 2023

ABAP SDK for Google Cloud, version 1.0 is generally available (GA)

Version 1.0 of the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud is generally available (GA). The ABAP SDK for Google Cloud enables native, bi-directional, and real-time integration between SAP applications and Google Cloud services such as Google Cloud Storage, Vertex AI, Maps, and Pub/Sub.

Using the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud, ABAP developers can build and deploy ML and AI-driven solutions based on Google Cloud services driven by real-time changes in their SAP enterprise applications.

For more information, see What's new with the ABAP SDK for Google Cloud.

Compliance and sovereign controls for SAP on Google Cloud

SAP workloads can leverage Assured Workloads to meet compliance and sovereign control requirements such as data residency, access control, support personnel, or other regulatory requirements.

For more information, see Compliance and sovereign controls for SAP on Google Cloud.

May 03, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.5

Version 1.5 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is available. This version includes bug fixes for agent instances running on Linux machines.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

April 26, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.4

Version 1.4 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is available. This version includes bug fixes for Workload Manager evaluation and Process Monitoring metrics. This version also prevents changes in the Agent configuration file from being overwritten during updates.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

April 19, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.3

Version 1.3 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is now available. This version includes bug fixes for Workload Manager evaluation and Process Monitoring metrics. This version also redirects the agent's logs to Cloud Logging by default.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

April 11, 2023

Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SAP workloads

Workload Manager is a rule-based, cross-project validation service for evaluating workloads running on Google Cloud.

You can use Workload Manager to evaluate your SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workloads, and detect deviations from key best practices that SAP, OS vendors, and Google Cloud prescribe. This helps you improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your SAP workloads.

The set of rules provided will continue to evolve to cover new machine types and storage options as they become available, and extend SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver best practices as relevant for your SAP workloads.

For information about the best practices that Workload Manager supports for evaluating SAP workloads, see Best practices for SAP workloads.

April 10, 2023

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.25

Version 1.0.25 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is available. This version includes logging enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

Update from Red Hat for ASCS/ERS order constraints in ENSA2 and ENSA1

According to Red Hat's recently updated guidance for SAP NetWeaver high-availability clusters on RHEL, you now only need to use one order constraint to start the ASCS resource group and stop the ERS resource group. This applies to both ENSA2 and ENSA1 architectures.

Google Cloud recommends that you update your SAP NetWeaver systems to use a single order constraint at your earliest convenience to comply with Red Hat's recommendation. To align with this update, Google Cloud has revised its guidance to configure the location and ordering constraints for SAP NetWeaver high-availability clusters on RHEL.

For more information from Red Hat, see:

• Configuring SAP S/4HANA ASCS/ERS with Standalone Enqueue Server 2 (ENSA2) in Pacemaker
• Configuring SAP NetWeaver ASCS/ERS ENSA1 with Standalone Resources in RHEL 7.5+ and RHEL 8

April 06, 2023

New SAP certification for operating systems

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 9.0.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

March 28, 2023

Update from SUSE for the Python hook scripts in SAPHanaSR

According to SUSE's recently updated guidance, all Python hook scripts should be used directly from the SAPHanaSR package. If the scripts are moved or copied to another directory, then the regular SUSE package update will not keep those copies updated.

To align with this update from SUSE, make sure to use the scripts directly from the SAPHanaSR package location. Also, Google Cloud has done the following:

• Published the Terraform module version 202303280902 and Deployment Manager template version 202303280902, which use the hook scripts directly from the SAPHanaSR package.
• Updated the guidance to enable the SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook in the manual SAP HANA HA deployment guide for SLES.

For information from SUSE, see Setting up HANA HA/DR providers.

March 27, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.2

Version 1.2 of Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability enhancements.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

March 13, 2023

New SAP HANA certification: Hyperdisk Extreme

For use with SAP HANA, SAP has certified the Compute Engine disk — Hyperdisk Extreme.

