Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files Application volume group for SAP HANA - Extension 1

March 25, 2025

Many customers have been using Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA to deploy their volumes for SAP HANA and benefit from the many best practices and improvements that are included in the application volume group feature.

With this extension AVG for SAP HANA customers are now able implement zonal deployments for all HANA volumes. This aligns the storage deployment with the Microsoft recommendation to use zonal deployment for their SAP virtual machines, especially in High Availability (HA) scenarios. With this enhancement, the use of PPG and the required manual step for AVset pinning is no longer required, further simplifying the overall SAP infrastructure deployment.  
Other enhancements include:

• Support for standard network features, allowing customers to benefit from the value add that standard network features bring over basic network features
• Support for customer-managed keys, allowing customer to improve their security posture by using their own keys to encrypt Azure NetApp Files data

Application volume group for SAP HANA is supported in all Azure NetApp Files enabled regions.

Learn more:

• Understand Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
• Requirements and considerations for Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA