Presented at TechEd Europe 2014 in Barcelona - How to plan for and implement Big Workload Applications on Microsoft Azure

3. Manageability
Deployment options
Full App Lifecycle management, Monitoring
Existing/New tools integration
Scalability
VM sizes
High CPU/Memory/IO
Benchmarks,
Standards
Best Practices,
Reference Architecture
Availability
Recovery Point objective >99.9
Recovery Time objective
8 hours or less
Disaster Recovery
>100 miles
Security
Compliance
Granular Access Control
Security Groups

5. Your Datacenter
Active Directory
SharePoint
SQL Server

6. …
Datacenter network
Datacenter 1
Datacenter n
Region 1
Region 19
…
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Azure Server
Scale Unit

8. Note: Refer MOS Note 1563794.1Certified Software on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
Source: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/cloud/faq-1963009.html
Including:
•Java
•Oracle WebLogic Server
•Oracle Database
•Oracle Linux
•Oracle Fusion Middleware
Azure is the onlyfully supported and properly-licensed public cloud environment to deploy the Oracle stack and the only third-party virtualization platform certified by Oracle

9. 1.
2.
3.

10. Bring Your Own, or License-Included?

13. •JDKs in Azure Oracle images are 64-bit
•Hybrid cloud for Java apps with Oracle DB (app server/web tiers in Azure, DB on prem)
•Dynamic clusters (WLS 12c) for easy provisioning/mgmt
•Easily grow WebLogic cluster by capturing/deploying from a snapshot of your managed VM
•Automate creating/deploying managed VMs for WebLogic clusters with PowerShell/azure-cli & WLST
•Virtual Networking/subnets for multi-tier architecture & VPN for on-premdatacenter connectivity
•Integration with other Azure services (mobile services, message queues, etc) for net new or re- architected apps
Considerations:
•UDP multicasting not supported, recommend WLS cluster size to be kept static at <=10 managed servers
•IPv6 support in WLS not applicable to Azure
•Azure cannot load balance multiple instances of WebLogic servers in a single VM
Caution:

14. Infrastructure Scenarios: Opportunities
Convert Physical Servers or Virtual Machines running Oracle to run on Hyper-V using Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1
Move Virtual Instances from Hyper-V to Azure IaaS
Hyper-V
Azure IaaS
Move
Hyper-V
VMware
Hosted
P2V
Amazon
Migrate
Physical
Server
Move running Virtual Instances from Customer to any Hyper-V Implementations
Hyper-V
Live Migration
Hyper-V
Customer
Host

15. PRIVATE CLOUDwithWindows Server Hyper-V
PUBLIC CLOUDwithAzure

16. •Recommended DB size <10GB for data on System Disk
•Attach disk(s) for flexibility and improved performance
•Standalone Oracle DB, Data Guard, and GoldenGateavailable
•Configure & capture a customized image or deploy your own for rapid provisioning and automation
•Consider Virtual Networking to capture an IP & VPN for connectivity to on-premise datacenter
•Use special offers for MSDN subscribers for Dev/test on Azure
Considerations:
•Oracle Database clustering (RAC for Oracle DB) is not currently supported
•Current disk limit ~500IOps max per disk (non-striped)
Caution:

17. IaaS
•Windows or Linux VMs
•Official Oracle JDK v6 & v7
•Pre-configured VMs
•Oracle WebLogic, VM Depot Java Image, or your own JVM
PaaS
•64 bit OpenJDKbuild by Azul (Zulu)
•Or bring any VM
•Eclipse plugin for deployment, monitoring and management
Services
•Azure SDK for Java: Blob, table, queue, service bus, SQL, etc
•Other Azure SDKs and azure-cli / tools

18. “This initiative is all about bringing Java to the masses in the cloud. We will be providing a fully open and unconstrained Java environment –with open choice of third-party stacks – for developers and essential applications deployed on Azure.”
Scott Sellers, Azul Systems President and CEO+ Java

19. HPC middleware (case study)
Shorten sales cycle by 70%, increase revenue
Java on Linux + Postgres
Strategic alignment w/ MS
Moved away from AWS / EC2 because of Windows skillset
SQL Azure
•Call center solution
•Scale, management & efficiency + heterogeneity
•Java EE / JBoss
•3-day Azure lab
•Looked at Google / Amazon
•SQL Azure
•BI & Analytics extension
•Fast time to market, flexible development & scale
•Java / Tomcat + Jiffy/Solr
•Time pressure (3 mo)
•Table storage & Cloud Services / PaaSScaleSpeedSkills

