1. SAP Dev/Test & Automation in Azure
Ross Sponholtz
Principal Program Manager, Azure CAT

2. So, what is SAP Dev & Test? Dev & Test environment managed by IT
Developer Workstation
A workstation with IDE and role specific/project-specific tools installed to be productive.
Team Collaboration Environment
Development teams collaboratively design, develop and deploy applications using developer and lifecycle management services.
Dev & Test environment managed by IT
Pre-prod Environments
Developers and teams need pre-production environments for development, integration, user acceptance testing and QA.
Production Support
For supporting the production environments, teams often have a duplicate “production support” environment for testing.

3. Dev/Test Scenarios drive Azure Consumption

4. Why is Dev/Test an easy workload win
50% of infrastructure is used for dev- test environments
65% of developers say it is too complicated and time-consuming to get development and test resources
10% Average utilization of dedicated dev-test infrastructure
Security/Compliance is a lesser concern
Dev/Test != “Developers spinning up VMs for development”
Dev/Test = Dev + Test + Staging + QA + .. = “non-production”

5. Myth: Dev/Test is a low consumption workload
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Myth: Dev/Test is a low consumption workload
Share Point Dev/Test in Azure
53% cost savings1
Azure Services included in scenario
55 VMs: 20 medium, 22 extra large, 13 A7
35 TB LR storage
35 TB zone 1 egress, 5 VPN connections
Azure Cost Breakdown
Annual Azure VMs expense
$172,071
Annual storage expense
$21,462
Annual egress expense
$36,792
Annual admin expense
$6,110
Annual other expenses
$1,599
Total
$238,034
On-premises DC Cost Breakdown
Annual hardware expense
$371,774
Annual software expense
$89,200
Annual power expense
$10,913
Annual administration costs
$11,638
Annual DC facility expenses
$27,166
Total
$510,691
Note:
Assumptions have been sourced from public data sources including and and third party reports including Simpson, Nik. “Counting the cost of the Elephant in the Data Center.” Burton Group (2009). The savings quoted in the slides are actually quite conservative (e.g., we assume on-premises infrastructure is 100% utilized, assume a very power-efficient on-premises data center). Also, we are using EA Level A pricing to arrive at these numbers. For specific information on customer discounting levels, contact your account manager.
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6. Deploying SAP Test/Dev in Azure

7. Deploying HANA from SAP Cloud Appliance Library to Microsoft Azure

8. Automation of SAP on Azure
Address the multitude of environments
Need for environments with identical infrastructure
Remove the potential for human error in configuration process
Allow environments to be created and removed easily

9. Automation Technologies
Azure Resource Group Templates
Desired State Configuration (DSC)
Puppet/Chef
Azure script extensions

10. What is an ARM Template? Artifacts (optional depending on resources)
JSON files – “Infrastructure-as-Code”
Artifacts (optional depending on resources)
Configuration files to apply to resources
Examples:
Desired State Configuration (DSC) Script and DSC Resources
Also “Infrastructure-as-Code”
Web Deployment Packages

11. Arm template basic format
"resources": [ { "apiVersion": " ", "type": "Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts", "name": "mystorageaccount", "location": "westus", "sku": { "name": "Standard_LRS" }, "kind": "Storage", "properties": { } }]
PUT ubscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{resourceGroupN ame}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccou nts/mystorageaccount?api-version= REQUEST BODY{ "location": "westus", "properties": { } "sku": { "name": "Standard_LRS" }, "kind": "Storage" }
API Explorer:
All resources descriptions have apiversion, type, name, location

12. DSC for Azure Declarative configuration of the virtual machine
Windows Features and Roles
Custom application configuration

13. Desired State Configuration
Configuration Main {
Param ( [string] $nodeName )
Import-DscResource -ModuleName PSDesiredStateConfiguration
Node $nodeName {
WindowsFeature WebServerRole {
Name = "Web-Server"
Ensure = "Present" }
Package InstallWebDeploy {
Path = "C:\WindowsAzure\WebDeploy_amd64_en-US.msi"
Name = "Microsoft Web Deploy 3.6"
ProductId = "{ED4CC1E5-043E B5E533FE2BA1}"
Arguments = "ADDLOCAL=ALL"
Service StartWebDeploy {
Name = "WMSVC"
StartupType = "Automatic"
State = "Running"
DependsOn = "[Package]InstallWebDeploy"

14. Puppet Puppet Master contains repository of configurations
Agent nodes register with Puppet Master, receive their specific configuration
Puppet runs configuration code, similar to DSC

15. Puppet code sample class hanaconfig {
include disable_transparent_hugepage
class { '::selinux': mode => 'disabled', }
# disable NUMA balancing
file { '/etc/sysctl.d/sap_hana.conf': ensure => file, content => 'kernel.numa_balancing=0’, }
sysctl { 'kernel.numa_balancing': value => '0’ }
sysctl { 'kernel.sem': value => ' ’ }
#diable ABRT, core dumps and kdump
class { 'abrt': active => false, }
#disable core dump
limits::fragment { "*/soft/core": value => "0"; "*/hard/core": value => "0"; }
#disable kdump service
class { 'kdump': enable => false, }

16. IaaS extended Azure Azure VM Extensions Extending the power of your VM
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Azure VM Extensions
Extending the power of your VM
Enable easier management
Support partner ecosystem
Full control still with you!
IaaS extended
Curated Extensions
Agent
Azure
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17. Examples of SAP Automation
SAP-on-Azure
Deploys infrastructure, SQL Server, Netweaver & SolMan
Resource group template & DCS
Control-Repo
Deploys HANA, Netweaver & ECC
Resource group template & Puppet