SAP on Alibaba Cloud: Solution for SAP Workloads

Overview

Alibaba Cloud is a trusted partner of SAP, offering the reliability and security that your business requires. The mature service infrastructure and platforms of Alibaba Cloud, when combined with the world-leading applications and Database Management System (DBMS) services of SAP, can help to simplify your overall IT infrastructure and accelerate the digital transformation of your enterprise.

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How It Works

Your Challenge

As business operations grow in complexity, a company may struggle to accurately predict business workloads.

Our Solution

This is a standard solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. With this solution, your company can deploy your S4/HANA system on cloud for lower cost of ownership.
Features

Deploy your S/4HANA system with the minimum cost.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud

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Your Challenge

Customers may be worried about the software failure for a standard deployment. Therefore, a high availability deployment is required with an online secondary as a standby.

Our Solution

This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the primary/secondary nodes for your S/4HANA system on different Alibaba Cloud ECS instances in an availability zone.
Features

Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS instances in your target zone.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

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Your Challenge

Even with the HA inner zone solution, some customers are still worried about the complete site failure, so a HA cross zone feature is required.

Our Solution

This is a typical solution to deploy your SAP S/4HANA system. Choose the zones in which you want to deploy the primary/secondary nodes of your S/4HANA system within your target region.
Features

Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications in two zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud

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Your Challenge

For business sensitive systems, especially SAP systems, a complete site failure tolerance is required to keep business downtime as few as possible. Without the disaster recovery plan, your business may be blocked when a complete availability zone failure happens.

Our Solution

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive portfolio of disaster recovery plans to ensure the online availability of your SAP S/4HANA systems, with different plans to suit your specific business requirements.
Features

Deploy primary/secondary nodes for NetWeaver applications with multiple ECS virtual machines in a single zone, and deploy disaster and recovery nodes for HANA databases across multiple zones.

Elastic Compute Service

An online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers

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Smart Access Gateway

An end-to-end cloud deployment solution for connecting hardware and software.

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Hybrid Backup Recovery

An easy-to-use BaaS solution that protects your data on premises and on the cloud.

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Solution Highlights

Flexible Billing Models

With Alibaba Cloud, you have the choice to choose a flexible billing model that best suits your specific requirements. You can purchase resources on a subscription basis for a lower rate, or opt for pay-as-you-go billing for greater flexibility. With our pay-as-you-go billing model, there are no upfront processing fees.

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Ensured Availability

Given the high reliability and availability models of Alibaba Cloud, which have been laid out in several different service layers and across all of our service regions, you can be assured that your SAP applications, wherever they may be deployed, will run smoothly and be secure on Alibaba Cloud.

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SAP-Specific Solutions

Alibaba Cloud has developed several exclusive SAP-related solutions. In particular, Alibaba offers such solutions as SAP systems monitoring with DataV and HANA cloud backup to Alibaba Cloud OSS using backint, and solutions that allow for better integration between SAP applications and your services running on Alibaba Cloud.

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SAP Certifications

Alibaba Cloud has SAP certifications for ECS instances, databases, SAP Netweaver based applications, and more applications as below.

ECS Generation	Instance Type	DRAM (GB)	vCPU Counts	vCPU: MEM	OLTP Workload	OLAP Workload
v6 Cascade Lake	ecs.r6.13xlarge	384	52	1:7	Supported	Supported
v6 Cascade Lake	ecs.re6.13xlarge	768	52	1:15	Supported	Supported
v6 Cascade Lake	ecs.re6.26xlarge	1536	104	1:15	Supported	Supported
v6 Cascade Lake	ecs.re6.52xlarge	3072	208	1:15	Supported	Supported
v6 Cascade Lake	ecs.ebmre6-6t.52xlarge	6144	208	1:30	Supported	Supported
v5 Skylake	ecs.r5.8xlarge	256	32	1:8	Supported	Supported
v5 Skylake	ecs.r5.16xlarge	512	64	1:8	Supported	Supported
v4 Broadwell	ecs.se1.14xlarge	480	56	1:8	Supported	Supported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwell	ecs.re4.20xlarge	960	80	1:12	Supported	Supported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwell	ecs.re4.40xlarge	1920	160	1:12	Supported	Supported, with Scale-Out
v4 Broadwell	ecs.re4e.40xlarge	3840	160	1:24	Supported	Not Supported

ECS Generation	Instance Type Family	vCPU Count	DRAM (GB)	vCPU:MEM	Largest Instance Certified
v6 Cascade Lake	c6e	2 to 32	4 to 64	1:2	ecs.c6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lake	g6e	2 to 32	8 to 128	1:4	ecs.g6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lake	r6e	2 to 32	16 to 256	1:8	ecs.r6e.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lake	c6	2 to 32	4 to 64	1:2	ecs.c6.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lake	g6	2 to 32	8 to 128	1:4	ecs.g6.8xlarge
v6 Cascade Lake	r6	2 to 32	16 to 256	1:8	ecs.r6.8xlarge
v5 Skylake	g5	2 to 32	8 to 128	1:4	ecs.g5.8xlarge
v5 Skylake	r5	2 to 32	16 to 256	1:8	ecs.r5.8xlarge
v4 Broadwell	sn2ne	2 to 56	8 to 224	1:4	ecs.sn2ne.14xlarge

