Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions

Overview

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® for SAP® Solutions provides a secure, scalable, and reliable operating system foundation required to support the specific needs of mission-critical SAP workloads. It is certified for integration with SAP S/4HANA® and built on the same foundation as the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Features and Benefits

Application Lifecycle Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions includes Update Services, providing a stable foundation and support for selected minor releases for up to four years from general availability.

Red Hat works closely with SAP and certified hardware and cloud providers to deliver integrated support across your entire environment. Support teams collaborate to identify root causes and resolve issues quickly and efficiently.

Platform Standardization
A single subscription model and operating system provide a consistent, cost-effective platform that streamlines operations and enhances stability. By standardizing your SAP environments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you gain the consistency needed to manage complexity and accelerate innovation through an open, scalable, and flexible hybrid cloud platform—whether deployed on-premises, virtualized, or in cloud environments such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.

Efficient Automation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system roles for SAP offer a standardized and automated way to install, configure, and manage your environment. When used with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, these roles help increase productivity and scale SAP deployments. You can also automate the lifecycle of both SAP and non-SAP environments using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Proactive Tools
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions includes the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, additional SAP high-availability solutions, Red Hat Lightspeed for automated risk assessment across performance, availability, stability, and security based on SAP policies, as well as Red Hat Satellite and Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Continuous Availability
With the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, you can deploy SAP solutions in highly available scale-up and scale-out configurations to minimize costly downtime. Leveraging in-place upgrades and live kernel patching allows you to update your operating system and apply critical fixes without taking systems offline.

Enterprise-Grade Performance
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions offers multiple capabilities to reduce the total cost of ownership for SAP workloads, including SAP-specific performance tuning, support for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (pMEM) with FS-DAX (File System Data Analysis Expressions), and virtual persistent memory on IBM Power architectures. These benefits are demonstrated in industry-leading benchmark results published by hardware vendors.