Imagine your team has deployed SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure. The virtual machines are running, the database is accessible, and SAP users can connect to their applications.

Everything looks ready.

But what happens if the database server suddenly fails? What if storage performance drops during business hours? Or what if an application cannot connect after a network change?

These are the situations engineers need to consider before an SAP environment goes live.

A reliable SAP deployment requires more than a working virtual machine. It needs the right infrastructure, storage, networking, security, monitoring, and recovery arrangements.

Here are eight practical checks to review before moving an SAP HANA environment into production on Azure.

1. Verify the Azure Virtual Machine Configuration

SAP HANA is a memory-intensive database.…