"Learn how customers are leveraging AWS to better position their enterprises for the digital transformation journey. In this session, you hear about: operations and process; the SAP transformation journey including architecting, migrating, running SAP on AWS; complete automation and management of the AWS layer using AWS native services; and a customer example. We also discuss the challenges of migration to the cloud and a managed services environment; the benefits to the customer of the new operating model; and lessons learned. By the end of the session, you understand why you should consider AWS for your next SAP platform, how to get there when you are ready and some best practices to manage your SAP systems on AWS.
session sponsored by DXC Technology"
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Agenda
• Why Amazon AWS for SAP?
• Architecting, migrating, and
running SAP on AWS
• Support for self-healing
applications
• Customer benefits
• Case study
• Q&A
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Flexibility
Technical
excellence
Economics
• Rapid provision, globally:
Create new SAP/HANA systems
through AWS Quick Start in < 1 hour
• Grow (or shrink) as you go:
Scale-up or out your configuration
in < 1 hour
• Expertise:
SAP, AWS, and DXC collective
expertise and knowledge
• Secure:
Innovate while maintaining or
improving your security posture
• Simplify:
Clone and upgrade systems with
ease
• Consume:
Provision new SAP innovations
through SAP’s Cloud Appliance
Library (CAL)
• Low cost of entry:
4 TB for 40 hours < $1,400*
• Flexible pricing:
Achieve up to 72% discount on X1
for three-year commitments
• Cost Savings:
16-22% (or more) TCO savings
versus on-premises
* Pricing based on US-East region, as of 08/14/2017
Why SAP on AWS is the right answer
Accelerating the digital transformation journey
Since 2008
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SAP on AWS use cases
High Availability
/Disaster
Recovery
Backup and
Restore
SAP Proofs Of
Concept/
Sandbox
Technology
Refresh
Data Center Exit
or Outsourcing
Move Smaller
Global SAP
Workloads to
Cloud
Cloud-Native—
Greenfield SAP
Implementation
Dev/Test/QA
Workloads
SAP Document
Archiving
What is
motivating
others to move
their SAP
workloads to
AWS and the
hyperscale
cloud?
5. DXC Proprietary and Confidential
Why DXC for AWS
• SAP managed and professional
services
• AWS Managed Service Program
• AWS Channel Reseller Program
• Migration
8,500+ Accreditations
625+ Associate certifications
50+ Professional certifications
AWS
expertise
Global Certifications
AWS Competency Program
APN Premier Consulting Partner
• AWS North America region
• AWS Asia-Pacific region
• AWS Europe, Middle East, Africa region
• AWS China region partner
• AWS Public Sector Partner Program
• AWS Test Drive partner
• AWS Managed Services launch partner
• Big data
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Why DXC for SAP
SAP
expertise
15,000+
SAP professionals
• 4,500+ - SAP development (ABAP, Netweaver, Mobility)
• 5,500+ - SAP ECC (Logistics, FICO) and SAP BI
• 5,000+ - SAP CRM, SCM, SRM, ALM, PI, Cloud
SAP clients across multiple industries
(for example, insurance, manufacturing, and travel)
P&G, Kraft, Sanofi, GM, Sabre
500+
PMI certified project managers 1/4 have SAP
background4,000+
SAP HANA in the cloud first accredited
pooled architecture provider in the cloud for
SAP HANA; 21 approved SAP HANA DCs
around the globe
#1
Supported customer users—54+ countries
and over 500 clients worldwide+2 Million
For business advantage, productivity, engagement
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Architecting SAP on AWS
“SAP and SAP HANA are not cloud-native”
AWS offers over 90 services from simple VMs to advanced AI. However, at its heart SAP is still a traditional three-
tier client server application. It’s not a new-style cloud-native app designed with cloud frameworks, microservices,
and loosely coupled cloud services in mind.
SAP is
more
like this:
Than
this:
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Architecting SAP on AWS
“Simplicity can be deceiving”
AWS makes it easy to build your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and get SAP systems up and
running via AWS Quick Start and AWS CloudFormation templates, but that’s only the beginning
• Disaster recovery
• High availability
• Security and compliance
• System and business process monitoring
• Operational procedures and controls
• Performance and scalability
• Application SLA requirements (uptime,
recovery time objective (RTO), recovery
point objective (RPO), performance)
• Backup and recovery (retention policy,
onsite/offsite, verification)
Good SAP AWS design covers the same topics
as traditional enterprise data-center design
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Architecting SAP HANA on AWS
“Design, design, design, then deploy”
• Will AWS HANA instances scale to meet the anticipated HANA system size?
TODAY: HANA Scale-up to 4 TB (for ECC, S/4, Suite on HANA)
HANA Scale-out to 34 TB (for BW, analytics)
• Are connected legacy systems able to interface to HANA via the WAN?
Consider bandwidth and latency effects on the systems your AWS HANA will need to
talk to
• Are there data protection, compliance, or data sovereignty rules over the data
in HANA to consider?
