- Customers typically run 3-15 different SAP products, with each product having at least 3 systems like production, test, and development. For main systems like SAP ERP, customers may have up to 10 systems. - Running many servers or VMs motivates customers to look for less expensive infrastructure opportunities on Azure. Projects often require short-lived systems that can be deployed quickly without procurement delays. - What is attractive about running SAP workloads on Azure is that SAP NetWeaver architecture and workload sizing are well understood on Azure, mapping workloads to Azure VMs is simple, and lift and shift of systems is easy. It also works well for hybrid scenarios.

2. • Customers usually run 3-15 different SAP products
• For every product the customer has at least 3 systems like: Production, Test
and Development
• For some of the main systems, like SAP ERP customers have up to 10
systems
•  Many servers or VMs motivate customers to look for less expensive
infrastructure opportunities
•  Projects often require systems with limited life time
•  Projects often require short time to deploy systems  no time for
procurement of infrastructure
What is so attractive on SAP workload on Azure?

3. • SAP NetWeaver architecture is well understood
• Workload sizing framework of SAP is complete like no other
• Mapping of workload encountered on-premise to Azure VMs very
simple
• Lift and shift process very simple
• So far exclusive IaaS play
• Works excellent in cross-premises scenarios (see next slide)

4. • Run parts of SAP landscape or whole SAP landscape
on Azure (see details later)
• Have Site-To-Site or Express Route connectivity between Azure and on-premise
datacenter
• Deploy SAP systems in Azure VMs
• Customer are in various stages in this process
• From having a few small development or non-production system
• To having their whole SAP landscape in Azure
• Largest one with 7TB SAP ERP and 4TB SAP BW used by a few thousand users
Scenarios customers use

5. • Communications through VPN tunnel
or ExpressRoute connection
• On-Premise AD/DNS extended into
Azure
• On-premise and Azure located SAP
systems in same domain/AD
• Communication between SAP systems
in Azure and on-premise completely
transparent
• Every single customer using SAP on
Azure beyond demo or trainings
scenario is using this setup with
VPN/ExpressRoute
• Supported for Hybrid and productive
SAP landscapes in Azure
SAP Deployment on Azure in Hybrid IT scenario

6. Selection criteria of Azure VMs for SAP
Not all Azure VM types are certified for SAP – Minimum requirements for VMs:
• At least 2 vCPUs
• Ratio between memory and vCPU at least 6GB:1vCPU
•  Not all Azure VMs qualify
Other rules for certification of VM SKUs:
• Some of the VM SKUs are exclusively certified with Premium Storage. E.g. No SAP certification for
G-series, but certification of GS-Series
• If largest VM within a VM series does not show good enough results with Standard Storage, we
will not certify any of the VMs of the series and rather wait for VM series being available with
Premium Storage. E.g.: Dv2 series
• We are not making any difference between VMs for the SAP application layer (as good as no
storage interaction) and DBMS VMs (sensitive to storage latency and throughput)

7. 1928533 – SAP Applications on Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types
VM Type VM Size 2-Tier SAPS 3-Tier SAPS
DB Server for 3-
Tier Supported
Required Azure
Storage for
Database Files
A5 2 CPU, 14 GB 1,500 12,000 Yes Standard
A6 4 CPU, 28 GB 3,000 25,000 Yes Standard
A7 8 CPU, 56 GB 6,000 50,000 Yes Standard
A8 / A10 8 CPU, 56 GB 11,000 *** No Standard
A9 / A11 16 CPU, 112 GB 22,000 *** No Standard
D11 2 CPU, 14 GB 2,325 *** Yes Standard
D12 4 CPU, 28 GB 4,650 *** Yes Standard
D13 8 CPU, 56 GB 9,300 *** No Standard
D14 16 CPU, 112 GB 18,600 *** No Standard
DS11* 2 CPU, 14 GB 2,325 *** Yes Premium
DS12* 4 CPU, 28 GB 4,650 48,750 Yes Premium
DS13* 8 CPU, 56 GB 9,300 91,050 Yes Premium
DS14* 16 CPU, 112 GB 18,600 *** Yes Premium
DS11v2 2 CPU, 14 GB 3530 *** Yes Premium
DS12v2 4 CPU, 28 GB 6860 *** Yes Premium
DS13v2 8 CPU, 56 GB 12300 *** Yes Premium
DS14v2 16 CPU, 112 GB 24180 *** Yes Premium
DS15v2 20 CPU, 140GB 30340 *** Yes Premium
GS1** 2 CPU, 28 GB 3,580 34,415 Yes Premium
GS2** 4 CPU, 56 GB 6,900 78,620 Yes Premium
GS3** 8 CPU, 112 GB 11,870 137,520 Yes Premium
GS4** 16 CPU, 224 GB 22,680 247,880 Yes Premium
GS5** 32 CPU, 448 GB 41,670 *** Yes Premium

