Adarsh Kapoor, Product Management

June 18, 2015

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Roadmap Overview

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3 Product Roadmap Overview

Product Overview

1 Demo

4 Q&A

2

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SAP Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) Making landscape administration easier

With LVM, you can simplify and automate the management and operations of your SAP systems and

landscapes running on physical or virtual infrastructures and increase your business agility.

Simplify

Centralize your SAP landscape operations

Get landscape-wide visibility and control

Integrate and manage your non-SAP applications

Tailor to your needs, customize the user context

Automate

Automate provisioning of your SAP systems

Schedule tasks and manage dependencies

Automate your repetitive basis admin tasks

Get notifications on landscape events

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SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Overview of product functionalities

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management

Provisioning SAP Systems

• End-to-end system clone, copy and

refresh for SAP systems including

SAP HANA systems

• Post-copy automation (PCA) for

ABAP/Java

• Synchronized clone

• Application server and diagnostics

agent provisioning

• Integration with near-zero

downtime maintenance (nZDM) for

Java

Landscape Management

• Customizable dashboards

• Landscape visualization

• Landscape reporting

• Single/Mass operations on SAP

systems and resources

• Take-over procedure for SAP

HANA system replication

• Task scheduler

• Rolling kernel switch

• Detect multi-node databases

Extensibility

• Custom provisioning

• Custom operations / hooks

• Custom instances

• External interfaces

• Custom links / tabs

• Custom notifications

• Custom validations

• Integration with SAP

Solution Manager

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SAP Landscape Virtualization Management 2.1 What’s new with release 2.1

Additional Enhancements

+ View storage-system connections

+ Enhanced landscape visualization

+ Advanced authorization concept

+ Automatic update of Host Agent

Libraries (platform & storage)

Extensibility

+ New custom operations types

+ Validation constraints

+ New template APIs (partners)

+ Integration with work-mode management

of SAP Solution Manager

Provisioning SAP Systems

+ Provisioning SAP HANA systems

+ Synchronized clone

+ Enhancements in PCA handling

+ Template-based execution

Landscape Management

+ Take-over SAP HANA replication

+ Rolling kernel switch

+ Define target state for instances

+ Install PCA license

Demo

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Planned Innovations Future Direction Today This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time. (Release 2.1)

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Product road map overview – key themes and capabilities

Provisioning SAP systems

Provisioning for SAP S/4HANA (on-premise)

Task scheduling for system provisioning

System provisioning using backup/restore

Landscape refresh

Landscape management

Management of SAP S/4HANA (on-premise)

Management of SAP HANA multitenant

database containers (MDC) setups

Template based execution for operations

Simplified landscape configuration

Enhanced usability for operations

Improved task planner and dashboards

Modeling disaster recovery relationships

High availability for LVM

Extensibility

OpenStack adapter

Enhanced EC2 adapter

Flexible orchestration

Provisioning SAP systems

Provisioning for SAP HANA multitenant

database containers (MDC) setups

Using replicated SAP HANA as source for

system provisioning

Integration with SAP TDMS

Post copy/refresh configuration for native

SAP HANA usage scenarios

Landscape management

Automated maintenance for SAP systems

(applying updates, patches etc.)

Support for SAP HANA multi-tiering

Enhanced reporting

Mobile apps

Integration with (SAP HANA) DB Control

Center and Cockpit

Extensibility

Integration with new partner technologies

and third-party management tools

Provisioning SAP systems

End-to-end system clone, copy, rename and

refresh for SAP systems including SAP HANA

single/multi-node systems

Post-copy automation (PCA) for ABAP and

Java based systems

Synchronized clone

Template based execution

Integration with nZDM for Java

Landscape management

Dashboards and landscape visualization

Single/Mass operations on systems/hosts

Task scheduler

Take-over procedure for SAP HANA

Rolling kernel switch

Integration with SAP Solution Manager

Extensibility

Custom provisioning

Custom operations/hooks/instances/tabs

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SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Release plan

2014 2015 2016 2017

LVM

2.1 Ramp-up

This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

LVM

1.0 GA

End

of maintenance

May-2014

SP8

LVM

2.0 SP5 Planned end of

maintenance

Dec-2015

Next

Release GA Ramp-up

SP6

GA

GA Improvements to be delivered in 2015

SP7

SP1 SP2

SP8 SP9

SP3

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SAP Public Web

SAP Community Network http://scn.sap.com/community/it-management/virtualization

LVM Partner Integrations http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-42216

Official Documentation http://help.sap.com/nwlvm

Related SAP Notes

Collective Note SAP LVM 2.1 1973341

SAP's recommended approach to system copy 1767253

System Provisioning with SAP LVM 1709155

Managing system landscapes with LVM

Enterprise Edition

2039615

SAP Landscape Virtualization Management Further information

Thank You!

Contact information:

Adarsh Kapoor

Product Manager, SAP Virtualization and Cloud Management

SAP SE

adarsh.s.kapoor@sap.com