Name: SAP on Microsoft Azure - Architecture and Administration
Brand: SAP
SKU: BOOK-SAPPRESS-EBOOK-2021-9781493220182

SAP on Microsoft Azure - Architecture and Administration

Language

🇺🇸 English

Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2021 / 1

Pages 301

Authors Ravi Kashyap

SAP on Microsoft Azure

Run your SAP system on Microsoft Azure with this guide to architecture design and system administration! Get to know Microsoft Azure and its prerequisites, service options, and supported SAP products. Plan and build your system to last with high availability and disaster recovery, and then see how to migrate and operate your system once it’s live. Learn to configure and use encryption, backups, automation, compliance, and other key features. Make your cloud project painless!

Understand deployment models, infrastructure options, and implementation paths for SAP on Microsoft Azure
Plan a system architecture and set up high availability, disaster recovery, automation, and more
Migrate SAP systems, optimize performance, and manage costs

You'll learn about:

Designing Your System:
Begin with design considerations: sizing, availability, security, cost, and more. Then understand Microsoft Azure’s architecture and recommended practices for architecture design and service configuration. Walk through network architecture, storage options, and optimizations for your system.
Operating Your System:
Make sure your system is operating at peak efficiency with tools like SAP Solution Manager and Azure monitor, and keep the bottom line in mind with cost management tools.
Protecting Your System:
Hope for the best, plan for the worst. Make sure your system can run without significant downtime (high availability) and can be restored in the event of failure (disaster recovery). Leverage backup mechanisms, shared storage, and encryption to make your system resilient!
Preparing for Migration:
Evaluate your migration readiness, preview the states of any migration project, and begin planning your migration.

Key Highlights:

Architecture
Deployment models and infrastructure
High availability and disaster recovery
Automation
Encryption
Governance and compliance
Backup and recovery
Migration
Operations and monitoring
Case studies