Certified databases	Definition	Features
SAP HANA	SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP.	Its primary function as database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, SAP HANA performs high-performance analysis and real-time data processing to address customers’ rapidly growing requirements on business analysis.
SAP MaxDB	SAP MaxDB is the database management system developed and supported by SAP SE.	SAP MaxDB is available on Microsoft Windows, Linux and UNIX and for the most prominent hardware platforms as well as Public Cloud.
Microsoft SQL Server	SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed and marketed by Microsoft.	Microsoft SQL server on Alibaba cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) just like when you installed on-premises, you are responsible for installation, administering the database, including backups and recovery, patching the operating system and the database.
SAP ASE	SAP ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise), originally known as Sybase SQL Server, and also commonly known as Sybase DB or Sybase ASE, is a relational model database server which modernize and accelerate your transaction-based applications on premise and in the cloud.	This high-performance SQL database server uses a relational management model to meet rising demand for performance, reliability, and efficiency in every industry.
IBM Db2	IBM Db2 is a family of data management products that helps you more effectively manage structured and unstructured data in on-premises and cloud environments.	SAP NetWeaver based applications with IBM Db2 have been certified on Alibaba Cloud as standalone and HA without cluster manager scenario.

Certified applications	Definition	Features
SAP S/4HANA	SAP S/4HANA is an ERP business suite based on the SAP HANA in-memory database that allows companies to perform transactions and analyze business data in real-time.	SAP released S/4HANA in February 2015 to much fanfare, and the company now views it as one of its flagship products that customers will migrate to as the next-generation successor to the SAP Business Suite ERP platform.
SAP Business Suite	SAP Business Suite is a bundle of business applications that provide integration of information and processes, collaboration, industry-specific functionality and scalability. SAP Business Suite is based on SAP's technology platform called NetWeaver	SAP Business Suite has five constituents: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM).
SAP Business Warehouse	SAP Business Warehouse (BW) integrates data from different sources, transforms and consolidates the data, does data cleansing, and storing of data as well.	SAP Business Intelligence (BI) means analyzing and reporting of data from different heterogeneous data sources. It allows you to acquire data from multiple data sources, data staging, which can be further distributed to different BI systems.
SAP Business One	SAP Business One is business management software designed for small and medium-sized enterprises. It was designed with the idea that smaller companies need ERP software to help manage their business, but not the kind of ERP that large and complex organizations need.	It has functional modules for finance, customer relationship management (CRM), warehousing and production management, purchasing and procurement, and reporting and analytics.
SAP BW/4HANA	BW/4HANA is an evolution of BW that is completely optimized and tailored to SAP HANA.	The BW/4HANA code can only run on SAP HANA as it is interwoven with SAP HANA engines and libraries.

Certified applications	Definition	Features
SAP Content Server	The SAP Content Server is a stand-alone component in which a large quantity of electronic documents of any format and with any content can be stored.	The SAP applications concerned must support the use of the SAP Content Server. The documents can be saved either in one or more MaxDB instances or in the file system.
SAP Livecache	SAP LiveCache is a database which resides in memory that is used to speed up material planning scenarios in SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM).	With SAP LiveCache you can complete resource-intensive material planning activities, such as demand planning (DP) as a forecast up to on demand available to promise (ATP) scenarios.
SAP Data Hub	SAP Data Hub is a data sharing, pipelining, and orchestration solution that helps companies accelerate and expand the flow of data across their modern, diverse data landscapes.	SAP Data Hub provides visibility and access to a broad range of data systems and assets; allows the easy and fast creation of powerful, organization-spanning data pipelines; and optimizes data pipeline execution speed with a “push-down” distributed processing approach at each step.
SAP BusinessObjects	SAP BusinessObjects (BO or BOBJ) is an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI).	Its components provide performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, as well as enterprise information management. BusinessObjects also offers consulting and education services to help customers deploy its business intelligence projects.

Operating System	What Does It Support?	Required Versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	It supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications and SAP HANA. The image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service is available on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.	• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service 7.7 or later versions • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP with High Availability and Update Service 8.1 or later versions
SUSE Linux Enterprise	It supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications and SAP HANA. The image of SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP Applications is available on Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.	• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for SAP Applications SP2 or later versions • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 for SAP Applications SP1 or later versions
Microsoft Windows Server	It supports SAP NetWeaver-based applications.	Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, or 2019

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