20. Scenario
Support Policy
Customer Experience
Bring Your Own License (BYOL)
Includes pre-configured Oracle-Linux virtual machines or any Windows customer created VMs
Supported directly by Oracle
Customers should contact Oraclesupport directly
License Included
Oracle DB, WebLogic, Javaon Windows Server VM
Supported by Microsoft
Customers will contact Microsoft to get supportfor Oracle software and Azure

21. •Eliminate infrastructure worries
•Give customers faster time- to-value
•Help customers and partners set up temporary environments
•Expand business around the worldDan Matthews, Chief Technology Officer, IFShttp://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_ Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004170

22. •Faster, less expensive, lower-risk deployments for customers
•Improved data scalability
•Better ability to expand businessDaniel Franz, Senior Solutions Manager for Vertical Marketshttp://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004196

24. Breaking News!
IBM software on Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure
IBM license mobility to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft offers pay-as-you-go licenses for select IBM software

26. SAP PRODUCT
GUESTOS
RDBMS
VM TYPE
SAP Business Suite Software based on Netweaver7.X technologies
Windows
SQL Server, Oracle, SAP ASE
A5, A6, A7,A8, A9
D11, D12, D13, D14
SAP Business All-in-One
Windows
SQL Server, Oracle, SAP ASE
A5, A6, A7,A8, A9
D11, D12, D13, D14
SAP NetWeaver7.x Application Server
Windows
SQL Server, Oracle, SAP ASE
A5, A6, A7,A8, A9
D11, D12, D13, D14
SAP HANA Developer Edition (including the HANA Client software comprised of SQLDBC, ODBO (Windows only), ODBC, AND JDBC drivers), HANA Studio, and HANA Database)2
SUSE, Linux
N/A
A7, A8
SAP and Microsoft have tested and certified Windows Azure infrastructure against the same standards as those used for on-premises infrastructure. The table below shows a list of product that will be included in the first wave of certifications.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/sap/http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1928533
A5
A5
A5
Announcing support for higher VM sizes

27. VM Type
VM size
SAPS
Basic/Standard
A5
2 CPU, 14GB
1500
Standard
A6
4 CPU, 28GB
3000
Standard
A7
8 CPU, 56GB
6000
Standard
A8
8 CPU, 56GB
11000
Standard
A9
16 CPU, 112GB
22000
Standard
D11
2 CPU, 14GB
2325
Standard
D12
4 CPU, 28GB
4650
Standard
D13
8 CPU, 56GB
9300
Standard
D14
16 CPU, 112GB
18600
Standard
3-Tier configuration
(App Server and DB in a different VM)
VM Type
VM size
SAPS
Basic/Standard
10 x A7
8 CPU, 56GB
50,000
Standard
2-Tier configuration
(App Server and DB in the same VM)
Support services required
•Microsoft Premier Support contract: http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/microsoftservices/support.aspx
•SAP support contract

29. Only supported for Training/Demo/sandbox scenarios with SAP
•Connectivity to SAP systems in Azure goes through internet
•VMs in Azure notpart of on- premisedomain or DNS
•Restricted communication between systems in Azure and on-premise
•Not typical for production systems
SAP Deployment on Azure -Non Domain Joined topology

30. Supported for Production SAP systems in Azure
•On-Premise AD/DNS extended into Azure
•On-premise and Azure hosted SAP systems in same domain
•Communication between SAP systems in Azure and on-premisetransparent to application/users
SAP Deployment on Azure -Domain Joined topology

31. Additional Hybrid topologies
Supported: Distinct Test/Production Systems in different premises
NOT Supported: Application layer and DBMS layer in different ‘locations’

33. VM Sizing
Azure Virtual machine Services offers a different number of VM SKUs representing a combination of:
vCPUs, Memory, Number of VHDs to mount
Network and I/O bandwidth
SAP configurations running on-premise might need to be changed due to:
Available CPU/Memory resources different than what is used on-premise
More database files can be required due to different IOPS per LUN/VHD in Azure

34. Questions you want to ask:
Does single largest component of SAP system fit within the largest certified Azure VM (usually DBMS) in regards to CPU and memory requirements
Is there an Disk I/O intensive component of SAP system that would exceed Disk IOPS quota of a single VM
Are high availability needs for the SAP application single- point-of-failure require Windows Cluster configuration?