8. SAP NetWeaver certifications
SAP Solution Guest OS Database VM Type
SAP Business Suite
based on
SAP NetWeaver
Windows Server;
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux
SQL Server; Oracle1;
DB2; SAP ASE
A5-A11, D11-D14, DS11-DS14,
DS11v2-DS15v2, GS1-GS5
SAP TREX, SAP Live
Cache, SAP Content
Server
Windows Server;
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux
SQL Server; Oracle;
DB2; SAP ASE
A5-A11, D11-D14, DS11-DS14,
DS11v2-DS15v2, GS1-GS5
SAP Business Objects
(BI) including Data
Services
Windows Server NA A5-A11, D11-D14, DS11-DS14,
DS11v2-DS15v2, GS1-GS5
SAP NetWeaver Windows Server;
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux
SQL Server, Oracle;
DB2; SAP ASE
A5-A11, D11-D14, DS11-DS14,
DS11v2-DS15v2, GS1-GS5
SAP and Microsoft have tested and certified Microsoft Azure IaaS against the same standards as those
used for on-premises infrastructure. The table below shows a list of product certified today.
1Oracle DBMS only support on Windows Guest OS in Azure

9. SAP
Business
Suite6
SAP
allinone
SAP
Business
Objects
SAP
NetWeaver
7
XX<1.5k SAPS XXX
SQLWindows
2 Tier
3 Tier
SAP on Azure
(Any DB)
1. Including TREX, LiveCache and Content server. Only
NetWeaver 7.00 and later SAP releases of NetWeaver are
supported for deployment in Azure
OracleWindows/Oracle Linux
DB2Windows/SLES/RHEL
ASEWindows/SLES/RHEL
41K 350K
SAP
Business
One

10. SAP HANA certifications
SAP Solution Supported OS Azure Offerings
SAP HANA Developer Edition
(including the HANA client software comprised of SQLODBC, ODBO-
Windows only, ODBC, JDBC drivers), HANA studio, and HANA database)1
SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
(SLES)
A5-A11, D11-D14, DS11-DS14, DS11-DS15v2,
GS1-GS5
SAP HANA One SLES DS14_v2 (upon general availability)
SAP S/4HANA SLES, RHEL Non-production and Controlled Availability
for GS5 VMs
Production and non-production SAP HANA
on Azure (Large Instances)
SAP Business Suite on HANA (OLTP) SLES, RHEL Non-production on GS5 VMs
Production and non-production SAP HANA
on Azure (Large Instances)
SAP HANA Platform or Enterprise Edition for
SAP BW (OLAP) and BW/4HANA
SLES. RHEL Production on GS5 VMs on single node – 5
node scale-out to follow
Production and non-production SAP HANA
on Azure (Large Instances)

11. What is SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances ?
• SAP TDI (Tailor Datacenter Integration) certified purpose
built aHANA hardware infrastructure hosted in Azure
• HANA server blade
• Storage hardware (persistent, 4 x RAM)
• Snapshot backup capability
• Storage replication capability in paired datacenter
• Volume encryption capability
• Network devices including backend ExpressRoute to
connect to Azure VNET (10Gbps)
SKU # # CPU threads RAM (GB) HANA NFS Storage
(GB) (persistent)
Supported HANA
scenarios
SAP Certification + GA
(* subject to change)
HANA on Azure
Large Instances
Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8890 v3
(Haswell)
SR72 72 768 3,072 OLAP/OLTP Certified
SR72m 72 1,536 6,144 OLTP
SR192 192 2,048 8,192 OLAP/OLTP
SR192m 192 4,096 16,384 OLTP
HANA on Azure
Very Large Instances
Intel® Xeon®
Processor E7-8890 v4
(Broadwell)
SR384 384 4,096 16,384 OLAP/OLTP Certified
Orderable from July 2017,
Available from Oct 2017
SR384m 384 6,144 18,432 OLTP
SR384xm 384 8,192 22,528 OLTP
SR576m 576 12,288 28,672 OLTP
SR768m 768 16,384 36,864 OLTP
SR960m 960 20,480 47,104 OLTP
• Supported HANA scenarios
• OLAP : BW, BPC, Enterprise Edition, DWH, Side Car
• Scale Out to 60TB
• OLTP : Business Suite on HANA, S/4HANA,
NetWeaver
• Scale Up to 20TB

