SAP on Azure Implementation Guide: Move your business data to the cloud

✍ Scribed by Nick Morgan, Bartosz Jarkowski

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn how to migrate your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.

Key Features

• Learn why Azure is suitable for business-critical systems
• Understand how to migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure
• Use Lift & shift migration, Lift & migrate, Lift & migrate to HANA, or Lift & transform to S/4HANA

Book Description

Cloud technologies have now reached a level where even the most critical business systems can run on them. For most organizations SAP is the key business system. If SAP is unavailable for any reason then potentially your business stops. Because of this, it is understandable that you will be concerned whether such a critical system can run in the public cloud. However, the days when you truly ran your IT system on-premises have long since gone. Most organizations have been getting rid of their own data centers and increasingly moving to co-location facilities. In this context the public cloud is nothing more than an additional virtual data center connected to your existing network.

There are typically two main reasons why you may consider migrating SAP to Azure: You need to replace the infrastructure that is currently running SAP, or you want to migrate SAP to a new database. Depending on your goal SAP offers different migration paths. You can decide either to migrate the current workload to Azure as-is, or to combine it with changing the database and execute both activities as a single step. SAP on Azure Implementation Guide covers the main migration options to lead you through migrating your SAP data to Azure simply and successfully.

What you will learn

• Successfully migrate your SAP infrastructure to Azure
• Understand the security benefits of Azure
• See how Azure can scale to meet the most demanding of business needs
• Ensure your SAP infrastructure maintains high availability
• Increase business agility through cloud capabilities
• Leverage cloud-native capabilities to enhance SAP

Who this book is for

SAP on Azure Implementation Guide is designed to benefit existing SAP architects looking to migrate their SAP infrastructure to Azure. Whether you are an architect implementing the migration or an IT decision maker evaluating the benefits of migration, this book is for you.

Table of Contents

1. Cloud Readiness
2. Architect SAP on Azure
3. Migrate SAP to Microsoft Azure
4. Transform SAP in Azure

✦ Table of Contents

Cloud Readiness
Why Azure for business-critical systems?
Customer stories
Why is Azure the best cloud platform for all SAP workloads?
Azure compliance and security
Azure scalability
System availability
Business continuity/disaster recovery
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Automation
Insights and innovation
Partnership
Common misconceptions
Conclusion
Migration readiness
When to migrate
Migration order
Types of SAP migration to Azure
Migration strategies
Non-NetWeaver applications
Successful work team
Internal resources
Partners
Microsoft
Summary
Architect SAP on Azure
Landscape planning
Azure landing zone
Network connectivity
Management groups, subscriptions and resource groups
Sizing
Rehosting and replatforming
New installations
Other sizing considerations
Virtual machines and storage
Virtual machine size
Virtual machine storage
Cost considerations
Resilience
Planned and unplanned downtime
SAP NetWeaver high availability
Disaster recovery
Backup
Disaster recovery versus backup
Filesystem backup
Disk snapshot
Database backup
Database snapshot
Database streaming backup
Azure Backup
Third-party backup solutions
Azure Blob Storage for backup
Monitoring
Azure Diagnostics extension
Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
Azure Monitor
Activity Logs
Alerts
Dashboards
Azure Advisor
SAP NetWeaver-based systems
Supported platforms
Sizing SAP systems
CPU and memory
Storage sizing
Network sizing
System deployment
Standalone installation
Distributed installation
Highly available installation
Multiple SAP databases running on one server
Multiple components on one system (MCOS)
Central services instance stacking
Additional considerations
SAP Business Suite
SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori
SAProuter and SAP Cloud Connector
SAP HANA
Supported platforms
Why SAP HANA certified platforms?
SAP HANA sizing
CPU and memory requirements
Network requirements
Storage requirements
System deployment
Standalone HANA deployment
HANA multiple components on one system (MCOS)
HANA multitenant database containers (MDC)
HANA scale-up and scale-out
SAP HANA resilience
SAP HANA high availability
HANA disaster recovery
HANA database backup
HANA backup to a filesystem
Azure Backup for SAP HANA
HANA backup using filesystem snapshot
HANA Backup using third-party tools
Monitoring and performance optimisation
SAP Data Hub
Supported platforms
System sizing
System deployment
SAP Hybris commerce
Summary
Migrate SAP to Microsoft Azure
Exploring migration
Planning
Interfaces
Move groups
Preparing the environment in Azure
Housekeeping and archiving
Data transfer
Transfer data using Azure Data Box
Network-based data transfer
Landscape review
Choosing the right migration method
Homogeneous migration
Migration using backup/restore
Downtime-optimised backup/restore
Migration using DBMS replication
Migration using Azure Site Recovery
Heterogeneous migration
Classical migration
Performance optimisation
Execute System Export Preparation ahead of time
Export/import process optimisation
Database Migration Option (DMO) with System Move option
Sequential data transfer
Parallel data transfer
Near-Zero Downtime Migration with DMO
Third-party options
Summary of migration options
Summary
Transforming SAP in Azure
Identity and access management
SAP Single Sign-On with Azure AD
Data platform
Storage types in Microsoft Azure
Data extraction
Finding a use case
Data exploration
Data security
Delta extracts
Schedule
The right tool
Azure Data Factory
SAP connectors in Azure Data Factory
Big data analytics
Azure HDInsight
Azure Databricks
Integration between SAP HANA and Hadoop
Data visualisation and business intelligence
Azure Data Catalogue
Integration
Internet of Things
Summary
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