You have an existing SAP production landscape that uses SAP HANA databases. You plan to migrate the landscape to Azure. Which Azure virtual machine series will be Azure supported for the production…

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Options

• AF-Series
• BA-Series
• CM-Series
• DN-Series

• B
  4% (1)
• C
  92% (24)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

M-Series VMs are Microsoft's certified choice for production SAP HANA on Azure because they offer the massive RAM capacities (up to 12 TB in M-Series variants like M208ms v2) that HANA's in-memory architecture demands, and Microsoft maintains official SAP certification for these workloads specifically on this series.

• A-Series are basic, entry-level VMs designed for dev/test workloads with limited memory - nowhere near the RAM HANA requires in production.
• F-Series are compute-optimized (high CPU-to-RAM ratio) and suited for CPU-intensive apps, not memory-intensive databases like HANA.
• N-Series are GPU-accelerated VMs built for graphics rendering and ML training - irrelevant for HANA database hosting.

Memory tip: Think M = Massive Memory - SAP HANA is an in-memory database, so the VM series literally starting with "M" (for Memory-optimized) is the one that fits.

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