3.7 Release

Release Notes 3.7

New Supported scenarios

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) support
• Windows standalone support

Windows support

Requirements

• Existing Active Directory domain
• Existing SAP user identities (SIDadm etc) created in Active Directory and saved in workload key vault.
• AD User with domain join permissions

See more info see Windows deployments

General updates

Stability and user experience improvements.

DevOps updates

Pipeline execution using managed identities.

Ansible

• Oracle ASM support
• Windows standalone support
• Better Pacemaker HA validation
• Support for deployments of SAP Applications using JAVA
• Additional configuration for HA setups (hdbuserstore)
• Dynamic BoM support

Terraform updates

• Minor updates

Miscallaneous updates

• DNS registration for secondary DNS addresses
• Ability to provide additional parameters to the Ansible configuration files

What's Changed

• Update SWPM10SP36_win_latest to current SAP release 3 by @shekharsorot in #394
• Update vm-webdisp.tf by @KimForss in #396
• Use bom_processing_become variable and fix microsoft_supplied_bom_archive path variable by @hjstam in #401
• Add try around module.common_infrastructure.admin_subnet variable by @hjstam in #405
• SAP software provisioning manager (sapinst) should be run with umask 022 by @hjstam in #402
• Update S4HANA_2021_FP01_v0001ms BOM / BOM validator by @hjstam in #411
• Create PR for release v 3.7.0.0 by @hdamecharla in #421

Full Changelog: v3.6.1.0...v3.7.0.0

v 3.6.1 release

The release has minor fixes

• External Private DNS support, adds the correct DNS names
• DB2, corrected the DBLoad j2 template to use the correct Unicode settings
• S4 HANA 2021, added the correct credentials for the host agent
• Web Application, zone dropdowns added for the application tier VMs
• Pipelines, fallback to SPN credentials if the User Assigned Identities lack the required permissions

What's Changed

• v 3.6.1. release by @KimForss in #377

Full Changelog: v3.6.0.0...v3.6.1.0

3.6 Release

Release Notes 3.6

SDAF Configuration Web Application

The Web Application will facilitate the configuration and deployment activities from a Web based UX.

• Supports configuration and deployment of workload zones and systems
• Supports SAP installation

New Supported scenarios

• DB2, standalone and HA using Pacemaker
• RedHat 8.6

DevOps updates

This release allows the customers to choose if they consume the Terraform and Ansible code directly from Github or from local repositories.

• Automated setup of DevOps projects
  • Repositories
  • Pipelines
  • Service Principals
  • Service Connections

Repository rationalization

With this release we are splitting the repository structure to three discrete repositories
- Workspaces for Customer specific configuration files (tfvars, ansible hosts files)
- Code (Pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, Web Application)
- Samples (Terraform, Bill of Material files)

Ansible

• DB2 support
• Ansible core

Terraform updates

• Minor updates

Miscallaneous updates

• Support for using managed identities for fencing on Pacemaker
• Networking (Private Endpoints, Service Endpoints)
• Storage account and Key vault networking updates

Release v3.4.1.0

This is a minor incremental release

Updates

100% Ansible Lint coverage for all the Ansible roles/tasks.

Terraform updates

• better handling of KeyVault deletions (better purge control support)

Cluster updates

• Removing the SSH key exchanges on Red Hat 8

Miscellaneous updates

• disabling SELinux on HANA nodes

Release v3.4.0.0

This release adds support for:

Oracle deployments

You can deploy Oracle systems using the following configurations:

• Standalone
• Highly Available using Oracle Data Guard
• Shared Home installations (Multi-SID)

For more information see: Oracle in SDAF

Azure NetApp files

You can use Azure NetApp files for:

• HANA data, log and shared volumes
• Using ANF for sapmnt
• Using ANF for installation media
• Using ANF for SAP transport volume
• mounting /usr/sap from Azure NetApp files
• Support for both green field and brown field deployments

For more information see: Azure NetApp files

Azure files NFS

• Using AFS for sapmnt
• Using AFS for installation media
• Using AFS for SAP transport volume
• Private endpoint support
• Support for both green field and brown field deployments

For more information see: Azure files NFS

Azure DevOps

• The deployer Virtual Machines can now be configured as self hosted agents automatically.
• You can deploy multiple deployers
• Improved error messages in pipelines

SAP virtual hostname support

You can deploy SAP systems using virtual hostnames.

For more information see: Configure the SAP System

Bill of Materials

• SAP S4/HANA 2021
• SAP S4/HANA 2020
• HANA SPS Revision 61
• HANA SPS Revision 59
• SAP NetWeaver for Oracle 19
• Oracle 19

Miscellaneous

• Automatic sas-token creation/renewal
• Support for RBAC on workload zone key vault
• Sizing configurations for supported E series virtual machines
• Updated Bill of Materials files
• Sample updates (formatting)
• Code improvements
  • Terraform
  • Ansible

v3.3.0.0 release

This release adds support for

• Azure DevOps Services.
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Azure Files for AFS

This release adds supports for Azure DevOps Pipelines and Azure DevOps Repos.

For more info on how to use them see Configuring Azure DevOps and DevOps tutorial
The pipeline definitions are available in the /deploy/pipelines folder.

Azure Files for NFS

This release will support using Azure Files for NFS as storage for SAP shared files. For more info see Workload zone AFS configuration and SAP System AFS configuration

Other changes

Miscellaneous feature enhancements:

• Updated Bill Of Material files
• Terraform updates:
  • bug fixes
  • code improvements
• Ansible playbook and task updates:
  • Improved logging
  • Rescue actions for SAP High Availability installation
  • Sequence updates for SAP High Availability installation
  • Changes to BOM processing and storage

v3.1.0.0 release

New Features

Support for Azure Files NFS for SAP Shared Files.

Samples

Updated samples that leverage AFS

Workload Zone using AFS

• QA-WEEU-SAP05-INFRASTRUCTURE

SAP system using AFS

• QA-WEEU-SAP05-Q00

Deployment scripts

Miscallaneous fixes

v3.0.0.0 release

#This release enables the full deployment of SAP HANA both as standalone or highly available configuration.

What's Changed

Terraform template updates
SAP BoM updates
Ansible playbook updates
Deployment script updates.