Title: SAP NetWeaver on Azure Virtual Machines – Planning and Implementation Guide
Summary: This is the paper to start with if you are thinking about running SAP NetWeaver in Azure Virtual Machines. This planning and implementation guide will help you evaluate whether an existing or planned SAP NetWeaver-based system can be deployed to an Azure Virtual Machines environment. It covers multiple SAP NetWeaver deployment scenarios, and includes SAP configurations that are specific to Azure. The paper lists and describes all the necessary configuration information you’ll need on the SAP/Azure side to run a hybrid SAP landscape. Measures you can take to ensure high availability of SAP NetWeaver-based systems on IaaS are also covered.
Updated: August 2015
Title: SAP NetWeaver on Azure Virtual Machines – Deployment Guide
Summary: This document provides procedural guidance for deploying SAP NetWeaver software to virtual machines in Azure. This paper focuses on three specific deployment scenarios, with an emphasis on enabling the Azure Monitoring Extensions for SAP, including troubleshooting recommendations for the Azure Monitoring Extensions for SAP. This paper assumes that you’ve read the planning and implementation guide.
Updated: September 2015
Title: SAP DBMS in Azure Deployment Guide
Summary: This paper covers planning and implementation considerations for the DBMS systems that should run in conjunction with SAP. In the first part, general considerations are listed and presented. The following parts of the paper relate to deployments of different DBMS in Azure that are supported by SAP. Different DBMS presented are SQL Server, SAP ASE, Oracle, SAP MaxDB and IBM DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows. In those specific parts considerations you have to account for when you are running SAP systems on Azure in conjunction with those DBMS are discussed. Subjects like backup and high availability methods that are supported by the different DBMS on Azure are presented for the usage with SAP applications.
Updated: December 2015
Title: SAP NetWeaver - Building an Azure based Disaster Recovery Solution
Summary:This document provides a step-by-step guidance for building an Azure based Disaster Recovery solution for SAP NetWeaver. The solution described assumes that the SAP landscape is running virtualized on-premise based on Hyper-V. In the first part of the document Azure Site Recovery (ASR) services are introduced in its components. The second part of the document describes specifics for SAP NetWeaver based landscapes. Possibilities of using ASR with SAP NetWeaver application instances and SAP Central Services are discussed and described. A focus of the second part is leveraging ASR for SAP Central Services which are protected with windows Server Failover Cluster configurations.
Updated: September 2015