[Sap-partners] SAP states support for running SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 in production SAP environments

[Arne Arnold]

March 31st, 2020


Being capable of processing transactional and analytical data at the same
time, on any data type, SAP HANA marks the technical foundation for many
existing, as well as next-generation SAP business applications for the
intelligent enterprise. In consequence, SAP and Red Hat are working jointly
to deliver timely support of SAP HANA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its
subsequent minor releases.

It's a great pleasure to share that SAP officially announced the support
for SAP HANA 2.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 for SAP Solutions
<https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2235581> on Intel 64 and IBM
Power 9 architectures, as of March 31st, 2020.

Not only does RHEL 8.1 for SAP Solutions provide full Enterprise Linux
Update Services for SAP Solutions
<https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Update_Services_for_SAP_Solutions>
(E4S) for 48 months from the availability of the minor release. RHEL 8.1
for SAP Solutions also introduces Live Kernel Patching and enhances SAP
HANA on IBM Power 9 support for shared processor pools and live partition
mobility. Note that earlier stated support for RHEL High Availability
Solutions for SAP HANA <https://access.redhat.com/articles/3397471>on RHEL
8, on Intel 64 and IBM Power 9 platforms, does also apply to RHEL 8.1,
immediately.

With RHEL 8.1 now being SAP HANA supported, customers are provided with a
comfortable 9-month window to adopt the more current minor release, before
Update Services for RHEL 8.0 for SAP Solutions will come to an end on 31
December 2020. Please work with your customer to ensure he’s aware of those
dates and can plan accordingly.


Many thanks to the on-site SAP Alliance Tech team! We're looking forward to
continuing this record of success in also getting timely SAP HANA support
for RHEL 7.7 soon.

Best regards / Viele Grüße

*Arne Arnold*

Sr. Principal Product Manager, SAP Solutions

Red Hat, Inc. | redhat.com

*M* | +49 172 3191357
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