12. SAP on Azure
(HANA)
1.5-2-4 TB 6-8-12-16-20 TB
1-1.75-2-3.8 TB
1-2 TB
2 TB 60 TB4 TB
*1
*1 : Controlled availability for S/4HANA
*2 : M Series will be available at East US2, West US2, West Europe, UK South,
Australia East, Australia Southeast, Japan East, Japan West in CY17
*3 : HANA on Azure Large Instances are available at East US, West US, West
Europe, North Europe, Australia East, Australia Southeast, Japan East and
Japan West in CY17
24 TB
*2
*4
*2
*3
*4
*3
OLAP : Business Warehouse
(BW on HANA, BW/4HANA),
Side Car, HANA Enterprise DWH
OLTP : S/4HANA, Business Suite on
HANA, NetWeaver

14. SAP
ECC6 fully
certified to
run in Azure
Customer
can continue
using Oracle
11gR2, upgrade
to 12c or switch
to SQL or HANA
Largest
certified Azure
VM = 32-core,
448GB RAM,
41k SAPS
VM size is
adjustable – able
to scale
up/out/down/
in any time
Full
HA/clustering
and DR solutions
possible in Azure
Full
virtualization,
automation and
standardization
1 2 3 4 5 6
Benefits of Microsoft Cloud Platform
SAP ECC6 is
used
DB =
Oracle 11g R2
OS = Solaris
10/11 and
RHEL6
3.5TB
DB running
on 40-core,
128GB RAM,
40k SAPS
servers
Fixed
hardware and
some
underutilized
e.g. 16%
HA
solution
used today
while
DR solution
not identified
Any automation
or
standardization ?
1 2 3 4 5 6
Current State

15. SAPS
needed
IOPS
needed
Current
DB
Volume
Azure
VM
Type
# of
VMs
All Active ? SAPS
provided
Database File
Disk
Choice/Layout
IOPS for
Database
File
provided
Storage
size
allocation
for DB
Database Log
Disk
Choice/Layout
Latency
for Log
ASCS
/SCS
60,000 - D12v
2
2 Active/
Passive
6,860 -
APP - D15v
2
2 All
Active
60,680 -
Database 30,000 30,000 3.4TB GS5 2 Active/
Passive
41,670 6 x
Premium
Storage P30
(1TB, 5kIOPS/
disk)
30,000 6TB 1 x
Premium
Storage P30
(1TB, 5kIOPS
/disk)
Single
digit
ms
latency
Customer
Requirements Decision points to migrate to Azure
1
Choose appropriate VM Types for SAP ASCS/SCS, APP and Database
Choose appropriate Storage Type and decide how many hard disks needed for Database File and Log
Set up high availability solution for ASCS/SCS and Database and decide how many VMs needed
3
1
3
Azure VM Types, # of VMs, Storage Types and # of disks for DB file/log

16. `
Oracle Data
Guard
DR/Backup DB
Production
Customer Current Datacenter (On-premise)
4
3
Migration to
Azure
(System Copy)
Dev/Test
Shutdown
when unused
Test/Dev
Nearly zero
data loss
`
Azure Virtual
Network
Or
ExpressRoute
(10Mbps
-1Gbps)
1
Azure
Blob
Storage
Commodity
Cloud Storage
2
retir
e
retir
e
retir
e
retir
e
SAN Storage Tape
End users Legacy systems
SAP on Any DB : Dev/Test Migration to Azure

17. `
Production
`
`
Customer Current Datacenter (On-premise)
Azure
Blob
Storage
7 Auto Scale
9
Commodity
Cloud Storage
better
RTO
Migration to
Azure
(System Copy)
Dev/Test
DB Restore
& SAP System Copy6
Oracle Data
Guard
DR/Backup DB
Shutdown
when unused
Production
Azure Virtual
Network
Or
ExpressRoute
(10Mbps
-1Gbps)
Hi-performance
SSD Storage5
SAP APP
Logon Group
Oracle
Data Guard
Azure
Premium
Storage
SAP ASCS
Clustering
Domain
Controller
10
DB
Online
Backup
Test/Dev
retir
e
retir
e
retir
e
retir
e
Shut
down
Shut
down
Shut
down
Shut
down
Shut
down
Shut
down
……
SAN Storage Tape Zero data
loss
8
End users Legacy systems
SAP on Any DB : Production System Migration to Azure