Hyperdisks provide the fastest block storage for Compute Engine for your high-end, memory-intensive SAP HANA workloads. Hyperdisks are durable network storage devices that your VMs can access, similar to persistent disks. For more information, see:

• About Hyperdisks
• Disk storage for SAP HANA

SAP HANA: minimum sizes for persistent disks reduced

Baseline performance improvements for PD-SSD and PD-Balanced have allowed us to reduce the minimum PD size required for most Compute Engine VM types running SAP HANA. This enables you to optimize your SAP HANA workloads by reducing costs and releasing quota related to disk storage.

We have also updated our Terraform configurations for SAP HANA to use the reduced sizes.

For more information, see Minimum sizes for SSD-based persistent disks and Hyperdisks in the SAP HANA planning guide.

Disk related enhancements for automating SAP HANA deployments with Terraform

The Terraform configurations that Google Cloud provides for automating SAP HANA deployments support the following disk related enhancements:

• Using the argument disk_type, you can now specify the default disk type that you want to deploy for your SAP volumes. This argument also supports Hyperdisk Extreme.
• By default, all SAP volumes are now mounted on separate SSD-based persistent disks or Hyperdisks. Using the argument use_single_shared_data_log_disk, you can specify if you want to mount all SAP volumes on a single disk.
• For scale-up deployments, using the argument include_backup_disk, you can now specify if you want to deploy a disk for the SAP HANA backup volume.

These enhancements are available when you automate the deployment of SAP HANA on Google Cloud with Terraform configurations that use the module version 202303130717 or later.

For more information, see the deployment guide for your scenario.

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP version 1.1

Version 1.1 of Google Cloud's agent for SAP is available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

February 14, 2023

Google Cloud's Agent for SAP is generally available (GA)

To simplify agent installation and operation, while also enabling access to new products, Google Cloud's Agent for SAP v1.0 combines Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver with new Process Monitoring and Workload Manager Evaluation functionalities.

In addition to collecting and sending information required by SAP to the SAP Host Agent, on Linux, now you can opt in and enable other functionalities, all built into the same agent. The new optional functionalities include collection of Process Monitoring metrics, such as high-availability cluster status and information, and collection of Workload Manager Evaluation metrics, a way to automatically evaluate your workloads against best practices.

For more information, see What's new with Google Cloud's Agent for SAP.

Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is deprecated, and is replaced by Google Cloud's Agent for SAP. For information about new installations or how you can upgrade, see Google Cloud's Agent for SAP operations guide.

Support for the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver ends on February 14, 2024.

February 06, 2023

Network interface support for automating SAP HANA deployments

You can now specify if you want to use Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC) with your VM instance using the new argument nic_type. This argument is available when you automate the deployment of SAP HANA on Google Cloud using the following files:

• Terraform configurations using the module version 202302060649 or later
• Deployment Manager template versions 202302060649 or later

For more information, see the deployment guide for your SAP HANA scenario:

• Automating SAP deployments on Google Cloud with Terraform
• Automating SAP deployments on Google Cloud with Deployment Manager

January 09, 2023

Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.8

Version 2.8 of Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Google Cloud's monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver.

December 15, 2022

Enhancements to Bare Metal Solution resource management for SAP HANA

For Bare Metal Solution environments running SAP HANA, you can now view and manage your Bare Metal Solution servers, storage, and networks using the Google Cloud console, CLI, and API.

For more information, see Maintaining your Bare Metal Solution environment in the SAP HANA on Bare Metal Solution deployment guide.

December 14, 2022

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.24

Version 1.0.24 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes logging enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 30, 2022

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.23

Version 1.0.23 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes stability enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 22, 2022

Terraform configurations for SAP deployments on Google Cloud

Terraform configurations to automate the deployment of resources for running the following databases on Google Cloud are now generally available (GA):

• IBM Db2 for SAP on Linux
• SAP ASE on Linux

For more information, see Automating SAP deployments on Google Cloud with Terraform.

November 21, 2022

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.22

Version 1.0.22 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes enhanced validations for backint configuration and backup stability.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.7

Version 2.7 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud.

November 07, 2022

New SAP certifications: M3 series of memory-optimized machine types

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver, SAP has now certified the Compute Engine memory-optimized M3 series machine types.

