SAP on Azure Talk

We discuss the Azure services that relate to SAP and their use-cases.

Reference Links:

Azure Charts: https://azurecharts.com/

Azure SAP Heat Map: https://azurecharts.com/heatmap?for=SAP

We explore monitoring (and tools) for Azure Infrastructure resources as well as SAP services. 

Nathan and Ravi talk about why we wanted to start a Podcast and how we plan to share information.

You can write to us at connect[at]SAPonAzureTalk.com 

#SAPonAzureTalk

We discuss the concepts and tools around Disaster Recovery for SAP systems in Azure

Reference Links:

Disaster Recovery for SAP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-sap

SAP on Azure Architecture guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/sap/sap-overview

How do you say SUSE [soo-za] and SAP [S-A-P]? How does Satya Nadella say Azure [azh-er]?  Find out in the getting to know us edition where we embrace our differences about how we say things!

How we say Azure: https://twitter.com/azure/status/1356294983641423872?lang=en

How to say SUSE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4lFHP-UxTk

We talk about why we need backups, different kind of backups for SAP, and tools available. (Bonus: why Backups should be boring)

Fact check: Iron Mountain (company) does offsite data storage too besides destroying documents 

Reference Links:

Azure Backup: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-overview

Azure backup for SAP HANA Support Matrix: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/sap-hana-backup-support-matrix

We discuss Azure landing zone considerations for SAP environments.

Reference Links

Azure Landing Zone discussion: http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net/post/Episode-367-Enterprise-Scale-Landing-Zones

Landing Zone for SAP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/sap/ready

SAP Start/Stop Automation: https://github.com/Azure/SAP-on-Azure-Scripts-and-Utilities/tree/main/Start-Stop-Automation

We talk about how shared storage relates to SAP High Availability, use cases, and the types of shared storages available in Azure for SAP. We also discuss about what end-to-end high availability scenario looks like.  

Reference Links 

Composite SLAs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/framework/resiliency/business-metrics#composite-slas 

SAP on Azure solutions using Azure NetApp Files (ANF): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures#sap-on-azure-solutions 

Azure Architecture Center: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/

SAP on Microsoft Azure - Architecture and Administration (SAP Press book by Ravi Kashyap): https://www.sap-press.com/sap-on-microsoft-azure_5174/

We discuss application level clustering and why it's important even if you have infrastructure level resiliency. 

High-availability architecture and scenarios for SAP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/sap-high-availability-architecture-scenarios

In this episode we explore what High Availability (HA) is, difference between application and infrastructure HA, and SAP components that needs HA. 

Reference Links: 

Azure Global Infrastructure:  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/ 

Understanding Availability Sets and Availability Zones: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/understanding-availability-sets-and-availability-zones/ba-p/1992518 

Azure Proximity Placement Groups for SAP: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/workloads/sap/sap-proximity-placement-scenarios