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This page documents production updates to Workload Manager.
Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes,
known issues, and deprecated functionality.
You can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the
Google Cloud page, browse and filter all release notes in the
Google Cloud console,
or programmatically access release notes in
BigQuery.
July 21, 2025
You can set up the Agent for Compute Workloads to collect metrics of your Oracle workloads running on Google Compute Engine instances. For more information, see Set up the agent for Oracle.
March 17, 2025
Generally available: Workload Manager supports deploying Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SQL Server system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see Overview of SQL Server deployment.
Workload Manager supports the following features when you deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on Google Cloud:
Deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on X4 instances.
Customize the names of application server VMs.
Specify network tags for the deployed instances.
Skip the creation of automatic firewall rules.
Skip the DNS configuration.
Choose an existing NFS shared storage.
Specify a service account to be attached to instances for each layer of the deployment.
Generally available: You can define organizational best practices for your workloads using custom rules written in the Rego policy language. Workload Manager evaluates your workloads against these rules and creates reports for any violation and helps you prioritize remediation. This helps you continuously improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your workloads. For more information, see Implementing best practices using custom rules.
October 07, 2024
Preview: Workload Manager now supports deploying Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SQL Server system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see Overview of SQL Server deployment.
August 15, 2024
Preview: The observability service for SAP in Workload Manager is now available for public preview. The preconfigured observability dashboards provide a unified view of the infrastructure monitoring metrics and your SAP application metrics. This helps you correlate events and understand the health status of your SAP system across all layers of the environment.
Preview: You can now define organizational best practices for your workloads using custom rules written in the Rego policy language. Workload Manager evaluates your workloads against these rules and creates reports for any violation and helps you prioritize remediation. This helps you continuously improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your workloads. For more information, see Implementing best practices using custom rules.
March 06, 2024
Generally Available: Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.
January 31, 2024
Generally available: Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SQL Server workloads. For more information, see About Workload Manager Evaluation
September 05, 2023
Preview: Workload Manager is now available for SQL Server workloads. For more information, see the Product overview.
August 17, 2023
Generally available: Workload Manager introduces new rules for SAP workloads that help you evaluate the workload against the security best practices from SAP and Google Cloud. For more information, see Best practices for SAP.
Preview: Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see About Guided Deployment Automation.
April 11, 2023
Generally available: Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SAP workloads. It is a rule-based, cross-project validation service for evaluating workloads running on Google Cloud.
You can use Workload Manager to evaluate your SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workloads, and detect deviations from key best practices that SAP, OS vendors, and Google Cloud prescribe. This helps you improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your SAP workloads.
The set of rules provided will continue to evolve to cover new machine types and storage options as they become available, and extend SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver best practices as relevant for your SAP workloads.
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Check this page for announcements about new or updated features, bug fixes, known issues, and deprecated functionality.\nYou can see the latest product updates for all of Google Cloud on the\n[Google Cloud](/release-notes) page, browse and filter all release notes in the\n[Google Cloud console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes),\nor programmatically access release notes in\n[BigQuery](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=google_cloud_release_notes&t=release_notes&page=table).\n\nJuly 21, 2025\n-------------\n\nYou can set up the Agent for Compute Workloads to collect metrics of your Oracle workloads running on Google Compute Engine instances. For more information, see [Set up the agent for Oracle](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/set-up-agent-for-oracle).\n\nMarch 17, 2025\n--------------\n\n**Generally available** : Workload Manager supports deploying Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SQL Server system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see [Overview of SQL Server deployment](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/sql-server/sql-deploy-overview). \nWorkload Manager supports the following features when you deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on Google Cloud:\n\n- Deploy SAP S/4HANA workloads on X4 instances.