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

Your Datacenter

Active

Directory

SharePoint SQL

Server

…

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

Note: Refer MOS Note 1563794.1 Certified Software on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-VSource: 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 only fully supported and properly-licensed public cloud

environment to deploy the Oracle stack and the only third-party

virtualization platform certified by Oracle

1.

2.

3.

Bring Your Own, or License-Included?

• 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-prem datacenter 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:

Infrastructure Scenarios: OpportunitiesConvert 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

MoveHyper-V

VMware Hosted

P2V

Amazon

Mig

rate

Physical

ServerMove running Virtual Instances from Customer to any Hyper-V Implementations

Hyper-V

Live Migration

Hyper-V

Customer Host

PRIVATE CLOUDwith

Windows Server Hyper-V

PUBLIC CLOUDwith

Azure

•Recommended DB size <10GB for data on System Disk

•Attach disk(s) for flexibility and improved performance

•Standalone Oracle DB, Data Guard, and GoldenGate available

•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:

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 OpenJDK build 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

“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

HPC middleware (case study)Shorten sales cycle by 70%, increase revenueJava on Linux + PostgresStrategic alignment w/ MSMoved away from AWS / EC2 because of Windows skillsetSQL 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 / PaaS

ScaleSpeed Skills

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 Oracle

support directly

License Included

Oracle DB, WebLogic, Java on Windows

Server VM

Supported by Microsoft Customers will contact Microsoft to

get support for Oracle software and

Azure

• Eliminate infrastructure

worries

• Give customers faster time-

to-value

• Help customers and partners

set up temporary

environments

• Expand business around the

world

Dan Matthews, Chief Technology Officer, IFS

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004170

• Faster, less expensive,

lower-risk deployments

for customers

• Improved data

scalability

• Better ability to expand

business

Daniel Franz, Senior Solutions Manager for Vertical Markets

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=710000004196

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

SAP PRODUCT GUEST OS RDBMS VM TYPE

SAP Business Suite Software based

on Netweaver 7.X technologiesWindows

SQL Server, Oracle,

SAP ASE

A5, A6, A7, A8, A9

D11, D12, D13, D14

SAP Business All-in-One WindowsSQL Server, Oracle,

SAP ASE

A5, A6, A7, A8, A9

D11, D12, D13, D14

SAP NetWeaver7.x Application

ServerWindows

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

SAP PRODUCT GUEST OS RDBMS VM TYPE

SAP Business Suite Software based

on Netweaver 7.X technologiesWindows

SQL Server, Oracle,

SAP ASEA5

SAP Business All-in-One WindowsSQL Server, Oracle,

SAP ASEA5

SAP NetWeaver7.x Application

ServerWindows

SQL Server, Oracle,

SAP ASEA5

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

Announcing support for higher VM sizes

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

Only supported for Training/Demo/sandbox scenarios with SAP

• Connectivity to SAP systems in Azure goes through internet

• VMs in Azure not part of on-premise domain or DNS

• Restricted communication between systems in Azure and on-premise

• Not typical for production systems

SAP Deployment on Azure -Non Domain Joined topology

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

Additional Hybrid topologiesSupported: Distinct Test/Production Systems in different premises

NOT Supported:

Application layer

and DBMS layer in

different

‘locations’

VM SizingAzure 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

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?

Base OS VHD including OS and Executables currently limited to 127GB

Non-OS VHDs (data disk) can be up to 1TB in sizeVHDX format is not supported On premise VHDs need to be changed to fixed VHDs format

Database files need to be located on separate data VHDsEvery 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 NOT persistedA-Series VMs: Drive should NOT be used for SAP and DBMS deployments, even not for tempdb or temp tablespace

D-Series VMs: tempdb or temp tablespace can be placed on D:\ Drive utilizing SSDs

Azure VHDs can be read or read/write bufferedNO Buffering recommended for DBMS and SAP deployments, except OS disk

Azure Base VHD

Azure Base VM <=127GBContains 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 nodeNon 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 VHDsMultiple 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

• 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

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

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, 3rd party solutions providing Storage replication can be used

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

DR configuration with Azure Site Recovery• DBMS layer: Use asynchronous DBMS methods like AlwaysOn, DBM, Oracle

Data Guard, etc

• SAP dialog instance: Use Async Hyper-V replica or Microsoft InMage if on VMWare or on bare-metal

• SAP CI/ASCS/SCS cluster configuration: 3rd party 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

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

“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

“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

Use Cases How Microsoft Azure Helps How organizations benefit

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 costs by 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.

Flexibility to 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.

•

•

•

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

Hadoop 2.0

Data Node Data Node Data Node Data Node

Task Tracker Task Tracker Task Tracker Task Tracker

Name Node

Job Tracker

HMasterCoordination

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

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

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

MongoLab, MongoDB and Cloudant

Microsoft and Oracle announce enterprise partnership

Partners in the Enterprise Cloud

Oracle’s Mission-critical Software and Microsoft’s Enterprise-grade Cloud

Try Oracle Software on Azure

Oracle Virtual Machine Images for Azure

Microsoft 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

Partners in the Enterprise Cloud

Oracle’s Mission-critical Software and Microsoft’s Enterprise-grade Cloud

Deploy 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

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