View Full Table of Contents

Preface
- Objective of This Book
- Target Audience
- Structure of the Book
- Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Microsoft Azure
- 1.1 What Is Microsoft Azure?
- 1.2 Cloud Deployment Options
  - 1.2.1 Public Cloud versus Private Cloud
  - 1.2.2 Hybrid Cloud
- 1.3 Cloud Models: Comparing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
  - 1.3.1 Infrastructure as a Service
  - 1.3.2 Platform as a Service
  - 1.3.3 Software as a Service
- 1.4 Cloud Adoption Framework
- 1.5 Service Availability and Preview Features
- 1.6 Understanding Microsoft Azure’s SLAs
  - 1.6.1 Service Level Agreement Percentages
  - 1.6.2 When Microsoft Can’t Meet the SLA
  - 1.6.3 Composite SLA
- 1.7 Why Move to Microsoft Azure?
  - 1.7.1 Benefits of Moving an Enterprise Infrastructure
  - 1.7.2 Event-Based Triggers
- 1.8 Summary
2 SAP on Microsoft Azure
- 2.1 The Unique SAP Architecture on Microsoft Azure
- 2.2 SAP on Microsoft Azure Support Prerequisites
- 2.3 Supported SAP Products, Databases, and Operating Systems
  - 2.3.1 Supported Operating Systems
  - 2.3.2 Supported Databases
  - 2.3.3 Supported SAP Products
  - 2.3.4 SAP HANA-Certified Hardware Directory
- 2.4 SAP Technology Stacks and Architecture
  - 2.4.1 Distributed versus Standard Systems
  - 2.4.2 SAP Technology Stacks
- 2.5 SAP on Microsoft Azure Reference Architecture
- 2.6 Deployment Models
  - 2.6.1 All SAP on Microsoft Azure
  - 2.6.2 Hybrid
  - 2.6.3 Multi-Cloud
- 2.7 Paths to Microsoft Azure
  - 2.7.1 Cloud Rationalization and the Five Rs of Migration
  - 2.7.2 SAP Migrations versus New Implementations
  - 2.7.3 Third-Party Systems
- 2.8 SAP Cloud Appliance Library
- 2.9 Relevant SAP Notes
- 2.10 Summary
3 Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Offerings for SAP
- 3.1 Microsoft Azure Enterprise Enrollment Hierarchy
- 3.2 Connectivity to Microsoft Azure
  - 3.2.1 ExpressRoute
  - 3.2.2 Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network
  - 3.2.3 Point-to-Site Virtual Private Network
- 3.3 Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator and Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
- 3.4 Infrastructure Foundation Pillars
  - 3.4.1 Compute
  - 3.4.2 Storage
  - 3.4.3 Network
- 3.5 Shared Storage
  - 3.5.1 Microsoft Azure Shared Storage
  - 3.5.2 Microsoft Azure Shared Disks
  - 3.5.3 Microsoft Azure NetApp Files
- 3.6 Operating System Licenses in Microsoft Azure
- 3.7 Platform Maintenance and Notifications
- 3.8 Microsoft Azure Dedicated Host
  - 3.8.1 Virtual Machine Provisioning and Tracking Capacity
  - 3.8.2 Cost
- 3.9 SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances)
  - 3.9.1 SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) Revision 4
  - 3.9.2 Deployment Timeline and Communication
- 3.10 Key Vault
- 3.11 Microsoft Azure Landing Zone
- 3.12 Summary
4 System Design Framework
- 4.1 Security
  - 4.1.1 Identity
  - 4.1.2 Network Security
  - 4.1.3 Infrastructure Security
  - 4.1.4 Application and Data Security
- 4.2 Performance
  - 4.2.1 Compute
  - 4.2.2 Storage
  - 4.2.3 Network
  - 4.2.4 Database and Application
  - 4.2.5 Scalability
- 4.3 Resiliency
  - 4.3.1 Platform Resiliency
  - 4.3.2 Availability Set
  - 4.3.3 Availability Zone
  - 4.3.4 Region Resiliency
  - 4.3.5 Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
  - 4.3.6 Microsoft Azure Backup Service
  - 4.3.7 Microsoft Azure Storage Resiliency
  - 4.3.8 Microsoft Azure Load Balancer
- 4.4 Operational Efficiency
  - 4.4.1 Operational Use Cases
  - 4.4.2 Monitoring
  - 4.4.3 Governance
  - 4.4.4 Cost Optimization
  - 4.4.5 Automation
- 4.5 Summary
5 Governance and Compliance
- 5.1 Policies
- 5.2 Management Groups
- 5.3 Resource Groups
- 5.4 Role-Based Access Control
  - 5.4.1 How to Use Role-Based Access Control
  - 5.4.2 Role-Based Access Control Scope
  - 5.4.3 Role-Based Access Control versus Policy
- 5.5 Naming Conventions
- 5.6 Resource Locks
- 5.7 Tagging
- 5.8 Microsoft Azure Blueprint
- 5.9 Regulatory and Audit Compliance
  - 5.9.1 Regulatory Compliance
  - 5.9.2 Microsoft Azure Logs
  - 5.9.3 Reporting
- 5.10 Summary
6 Infrastructure Architecture Guidance
- 6.1 Microsoft Azure Regions
- 6.2 Subscription Design
- 6.3 Connectivity and Network Design
  - 6.3.1 Connectivity to Microsoft Azure
  - 6.3.2 Network Design
  - 6.3.3 Subnet Sizes for Gateway, Bastion, and Microsoft Azure NetApp Files
  - 6.3.4 SAP HANA Network Zones
  - 6.3.5 Database App Connectivity and Management Network
  - 6.3.6 Perimeter Network
- 6.4 Compute
- 6.5 Storage
- 6.6 Summary
7 Resiliency
- 7.1 High Availability
  - 7.1.1 Shared Storage Using Platform as a Service
  - 7.1.2 SAP Application Server
  - 7.1.3 SAP Central Services and Database
  - 7.1.4 SAP Central Services on Windows Operating System
  - 7.1.5 SQL Server Database on Windows Operating System
  - 7.1.6 High Availability on the Linux Operating System
  - 7.1.7 IBM DB2
  - 7.1.8 Oracle Database
  - 7.1.9 SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise Database
  - 7.1.10 SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
  - 7.1.11 Standalone Enqueue Server 2
  - 7.1.12 Multi-SAP System ID for SAP Central Services
- 7.2 Disaster Recovery
  - 7.2.1 Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Object
  - 7.2.2 Microsoft Azure Paired Regions
  - 7.2.3 Disaster Recovery for SAP
  - 7.2.4 Disaster Recovery of SAP Components
  - 7.2.5 Application Disaster Recover
  - 7.2.6 Shared Storage in the Secondary Region
  - 7.2.7 Test and Drills
- 7.3 Reference Architecture
- 7.4 Summary