35. Base OS VHD including OS and Executables currently limited to 127GB
Non-OS VHDs (data disk) can be up to 1TB in size
VHDX format is not supported On premise VHDs need to be changed to fixed VHDs format
Database files need to be located on separate data VHDs
Every I/O to VHDs is synchronous and encounters latency between compute node and Azure Storage Server cluster
D:drive presented in VM is temporary drive of VM which is NOTpersistedA-Series VMs: Drive should NOT be used for SAP and DBMS deployments, even not for tempdbor temp tablespaceD-Series VMs: tempdbor temp tablespacecan be placed on D:Drive utilizing SSDs
Azure VHDs can be read or read/write buffered
NO Buffering recommended for DBMS and SAP deployments, except OS disk

36. Azure Base
VHD
Azure Base VM <=127GB
Contains OS, DBMS and SAP
binaries
Azure
Base
VHD
Azure compute
node running IaaS
VM
Local Disk used for buffering
Base VHD Image
Image of base VHD, copied
during boot process to
compute node for buffering
Changes get persisted
D: drive on local node
Non persisted  Don t use,
except for page file
Azure VHD
DBMS
Logfile
Azure VHD
DBMS
Datafiles
Azure VHD
DBMS
Datafiles
Azure VHD
DBMS
Datafiles
Azure VHD
DBMS
Datafiles
...
DBMS Log and Data file VHDs
Multiple for IOPS scaling
Eventually holding tempdb
as well
Azure BLOB
Storage
Instead of using single VHDs, use Storage
Spaces or Stripe Sets for DBMS data files

37. •Maximum 100 storage accounts per Azure Subscription
•Think about Azure Storage Accounts as SAN like Devices with a specific number of IOPS and I/O volume See also: http://azure.microsoft.com/en- us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/#storagelimits
•Can support up to 40 VHDs per storage account
•DO NOT distribute VHDs mounted to one VM over different Storage Accounts
•Deploy VHDs to be mounted to a VM in the same Storage Account as Base OS VHD

38. http://scn.sap.com/community/cloud-appliance-library/blog/2014/10/23/hot-news-for-all-microsoft-azure-users-of-sap-cloud-appliance-library

39. SAP application layer has a Single point of failure with CI/ASCS/SCS where two processes are critical for whole system
•SAP uses Windows Server Failover Cluster for HADR
Azure does not support Shared Disks as necessary for configuring WSFC configurations, 3rdparty solutions providing Storage replication can be used

40. DBMS:
DBMS methods should be used to perform backups of databases
SQL Server use native backup directly to Azure Storage (see next slide)
SAP instances:
Usually customers are not backing up data of simple Dialog Instances since there is no important data stored in the file system. Can re-install if necessary
Use Windows backup to backup SAP directory tree in the VM that contains ‘central’ SAP instance
Windows Server 2008 R2: Use local backup against VHD mounted to VM. Eventually un-mount and mount to other system to restore
Windows Server 2012 (R2): Use Windows backup to backup against Windows Azure backup vault

41. DR configuration with Azure Site Recovery
•DBMS layer: Use asynchronous DBMS methods like AlwaysOn, DBM, Oracle Data Guard, etc
•SAP dialog instance: Use AsyncHyper-V replica or Microsoft InMageif on VMWare or on bare-metal
•SAP CI/ASCS/SCS cluster configuration: 3rdparty storage replication
Azure offers Geo-Replication which will replicate data in VHDs from one region to another region
•Disable Geo-Replication for Storage Accounts containing database files as there is no granular control of failover or synchronization between VHDs
•Read-Only access to Geo-Replicated files not applicable to SAP scenarios
DR for SAP systems on Azure

42. SAP requires Monitoring solution that allows SAP instance running in the VM to get essential data from Azure
SAP specific Azure VM extension:
•Automated deployment via Powershell
•Integrated with ‘Azure Diagnostics’ and SAPOSCOL
Azure Monitoring with SAP systems

