Summary
In this chapter we have looked in detail at hot to architect SAP on Azure. We have considered both traditional SAP applications running on AnyDB (IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP ASE, and SAP MaxDB) as well as applications running on the SAP HANA database, which can be either the traditional SAP Business Suite applications or the newer SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA. We have covered all the key areas of sizing, high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and monitoring. We have also looked into two of the non-SAP NetWeaver-based applications, namely SAP Data Hub and SAP Hybris Commerce. These use totally different architectures to the core SAP applications, and in many ways are more cloud friendly.
Having now learned how to architect for SAP on Azure, in the next chapter, we will look at the options for actually migrating existing SAP workloads to Azure. The solution will depend on both the source platform on which you run SAP today as well as the...
