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Optimize SAP on Cloud with Proven NetApp Capabilities

Accelerate projects, simplify operations, and move to the cloud faster with NetApp Cloud Services for SAP.

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Move, Deploy and Optimize SAP in the Cloud

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Accelerate Projects
  • Rapid prototyping and deployments
  • Parallelize training and QA
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Improve Resilience
  • No impact DR testing
  • More testing in less time
  • SAP consistent backups
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High Performance
  • Meet performance needs of SAP R/3
  • HANA certified solutions
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Simplify Operations
  • Application integrated Snapshot-based data protection
  • One-click storage provisioning and resizing
  • Enterprise class NFS/SMB for shared files

Highlights

Run Your SAP HANA on Cloud

Migrate to HANA in the cloud and S4/HANA to accelerate business transformation.
  • Customer Challenges Customer Challenges

    Customers moving to the cloud face challenges adapting their operations to multiple, cloud specific and proprietary features cloud infrastructure provides.

    While cloud provides promising scalability, and fast deployment, the user is responsible for daily operations and implementing SAP specific project workflows. All-in-all its Infrastructure as a Service. While cloud may be able to fulfill the promise to reduce TCO and speed up initial deployment, SAP customers know that the real cost savings do not come through infrastructure alone, but through accelerating projects, simplifying operations, and well designed application integration.


    Organizations running SAP HANA in the cloud benefit from cloud elasticity, and access to cloud services. However, it requires enterprise grade storage and data management to ensure such critical applications are always on and performing properly.

  • ic-solution Solution
    • Azure NetApp Files in certified configurations for production HANA databases
    • Cloud Volumes Service or Azure NetApp Files for development, test and shared files
    • Application integrated snapshots and copies via scripts or SnapCenter for Cloud Volumes ONTAP
  • ic-results Results with Cloud Solutions for SAP
    • High performance and highly available enterprise NFS service to share files across all SAP HANA instances
    • Accelerate projects by delivering prototypes or new landscapes in minutes
    • Improved resiliency via space efficient snapshots that do not impact performance
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Migrate SAP Enterprise Suite to the Cloud

Rapidly take advantage of cloud scale and infrastructure without sacrificing performance or data management
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  • ic-challenge-1 Customer Challenges

    Organizations want to migrate SAP to the cloud to reduce infrastructure they run, and take advantage of cloud scale. However, they do not want to take the time to refactor the applications, and cannot sacrifice availability or performance. In addition, every SAP implementation requires shared files for transports, binary files, and interfaces.

  • ic-solution Solution

    Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp Files

    • Production, test, development and sandbox data sets on Cloud Volumes Service or Azure NetApp Files
    • Shared files on Cloud Volumes Service or Azure NetApp Files
  • ic-results Results with Cloud Solutions for SAP
    • High performance up to 128 MB/sec.
    • Rapid copies to accelerate development by up to 70%
    • Simplified operations resulting in up to 50% savings 
    • Highly available shared file space
    • Simple, one-click capacity management
    • Backups leveraging snapshots with zero performance load

Simplify Your SAP Shared Files Deployment
in the Public Cloud

Take advantage of enterprise grade, highly available shared file systems to simplify your SAP
deployments and optimize your operations.
  • ic-challenge-1 Customer Challenges

    Every SAP system landscape has the need for a shared file system, /usr/sap/trans, sapmnt or /hana/shared to name a few. Not all public clouds offer a simple to use, yet powerful, enterprise grade filesystem, that’s suitable for SAP applications. Often customers are forced to build linux based NFS servers to provision their own file services, adding additional resources and maintenance costs to increase their TCO.

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    Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp Files

    • The one click shared file service meeting all your SAP requirements
    • Easy to deploy, full set of enterprise management features.
    • For shared file systems up to database volumes, CVS and ANF is the perfect solution for all kind of SAP deployments
  • ic-results Results with Cloud Solutions for SAP
    • Enterprise grade NFS and SMB proven for thousands of SAP deployments · Built in Snapshot capabilities for automated backups
    • Automated synchronization within the cloud, between clouds and hybrid setups.
    • Simplified operations resulting in up to 50% savings
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Leverage the Cloud for Development and Test Systems

Deploy a hybrid cloud to accelerate application development
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  • ic-challenge-1 Customer Challenges

    Large scale SAP projects typically require complex test landscapes, and multiple project teams need sandbox or development systems.

    Those demands requires additional infrastructure and mechanisms to improve deployment, and SAP system copy procedures to adapt to this highly demanding environment.

    In addition, many SAP customers need an infrastructure refresh to suppor migration tests required to validate and adapt new SAP applications such as when switching from AnyDB to SAP HANA based SAP solutions. Internal IT is often overwhelmed with these demanding infrastructure requests.