For more information, see:

• Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA
• M3 memory-optimized machine types

October 25, 2022

New SAP certification for operating systems

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has now certified the operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for SAP 15 SP4 .

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

October 04, 2022

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA version 2.8

Version 2.8 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

September 26, 2022

BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.5

Version 2.5 of BigQuery Connector for SAP is now generally available (GA).

For more information, see What's new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

September 23, 2022

Terraform configuration for SAP NetWeaver high-availability cluster configuration on RHEL

Terraform configuration to automate the deployment of resources for SAP NetWeaver high-availability cluster configuration on RHEL, on Google Cloud, is now generally available (GA).

For more information, see Terraform: HA cluster configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL.

September 16, 2022

New SAP HANA certification: 9 TB m2-hypermem-416 VMs certified for OLTP workloads

SAP has certified the Compute Engine 9 TB m2-hypermem-416 machine type for SAP HANA OLTP workloads in scale-up or scale-out configurations with up to 4 nodes. SAP workload-based sizing methods must be used.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

August 29, 2022

New SAP certification for operating system

For use with SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud, SAP has now certified the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SAP 8.6.

For more information about SAP-certified operating systems, see:

• Certified operating systems for SAP HANA
• Certified operating systems for SAP NetWeaver

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA version 2.7

Version 2.7 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

August 24, 2022

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA version 2.6

Version 2.6 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.6

Version 2.6 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud.

August 23, 2022

Terraform configurations for SAP deployments on Google Cloud

Terraform configurations to automate the deployment of the following SAP solutions on Google Cloud are now generally available (GA):

• SAP HANA single-host scale-up or multi-host scale-out
• SAP HANA scale-out with host auto-failover
• SAP HANA scale-up in a Linux high-availability cluster
• SAP NetWeaver on RHEL or SLES
• SAP NetWeaver high-availability cluster configuration on SLES

For more information, see Automating SAP deployments on Google Cloud with Terraform.

August 16, 2022

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA version 2.5

Version 2.5 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

July 26, 2022

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.21

Version 1.0.21 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes enhancements for backup stability and performance.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

July 14, 2022

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.5

Version 2.5 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud.

July 07, 2022

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.20

Version 1.0.20 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes backup stability and logging enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

June 15, 2022

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.4

Version 2.4 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud.

June 06, 2022

BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.1

Version 2.1 of BigQuery Connector for SAP is now available. For more information, see What's new with BigQuery Connector for SAP.

June 01, 2022

Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes version 2.5

Version 2.5 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the storage manager, see Storage Manager for SAP HANA.

May 30, 2022

Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management version 2.3.2

Version 2.3.2 of the Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the connector, see Connector for SAP Landscape Management planning guide.

Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.18

Version 1.0.18 of the Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes supportability improvements and backup stability enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

May 24, 2022

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver version 2.3

Version 2.3 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud.

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA version 2.4

Version 2.4 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements.

For more information about the agent, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

May 06, 2022

Extreme persistent disks are available for SAP HANA with improved functionality

Recent enhancements have further optimized extreme persistent disks, removing any potential limitations for using extreme persistent disks with SAP HANA.

For more information about extreme persistent disks and SAP HANA, see:

• Extreme persistent disks
• Persistent disk storage for SAP HANA

April 18, 2022

SAP NetWeaver high-availability cluster documentation for RHEL

A new manual configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver high-availability clusters on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is available for use.

For more information, see the HA cluster configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL.

SAP NetWeaver high-availability clusters on SLES - change to recommended configuration

The recommended configuration for enabling back-end communication between the nodes in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) high-availability cluster for SAP NetWeaver on Google Cloud has changed.

The new guidance uses the google-guest-agent to enable back-end communication instead of a startup script.

If you are using a startup script to enable back-end communication in an existing cluster, we recommend that you switch to the google-guest-agent configuration at your earliest convenience.

For the updated guidance, see Enable load balancer back-end communication between the VMs.

