Optimize your SAP NetWeaver landscapes and save costs with Azure's on-demand infrastructure as a serviceJuergen Thomas, Principal PM Manager, Azure
Matt Ordish, Director Solution Specialist, AzureJune 5, 2018
SAP on Azure momentum
Strong momentum going - every week we take customers with SAP
landscapes into Azure
Great feedback from partners – high customer demand to move SAP
landscapes into Azure
Customers from all industries – such as retail, manufacturing, high-tech,
airline industry, financial industries, etc.
Solution paths taken by a lot of customers
Compelling Events for Journey to Cloud: Roadmap for SAP ERP Customers
S/4HANA
HANAHANA
SAP AnyDB
SAP on Azure—huge variety on instances
SAP on Azure—huge variety on instances
The Azure public cloud platform offers a large spread of CPU and
memory selection
Starting with smallest SAP certified VMs of two CPUs and 14GB
To SAP certified VMs with 128 CPUs and 3.8TB
Complemented by SAP certified hardware-as-a-service offer that starts with 64
CPUs and 786GB
Ranges to 960 CPUs and 20TB of memory
Hardware-as-a-service offer is restricted to SAP HANA installations
Azure VM availability overview
SAP on Azure—reliability
Azure is one of the only public cloud platforms that offers single
VM SLA
Single VM using Azure Premium Storage: 99.9%
Two or more VMs within one Azure availability set: connection SLA to a VM 99.95%
Two VMs deployed across Azure Availability Zones: 99.99%
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/v1_8/
For some customer deployments, single VM SLA good enough to realize SLA
towards customer’s SLA within Availability Sets allow “failover cluster” which
satisfy most SLA requirements for SAP landscapes
Most powerful and scalable cloud for SAP HANA
SAP on Azure—SAP HANA strategy
Run Middleware layer accessing SAP HANA in Azure VMs
Leverage Microsoft Power BI as reporting tool to directly access SAP HANA based analytics cubes and
data marts
Offering larger and larger VMs in regards to CPUs and Memory a host hardware and customer demands
makes mass deployment in hyper-scale commercially viable
Offer HANA large Instances as HaaS to cover lower number of super high-end requirements for a lower
number of SAP customer installations
Azure –most SAP HANA certified SKUs
Azure has most SAP HANA
certified SKUs
19 different VMs and
HANA large Instances
Supported for up to
60TB scale-out
Starting with 128GB to 20TB
https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/
enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure
SAP on Azure—SAP NetWeaver certifications
SAP solution Guest OS Database VM type
SAP on Azure—SAP HANA certifications
SAP solution Supported OS Azure offerings
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