\n- Customize the names of application server VMs.\n- Specify network tags for the deployed instances.\n- Skip the creation of automatic firewall rules.\n- Skip the DNS configuration.\n- Choose an existing NFS shared storage.\n- Specify a service account to be attached to instances for each layer of the deployment.\n\nFor more information, see [Deploy an SAP S/4HANA application](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/sap/deploy-sap)\n\nJanuary 21, 2025\n----------------\n\n**Generally available** : You can define organizational best practices for your workloads using *custom rules* written in the Rego policy language. Workload Manager evaluates your workloads against these rules and creates reports for any violation and helps you prioritize remediation. This helps you continuously improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your workloads. For more information, see [Implementing best practices using custom rules](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/custom-rules/about-custom-rules).\n\nOctober 07, 2024\n----------------\n\n**Preview** : Workload Manager now supports deploying Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SQL Server system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see [Overview of SQL Server deployment](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/sql-server/sql-deploy-overview).\n\nAugust 15, 2024\n---------------\n\n**Preview**: The observability service for SAP in Workload Manager is now available for public preview. The preconfigured observability dashboards provide a unified view of the infrastructure monitoring metrics and your SAP application metrics. This helps you correlate events and understand the health status of your SAP system across all layers of the environment.\n\nFor more information about this service, see [SAP observability overview](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/observe/sap/overview).\n\nMay 20, 2024\n------------\n\n**Preview** : You can now define organizational best practices for your workloads using *custom rules* written in the Rego policy language. Workload Manager evaluates your workloads against these rules and creates reports for any violation and helps you prioritize remediation. This helps you continuously improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your workloads. For more information, see [Implementing best practices using custom rules](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/evaluate/custom-rules/about-custom-rules).\n\nMarch 06, 2024\n--------------\n\n**Generally Available** : Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see [About Guided Deployment Automation](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/about-wlm-deployment).\n\nJanuary 31, 2024\n----------------\n\n**Generally available** : Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SQL Server workloads. For more information, see [About Workload Manager Evaluation](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/about-evaluations)\n\nSeptember 05, 2023\n------------------\n\n**Preview:** Workload Manager is now available for SQL Server workloads. For more information, see the [Product overview](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/overview).\n\nAugust 17, 2023\n---------------\n\n**Generally available** : Workload Manager introduces new rules for SAP workloads that help you evaluate the workload against the security best practices from SAP and Google Cloud. For more information, see [Best practices for SAP](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/reference/best-practices).\n\nFor information about setting up Google Cloud's Agent for SAP to collect security validation metrics, see [Enable Workload Manager validation metrics collection](https://cloud.google.com/sap/docs/agent-for-sap/latest/configure-workload-manager-evaluation#enable_wlm_evaluation_metrics_collection).\n\nJuly 11, 2023\n-------------\n\n**Preview** : Workload Manager now supports deploying SAP workloads on Google Cloud. You can configure and deploy a SAP S/4HANA system using the Guided Deployment Automation tool in Workload Manager. For more information, see [About Guided Deployment Automation](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/deploy/about-wlm-deployment).\n\nApril 11, 2023\n--------------\n\n**Generally available**: Workload Manager is now generally available (GA) for evaluating SAP workloads. It is a rule-based, cross-project validation service for evaluating workloads running on Google Cloud.\n\nYou can use Workload Manager to evaluate your SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workloads, and detect deviations from key best practices that SAP, OS vendors, and Google Cloud prescribe. This helps you improve the quality, reliability, and performance of your SAP workloads.\n\nThe set of rules provided will continue to evolve to cover new machine types and storage options as they become available, and extend SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver best practices as relevant for your SAP workloads.\n\nFor more information, see the [Product overview](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/overview).\n\nFebruary 06, 2023\n-----------------\n\n**Preview** : While [creating a new evaluation](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/create-evaluation#create-a-workload-evaluation), you can now choose how frequently you want to run the evaluation.\n\nOctober 11, 2022\n----------------\n\n**Preview:** Workload Manager is now available for SAP workloads. For more information, see the [Product overview](https://cloud.google.com/workload-manager/docs/overview)."]]