April 11, 2022

Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes version 2.4

Version 2.4 adds support for HANA 2.0 SPS 05 revision 59 and later. Google Cloud recommends that you update to version 2.4 at your earliest convenience.

For information about how to upgrade, see Updating the storage manager for SAP HANA.

April 08, 2022

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.17

Version 1.0.17 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.17 includes bug fixes for Google Cloud Logging integrations.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver, version 2.2

Version 2.2 of the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version fixes an issue where the "Data Provider Version" was not being supplied on Windows OS's.

For more information, see SAP NetWeaver Planning Guide.

February 14, 2022

SAP NetWeaver certifications: T2D AMD-based general-purpose machine types

For SAP NetWeaver, SAP now certifies Compute Engine general-purpose T2D series machine types with the AMD EPYC Milan CPU platform.

For more information, see T2D general-purpose machine types.

February 11, 2022

SAP NetWeaver certifications: C2D AMD-based compute-optimized machine types

For SAP NetWeaver, SAP now certifies Compute Engine compute-optimized C2D series machine types with the AMD EPYC Milan CPU platform.

For more information, see C2D compute-optimized machine types.

February 09, 2022

SAP NetWeaver certifications: N2D series Compute Engine VMs on the AMD EPYC Milan CPU platform

For SAP NetWeaver, SAP now certifies Compute Engine N2D series machine types with the AMD EPYC Milan CPU platform.

For more information, see N2D general-purpose machine types.

February 03, 2022

SAP HANA certifications: N2 series Compute Engine VMs on the Intel Ice Lake CPU platform

SAP now certifies Compute Engine N2 series machine types with the Intel Ice Lake CPU platform. The new SAP HANA certifications include two new machine sizes, n2-highmem-96 and n2-highmem-128.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

SAP NetWeaver certifications: N2 series Compute Engine VMs on the Intel Ice Lake CPU platform

SAP now certifies Compute Engine N2 series machine types with the Intel Ice Lake CPU platform. The new SAP NetWeaver certifications include two new machine sizes, n2-highmem-96 and n2-highmem-128.

For more information, see N2 general-purpose machine types.

January 31, 2022

BigQuery Connector for SAP: Google Cloud BigQuery Connector for SAP is now generally available (GA).

With BigQuery Connector for SAP version 2.0, the GA release, you can replicate SAP application data changes into BigQuery in near real-time for analytical and ML/AI consumption. BigQuery Connector for SAP connects SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server directly to BigQuery through the BigQuery streaming API.

For more information, see:

• The SAP on Google Cloud blog
• The BigQuery Connector for SAP documentation

January 21, 2022

SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook configuration updated for RHEL and SLES high-availability clusters

The Google Cloud guidance for configuring an SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook has been updated in the HA cluster configuration guides for SAP HANA on RHEL and SLES. You can enable the SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook to improve signaling of SAP HANA's replication state within the Pacemaker cluster.

The latest version of the Deployment Manager template that Google Cloud provides to deploy an HA cluster for SAP HANA configures the hook automatically.

For more information, see:

• RHEL: Enable the SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook
• SLES: Enable the SAP HANA HA/DR provider hook
• Automated SAP HANA HA deployment

January 19, 2022

Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management version 2.3.0

Version 2.3.0 of the Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management is now available. Version 2.3.0 adds support for duplicate IP addresses in managed SAP landscapes.

For more information, see Configuring support for duplicate IP addresses.

January 04, 2022

Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes version 2.3

Version 2.3 of the Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes is now available. Version 2.3 improves the handling of persistent disks that are in use when a failover occurs.

Google Cloud recommends that you update to version 2.3 at your earliest convenience.

December 20, 2021

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.16

Version 1.0.16 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.16 includes bug fixes and performance enhancements.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

December 16, 2021

Filestore Enterprise for SAP systems

The Enterprise tier of Filestore (Filestore Enterprise) is now generally available (GA) as a file sharing solution for SAP systems on Google Cloud. The GA release of Filestore Enterprise includes support for multi-zone, high-availability configurations of SAP systems.