43. “Microsoft was telling us what we needed to hear: falling Azure prices, SAP certification, and an onshore datacenter. And we had a very competent partner in BNW that was working very closely with Microsoft and had a proven track record.”
Adrian Stagg, Chief Information Officer, SCT Logistics
Transportation Firm Ensures Business Continuity by Protecting SAP Systems in Cloud

44. “We are excited that Microsoft IT is moving to Azure. We have seen significant benefits from Azure to date and anticipate that the move will yield additional positive effects. As a First & Best customer, Microsoft IT is working with our Product Team to further refine the offering prior to release, and we believe that Azure will be the best platform for major Line of Business applications such as SAP. The possibilities for Enterprise-level deployment and cost efficiencies are virtually limitless.”
Jacky Wright -VP IT Strategic Enterprise Services

45. Use Cases
HowMicrosoft Azure Helps
How organizationsbenefit
Make timely changes to SAP workloads by development teams
200–300 times faster infrastructure provisioning and rollout compared to on- premises; faster changes by SAP application teams.
Increased agility and the ability to provision instances within 20 minutes with the SAP Cloud Application Library.
Fund development and test infrastructure for SAP workloads
Supports the ability to stop development and test systems at the end of the business day.
Savings of as much as 40–75 percent in hosting costsby exercising the ability to stop instances when not in use.
Increase data center capacity to serve new SAP project requests
Frees on-premises data center capacity by moving development and test for SAP workloads to Microsoft Azure—without up- front investments.
Flexibilityto shift from capital to operational expenditures
Provide consistent training environments based on templates
Ability to store and use pre-defined images of the training environment for new virtual machines.
Cost savings by provisioning only the instances needed for training, and then deleting them when the event is complete.
Archive historical systems for auditing and governance
Supports migration of physical machines to virtual machines that can be switched on when needed.
Savings of as much as 60 percent due to cheaper storage and the ability to quickly spin up systems based on need.

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50. Hadoop 2.2 and 2.4
80% data compression with ORC
Hadoop on Windows
Hive 100x Query Speed Up
30,000+
code linecontributions
HDFS in Cloud (Azure)
REEF for Machine Learning
10,000+
engineering hours
Committers to Hadoop

51. Hadoop 2.0

52. Data Node
Data Node
Data Node
Data Node
Task Tracker
Task Tracker
Task Tracker
Task Tracker
Name Node
Job Tracker
HMaster
Coordination
Region Server
Region Server
Region Server
Region Server
Columnar, NoSQL database
Runs on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
Provides flexibility in that new columns can be added to column families at any time

53. A library of machine learning algorithms to execute on data in HDFS
Algorithms are not dependent on size of data and can scale with large datasets
Library includes: Collaborative Filtering, Classification, Clustering, Dimensionality Reduction, Topic Models

54. Coming Q4, CY2014
Consumes millions of real-time events from a scalable event broker (i.e.; Apache Kafka, Azure Event Hub)
Performs time-sensitive computation
Output to persistent stores, dashboards or devices

55. MongoLab, MongoDB and Cloudant

56. Microsoft and Oracle announce enterprise partnership
Partners in the Enterprise CloudOracle’s Mission-critical Software and Microsoft’s Enterprise-grade Cloud
Try Oracle Software on Azure
Oracle Virtual Machine Images for AzureMicrosoft Pricing & Support Policy for Oracle Pre-configured Images
Considerations for Configuring & Deploying Oracle on Microsoft Azure
Articles from Oracle Oracle and Microsoft Expand Choice and Flexibility in Deploying Oracle Software in the Cloud
Oracle and Microsoft Azure
Oracle and Microsoft: Partners in the Enterprise Cloud

57. Partners in the Enterprise CloudOracle’s Mission-critical Software and Microsoft’s Enterprise-grade CloudDeploy Pre-configured Oracle VMs on Azure
Articles from Oracle Oracle and Microsoft Expand Choice and Flexibility in Deploying Oracle Software in the Cloud
Oracle and Microsoft Azure
Oracle and Microsoft: Partners in the Enterprise Cloud

58. http://microsoft.com/saphttp://sap-microsoft-unite.com
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn745892.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver

59. www.microsoft.com/learning
http://developer.microsoft.com
http://microsoft.com/technet
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd

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