foreword
Alibaba Cloud can provide you with a cloud environment for running SAP systems, and provide more stable, secure, flexible, and elastic services at the IaaS level, making it more convenient and easy for SAP Basis operation and maintenance personnel to manage the support platform, so as to be more efficient and flexible. For SAP system deployment, operation and maintenance, the SAP operating environment based on Alibaba Cloud provides a simple management interface for computing resources, storage, network, security, and monitoring, making deployment, operation and maintenance a simple and easy-to-click operation. Fun work, so that SAP practitioners experience the future before the cloud era.
The audience of this white paper is SAP Basis implementation consultants and SAP system administrators, as well as practitioners in the SAP ecosystem and SAP customer CIOs who are interested in the future SAP cloud. By planning and optimizing deployment on the cloud to achieve the best performance, high reliability, and high availability to reduce TCO, so that SAP practitioners can give full play to the experience of running SAP systems on traditional IT platforms, and smoothly and easily transition to the cloud to achieve gorgeous turn around.
The content covered in this document starts with the introduction of the basic resources of Alibaba Cloud, and then introduces the scenarios we have summarized for SAP customers to go to the cloud. Next, we introduce the implementation methods on the cloud through the implementation steps of traditional IT, and involve security and monitoring on the cloud, etc. . This document does not replace the SAP deployment document and database deployment document. It should be used in conjunction with the SAP deployment document and database deployment document. To read this document, you need to have the following knowledge:
Linux operating system management
SAP system management knowledge
Public Cloud Principles
Knowledge of HANA system administration
Network Architecture Principles
Principles of Network Security