For more information, see File sharing solutions for SAP on Google Cloud.

December 15, 2021

Monitoring agent for SAP HANA, version 2.2

Version 2.2 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now available. This version updates the JRE that is used by the agent.

For more information, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver, version 2.1

Version 2.1 of the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now available. This version updates the JRE that is used by the agent and fixes an issue when upgrading.

For more information, see SAP NetWeaver Planning Guide.

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.15

Version 1.0.15 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.15 updates an internal library (maven-artifact) used by the agent.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 30, 2021

Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management version 2.2.16

Version 2.2.16 of the Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management is now available. Version 2.2.16 adds support for managing SAP systems that are running on the Windows Server, Data Center edition, operating system.

For more information about the software requirements for the systems that are managed by SAP Landscape Management with the Google Cloud Connector for LaMa, see Managed SAP landscape requirements.

November 18, 2021

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.14

Version 1.0.14 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.14 adds tooling for use by the Google Cloud Customer Support team to identify and fix backup issues after a customer opens a case.

Update, Dec. 13, 2021: Version 1.0.14 also changed the endpoint that the Backint agent for SAP HANA uses to access the Google APIs from www.googleapis.com to storage.googleapis.com. If your networking configuration for the Backint agent references the www.googleapis.com in, for example, a proxy or in routing rules, you need to update the configuration to reference the storage.googleapis.com endpoint instead.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 12, 2021

Backint agent for SAP HANA StorageException issue fixed

Google Cloud released version 1.0.13 of the Backint agent for SAP HANA, which fixes an issue that could cause a backup that is stored in Cloud Storage to be unusable if a StorageException error occurred during the backup process.

Apply the fix as soon as possible by downloading and installing version 1.0.13 of the Backint agent for SAP HANA.

For more information about the issue and the fix, see StorageException for Cloud Storage can cause corrupted Backint agent backup.

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.13

Version 1.0.13 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.13 improves the handling of StorageException errors that might occur when writing backups to Cloud Storage. This version fixes an issue that, under certain circumstances, could make stored backups unusable.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

November 03, 2021

FIXED: SAP HANA backup issue with Backint agent

A critical issue that can result in corrupted backups has been identified that might affect users of the Backint agent for SAP HANA. We are actively working on a fix.

For the fix and for more information, see StorageException for Cloud Storage can cause corrupted Backint agent backup.

October 25, 2021

New SAP certifications: SAP has certified the following operating systems for SAP HANA on Google Cloud:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

See Certified operating systems for SAP HANA.

October 21, 2021

SAP HANA scale-out deployment fails due to a Python error

If you have an existing SAP HANA scale-out system with host auto-failover on Google Cloud and you are upgrading SAP HANA to SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 5 Revision 56 or later, SAP HANA fails to start due to a Python error that prevents the storage manager for SAP HANA from attaching storage. The storage manager for SAP HANA version 2.1 or earlier does not support SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 5 Revision 56 or later.

To resolve the issue, upgrade the storage manager for SAP HANA to version 2.2 or later. For more information, see Known issues.

High-availability cluster failover issue due to a Corosync communication delay

For RHEL and SLES operating systems, if there is a temporary delay in the transmission of Corosync messages between the cluster nodes, the delay can incorrectly trigger a failover for your high-availability (HA) cluster for SAP solutions on Google Cloud.

Follow the resolution steps depending on your operating system. For more information, see Known issues.

High-availability configuration guidance changed

The Google Cloud guidance for configuring Pacemaker clusters for SAP has changed for better integration with Google Cloud infrastructure and to more closely align with the defaults and recommendations that are provided by the operating system vendors. These are non-breaking changes that are recommended for optimal reliability. The changes apply to the fence agent, some cluster resource definitions, and some default settings of the Corosync and Pacemaker cluster properties. The Deployment Manager scripts and manual deployment guides have been updated to reflect these changes.

If you have an existing Linux high-availability cluster for SAP on Google Cloud, compare your current settings to the new recommendations and update your cluster as necessary.

For instructions on displaying your current cluster settings and for an example of the recommended cluster settings, see Checking your cluster configuration.

