SAP HANA virtualization on proxmox

[vardhireddy_venkat@outloo]

Hi everyone,
We are planning to use Proxmox VE to run:
SAP HANA DB
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW on HANA
I would like to know: Is Proxmox VE supported or used for these SAP systems?
Any advice or links would be very helpful
Thanks alot for your support.
Best regards
VR

 

[Johannes S]

As far I know SAP doesn't support ProxmoxVE at the moment. Non the less there are people who managed to run SAP software on it, there was a recent discussion in the German forum:

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Thread 'SAP Business One > Proxmox nicht unterstützt'

May 13, 2025

Moin Gemeinde. Ich wollte SAP B1 / SQL auf einer PROXMOX Instanz installieren.

Leider scheitere ich an einem bekannten Problem, siehe unten. Haben wir hier jemand in der Gruppe der mir erklären kann, warum es daran scheitert? SAP supportet proxmox nicht, ich möchte aber wissen woran es klemmt. Bisher war das unserem Consultant wohl nicht bekannt.

Fehler:
Symptom
Wenn Sie SAP-Business-One-Serverkomponenten (SLD und Lizenzdienst) installieren, schlägt dies mit Fehlern fehl. Das Installationsprotokoll und das operative Systemprotokoll enthalten die folgenden Fehler:

• • SAP...

• Wetterauer
• Replies: 19
• Forum: Proxmox VE (Deutsch/German)

It also linked this SAP website: https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/3588295

Please not that it's aboout SAP Business One, not HANA but afik the state is the same.

It's a pity really since this basically forces people to be stuck with more expensive options (like VMWare), although they don't need most of their features.


If your goal is to save costs it might still be worth a shot to keep just the lowest VMWare subscription you can get for a minimal environment and migrate everything else to ProxmoxVE or another Hypervisor.

Interesting enough HANA seems to support SuSe and Redhat Virtualization which is (like ProxmoxVE) based on kvm/qemu (the Linux Kernel Level hypervisor KVM and the virtual machine software qemu based on it):
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_HANA_...dd60114463eb4ccaf6462e5ea24.html?locale=en-US
https://access.redhat.com/articles/4448131
https://documentation.suse.com/sbp/sap-15/html/SBP-SLES4SAP-HANAonKVM-SLES15SP4/index.html

So maybe it might be worth it to have just one Server with RedHat or SuSe just for SAP stuff. I would check with SAP whether their support is actually more than just that website though.

 

[supermicro_server]

Hi everyone,
We are planning to use Proxmox VE to run:
SAP HANA DB
SAP S/4HANA
SAP BW on HANA
I would like to know: Is Proxmox VE supported or used for these SAP systems?
Any advice or links would be very helpful
Thanks alot for your support.
Best regards
VR

Hi vardhireddy_venkat@outloo,
yes it is. Proxmox is able to support SAP system with no problems. Some our customer have severals SAP HANA VM with more then 1TB RAM from a long time. No problem at moment

 

[vardhireddy_venkat@outloo]

Hi Johannes,
Thank you so much for the Quick reply.

 

[vardhireddy_venkat@outloo]

Hi vardhireddy_venkat@outloo,
yes it is. Proxmox is able to support SAP system with no problems. Some our customer have severals SAP HANA VM with more then 1TB RAM from a long time. No problem at moment

HI, Can you help me with the resoureces or links??

 

[supermicro_server]

HI, Can you help me with the resoureces or links??

In this thread you can find several tips that you can use to set up.

 

[vardhireddy_venkat@outloo]

In this thread you can find several tips that you can use to set up.

Thanks for sharing the Thread Links.
But this thread is about SAP Busisness One.

 

[Johannes S]

The main issue at the moment is, that SAP doesn't offically support it which might be a problem if you ever run into trouble depending on the need to CYA or compilance regulations in your workplace. If however your suits decide to accept the risk that SAP might not support you in case of a failure you could still try. As other KVM-based virtualization options (by SuSe and RedHat) seems to work (see links from my first post) I would expect that it should be possible to run your SAP workloads on ProxmoxVE too. I havn't done this myself though. From my perspective this is another case of "Enterprise-grade" is code for "You can do less, but you will pay more" ):

 

[vardhireddy_venkat@outloo]

Hahaha. Got it.
I will go through it. Thanks for letting me know. This information really Helps alot.
Thanks once again.

 

[FrankList80]

The main issue at the moment is, that SAP doesn't offically support it which might be a problem if you ever run into trouble depending on the need to CYA or compilance regulations in your workplace. If however your suits decide to accept the risk that SAP might not support you in case of a failure you could still try. As other KVM-based virtualization options (by SuSe and RedHat) seems to work (see links from my first post) I would expect that it should be possible to run your SAP workloads on ProxmoxVE too. I havn't done this myself though. From my perspective this is another case of "Enterprise-grade" is code for "You can do less, but you will pay more" ):

P.S.: Even the German Armed Forces IT supplier, a huuuuge SAP customer, was not able to find another solution than a private Google Cloud Airgapped in order to have a certified SAP IaaS. Depressing. To be fair - i think any Stock-Index Company with Public Shareholders will not be able to run their ERP in a Non-Certified environment - the pending lawsuit "Sword" if you are e.g. are not able to produce e.g. a quarterly SEC report, kills any Proxmox business case. For Non-Publicly traded Organisations, like you have rightfully quoted, it all depends on the risk-appetite.