LNW-Soft Cloud Management Stack provides a ready-to-run operations and management environment for SAP applications in the cloud. It includes OS management, user & DNS management, and automated deployments. It provides a central management node for an SAP landscape in Azure. This management node runs a number of central services: * a DNS server to provide hostnames and hostname resolution for the landscape * an LDAP server to provide centrally managed OS users and groups * a configuration management system (SaltStack) to roll out the necessary OS packages and customizations required to operate SAP HANA based systems on SLES and RHEL based application nodes * a deployment system to automatically roll out VMs to serve as application nodes. LNW-Soft Cloud Management Stack for SAP allows you to run SAP HANA based systems in Azure without having to figure out how to configure and install virtual machines yourself and can get you started with a "SAPinst-ready" application node within minutes. LNW-Soft Cloud Management Stack for SAP can be enhanced with the LNW-Soft Proactive Management Suite for complete SAP Basis operations automation.