Understand Moving SAP HANA to Azure Cloud Computing
There are two basic methods for connecting into Azure VMs:
1- Connect through the internet and public endpoints on a Jump VM or on the VM that is running SAP HANA.
2- Connect through a VPN or Azure ExpressRoute.
Site-to-site connectivity via VPN or ExpressRoute is necessary for production scenarios. This type of connection is also needed for non-production scenarios that feed into production scenarios where SAP software is being used. The following image shows an example of cross-site connectivity:
To understand Moving SAP HANA to Azure cloud service, it is important to understand the evolution of cloud computing and have a basic understanding of how it is offered. This section will clarify the differences between a traditional physical data center and infrastructure, platform, and software as a service.
The adoption of computing as a service, rather than as a product, is an evolution in the IT industry where vendors have worked with customers and recognized the customers’ desire to manage only the minimal amount needed for a specific business purpose. Products like e-mail, collaboration, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management etc., have evolved where customers desire a specific degree of control over the resources dedicated to each system or service, therefore governing the performance, cost and capabilities curve in managing them.
In the broad view of the industry, cloud computing has come about in three general types of services – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Each of these respective services provide a sliding scale in terms of access to the underlying mechanics of the computing resources supporting the service and the required management effort. The launch of the new SAP HANA on Azure offerings based on the Azure GS5 virtual machine type and new large instances for SAP HANA on Azure brings new levels of performance to an SAP cloud environment previously not available.
RITNOA Consulting Services will provide you advisory on moving SAP HANA to Azure cloud. Be it full cloud or hybrid cloud solution, our advisory includes considerations for configuration, deployment, and the scaling of your SAP HANA-based system in Azure.
An introduction to Microsoft Azure
Business Considerations and Use Cases for SAP HANA
Planning Deployment
High Availability
Migrating Existing SAP HANA into Azure