SAP Landscape Management with Microsoft Azure
To help customers with deployment and management of applications running in Microsoft Azure, SAP offers the product SAP Landscape Management and Microsoft has developed a Microsoft Azure adapter for it.SAP and Microsoft together provide an integrated support where incidents can be reported to SAP Enterprise Support and can be handled without customer having to determine where the fault lies. Download the DocumentSAP Business Technology Platform | SAP Landscape Management
SAP Landscape Management
with Microsoft Azure
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SAP Landscape Management
with Microsoft Azure
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Table
of contents
3 Executive Summary
4 Introduction
4 SAP Landscape Management
7 SAP HANA Management with SAP Landscape
Management 3.0
8 Key components of SAP Landscape
Management
9 Deployment Models
9 Adaptive Design Principles
10 Microsoft Azure Adapter for SAP Landscape
Management
10 SAP and Microsoft Alliance
11 SAP on Azure Virtual Machines
12 Hybrid Cloud with Azure
13 SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure
15 Integration with SAP Landscape Management
16 Microsoft Azure Adapter Roadmap
17 Customer Scenarios
17 System copy, clone and refresh
18 Microsoft Azure Templated Deployment
18 Relocate
19 Preparation Requirements
21 Conclusion
21 References
Table
of contents
3 Executive Summary
4 Introduction
4 SAP Landscape Management
7 SAP HANA Management with SAP Landscape
Management 3.0
8 Key components of SAP Landscape
Management
9 Deployment Models
9 Adaptive Design Principles
10 Microsoft Azure Adapter for SAP Landscape
Management
10 SAP and Microsoft Alliance
11 SAP on Azure Virtual Machines
12 Hybrid Cloud with Azure
13 SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure
15 Integration with SAP Landscape Management
16 Microsoft Azure Adapter Roadmap
17 Customer Scenarios
17 System copy, clone and refresh
18 Microsoft Azure Templated Deployment
18 Relocate
19 Preparation Requirements
21 Conclusion
21 References
SAP Landscape Management allows administrators to get a single pane of glass view of the status
of their entire SAP application landscape as well as the underlying infrastructure. It acts as a central
point of control and provides extensive automation capabilities intended to simplify the configura-
tion, provisioning, monitoring, and management of SAP applications/systems and associated
non-SAP applications and services. The managed environments can be either physical or cloud
based – private, public or hybrid cloud. However, this paper focuses on SAP application landscapes
running in Microsoft Azure cloud.
To extend the capabilities of SAP Landscape Management in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, SAP has
partnered with Microsoft to provide a complete end-to-end management of SAP application land-
scapes including HANA based systems. The combined solution provides our customers, busi-
ness and technical benefits that include:
• Greater operational continuity through centralized management, visibility and control of your en-
tire SAP landscape residing in Microsoft Azure Cloud using a single console.
• Reduced time, effort, and cost to manage and operate your SAP systems through automation
of time-consuming SAP Basis administration tasks.
• Increased operational agility through acceleration of application life cycle management operations
and fast response to workload fluctuations.
• Additional Cloud Manager functionality in Microsoft Azure including:
- Deployment of VMs with Azure ARM templates by SAP Landscape Management
- Termination of VMs by SAP Landscape Management
- Copy across regions for managed disks
- Setup HSR across regions for managed disks
- Switch of managed disk types from Ultra/Premium to Standard and vice versa
- Relocate (Linux or Windows operating system as well as Azure storage)
- Support for SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Executive Summary
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of their entire SAP application landscape as well as the underlying infrastructure. It acts as a central
point of control and provides extensive automation capabilities intended to simplify the configura-
tion, provisioning, monitoring, and management of SAP applications/systems and associated
non-SAP applications and services. The managed environments can be either physical or cloud
based – private, public or hybrid cloud. However, this paper focuses on SAP application landscapes
running in Microsoft Azure cloud.
To extend the capabilities of SAP Landscape Management in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, SAP has
partnered with Microsoft to provide a complete end-to-end management of SAP application land-
scapes including HANA based systems. The combined solution provides our customers, busi-
ness and technical benefits that include:
• Greater operational continuity through centralized management, visibility and control of your en-
tire SAP landscape residing in Microsoft Azure Cloud using a single console.
• Reduced time, effort, and cost to manage and operate your SAP systems through automation
of time-consuming SAP Basis administration tasks.
• Increased operational agility through acceleration of application life cycle management operations
and fast response to workload fluctuations.
• Additional Cloud Manager functionality in Microsoft Azure including:
- Deployment of VMs with Azure ARM templates by SAP Landscape Management
- Termination of VMs by SAP Landscape Management
- Copy across regions for managed disks
- Setup HSR across regions for managed disks
- Switch of managed disk types from Ultra/Premium to Standard and vice versa
- Relocate (Linux or Windows operating system as well as Azure storage)
- Support for SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
Executive Summary
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