New SAP HANA certifications: X4 bare metal machine types for OLTP workloads

## Announcement **New SAP HANA certifications: X4 bare metal machine types for OLTP workloads** SAP has certified the Compute Engine bare metal machine types `x4-megamem-960-metal`, `x4-megamem-1440-metal`, and `x4-megamem-1920-metal`, for use with SAP HANA OLTP workloads in scale-out configurations with up to 4 nodes. For more information, see [X4 memory-optimized bare metal machine types](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sap/docs/sap-hana-planning-guide#x4-memory-optimized). ## Announcement **Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes version 2.8** Version 2.8 of the Google Cloud storage manager for SAP HANA standby nodes is now available. This version includes bug fixes and supportability improvements. For more information about the storage manager, see [Storage Manager for SAP HANA](https://cloud.google.com/solutions/sap/docs/sap-hana-ha-planning-guide#host%5Fauto%5Ffailover%5Fsm4sh).