October 11, 2021

Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes version 2.2

Version 2.2 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is now available. Version 2.2 adds support for SAP HANA 2.0 rev 56 and above, and includes minor bug fixes and performance enhancements. Version 2.2 does not include any other changes to the features or functionality of the storage manager for SAP HANA.

For more information about the storage manager for SAP HANA, see SAP HANA host auto-failover on Google Cloud.

Backint agent for SAP HANA version 1.0.12

Version 1.0.12 of the Google Cloud Backint agent for SAP HANA is now available. Version 1.0.12 provides compatibility for Backint protocol 1.5, as well as other minor fixes and enhancements. Version 1.0.12 does not include any changes to the features or functionality of the Backint agent for SAP HANA.

For more information about the agent, see Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

September 29, 2021

SAP HANA certification: 12 TB m2-ultramem-416 VMs certified for OLAP scale out

SAP has certified the Compute Engine 12 TB m2-ultramem-416 machine type for SAP HANA OLAP workloads in scale-out configurations with up to 16 nodes. SAP workload-based sizing is required.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

September 15, 2021

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver, version 2.0 is generally available

Version 2.0 of the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is now generally available (GA). For Linux, version 2.0 of the monitoring agent provides a simpler installation and upgrade path that conforms to the standard OS-based package management. For Windows, only the service name is changed to google-sapnetweavermonitoring-agent.

The information collected by version 2.0 of the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver is the same as version 1.0.

For more information, see SAP NetWeaver Planning Guide.

August 31, 2021

SAP HANA Fast Restart and Compute Engine M2 machines speed memory-error recovery

Compute Engine recently updated M2 VM types so that they can keep running when uncorrectable memory errors occur by using memory-poisoning recovery. Except for the block affected by the error, SAP HANA Fast Restart can then maintain all data in memory, which significantly reduces restart time because only the affected block is reloaded.

For more information, see Memory-error recovery with Fast Restart on Compute Engine VMs.

August 05, 2021

High-availability cluster configuration guidance has changed

To minimize the likelihood of timing errors during a restart after failover, the guidance for setting up Pacemaker clusters on Linux for SAP has changed to include setting a short delay in the startup of Corosync after a failover.

For more information, see:

• Manual HA cluster configuration on RHEL for SAP HANA
• Manual HA cluster configuration on SLES for SAP HANA
• HA cluster configuration on SLES for SAP NetWeaver

August 02, 2021

Google Cloud Connector for SAP LaMa is generally available

The Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management 3.0, enterprise edition, is now generally available (GA).

For more information, see the Connector for SAP Landscape Management planning guide.

July 15, 2021

SAP HANA: sizing guidelines for persistent disks reduced

For most Compute Engine VM types that are certified for SAP HANA, Google Cloud has reduced the required minimum sizes of SSD and balanced persistent disks that are used for block storage by reducing the amount of storage that is allocated to the /hana/data volume from 1.5x memory to 1.2x memory. Google Cloud also updated the Deployment Manager templates that Google Cloud provides for SAP HANA to use the reduced sizes.

For more information, see Minimum sizes for SSD and balanced persistent disks.

June 30, 2021

SAP HANA certification: 12 TB m2-ultramem-416 machine type for OLAP workloads

SAP has certified the Compute Engine 12 TB m2-ultramem-416 machine type for SAP HANA with OLAP workloads in an SAP HANA scale-up configuration that must be sized by using SAP workload-based sizing methods.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

SAP NetWeaver is supported on Bare Metal Solution with more database types

In addition to SAP HANA, you can now run SAP NetWeaver on Bare Metal Solution servers for production workloads with other SAP NetWeaver supported database types, such as Oracle databases.

For more information, see SAP NetWeaver on Bare Metal Solution planning guide.

June 29, 2021

SAP HANA high-availability configurations for SUSE: Google Cloud changed its guidance for the definition of the SAPHana primitive resource by increasing the recommended value of the op monitor interval option for both the primary and secondary nodes.

For more information, see Create the SAPHana primitive resource.

