Explanation Box 1: No Box 2: Yes The minimum SAP HANA certified conditions for the different storage types are: Azure Premium SSD - /hana/log is required to be cached with Azure Write Accelerator. The /hana/data volume could be placed on Premium SSD without Azure Write Accelerator or on Ultra disk Box 3: Yes References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/hana-vm-operations-storage