18. `
`
D13 D13
DS13 D11
……
Zero data
loss
Auto Scale
Dev/Test (8 cores, 56GB RAM, 2TB DB in total)
D11 D11 D11 D11
SQL Server
AlwaysOn (Async)
DR/Backup DB (4 cores, 28GB RAM, 2TB DB in total)
DS12
Shutdown
when unused
Nearly zero
data loss
SQL Server 2014
AlwaysOn Sync
DS13
SAP ASCS
Clustering
D11
ExpressRoute
(10Mbps
-1Gbps)
better
RTO
Azure
Premium
Storage
Azure
Blob
Storage
Commodity
Cloud Storage
Hi-performance
SSD Storage
SAP APP
Logon Group
Azure
Blob
Storage
Domain
Controller
Domain
Controller
Production (36 cores, 252GB RAM, 30k SAPS, 7.5k IOPS,
2TBx2 DB in total)
`
End users Legacy systems
`
Backup, Monitor
Configuration etc
ExpressRoute
(100Mbps
-10Gbps)
Data Protection
High Availability Disaster Recovery
Optimized
performance
Automation
SAP on Any DB : DR Solutions Attach

19. Azure Datacenter East US
Azure IaaS/VM
ER
ER
HANA Database Server(s) Prod
Customer Corporate
Network
3
Azure Datacenter West US
Azure Backbone Network
Azure IaaS/VM
1Gbps frontend
ExpressRoute between
customer and Azure VM
recommended
1
MPLS
WAN
2 nodes x 448TB
(RAM) HANA
System Replication
Cluster
uptime SLA :
99.95%
Application Server(s)
Turn off VMs
after setup (then
Compute NOT
charged)
4
HANA Storage
Replication for async
volume replica
5
2
2 nodes x 8-core
SAP app server cluster
– uptime SLA :
99.95%
HANA Database Server(s) DR
S/4HANA, BW on HANA, HANA Enterprise on Azure VM – HA and DR
Application Server(s)

20. Azure Datacenter East US
Azure IaaS/VM HANA on Azure Large Instances
ER
ER
HANA Database Server(s) Prod
Customer Corporate
Network
4
10Gbps backend
ExpressRoute
network provided
and managed by
Microsoft
3
NFS storage
of 16TB x 2
SnapMirror
backup available
5
Azure Datacenter West US
HANA on Azure Large Instances
HANA Database Server(s) DR
Azure Backbone Network
Azure IaaS/VM
1Gbps frontend
ExpressRoute between
customer and Azure VM
recommended
1
MPLS
WAN
2 nodes x 4TB (RAM)
HANA System
Replication Cluster
uptime SLA : 99.99%
Azure Backbone Network for HANA
Application Server(s)
Turn off VMs
after setup (then
Compute NOT
charged)
6
HANA System
Replication for async
volume replica
7
2 2 nodes x 8-core
SAP app server cluster –
uptime SLA : 99.95%
S/4HANA,SuiteonHANA,BWonHANA,HANAEnterpriseonHANAonAzureLargeInstances– HAandDR

21. Azure Datacenter East US
Azure IaaS/VM HANA on Azure Large Instances
ER
ER
BW on HANA, HANA Enterprise on HANA on Azure Large Instances – Scale Out + HA
Application Server(s)
Customer Corporate
Network
4
10Gbps backend
ExpressRoute
network provided
and managed by
Microsoft
NFS storage
of 8TB x 3
SnapMirror backup
available
5
1Gbps frontend
ExpressRoute between
customer and Azure VM
recommended
1
MPLS
WAN
3 nodes x 2TB
(RAM) HANA
2 2 nodes x 8-core
SAP app server
3
HANA Database Server(s) Prod
Production

22.  SAP/HANA pre-builit VM images available on SAP Cloud Appliance Library and can be deployed to Azure within
60 minutes
 Hana Developer Edition on Azure
 http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/07/22/step-by-step-guide-for-deployment-of-sap-hana-developer-edition-on-microsoft-azure/
 NetWeaver ABAP/BW HANA Developer Edition on Azure
 https://caldocs.hana.ondemand.com/caldocs/help/Getting_Started_Guide_ABAP_74_SP8_HANA_SP8_DevEdition.pdf
 Test your HANA workloads on Azure with DS Series and Premium Storage today
 More on SAP Cloud Appliance Library
 http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31722
 http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28294
Create a HANA instance from
SAP Cloud Appliance Library
HANA instance deployed
on Microsoft Azure
Connecting to HANA
Database with HANA Studio
Deploying SAP on Azure from SAP Cloud Appliance Library

23. Thank You

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