1. SAP on Azure Architecture

2. What is so attractive on SAP workload on Azure?
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

3. Why is it easy to move a SAP system into Azure?
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. Scenarios customers use
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

5. SAP Deployment on Azure in Hybrid IT scenario
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

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. AZURE VM SKUS SUPPORTED FOR SAP
SAP Note – SAP Applications on Azure: Supported Products and Azure VM types
  *) The DS series in a 3-tier configuration is only supported with DB data files and DB transaction log files placed on Azure Premium Storage. **) The GS series (2-tier and 3-tier) is only supported with DB data files and DB transaction log files placed on Azure Premium Storage.
***) Please check with through SAP customer message on specifics of this configuration
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
 A7
   8 CPU,   56 GB
   6,000
   50,000
 A8 / A10
 11,000
***
 No
 A9 / A11
 16 CPU, 112 GB
 22,000
 D11
   2,325
 D12
   4,650
 D13
   9,300
 D14
 18,600
 DS11*
   2 CPU,   14 GB
 Premium
 DS12*
   4 CPU,   28 GB
   48,750
 DS13*
   8 CPU,   56 GB
   91,050
 DS14*
DS11v2
3530
Yes
Premium
DS12v2
6860
DS13v2
12300
DS14v2
24180
DS15v2
20 CPU, 140GB
30340
 GS1**
   2 CPU,   28 GB
   3,580
   34,415
 GS2**
   4 CPU,   56 GB
   6,900
   78,620
 GS3**
   8 CPU, 112 GB
 11,870
 137,520
 GS4**
 16 CPU, 224 GB
 22,680
 247,880
 GS5**
 32 CPU, 448 GB
 41,670

8. SAP NetWeaver certifications
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.
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
SQL Server; Oracle; DB2; SAP ASE
SAP Business Objects (BI) including Data Services
Windows Server NA
SAP NetWeaver
SQL Server, Oracle; DB2; SAP ASE
1Oracle DBMS only support on Windows Guest OS in Azure

9. SAP on Azure (Any DB) <1.5k SAPS 41K XX 350K XXX Windows SQL
SAP Business Suite 6
SAP all in one
SAP NetWeaver 7
SAP Business Objects
SAP Business One
<1.5k SAPS
41K XX
350K
XXX
2 Tier
SAP on Azure (Any DB)
3 Tier
Windows
SQL
Windows/Oracle Linux
Oracle
Windows/SLES/RHEL
DB2
Azure can run all kinds of SAP applications with Any DB / – SAP Business Suite including ECC/ERP, SCM, HCM, All-in-one, NetWeaver including / BW, Portal, PI/XI/EAI, Solution Manager, Business Objects and Business One ERP.
Most of SAP customers are very likely to be running/ latest versions / – such as SAP Business Suite 6 and NetWeaver 7 / because SAP doesn’t support anything older than that / in the first place. So it’s not always mandatory for us Microsoft / to check customer’s SAP versions.
Azure supports all SAP certified database / including Oracle, DB2, ASE and MaxDB / with a variety of OS choices including Linux. While Windows/SQL is the most mature OS/DB platform to run SAP on Azure, / our support of Oracle database / together with Windows or Oracle Linux / is another great option / for those currently running SAP on UNIX/Oracle platform. SAP OS migration from UNIX to Windows / or Oracle Linux is very common. Note that there’s no roadmap for certification / for Oracle and Red Hat and SUSE anytime soon / due to non-technical reason from Oracle.
Also, our support of DB2/ASE with SUSE Linux and Red Hat Linux / is compelling for customers / currently running UNIX/DB2/ASE / and are open to OS migration.
SAP SD benchmark shows Azure VM can run / up to 41k SAPS with 2-tier / which is a single VM / and up to 350k SAPS with 3-tier / which is multiple VMs with application server scale out.
SAPS is the indicator to measure / processing power /of SAP sales and distribution transactions. So more SAPS / more powerfully the infrastructure can run SAP transactions.
With this scalability / and comprehensive OS/DB support / Azure D and G Series VM can run / > 90% of world’s SAP production systems.
With Azure M Series VM / to be released and certified by SAP this calendar year, / # of SAPS that azure can run / will significantly increase / and we’ll be able to cover / even more SAP on Any DB.
Windows/SLES/RHEL
ASE
Including TREX, LiveCache and Content server. Only NetWeaver 7.00 and later SAP releases of NetWeaver are supported for deployment in Azure

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)
Non-production on GS5 VMs
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

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)
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
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 E v3 (Haswell)
SR72 72
768
3,072
OLAP/OLTP
Certified
SR72m
1,536
6,144
OLTP
SR192
192
2,048
8,192
SR192m
4,096
16,384
HANA on Azure Very Large Instances
Intel® Xeon® Processor E v4 (Broadwell)
SR384
384
Orderable from July 2017, Available from Oct 2017
SR384m
18,432
SR384xm
22,528
SR576m
576
12,288
28,672
SR768m
36,864
SR960m
960
20,480
47,104
And what is SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances offering ? This is not regular Azure VM/, but SAP certified purpose built / HANA hardware infrastructure hosted in Azure.
We’re using Equinix colocation datacenter / to host these hardware / which sit behind Azure IaaS/VNET. HANA database hardware in colo / and SAP application server VMs in regular Azure VNET / are tightly connected thru / backend ExpressRoute / and network latency between colo and Azure / is kept within 2 ms.
HANA Large Instances offering includes / certified HANA server blade, / storage hardware with built-in capabilities of / snapshot backup, storage replication and volume encryption etc / and network devices including / backend ExpressRoute / to connect to Azure VNET which is 10Gbps.
Based on customer’s application scenario – OLAP or OLTP, / and how much memory is needed for HANA database, / you can pick Large Instances SKUs for HANA database/ while application servers can be hosted in Azure VM / as needed.

