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SAP on Google Cloud

Google Cloud has an ongoing partnership with SAP to provide SAP-certified infrastructure for all of your SAP systems. You can even choose Google Cloud to power SAP cloud offerings, like SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP Ariba, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, and the SAP Cloud Platform itself.

Whether you are responsible for the core, mission-critical SAP applications in a large-scale enterprise or for similarly critical SAP applications in a small enterprise, Google Cloud can help you leverage your SAP data in innovative ways, all while running your SAP applications more reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.

Some of the advantages of running SAP on Google Cloud include:

• Google's private fiber network, which provides a global, secure, and scalable foundation for your SAP deployments and lets you?optimize for performance or cost.
• Automation tools, such as?Cloud Deployment Manager, and flexible deployment options that help you move your SAP environment to the cloud and to deploy at your own pace.
• A flexible virtualized architecture that lets you?resize your machines?as your enterprise grows and?scale your infrastructure?to match the variations in your workloads, so you can avoid paying for what you don't need.
• Some of the?largest SAP-certified virtual machines (VMs)?on the market.
• Built-in features, such as Compute Engine?live migration?and?automatic restart, that minimize downtime for infrastructure maintenance.
• Opportunities to innovate with the Google Cloud?databases,?data analytics,?smart analytics,?AI and machine learning, and data integration capabilities.

SAP-certified solutions and infrastructure

Google Cloud works closely with SAP to ensure that the Google Cloud infrastructure are certified by SAP for all of your SAP solutions, ensuring high performance and reliability.

For the full list of SAP-certified solutions, see:

• Certifications for SAP applications on GCP
• Certifications for SAP HANA on GCP

SAP software licenses on Google Cloud

SAP runs on Google Cloud under a?bring-your-own-license (BYOL)?model.

Bring Your Own Software and License

With the BYOL model, you must obtain your SAP software licenses from SAP or an SAP reseller, and ensure that you are in compliance with SAP's licensing terms and agreements. Google Cloud does not sell or otherwise provide licenses for SAP software.

SAP Trial and Developer Licenses

SAP provides access to an online repository of their latest products and solutions called the?SAP Cloud Appliance Library. SAP Cloud Appliance Library is a fully automated deployment library that customers can use to rapidly deploy new SAP software on Google Cloud for non-production scenarios. Many of the SAP solutions are provided with a free trial or developer edition license.

Migrating SAP landscapes to Google Cloud

If you are considering moving your SAP landscape to Google Cloud, the Google Cloud Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP) can help you get started.

RAMP includes a free assessment that can give you a count of your SAP systems, including details like the following that you can use to estimate the Google Cloud infrastructure that you need to run SAP:

• CPU type and core count
• Memory amount
• Operating system
• Storage amount

For more information, see?Google Cloud Rapid Assessment & Migration Program.

Managing your environment on Google Cloud

Google Cloud uses a self-service model in which you, or a managed-service provider that you hire, configures, deploys, and controls your Google Cloud infrastructure and services. The figure below displays the services that are managed by Google Cloud and the services that are managed by you or your services partner. For a full list of products that Google Cloud offers, see?Products and services.

For a list of partner service providers, see the?Google Cloud Partner Directory.

SAP Support on Google Cloud

If your SAP systems experience problems while running on Google Cloud, you can open a support ticket with either SAP Support or Cloud Customer Care.

If you open a ticket with SAP and the root of the problem appears to be in the Google Cloud infrastructure, SAP Support routes the ticket to Customer Care. If you open a ticket with Google Cloud and the root of the problem appears to be in the SAP systems, Customer Care directs you to open a ticket with SAP Support.

To get support from Google Cloud for your SAP deployments, you need one of the following Customer Care plans:

• Enhanced Support
• Premium Support
• A support plan that was previously accepted, but is no longer marketed by Google Cloud

To receive support from SAP, your SAP deployment on Google Cloud must meet SAP certification requirements and you must be subscribed to one of the required Customer Care plans.