Static Public IP Address for HANA Developers Edition on Azure

[former_member192551]

I tried to add a PIP (instance-level Public address) to the HANA VM on Azure - (Get-AzureVM - ServiceName SAP_HANA_123 - Name SAP_HANA | Set-AzurePublicIPName MySAPHANAPublicIP | Update-AzureVM) which works fine, but the Solution won't start after this indicating that Public IP is not supported for the Instance.

How can I assign a static Public IP address for out Instance of HANA on Azure? This is required so that we can configure our corporate firewall.

Regards,

Paul

[stanimir_eisner]

Hi Paul,

Currently, when you start your first SAP CAL instance in Azure, a Virtual Network associated with an affinity group is created in which all Azure instances reside. PIP (which is a relatively new Azure feature) requires a Wide Virtual Network (a network which spans across an entire Azure region and is not restricted to a single affinity group), which is not supported by SAP CAL at the moment.

We have already added the PIP support to our backlog. Is PIP the only option for you to connect to the instances started via SAP CAL?

Best regards,

Stanimir

[former_member192551]

Hi Stanimir,

I can connect to my instances using the dynamic Public IP using a CNAME entry on the DNS server but we require a Static Public IP so that we can configure the corporate firewall for this IP.

An option will be to use -AzureReservedIP but you will have to assign this at the creation of the cloud service. Microsoft is working on a solution to assign a ReservedIP to an existing Cloud Service but I am not sure that CAL will work with this either.

Regards,

Paul

[stanimir_eisner]

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for the hints!

Yes, the Reserved IPs would serve better the scenario that you have described. More details are available here: Reserved IP addresses for Cloud Services & Virtual Machines | Microsoft Azure Blog

According to this blog Microsoft Azure doesn't support deploying a Cloud Service or Virtual Machine associated with a Reserved IP into an ‘Affinity Group based Virtual Network’ at the moment. This means that first we will need to modify the Virtual Network creation process in SAP CAL that is already in our backlog and should be available in a few weeks.

I'll notify you once the Reserved IPs support is out.

Best regards,

Stanimir