June 10, 2021

SAP NetWeaver high-availability cluster documentation for SLES

A new load-balancer-based configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver high-availability clusters on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is available for use.

For more information, see the HA cluster configuration guide for SAP NetWeaver on SLES.

May 26, 2021

GA: Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP HANA, version 2

Version 2.0 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA is now generally available. V2.0 represents a complete refactoring of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA. A new Cloud Monitoring dashboard template for SAP HANA data is now also available for use with V2.0.

For more information, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA V2.0 planning guide.

May 05, 2021

Updated SAP HANA certification of the 6 TB m2-megamem-416 machine type

For OLAP workloads, the SAP certification of the Compute Engine 6 TB m2-megamem-416 machine type now includes:

• Scale-out configurations up to 16 nodes.
• Compute Engine persistent disks for storage in scale-up or scale-out configurations.

For more information, see Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

April 19, 2021

File sharing options for SAP on Google Cloud: New guidance has been published to help you determine the best file sharing option for your SAP deployments on Google Cloud.

For more information, see File sharing solutions for SAP on Google Cloud.

April 15, 2021

SAP HANA high-availability configurations on Red Hat: If you configured a RHEL HA cluster for SAP HANA before April 15, 2021 by following the Google Cloud documentation, you need to modify the location constraints of your cluster fencing devices to avoid possible race conditions during failovers.

To see the updated documentation to correct the issue, see Set up fencing, step 1.b.

March 31, 2021

The Cloud Data Fusion plugin for SAP is now available. With the SAP Table Batch Source plugin and Cloud Data Fusion, you can create a data pipeline to integrate your SAP data with your data repositories on Google Cloud.

For more information, see Using the SAP Table Batch Source plugin.

The Deployment Manager template that Google Cloud provides to automate the deployment of Linux high-availability clusters for SAP HANA now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) images.

For more information, see Automated SAP HANA HA deployment with load-balancer VIP implementation.

March 12, 2021

The Google Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA has been updated to version 1.0.8. You can now upload backups to Cloud Storage faster using the Backint agent parallel upload function.

For more information, see Parallel uploads.

March 11, 2021

Deployment checklists for SAP on Google Cloud: These additions to the SAP on Google Cloud documentation can help you to migrate your SAP systems to Google Cloud quickly and to avoid costly missteps in the process.

For more information, see Overview of the SAP on Google Cloud deployment checklists.

March 02, 2021

Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver, Version 1.1 is now available. This new version removes automatic updates so that you can control when new versions are applied to your system. It also adds support for Bare Metal Solution environments.

For information about the new update method, see Updating the monitoring agent for SAP NetWeaver.

New SAP certifications: For SAP NetWeaver, the following Compute Engine virtual machine types that use the AMD CPU platform are certified by SAP:

• n2d-standard-128
• n2d-standard-224
• n2d custom machine type vCPU limit increased to 96

For more information, see:

• N2D general-purpose machine types
• Custom VM configurations

March 01, 2021

The preview release of Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP HANA, version 2 is now available. Version 2.0 represents a complete refactoring of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA.

For more information, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA V2.0 planning guide.

Version 1.0 of the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP HANA is deprecated. For new installations, use the Google Cloud monitoring agent for SAP HANA V2.0.

Support for version 1 of the monitoring agent for SAP HANA ends on December 31, 2021.

For information about version 2, see Monitoring agent for SAP HANA V2.0 planning guide.

February 16, 2021

For SAP HANA host auto-failover, version 2.0 of the gceStorageClient is now available with a new human-readable name: Google Cloud Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes (Storage Manager for SAP HANA for short). The new version uses RPM Package Manager for installation and updates, and supports all versions of SAP HANA that are in mainstream maintenance.

For more information, see SAP HANA host auto-failover on Google Cloud.

Version 1.n releases of the gceStorageClient for SAP HANA host auto-failover are deprecated.

If you are using a version 1.n release, upgrade to version 2.0 of the gceStorageClient, the Google Cloud Storage Manager for SAP HANA Standby Nodes, at your earliest convenience, but before support is discontinued.