(Internal enterprise data protection rules, EU data protection, and more)
SAP is an enterprise application and requires full enterprise design. Don’t jump to deployment just because
it’s easy. The same enterprise architecture principles apply to AWS as to traditional data centers, so take
your time and design it right the first time.
#1: Identify the ‘right’ SAP HANA systems to run on AWS
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Architecting SAP HANA on AWS
“Design, design, design, then deploy”
• Uptime: 99.xxx?
Utilize native AWS features like auto-recovery, multiple availability zones and regions,
and native HANA features like scale-out HA and HANA system replication
• Data protection: Backup and recovery/disaster recovery
Back up to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with auto-retention policies;
archive to Amazon Glacier and offsite with AWS Snowball and import/export disk
• Security: System hardening, network design (private and public facing), intrusion
detection, anti-virus, authentication systems, link to corporate directories, intrusion
prevention, penetration testing
#2: Design to meet your application and business SLAs
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Architecting SAP HANA on AWS
“Design, design, design, then deploy”
• Operations roles in AWS console and tools:
Proper segregation of duties is important, just like in on-premises systems
• Monitoring the AWS public cloud and the SAP application stack in the virtual data
center
Use AWS native tools like Amazon CloudWatch, but you will also need your own
additional tools to monitor areas like the SAP application stack (OS, DB, SAP), and even
your AWS billing
• Define all your ITIL processes for your cloud systems, too
Incident, problem, event, change and access management, request fulfillment, and more
#3: Are your cloud operations enterprise-ready?
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Architecting SAP HANA on AWS
Summary considerations
SAP design is not a cloud-native application
►Focus on core compute, storage
►Can automate up to a point
►Still dealing with large data sets in single VMs
►Lifecycle action management made easy
Enterprise considerations
► Availability requirement on AWS
► DR and meeting RPO/RTO
► Monitoring usage and service
► Cost-efficient use of resources
Architecture
► Design for redundancy
► Compute and storage for SAP
► Networking considerations
► Cost-efficient design
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Migration: The AWS advantage for your migrations
► Install and run SAP DMO on production
application server
► Converts data in AnyDB to SAP ASE/HANA
format and exports as flat files
► Optionally perform release/enhancement pack
upgrade, Unicode conversion
► Run SAP DMO in the AWS cloud target
► Import files and build SAP application on SAP
ASE or HANA in the AWS cloud
► CloudFormation for auto-deploy
► Provision SAP servers incl. HANA fast
Rapid target
build
Cloud migration
toolkit
► SAP DMO2Cloud for HANA/ASE
► ATAdata for Intel-based workloads
Fast-track your migration with AWSSAP production system
Any DB
SAP
application
server
SAP
application
server
export
Converted data to
SAP HANA format
flat files
import
SAP DMO
SAP DMO
SAP
ASE/HANA
SAP test system
load
On premises
Amazon Web Services
SAP
application
server
Instant scaling
► Mass parallel import for migration
► Scale down when done
Transfer
► Direct Connect / VPN / Internet
► Storage gateway / portable mass storage
Swiss-army
architecture
► Configurable HA & DR architectures for SAP
► Vast array of supporting services
Migrationexecution
XML input for unattended multi-iteration
execution
► Table-splitting
► Unattended SAPINST XML input
Source system
preparation
Prepare target
landscape
► HANA Quick Start
► SAP application server deployment
Software
► Software download and distribution
► SAP application server deployment
Synch
► Parallel transfer and import of files for
reduced cutover
Activities that can be automated
SUMexecution
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Managing SAP on AWS
Deploying SAP HANA in an automated manner is
less than half the story
• Efficiencies can be lost if traditional management
control planes are utilized
• We decided to manage SAP HANA as any other cloud-
based application, but what does that mean?
We leveraged our AWS managed services offering:
– Full automation where possible
– Use AWS services to manage the environment up to,
and including, the operating system
– Integrate with our existing ServiceNow environment to
provide ITIL capabilities
– Design for failure
Why DXC did what we did
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Deployment and lifecycle management
• ServiceNow integration into AWS
• Single point for ordering and provisioning
• Single point for lifecycle management of Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances
and AWS stacks
• Basic-to-advanced approval workflow for AWS
spend can be created
• Event management included in platform
Catalogue of approved
Amazon EC2 images
and stacks
Expandable
catalogue from
simple Amazon EC2
instances to fully
deployable AWS-
based applications
Potential integration
with existing
ServiceNow
environment
Leveraging ServiceNow
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Migrate
Deploy
Monitor
Upgrade/patch
Design
Backup and recover
Troubleshoot
Optimize
Running SAP on AWS:
New opportunities and new skills needed
Technical SAP Application
Management
Amazon
EC2
AWS
Direct
Connect
Amazon
Elastic
Block
Store
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Glacier
Amazon
CloudWatch
Site and
system
connectivity
enterprise
workloads
HANA
AWS
Directory
Service
AWS
Storage
Gateway
Migrate, monitor,
and manage
Storage, backup,
and archiving
Elastic
Load
Balancing
AWS
Config
Amazon
Elastic
File
System
AWS
CloudFormation
DeployConnect Manage
OS
Databases
Bestpractices
ServiceLayer
SAPapplications
Skilled
resources
Intelligent tooling
Networking
• Software-defined network management is unlike managing physical networking
gear. Requires new skills, new tools
• Integration of cloud networking to corporate networks
• Cloud network monitoring and management, including burstable bandwidth cost
management
Amazon
Route 53
Amazon
VPC
AWS
Snowball
Backup & Recovery,
Disaster Recovery, and
High Availability
• Managing backups via Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, AWS Snowball, and
other AWS services as opposed to standard data-center approaches
• DR via multiple regions, storage and backup replication, and HANA
system replication
• HA via auto instance recovery, multiple availability zones, SAP enqueue
replication, and HANA system replication
Monitoring,
Capacity
Planning, and
Budget
Control
• Utilization of AWS native monitoring such as Amazon CloudWatch along with
standard SAP tools such as Solution Manager
• New capacity planning and budgeting paradigm due to instant provisioning and
hourly or long-term instance commitments
• New capabilities for landscape management and lifecycle actions (copy, clone,
refresh, resize, etc.)
