You are migrating a mission-critical SAP HANA environment to Azure Virtual Machines.

The database requires a shared file storage solution that supports the NFS v4.1 protocol. The storage must deliver sub-millisecond latency and support up to 450,000 IOPS to meet the SAP HANA certification requirements.

Which Azure storage service should you recommend?

Azure NetApp Files (ANF) is an enterprise-class, high-performance, metered file storage service. It supports SMB and NFS (v3 and v4.1) protocols. Because it runs on bare-metal NetApp fleet in Azure datacenters, it provides sub-millisecond latency and massive throughput/IOPS (up to 460,000 IOPS), making it the recommended and certified shared file storage solution for SAP HANA in Azure. Azure Files Premium cannot reach this level of IOPS.