SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) is a tool that helps manage SAP application landscapes across physical and cloud infrastructures. It automates tasks like system provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance. The latest version (3.0 SP13) adds support for managing SAP HANA environments through capabilities like automated system refresh, high availability management, and near-zero downtime maintenance. An adapter was also developed to integrate LaMa with Microsoft Azure, allowing end-to-end automation of SAP applications and cloud infrastructure on Azure.

1. SAP Landscape Management 3.0 SP13

2. What is SAP Landscape Management (LAMA)
SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) is a SAP product which helps customers to deploy, manage and
automate SAP application landscapes in physical and virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures.
From an administrator's perspective, LaMa is the central tool that communicates with the application
and infrastructure (virtualization layer and storage), and therefore the complexity of the underlying
infrastructure is hidden from SAP application administrators. In addition to creating SAP system copies,
refreshes, and clones, LaMa provides extensive monitoring capabilities and controls for SAP system
interaction (start, stop, relocate, and so on)

4. New capabilities introduced with LaMa 3.0 SP13
cover support of SAP HANA environments
• Simplified provisioning and management of SAP HANA Multi-Tenant
Database Container (MDC) setups
• Fully automated SAP system refresh procedure for SAP HANA using
backup and restore
• Fully automated procedure to setup and monitor SAP HANA System
Replication
• Fully automated procedure for nZDM Takeover and Failback for SAP
HANA
• Near Zero Downtime (nZDM) maintenance for SAP HANA (e.g. facilitating
OS updates, SAP HANA upgrades, Hardware maintenance)

6. SAP HANA Management with LaMa 3.0
LaMa 3.0 introduced many new capabilities focused on management of SAP HANA. A key feature in this
area is around SAP HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery management. Diagrams below
illustrate how LaMa can help a Basis Administrator to takeover or failback a HANA based environment

11. What are the Key Capabilities of LaMa?

12. CUSTOMER CHALLENGES

13. EXAMPLE OF SYSTEM REFRESH USING MANUAL
METHOD AND USING LAMA REFRESH METHOD

14. System Combination details refreshes

15. Using LaMa system refresh

16. LaMa – Benefits for System Refresh

17. LaMa – Benefits of Automated Operation
 Mass Operations of SAP systems start/stop
 Customized Unix scripts and integrated in LaMa to suspend & resume High
Availability (HA) cluster
 Production systems recycle time reduced from 45 minutes to less than 10
minutes with Mass Operation
 Automating the Cloud systems start/stop reduces the cost of maintenance
 Notification of system maintenance via emails
 Upto 50% savings could be achieved by running a system 16 hours per day for 20
days per month as opposed to 24 hours per day for 30 days per month.
 Scheduled Cloud Operations will effectively allows SAP systems to be stopped
and their hosting VMs to be deactivated on a time basis thus saving pay-as-you-
go hosting costs

18. SAP Landscape Management with Microsoft Azure
To support customers on their journey into a cloud model (hybrid or entirely
public cloud), SAP and Microsoft partnered to create an adapter that
integrates the SAP management capabilities of LaMa with the IaaS advantages
of Microsoft Azure.
Many SAP customers are running their applications on Microsoft Azure
infrastructure and some are already using LaMa to manage such landscapes.
However, they do not get the full infrastructure automation capabilities that
Microsoft Azure provides. To make available the powerful infrastructure
automation capabilities of Microsoft Azure within LaMa, an adapter was built
by Microsoft and is shipped with LaMa. This adapter can be leveraged by the
administrator via the LaMa dashboard and allows a real end to end automation
covering the entire stack of SAP application and the infrastructure. Before
getting into the details of the adapter we will first cover some basics of
running SAP applications in Microsoft Azure regardless of using LaMa.

19. • The Microsoft Azure Adapter for LaMa was developed by Microsoft to
bring the capabilities of standardized SAP application management to
the Microsoft Azure Cloud. All the functionality that is available in LaMa
and described earlier in this paper becomes available to be used on SAP
landscapes including SAP HANA running in Microsoft Azure. The adapter is
built as a Java library and is installed directly into the LaMa application.
Once in place, actions that require interaction with the Microsoft Azure
infrastructure can now be handled by the adapter by making the
necessary Microsoft Azure API calls. For example, an SAP Basis
administrator may choose a clone of an SAP system based on Microsoft
Azure cloning technology, LaMa will do this via the Adapter. The diagram
below conceptually illustrates the solution and what can be
accomplished with it.

21. Microsoft Azure Templated Deployment (Auto
Installations) using Teraform Modules, Ansible
Playbook, Ansible Roles
• The Microsoft Azure adapter can deploy a template (existing
customer created template in JSON format) that defines the
infrastructure and configuration of the Microsoft Azure based SAP
landscape. By using a template, you can repeatedly deploy your
solution throughout its lifecycle and have confidence your
resources are deployed in a consistent state. A customer may have
a need to provision and teardown SAP landscapes for training
purposes. In this scenario, Microsoft Azure templates would be
created (by the customer) from a running environment and then
used to deploy additional environments. All the above would be
done from the LaMa interface

23. Preparation Requirements

24. CONCLUSION

25. FAQS
http://www.learntips.net/sap-landscape-management-faq-lvmlama/