SAP on Azure Implementation Guide

SAP on Azure Implementation Guide

by Nick Morgan, Bartosz Jarkowski
Released February 2020
Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
ISBN: 9781838983987

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Book description

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

Product information

  • Title: SAP on Azure Implementation Guide
  • Author(s): Nick Morgan, Bartosz Jarkowski
  • Release date: February 2020
  • Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781838983987