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

231 Pages·2020·6.777 MB·English

by  Nick Morgan, Bartosz Jarkowski

SAP on Azure
Implementation Guide
Move your business data to the cloud
Nick Morgan and Bartosz Jarkowski
SAP on Azure Implementation
Guide
Move your business data to the cloud
Nick Morgan
Bartosz Jarkowski
BIRMINGHAM – MUMBAI
SAP on Azure Implementation Guide
Copyright © 2019 Packt Publishing
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written
permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in
critical articles or reviews.
Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy
of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is
sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt
Publishing or its dealers and distributors, will be held liable for any damages caused
or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this book.
Packt Publishing has endeavoured to provide trademark information about all of the
companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals.
However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Acquisition Editor: Ben Renow-Clarke
Acquisition Editor – Peer Reviews: Suresh Jain
Content Development Editor: Ian Hough
Project Editor: Janice Gonsalves
Presentation Designer: Sandip Tadge
Production reference: 1061219
Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.
Livery Place
35 Livery Street
Birmingham, B3 2PB, UK.
ISBN 978-1-83898-398-7
www.packt.com
packt.com
Subscribe to our online digital library for full access to over 7,000 books and videos,
as well as industry leading tools to help you plan your personal development and
advance your career. For more information, please visit our website.
Why subscribe?
• Spend less time learning and more time coding with practical eBooks and
Videos from over 4,000 industry professionals
• Learn better with Skill Plans built especially for you
• Get a free eBook or video every month
• Fully searchable for easy access to vital information
• Copy and paste, print and bookmark content
Did you know that Packt offers eBook versions of every book published, with PDF
and ePub files available? You can upgrade to the eBook version at www.Packt.com
and as a print book customer, you are entitled to a discount on the eBook copy. Get
in touch with us at [email protected] for more details.
At www.Packt.com, you can also read a collection of free technical articles, sign up
for a range of free newsletters and receive exclusive discounts and offers on Packt
books and eBooks.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Cloud Readiness 1
Why Azure for business-critical systems? 1
Customer stories 3
Why is Azure the best cloud platform for all SAP workloads? 6
Azure compliance and security 6
Azure scalability 9
System availability 11
Business continuity/disaster recovery 15
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure 17
Automation 18
Insights and innovation 20
Partnership 22
Common misconceptions 24
Conclusion 25
Migration readiness 26
When to migrate 26
Migration order 28
Types of SAP migration to Azure 29
Migration strategies 31
Non-NetWeaver applications 34
Successful work team 34
Internal resources 35
Partners 37
Microsoft 38
Summary 38
[ i ]
Table of Contents
Chapter 2: Architect SAP on Azure 41
Landscape planning 41
Azure landing zone 42
Network connectivity 44
Management groups, subscriptions and resource groups 47
Sizing 48
Rehosting and replatforming 49
New installations 51
Other sizing considerations 52
Virtual machines and storage 53
Virtual machine size 53
Virtual machine storage 54
Cost considerations 61
Resilience 64
Planned and unplanned downtime 64
SAP NetWeaver high availability 66
Disaster recovery 75
Backup 85
Disaster recovery versus backup 85
Filesystem backup 85
Disk snapshot 86
Database backup 86
Database snapshot 87
Database streaming backup 88
Azure Backup 88
Third-party backup solutions 89
Azure Blob Storage for backup 90
Monitoring 91
Azure Diagnostics extension 92
Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP 92
Azure Monitor 93
Activity Logs 94
Alerts 94
Dashboards 95
Azure Advisor 95
SAP NetWeaver-based systems 96
Supported platforms 97
Sizing SAP systems 99
CPU and memory 99
Storage sizing 101
Network sizing 103
System deployment 105
Standalone installation 106
Distributed installation 106
Highly available installation 107
Multiple SAP databases running on one server 109
Multiple components on one system (MCOS) 109
[ ii ]
Table of Contents
Central services instance stacking 110
Additional considerations 112
SAP Business Suite 112
SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori 112
SAProuter and SAP Cloud Connector 114
SAP HANA 115
Supported platforms 115
Why SAP HANA certified platforms? 115
SAP HANA sizing 116
CPU and memory requirements 116
Network requirements 119
Storage requirements 120
System deployment 125
Standalone HANA deployment 125
HANA multiple components on one system (MCOS) 125
HANA multitenant database containers (MDC) 126
HANA scale-up and scale-out 127
SAP HANA resilience 128
SAP HANA high availability 129
HANA disaster recovery 136
HANA database backup 139
HANA backup to a filesystem 139
Azure Backup for SAP HANA 140
HANA backup using filesystem snapshot 141
HANA Backup using third-party tools 141
Monitoring and performance optimisation 143
SAP Data Hub 143
Supported platforms 144
System sizing 145
System deployment 145
SAP Hybris commerce 149
Summary 153
Chapter 3: Migrate SAP to Microsoft Azure 155
Exploring migration 155
Planning 158
Interfaces 159
Move groups 159
Preparing the environment in Azure 160
Housekeeping and archiving 160
Data transfer 161
Transfer data using Azure Data Box 161
Network-based data transfer 161
Landscape review 163
Choosing the right migration method 164
[ iii ]
Homogeneous migration 164
Migration using backup/restore 164
Downtime-optimised backup/restore 166
Migration using DBMS replication 166
Migration using Azure Site Recovery 167
Heterogeneous migration 168
Classical migration 168
Performance optimisation 170
Execute System Export Preparation ahead of time 170
Export/import process optimisation 170
Database Migration Option (DMO) with System Move option 175
Sequential data transfer 178
Parallel data transfer 178
Near-Zero Downtime Migration with DMO 180
Third-party options 180
Summary of migration options 181
Summary 182
Chapter 4: Transforming SAP in Azure 183
Identity and access management 183
SAP Single Sign-On with Azure AD 186
Data platform 190
Storage types in Microsoft Azure 193
Data extraction 194
Finding a use case 195
Data exploration 195
Data security 196
Delta extracts 196
Schedule 196
The right tool 197
Azure Data Factory 197
SAP connectors in Azure Data Factory 198
Big data analytics 201
Azure HDInsight 202
Azure Databricks 203
Integration between SAP HANA and Hadoop 204
Data visualisation and business intelligence 208
Azure Data Catalogue 211
Integration 213
Internet of Things 218
Summary 220
Cloud Readiness
Why Azure for business-critical systems?
Many Information Technology (IT) executives, be they Chief Information Officer
(CIO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO) or Chief Digital Officer (CDO), are
under pressure from their business to consider cloud computing. In many sectors
organisations are seeing increased competition from new entrants to their market,
whose IT systems show a level of agility and flexibility with which they simply
cannot compete. At the same time, they are concerned about whether they can really
move their business-critical systems into the Cloud; can the cloud offer the security,
scalability and availability that their business requires?
The answer to that is simple: yes it can. Like all new technologies, the cloud has
taken time to mature, but it has now reached a level where even the most critical
business systems can run in the cloud. As examples, the first Software as a Service
(SaaS) offerings were made available to customers in late 1999, which is 20 years
ago, with the first Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings arriving as long ago as 2002.
The first Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings including compute and storage
were released in 2002, and Microsoft itself announced the Windows Azure platform
in October 2008, which became commercially available in February 2010, and now
offers over 600 services across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
For most organisation SAP is the key business system. If SAP is unavailable for any
reason then potentially your business stops, or at least your ability to respond to
your customers' needs is impacted. 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
organisation have been getting rid of their own data centres and are increasingly
moving to co-location facilities.
[ 1 ]