8 Backup Architecture and Mechanisms
- 8.1 Backup and Restore Overview
- 8.2 Backup Classifications
- 8.3 Microsoft Azure Backup and Recovery Vault
- 8.4 Virtual Machine Backup
- 8.5 Database Backup
  - 8.5.1 Microsoft Azure Backup for SQL Server and SAP HANA
  - 8.5.2 Virtual Machine Backup with and without Database File Systems
  - 8.5.3 Disk-Based Database Backup
  - 8.5.4 Storage Snapshot
- 8.6 Shared Disk Backup
- 8.7 Third-Party Tools
- 8.8 Backup and Retention Policy
- 8.9 Restore and Recovery
  - 8.9.1 Virtual Machine Restore
  - 8.9.2 SQL Server and SAP HANA
  - 8.9.3 Testing for all Use Cases
- 8.10 Management and Reporting
- 8.11 Summary
9 Automation
- 9.1 Infrastructure as Code
- 9.2 Automation Use Cases
  - 9.2.1 Infrastructure Deployment
  - 9.2.2 Application Deployment
  - 9.2.3 Infrastructure and Application Lifecycle
- 9.3 Automation Tools
  - 9.3.1 Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell
  - 9.3.2 Microsoft Azure Resource Manager Template
  - 9.3.3 Terraform
  - 9.3.4 Orchestration versus Configuration Management
  - 9.3.5 SAP Landscape Management
- 9.4 DevOps Integration
- 9.5 Quickstart Templates
- 9.6 Disadvantages of Using Automation
- 9.7 Automation Recommend Practices
- 9.8 Summary
10 Encryption
- 10.1 Encryption at Rest
  - 10.1.1 Storage Service Encryption
  - 10.1.2 Microsoft Azure Disk Encryption
  - 10.1.3 Database Encryption
  - 10.1.4 Backup Encryption
  - 10.1.5 Microsoft Azure NetApp Files
  - 10.1.6 Third-Party Software
- 10.2 Encryption in Transit
- 10.3 Key Management
- 10.4 Summary
11 Migrating SAP to Microsoft Azure
- 11.1 Planning and Readiness
  - 11.1.1 Readiness Evaluation
  - 11.1.2 Archiving and Cleanup
- 11.2 Migration Paths and Methodologies
  - 11.2.1 Database Migration Methodologies
  - 11.2.2 Homogeneous Migration
  - 11.2.3 Heterogenous Migration
  - 11.2.4 Application Server and SAP Central Services Migration
  - 11.2.5 Third-Party Solutions for Migration
  - 11.2.6 Migration Options Trade-Offs
- 11.3 Large Databases and Migration Optimizations
  - 11.3.1 Large Database Challenges
  - 11.3.2 Downtime Optimization Techniques
- 11.4 SAP Landscape Migration Phases
  - 11.4.1 Pilot
  - 11.4.2 Nonproduction
  - 11.4.3 Production Rehearsal
  - 11.4.4 Production Cutover
  - 11.4.5 Large Landscape Migration
- 11.5 Lessons Learned
- 11.6 Summary
12 Operations
- 12.1 Cloud Operating Model
- 12.2 Operational Efficiency
  - 12.2.1 SAP Snoozing
  - 12.2.2 Autoscaling
  - 12.2.3 Operating System and SAP Patching
  - 12.2.4 Rightsizing and Virtual Machine Resizing
  - 12.2.5 System Clone, Copy, and Refresh
  - 12.2.6 Microsoft Azure Backup
  - 12.2.7 Microsoft Azure NetApp Files and Disks Snapshot
  - 12.2.8 SAP Landscape Management Integration
  - 12.2.9 SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) to Virtual Machine Migration
  - 12.2.10 SAP Licensing and Hardware Key
  - 12.2.11 Operational Learning
- 12.3 Monitoring
  - 12.3.1 SAP Solution Manager
  - 12.3.2 Microsoft Azure Monitor
  - 12.3.3 Dashboards
  - 12.3.4 Alerts
  - 12.3.5 Microsoft Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
- 12.4 Cost Management
  - 12.4.1 Understand the Cost Structure
  - 12.4.2 Plan with Focus on Cost
  - 12.4.3 Optimize for Cost Regularly
  - 12.4.4 Microsoft Azure Cost Management
  - 12.4.5 Cost Projections
- 12.5 Summary
13 Case Study
- 13.1 New Implementation Planning
  - 13.1.1 Milestone #1: Sizing and Total Cost of Ownership Calculation
  - 13.1.2 Milestone #2: Architecture Components
  - 13.1.3 Milestone #3: Infrastructure and SAP Deployment
- 13.2 Migration Planning
  - 13.2.1 Shared Architecture on Microsoft Azure
  - 13.2.2 Resiliency Design (High Availability/Disaster Recovery)
  - 13.2.3 Migration Methodology and Sequence
  - 13.2.4 Phased Go-Live and Hybrid System Maintenance
  - 13.2.5 Data Center Exit and Future Optimizations
- 13.3 Summary
14 Outlook
- 14.1 Marching towards SAP S/4HANA
- 14.2 Integration to Cloud Native Tools
- 14.3 SAP Innovations
- 14.4 Evolution of Microsoft Azure
- 14.5 Containers for SAP?
- 14.6 Summary
The Author
Index

ℹ️ How to purchase this book?

This product has a special price upon request. You can start your order or clarify any doubts using the Contact for Price button on the page.

We have also prepared a step-by-step guide to explain how to easily request your quote.

Read the guide here →

Disclaimer

SAP, other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. Our Company is not affiliated to SAP SE or any of its affiliated companies including but not limited to: Sybase, Business Objects, Hybris, Ariba and SuccessFactors. All other names, brands, logos, etc. are registered trade or service marks of their respective owners.

Warranty

Receive the product you were expecting or we will refund your money

Free shipping

Free shipping to your email

Would you like a sample course/book?

If you need a sample of a course/book, request it in the chat below and we will be happy to provide it to you.

1 installment of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD
2 installments of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD
3 installments of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD
4 installments of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD
5 installments of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD
6 installments of $0.00 USD without interest		Total $0.00 USD

SAP on Microsoft Azure

You'll learn about:

Key Highlights:

ℹ️ How to purchase this book?

Disclaimer

SAP on Microsoft Azure - Architecture and Administration

Related products