12. SAP on Azure (HANA) 448 GB 1-2 TB 0.76-2 TB 4 TB 60 TB 448 GB*2
448 GB
1-2 TB
OLAP
Single node / Virtual Machine *4 *3 TB
4 TB
60 TB
SAP on Azure (HANA)
Single node / Purpose Built Hardware
Multi-node / Purpose Built Hardware *1 *2
448 GB TB
OLAP : Business Warehouse (BW on HANA, BW/4HANA), Side Car, HANA Enterprise DWH
OLTP : S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, NetWeaver
Single node / Virtual Machine
OLTP *4 *3
Azure can run all kinds of HANA applications / and support both HANA scenarios / – OLAP and OLTP.
OLAP means Business Warehouse, / BW on HANA, BW/4HANA, HANA Side Car, HANA enterprise DWH / and data mart and so on. OLTP includes / S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA and SAP NetWeaver / such as Portal, XI, PI or EAI, Solution Manager.
HANA database sizes that we can cover today / are the numbers that you can see in white in this slide.
For OLAP we can run HANA database / up to 448GB on Azure Virtual Machines / one GS5 VM, / and up to 4TB / on Large Instances one blade, / and up to 60TB / on Large Instances 15-node scale out. The numbers in red are what we’re going to release / and get SAP certification / by the end of this calendar year. We will be able to run / up to 2TB on Azure M Series VM / by the end of CY17.
As for OLTP / it’s up to 448GB with VM / for S/4HANA / and up to 20TB with HANA Large Instances scale up – one node / as of today. By the end of this CY / it will be up to 3.8TB with M Series VM.
Please note that Azure is now offering market’s best scalability / that many on-prem HANA hardware manufacturers cannot provide. We are still hearing / classic cloud vs. on-prem argument / such as / large production HANA stays on-prem / and only small non-prod goes to cloud. This is not true any more. TB TB
Single node / Purpose Built Hardware
24 TB
*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
Multi-node / Purpose Built Hardware (S/4HANA)

13. For SAP on Azure Technical Sales and Partner..
Prepare
Design
Win 1 2 3
Qualify your customer
Get “SAP Early Watch Report”
Know HW/OS/DB platform current vs. target, # of SAPS, DB size, utilization %, HANA DB size
Understand scope and timeline
Use “SAP on Azure T-shirt Design Model” (currently draft)
Create a draft solution proposal
Diagrams, BOMs, quotes
Pitch customer & get feedback (e.g. 60 mins over skype)
Run ADS = Architecture Design Session (e.g. 1.5 days onsite)
Discuss migration, optimization & re-architecture
Finalize proposal with options and timeline
No HA, HA, HADR
Finalize quotes
Choose right SKU(s) for HANA Large Instances
Make sure to have MS Premier Support
Propose additional offer
Funding – BIF/CIF program
Calculate ROI for customer
Make sure to work with Partner for Managed Services
Escalate Winroom as needed

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

15. Azure VM Types, # of VMs, Storage Types and # of disks for DB file/log
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Azure VM Types, # of VMs, Storage Types and # of disks for DB file/log
SAMPLE 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 2 3
Customer Requirements
Decision points to migrate to Azure
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 -
D12v2 2
Active/ Passive
6,860
APP
D15v2
All Active
60,680
Database
30,000
3.4TB
GS5
41,670
6 x Premium Storage P30 (1TB, 5kIOPS/ disk)
6TB
1 x Premium Storage P30 (1TB, 5kIOPS /disk)
Single digit ms latency 2 2 1 3
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16. SAP on Any DB : Dev/Test Migration to Azure
SAMPLE
Customer Current Datacenter (On-premise)
Migration to Azure (System Copy)
Dev/Test
Shutdown when unused ` 3
retire
retire
retire
retire
Test/Dev
Oracle Data Guard
DR/Backup DB 4
Nearly zero data loss
Azure Virtual Network Or ExpressRoute (10Mbps -1Gbps) 1
Production
SAN Storage
Tape
Azure Blob Storage
Commodity Cloud Storage
End users
Legacy systems 2

17. SAP on Any DB : Production System Migration to Azure
SAMPLE
Customer Current Datacenter (On-premise) `
Migration to Azure (System Copy)
Shutdown when unused `
retire
retire
retire
retire
Dev/Test
Test/Dev
Oracle Data Guard
Shut down
Shut down
Shut down
Shut down
DR/Backup DB
Production
Azure Virtual Network Or ExpressRoute (10Mbps -1Gbps)
DB Restore & SAP System Copy 6
better RTO
Shut down
Shut down
SAP ASCS Clustering DB DB
Oracle Data Guard 8 7
SAN Storage
Auto Scale
Tape
Zero data loss …… 9
SAP APP Logon Group 10
Domain Controller
Production
DB Online Backup
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Premium Storage
Commodity Cloud Storage
Hi-performance SSD Storage
End users
Legacy systems 5

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

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

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

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

22. Deploying SAP on Azure from SAP Cloud Appliance Library
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
NetWeaver ABAP/BW HANA Developer Edition on Azure
Test your HANA workloads on Azure with DS Series and Premium Storage today
More on SAP Cloud Appliance Library
Create a HANA instance from
SAP Cloud Appliance Library
HANA instance deployed on Microsoft Azure
Connecting to HANA Database with HANA Studio

23. Thank You