Contoso, a pharmaceutical company, wants to significantly reduce server and storage hardware in their own datacenters to minimize IT related costs. The leadership asked Contoso IT to look into the possibility of implementing its SAP HANA environment to cloud. Contoso also wants to dramatically simplify the process of provisioning Azure resources, as well as installation and Please Note: This workshop will retire effect October 31, 2023. The workshop is no longer being maintained. of SAP HANA software components. Contoso IT has been relying on Ansible to manage its on-premises environment and, with the cloud migration plans, it started evaluating the use of Terraform to automate on-premises and cloud-based deployments.
November 2021
- SAP Basis Professionals
In this workshop, you will learn how to provision a highly available deployment of SAP HANA in Azure. Throughout the whiteboard design session, you will look at the planning process of deploying SAP HANA on Azure VMs. You will identify and implement Azure infrastructure components necessary to support a clustered deployment of SAP HANA. Finally, you will review different scenarios that involve manual and automatic failover between cluster nodes.
At the end of this workshop you will be able to better design and deploy SAP HANA on Azure.
In this workshop, you will look at what is involved in deploying SAP HANA on Azure with the goals of designing for in-memory database performance, business continuity and flexibility as well as fully optimized total cost of ownership.
At the end of this whiteboard design session you will be able to design SAP HANA workloads on Azure in alignment with SAP HANA certification with high availability and disaster recovery, use Azure Pricing Calculator to price the SAP HANA landscape, and present the solution to business/technical decision makers and handle Q&A with customer.
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- SAP on Azure
- SAP HANA
- Azure VMs
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure Virtual Networks
- Load Balancers
- Linux Clustering
SAP on Azure
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