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    Cloud Volumes ONTAP

    • SAP system copy and fast backup and restore operations to expedite development cycles and projects efficiently using NetApp's Snapshot and cloning technologies
    • Application integration with SnapCenter and SAP LAMA provide easy to use SAP workflows
    • All the tools and operations can be extended into the cloud without the need for immediate change
    • Storage efficiencies and operation improvements help reduce TCO
    Cloud Volumes Service or Azure NetApp Files
    • Test systems with increased performance demands can be moved to Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp Files without any change in SAP system configuration.
  • ic-results-1 Results with Cloud Solutions for SAP
    • Efficient replication from on-premises for DR or to populate for development or testing
    • Rapid copies to accelerate development by up to 70%
    • Improved development, test and migration projects with enterprise grade data management in the cloud
    • Support for hybrid operations using Cloud Volumes ONTAP with automated synchronization within the cloud, between clouds and hybrid setups.
    • Simplified operations resulting in up to 50% savings

Leverage the Cloud For Disaster Recovery

Deploy a hybrid cloud to accelerate application development and improve disaster recovery
  • ic-challenge-1 Customer Challenges

    Organizations want to leverage the elasticity and consumption based model of cloud to cost effectively provide a disaster recovery location that does not require ongoing management of the infrastructure. The challenge customers face is being able to continue operations in the cloud in case of a disaster with similar performance and minimal data loss and downtime. For most of the customers running DR in the cloud means replication on the application level.

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    • Customers using NetApp on prem have the additional option to utilize storage replication to Cloud Volumes ONTAP for disaster recovery avoiding application servers permanently allocated for application level replication.
    • Depending on the performance requirements in case of a disaster failover, the systems can be either started on CVO or migrated to high performance CVS/ANF using cloud internal networking.
    • NetApp Cloning technologies can be used to efficiently test DR scenarios without influencing or interrupting the replication ensuring that the defined Recover Point Objective (RPO) can be met.
  • ic-results-1 Results with Cloud Solutions for SAP
    • Cost efficient storage based replication from on-premises for DR avoiding additional application servers in the cloud
    • Efficient DR testing using cloning technology
    • Leverage DR replication image for additional development/test system copies
    • High performance enterprise grade storage
    • Application-consistent HANA backups leveraging snapshots with zero performance load
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Features

  • ic-tiers-5 Three Performance Tiers

    Choose the performance level that best suits your application requirements and adjust on-the-fly... without having to move your data.

    Standard | 16MB / second throughput per allocated TB

    Premium | 64MB / second throughput per allocated TB

    Extreme/Ultra | 128MB / second throughput per allocated TB

  • ic-snapmirror-2 Standard File Interfaces

    Everything your app expects: POSIX compliant NFS and Standard SMB interfaces for UNIX and Windows platforms

  • ic-data-management-3 Advanced Data Management

    Get built-in, advanced features for your application data environments:

    SnapShot Copies - Increase your application resiliency by taking more snapshot copies that do not impact your performance, time or capacity.

    Rapid Clones - Get your application and services to market faster with rapid, low cost data copies.

    Data Encryption - All data at rest is encrypted by default so your data is always protected.

  • ic-cost-saving-3 Metered Service

    Only pay for the capacity you allocate with hourly granularity.

  • ic-duplicate-1 Application-consistent snapshots and copies
    • Via scripts or management tool, SnapCenter
    • Space efficient and no performance impact
  • ic-manage Fully Managed Service

    Seamless integration with cloud consoles, IAM and monitoring tools

  • ic-collaboration-1 Native Service Experience

    Azure NetApp Files is an Azure service in the Azure Portal and Azure CLI and SDKs, managed and monitored like any other Azure service. Cloud Volumes Service for GC has a GCP UI and API like every other Google service, and is integrated into Google IAM and security infrastructure.

  • ic-protocol-5 Integrated Support

    Azure NetApp Files supported by Azure, and Cloud Volumes Service for GC supported by Google Cloud to allow end-to-end troubleshooting and rapid resolution.

  • ic-cost-saving-3 Integrated Billing

    Directly billed by Azure, AWS or Google on monthly invoice. No need to manage bills from multiple vendors.

Solution Availability

Deploy a hybrid cloud to accelerate application development and improve disaster recovery

Solution
Hyperscalers
Services

SAP Enterprise Suite shared files or production

SAP Enterprise Suite shared files or production

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

SAP Enterprise Suite Test/Dev

SAP Enterprise Suite Test/Dev

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

SAP Enterprise Suite DR

SAP Enterprise Suite DR

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

SAP HANA & S/4 HANA Shared Files

SAP HANA & S/4 HANA Shared Files

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

SAP HANA and S/4 HANA Test/Dev or DR

SAP HANA and S/4 HANA Test/Dev or DR

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

SAP HANA Production

SAP HANA Production

Azure (certified)

Google Cloud (certified)

Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

Hybrid cloud SAP Enterprise Suite
Test/Dev or DR from on-premises
production

Hybrid cloud SAP Enterprise Suite
Test/Dev or DR from on-premises
production

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Azure NetApp Files
Cloud Volumes Service

Hybrid cloud SAP HANA Test/Dev or
DR from on-premises production

Hybrid cloud SAP HANA Test/Dev or
DR from on-premises production

Azure, Google Cloud, AWS

Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Cloud Volumes Service
Azure NetApp Files