Operations
Automation
• Ability to fully utilize new automation opportunities provided by API, AWS CLI, AWS
CloudFormation templates, AMIs, etc.
• Automation of deploy is only the first step—the creation of self-healing environments
through constant analysis and automation is key to operational success
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Required knowledge base for end-to-end SAP on AWS
• Competency certifications across the full SAP stack
• Ability to fit customer business needs with appropriate design
for SLAs for large SAP systems
– Availability
– Recovery time objective
– Recovery point objective
• Knowledge about specific OS hardening
• Data encryption (in flight, at rest)
Enterprise-grade
expertise on:
• AWS
• SAP
• Cloud
• Network
• Applications
• Security
• Continuity
Knowledge requirements
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Managed SAP PaaS services on AWS
DXC and AWS services for our clients
Managed
by AWS
AWS servicesAWS global infrastructure
Managed
by DXC
• OS admin/patching
• Backup and recovery
• Network and security
• Monitoring
Managed AWS Services
• SAP NW/BASIS Admin
• SAP installation/operation
• SAP upgrades/patching
• SAP monitoring
SAP Hosting/PaaS Services
• Auto SID provisioning
• Auto SID lifecycle management (copy, clone)
• SID-level SLAs
• Enhanced ops security
• Enterprise grade SAP service delivery
• Hybrid use cases across traditional and public
cloud
• Latest SAP technologies
• Consumption-based pricing
Managed SAP PaaS +
• Application development and integration
• Application operations
SAP application-management services
• Industry solutions and extensions
• Transformation and business process operations
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Client reference: Migration to AWS and upgrade to S/4HANA
• The SAP solution, deployed in 2005, was
no longer supported
• The key interfaced systems and
underlying database technologies were
also no longer supported
• Costs were expected to increase the
longer the company stayed on a dated
and unsupported SAP version
• The current licensing model did not
provide the company with the flexibility
required to efficiently operate a changing
business
• A mobile workforce requiring access to
information while in the field to improve
workforce efficiency and responsiveness
• Migration to AWS
• Upgrade to S4/Hana
• OS/DB migration to HANA on SUSE Linux
• Simple finance activation
• Implementation of new functionality:
• SAP work manager
• Simple finance
• Warehouse management
• Web-based EHS incident form
• Fiori apps capability
• Elimination of old/excess custom
developments and enhancements
(baggage)
• Reduced planning time; value
range $38k to $57k per annum
• Reduced movement/travel time for
maintainers; value range $400k to
$600k per annum
• Eliminate data entry into EAM;
value range $144k to $216k per
annum
• Faster data retrieval and improved
reporting and simplified
reconciliations; value range $60k
to $120k per annum
• Remove third-party products now
included in S4/HANA
Large aluminium smelter company
Business context Highly complex IT landscape Business outcomes
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Why DXC SAP on AWS
Client’s business acceleration and cost reduction
• Accelerate business response from weeks and days to hours and minutes
• Up to 50% + cost reduction
• Full SAP stack management and “any cloud” use-case support (migration, native, hybrid)
Strong relationships
• SAP global partner (DXC #1 for SAP HANA in cloud)
• APN Premier Consulting Partner
Solid vision and roadmap to maximize automation
• SAP platform automation (provisioning, lifecycle actions)
• Combined with application management service automation to serve entire IT4IT scope
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Actions and Contacts
• Visit us at Booth #2624 for demos and more in-depth SAP on
AWS discussions
• Learn how you can benefit from DXC Advisory Services for SAP
on DXC QuickStarts program including:
– DXC Public Cloud Jumpstart for SAP
– DXC Transformation Accelerator for SAP S/4 HANA
Sita LOWMAN
sita.m.lowman@dxc.com
+1 214 597 6935
Chris LEIGH-CURRILL
cleighcurril@dxc.com
+44 (0) 7468 458 080
Vinay YELLURI
vinay.yelluri@dxc.com
+1 757 639 2609
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