SAP on Azure General Update August 2022
Woolworths Australia goes live on Azure, new recommendations for SAP on Oracle direct from Oracle themselves. Disk Bursting and VM Bursting and new SSD v2 in preview. SQL Server 2022, ODBC 18 and Windows 2022 News for Windows customers and news for Linux customers Important guidance for sizing boot disks on Linux.Announcing Public Preview for Microsoft Azure Center for SAP Solutions
Customers deploying and managing SAP solutions in the cloud can move faster and more confidently with Microsoft Azure Center for SAP solutions, now available in public preview. It is an end-to-end solution enabling customers and partners to create and run SAP systems as a unified workload on Azure and provides a more seamless foundation for innovation on the Microsoft Cloud.
General availability of SAP CDC capabilities for Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
Customers use SAP systems for their business-critical operations. Today, customers want to be able to combine their SAP data with non-SAP data for their analytics needs. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is an industry-leading data integration service which enables customers to ingest data from diverse data sources (e.g., multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premises), transform data at scale, and more. Azure Data Factory (ADF) works seamlessly to combine data and prepare it at cloud-scale. Customers are using ADF to ingest data from different SAP data sources (e.g., SAP ECC, SAP Hana, SAP Table, SAP BW Open Hub, SAP BW via MDX, SAP Cloud for Customers), and combining them with data from other operational stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Azure SQL family, and more). This enables customers to gain deep insights from both SAP and non-SAP data. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of SAP CDC support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.SAP Netweaver 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9 on Azure using Azure NetApp Files (ANF)
This article describes the setup of SAP ERP 7.5 with MaxDB 7.9. In addition, we will show how to use azacsnap to create application consistent snapshots. This article is written for an audience which are familiar with Azure, Linux and SAP Basis. Since the login mechanism changed in version 7.7 we can only support the MaxDB 7.9 with all the automation scripts explained here iin the documentation.SAP on Oracle ASM on Azure in 5 Easy Steps
Customers moving SAP on Oracle systems to Azure are strongly advised to follow clear guidance from Oracle, Microsoft and SAP to move to Automatic Storage Management (ASM). There are many performance, administration and support benefits with ASM. Customers that have used a migration from on-prem to Azure as an opportunity to move to ASM have given consistent positive feedback that ASM is the best storage solution for Oracle.
