You are planning a deployment of SAP on Azure that will use SAP HANA. You need to ensure that the SAP application servers are in the same datacenter as the HANA nodes. What should you use?

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Options

• Aan application group
• Ba proximity placement group
• Ca resource group
• Da virtual machine scale set

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  89% (25)
• C
  7% (2)

Explanation

Proximity Placement Groups (PPGs) are an Azure construct specifically designed to co-locate virtual machines within the same datacenter (low-latency zone), which is a hard requirement for SAP HANA deployments where network latency between app servers and HANA nodes must be minimized.

• A (Application group) is an Azure Virtual Desktop concept for grouping published apps - unrelated to VM placement.
• C (Resource group) is a logical container for managing and organizing Azure resources; it has no bearing on physical location or latency.
• D (VM Scale Set) handles auto-scaling and availability of identical VMs, but does not guarantee co-location in the same datacenter.

Memory tip: Think of "proximity" literally - a Proximity Placement Group physically pulls VMs close together. SAP on Azure documentation specifically calls out PPGs as the mechanism for latency-sensitive workloads like HANA, so whenever you see "same datacenter" + "SAP/HANA," PPG is the answer.

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