How to Run SAP on Amazon Web Services Technical operation manual for solution engineers and architects written by Rackspace Application Services While the deployment of an SAP® system on AWS can be done in a few hours, the skill of a network wizard, a security specialist, a server expert, a storage guru and a SAP Jedi is necessary for its preparation. Amazon provides extensive documentation on how to install and operate SAP systems for the those familiar with SAP. The intention of this document is to provide a concise overview enabling fast-drafting of infrastructures and pricing estimates for those who are not fluent in SAP. HOW TO RUN SAP ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES :: Revised November 22, 2019 1 of 66 This document is based on excerpts from the following pages: SAP on AWS Overview and Planning SAP on AWS Pricing and Optimization SAP on AWS Implementation Guide SAP HANA on AWS Implementation and Operations Guide High Availability and Disaster Recovery Options for SAP HANA on AWS Setting up AWS Resources and SLES for SAP HANA® Installation Migrating SAP HANA Systems to X1 Instances on AWS Additional information about SAP Solutions on AWS SAP HANA on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment The following SAP Notes are related to the topic of SAP on AWS: 1588667 - SAP on AWS: Overview of related SAP Notes and Web-Links 1656099 - SAP on AWS: Supported DB/OS and AWS EC2 products 2539097 - SAP NetWeaver License on AWS 2591601 - SAP on AWS: Adaption of your SAP License 1656250 - SAP on AWS: Support prerequisites 1964437 - SAP HANA on AWS: Supported AWS EC2 products 2309342 - SUSE High Availability Extension on AWS for HANA 2198693 - Key Monitoring Metrics for SAP on AWS 2288345 - EIM Applications on AWS 2142455 - SAP Replication Server for AWS Cloud 2358420 - Oracle Database Support for AWS EC2 2251474 - SAP LVM configuration of AWS EBS Storage Manager and Provisioning Guide Also read the SCN Wiki that contains all SAP Notes for Linux. To read the SAP notes and use the SAP Quicksizer, you need the credentials to access the SAP support network (aka S-user). HOW TO RUN SAP ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES :: Revised November 22, 2019 2 of 66 Table of contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 6 What is supported by SAP on Amazon Web Services? ................................................................................... 7 A few words on licences and licence keys ........................................................................................................ 8 Building a SAP Infrastructure on AWS .............................................................................................................. 9 Step 1: Sizing ................................................................................................................................................... 10 SAP Quicksizer ................................................................................................................................................. 10 EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) Reports ..................................................................................................................... 11 Hardware Configuration.................................................................................................................................... 12 HANA Sizing Report ......................................................................................................................................... 14 A few words on Linux subscriptions ................................................................................................................. 15 Step 2: Determine the necessary EC2 instance for compute ........................................................................ 15 HANA specifics ................................................................................................................................................. 18 Purchasing Options .......................................................................................................................................... 19 Step 3: Determine the necessary EBS storage ............................................................................................... 20 SAP shared file system .................................................................................................................................... 20 HANA specifics ................................................................................................................................................. 21 Storage for HANA dynamic tiering ................................................................................................................... 23 Step 4: Determine S3 capacity for backup ...................................................................................................... 24 HANA Restore .................................................................................................................................................. 26 Step 5: Availability / Disaster recovery for productive SAP systems........................................................... 26 SAP single points of failure (SPoF) how to protect against them .................................................................... 26 Auto-recovery for Amazon EC2 instance ......................................................................................................... 28 Step 6: Network .................................................................................................................................................. 29 Single VPC with only private subnets .............................................................................................................. 30 Single VPC with public and private subnets..................................................................................................... 30 Multiple VPCs ................................................................................................................................................... 31 Multiple accounts .............................................................................................................................................. 31 VPC peering for multi-VPC deployments ......................................................................................................... 31 AWS Transit Gateway ...................................................................................................................................... 31 Don’t forget when setting up Amazon VPC for SAP ........................................................................................ 31 Best practices for setting up VPC with SAP ..................................................................................................... 31 HOW TO RUN SAP ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES :: Revised November 22, 2019 3 of 66 AWS services for hybrid operation data transfer.............................................................................................. 32 Step 7: Auxiliary systems .................................................................................................................................. 32 Step 8: Monitoring and Housekeeping ............................................................................................................. 32 Automated SAP system management on AWS ............................................................................................... 33 AWS Quick Start for SAP HANA ...................................................................................................................... 33 Migrating SAP workloads to AWS .................................................................................................................... 35 SAP system refresh on AWS ........................................................................................................................... 36 Tools to maintain HANA ................................................................................................................................... 37 Appendix A – Short description of SAP solutions ................................................................ 38 SAP ECC, S/4HANA ............................................................................................................................................ 38 HR/HRM (Human Resource Management) ..................................................................................................... 40 SAP BW ............................................................................................................................................................ 40 BW4/HANA ....................................................................................................................................................... 41 SAP Customer Relationship Management ....................................................................................................... 41 SAP Hybris ....................................................................................................................................................... 41 SAP C/4HANA .................................................................................................................................................. 42 SAP Upscale Commerce .................................................................................................................................. 42 SAP SCM/APO 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