Disaster Recovery Plan

As many of our customers are adopting Microsoft Azure to running their most critical workloads, SAP and SAP HANA are naturally at the center of many conversations.

In this session, Cameron Gardiner, principal program manager in the SAP on Azure team, and myself cover the latest status update about technologies available in Azure to run your SAP environments.

This session assumes that you have a prior knowledge of SAP on Azure and cover the following topics:

Latest compute offerings available in APAC region
Latest announcements and innovation release
Certification status for HANA
Running HEC on Azure
Building SAP disaster recovery with Azure
Support and certifications for SAP on Azure Stack and Hyper-V

The link to register to the online session: https://info.microsoft.com/AP-AzureINFRA-WBNR-FY19-07Jul-31-SAPHANAonAzure-MCW0008140_01Registration-ForminBody.html

The video of the session:

The slides of the session:
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Some additional links to document our session:

Cameron’s Blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/
Azure Certification Status: http://aka.ms/sapcerts
- SAP IaaS Certified: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2014-09-02-hana-hardware/enEN/iaas.html#categories=Microsoft%20Azure
- SAP Note: https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1928533
SAP on Azure Quick start templates (ARM templates): https://github.com/AzureCAT-GSI/SAP-on-Azure
SAP on Azure SUSE on the marketplace: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/SUSE.SLES-SAP
SAP on Azure Deployment Guide for High Availability: http://aka.ms/sapha
Build a Disaster Recovery Plan for SAP on Azure: http://aka.ms/sapdr
SQL Server 2017 Support for SAP: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saponsqlserver/2018/06/28/sap-support-for-sql-server-2017/
Customers Reference for SAP on Azure: http://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/search?sq=SAP%20on%20Azure&ff=&p=0&so=story_publish_date%20desc

Feel free to reach us for any question!

Arnaud

<updated 14th march 2017>

In this series of “Getting Started” articles, I will post the most up-to-date information I use with Microsoft Partners and customers when enabling them with Azure infrastructure services. I follows the same structure which is: getting started, training videos if available, then reference architectures, capacity planning and pricing information.

Disaster Recovery Plans aka DRP is one the most ungrateful work in IT. Because basically you are going to prepare for some situations that will be painful and difficult. However, this is a good exercise to protect against one of the most prevalent laws in IT: “Anything (Everything) will fail at some point, and very likely at the worst time”.

It puts you in a state of mind that most of people don’t like.and you will ask your boss money for something that you hope will never be used.

That’s where the cloud can help, for both virtualized and non virtualized workloads. Here’s how in 4 easy steps:

First step consists of replicating your production workloads as they are running.
Second step is to automating the disaster recovery plan execution.
Run the workloads in Azure.
Replicate your virtual machines back to your datacenter.

Overview video	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOOwMQPBKfM
Overview article	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/site-recovery-overview/
Training Videos	https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Azure-Site-Recovery
Technical References	Azure Site Recovery support matrix – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-support-matrix Prepare for Azure Site Recovery deployment – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-best-practices Migrate AWS workloads to Azure – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-migrate-aws-to-azure
Architecture references	VMware and Physical Servers to Azure – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-vmware-to-azure Hyper-V to Azure – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-hyper-v-site-to-azure VMM to Azure – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-vmm-to-azure Network planning for disaster recovery: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-network-design
Workload guidance	What workloads can you protect with Azure Site Recovery? – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-workload Active directory and DNS SQL Server Sharepoint Dynamics AX Exchange SAP Running automation in ASR – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-runbook-automation
Sizing & capacity planning	Capacity planning: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-capacity-planner Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner: https://aka.ms/asr-deployment-planner-doc
Pricing reference	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/site-recovery/
Service updates information	https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?product=site-recovery

When you have put the infrastructure in place and are in the process of fully automating the disaster recovery plan, you need skills on Azure Automation. There’s a pretty nice course on Microsoft OpenEDX: https://openedx.microsoft.com/courses/course-v1:Microsoft+AZURE210x+2016_T4/about

Feel free to connect with me and provide feedbacks!

Arnaud

Arnaud Lheureux

Azure Architect @ Microsoft

Microsoft Azure for SAP Solutions – August 2018 Update

Getting started with – Azure Site Recovery

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