If you have a look around the web for virtualising SAP, you’ll find a lot of links for virtualising that workload on VMware, but what about Hyper-V? Do SAP support Hyper-V as a platform? Are there any recommendations if they do? Yes, and yes, and with the latest announcement, they now support Hyper-V R2 as the virtualisation platform, which brings in significant advantages around Live Migration, Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) support, and improved networking capabilities to name but a few.
If you head on over to the SAP Community, and look at the Virtualisation on Windows page, you’ll see the statement of support front and centre, however one thing to be aware of, is that SAP will support Hyper-V R2 as the platform, but the guest OS that SAP runs on has to be Windows Server 2008, or 2003.
After all we virtualise the application with RDS and ICA why not the backend too?