Version 1.n releases of the gceStorageClient will be supported until December 31, 2021.

To determine which version you are running, see Deprecation of version 1.n releases of the storage manager for SAP HANA.

January 20, 2021

New SAP certifications: For SAP HANA, the following Bare Metal Solution bare-metal machine types are certified by SAP:

• o2-ultramem-672-metal
• o2-ultramem-896-metal

For more information, see Certified machine types for SAP HANA.

New SAP certifications: For SAP NetWeaver, the following Bare Metal Solution bare-metal machine types are certified by SAP:

• o2-standard-32-metal
• o2-standard-48-metal
• o2-standard-112-metal
• o2-highmem-224-metal

For more information, see Bare Metal Solution machine types.

November 25, 2020

New SAP certifications: For SAP NetWeaver, the following Compute Engine virtual machine types that use the AMD CPU platform are certified by SAP:

• n2d-highmem-48
• n2d-highmem-64
• n2d-highmem-80
• n2d-highmem-96
• n2d-standard-48
• n2d-standard-64
• n2d-standard-80
• n2d-standard-96

For more information, see N2D general-purpose machine types.

You can now automate the deployment of SAP HANA in a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server high-availability (HA) cluster that uses the recommended TCP internal load balancer implementation for the virtual IP address.

For more information, see Automated deployment of Linux high-availability clusters for SAP HANA.

The sap_hana_ha/template.yaml file that is provided by Google Cloud to deploy SAP HANA in a SLES high-availability cluster that uses a virtual IP address (VIP) with an alias-IP implementation is deprecated.

As a replacement, use the new sap_hana_ha_ilb/template.yaml file that uses a TCP internal load balancer for the VIP, as described in Automated SAP HANA HA deployment on SLES with load-balancer VIP implementation.

The deprecated template and the corresponding documentation, Automated SAP HANA SLES HA deployment with alias-IP VIP implementation, will continue to be available for at least 12 months from today.

November 06, 2020

New SAP certifications: SAP has certified the following operating systems for SAP HANA on Google Cloud:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

See Certified operating systems for SAP HANA.

October 01, 2020

New guidance for using Compute Engine persistent disks, including balanced persistent disks, with SAP applications and SAP HANA on Google Cloud. See SAP HANA Persistent disk storage.

September 30, 2020

Google Cloud Connector for SAP Landscape Management launched in private preview. If you are interested in participating in the preview, contact the preview coordinators [e-mail].

September 24, 2020

New SAP certification: SAP HANA OLTP workloads on the Compute Engine 6 TB m2-megamem-416 machine type. See Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

August 31, 2020

The Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA is GA with new options for encryption, removal of automatic updates, and other enhancements. See Cloud Storage Backint agent for SAP HANA overview.

August 04, 2020

New guidance for SAP HANA high availability deployments regarding available high-availability cluster configurations. See OS-native HA clusters for SAP HANA on Google Cloud.

July 29, 2020

New SAP certification: S/4HANA scale out on the Compute Engine 12 TB m2-ultramem-416 machine type. See Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

July 16, 2020

New guidance for SAP HANA high-availability deployments, including steps for migrating a virtual IP implementation from alias IP to a new internal load balancer implementation. See Migrating a VIP in a SLES HA cluster to an internal load balancer.

June 29, 2020

New SAP certification: SAP HANA OLAP workloads on the Compute Engine 6 TB m2-megamem-416 machine type with NetApp Cloud Volumes Service. See Certified Compute Engine VMs for SAP HANA.

June 23, 2020

New guidance for configuring Linux high-availability clusters for SAP HANA is now available for the users of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) operating systems. See:

• HA cluster configuration guide for SAP HANA on RHEL
• HA cluster configuration guide for SAP HANA on SLES

This page includes release announcements from approximately the end of June, 2020 to the present. For more information about the Google Cloud products, services, and solutions that are available for SAP, see:

• Overview of SAP on Google Cloud
• Certifications for SAP applications on Google Cloud
• Certifications for SAP HANA on Google Cloud