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October 07, 2024
Preview: Workload Manager now supports deploying Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SQL Server system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see Overview of SQL Server deployment.
August 15, 2024
Preview: The observability service for SAP in Workload Manager is now available for public preview. The preconfigured observability dashboards provide a unified view of the infrastructure monitoring metrics and your SAP application metrics. This helps you correlate events and understand the health status of your SAP system across all layers of the environment.
For more information about this service, see SAP observability overview.
May 20, 2024
Preview: You can now define organizational best practices for your workloads using custom rules written in the Rego policy language. Workload Manager evaluates your workloads against these rules and creates reports for any violation and helps you prioritize remediation. This helps you continuously improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your workloads. For more information, see Implementing best practices using custom rules.
March 06, 2024
Generally Available: Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.
January 31, 2024
Generally available: Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SQL Server workloads. For more information, see About Workload Manager Evaluation
September 05, 2023
Preview: Workload Manager is now available for SQL Server workloads. For more information, see the Product overview.
August 17, 2023
Generally available: Workload Manager introduces new rules for SAP workloads that help you evaluate the workload against the security best practices from SAP and Google Cloud. For more information, see Best practices for SAP.
For information about setting up Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to collect security validation metrics, see Enable Workload Manager validation metrics collection.
July 11, 2023
Preview: Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.
April 11, 2023
Generally available: Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SAP workloads. It 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 more information, see the Product overview.
February 06, 2023
Preview: While creating a new evaluation, you can now choose how frequently you want to run the evaluation.
October 11, 2022
Preview: Workload Manager is now available for SAP workloads. For more information, see the Product overview.