Optimize your SAP NetWeaver landscapes and save costs with Azure's on-demand infrastructure as a serviceJuergen Thomas, Principal PM Manager, Azure

Matt Ordish, Director Solution Specialist, AzureJune 5, 2018

SAP on Azure momentum

Strong momentum going - every week we take customers with SAP

landscapes into Azure

Great feedback from partners – high customer demand to move SAP

landscapes into Azure

Customers from all industries – such as retail, manufacturing, high-tech,

airline industry, financial industries, etc.

Solution paths taken by a lot of customers

Compelling Events for Journey to Cloud: Roadmap for SAP ERP Customers

S/4HANA

HANAHANA

SAP AnyDB

SAP on Azure—huge variety on instances

SAP on Azure—huge variety on instances

The Azure public cloud platform offers a large spread of CPU and

memory selection

Starting with smallest SAP certified VMs of two CPUs and 14GB

To SAP certified VMs with 128 CPUs and 3.8TB

Complemented by SAP certified hardware-as-a-service offer that starts with 64

CPUs and 786GB

Ranges to 960 CPUs and 20TB of memory

Hardware-as-a-service offer is restricted to SAP HANA installations

Azure VM availability overview

SAP on Azure—reliability

Azure is one of the only public cloud platforms that offers single

VM SLA

Single VM using Azure Premium Storage: 99.9%

Two or more VMs within one Azure availability set: connection SLA to a VM 99.95%

Two VMs deployed across Azure Availability Zones: 99.99%

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/virtual-machines/v1_8/

For some customer deployments, single VM SLA good enough to realize SLA

towards customer’s SLA within Availability Sets allow “failover cluster” which

satisfy most SLA requirements for SAP landscapes

Most powerful and scalable cloud for SAP HANA

SAP on Azure—SAP HANA strategy

Run Middleware layer accessing SAP HANA in Azure VMs

Leverage Microsoft Power BI as reporting tool to directly access SAP HANA based analytics cubes and

data marts

Offering larger and larger VMs in regards to CPUs and Memory a host hardware and customer demands

makes mass deployment in hyper-scale commercially viable

Offer HANA large Instances as HaaS to cover lower number of super high-end requirements for a lower

number of SAP customer installations

Azure –most SAP HANA certified SKUs

Azure has most SAP HANA

certified SKUs

19 different VMs and

HANA large Instances

Supported for up to

60TB scale-out

Starting with 128GB to 20TB

https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/

enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure

SAP on Azure—SAP NetWeaver certifications

SAP solution Guest OS Database VM type

SAP on Azure—SAP HANA certifications

SAP solution Supported OS Azure offerings

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