SAP is the world’s largest provider of enterprise management solutions, serving more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies. An increasing number of these enterprises are considering migrating their SAP apps and databases to the cloud to increase profit and efficiency in the face of the performance bottlenecks of traditional IT architecture deployment and rising demand for B2B hosting clouds.
Why Move SAP Apps and Databases to the Cloud?
There are two scenarios in which SAP apps should be moved to the cloud:
- Internet service providers (ISPs) need B2B hosting cloud platforms to provide cloud services to end users. ISPs must introduce new SAP services to expand the market and increase profits. For example, SOA People provides SAP services to more than 14,000 users in 100 companies worldwide. Leveraging B2B hosting clouds to provide cloud services is the optimal choice for ISP tenants who require SAP environments but do not want to deploy them on-premises due to their high cost.
- Enterprises build their own private clouds to bear SAP apps or databases, which helps to compensate for the disadvantages of physical-only deployment. When an SAP environment is deployed on traditional IT architecture, IaaS resources cannot be allocated flexibly to production, development, and testing systems. Development and testing systems have different SAP resource demands from production environments. During peak hours, production systems tend to be short of resources, while development and testing systems tend to have many idle resources.
Challenges
In the scenarios outlined above, customers are confronted with the following challenges:
- How do we protect our existing investments to ensure a high return on investment (ROI)?
- How do we provide differentiated SAP services while ensuring a high system performance to meet the diverse requirements of our tenants?
- How do we enable our tenants to implement self-service O&M, shorten the timeframes for moving SAP environments to the cloud, and reduce the O&M workloads of ISPs?
- How do we ensure the reliability and security of the cloud environment?
Huawei’s Solution
Huawei’s FusionCloud Private Cloud Solution was designed to address these problems. It allows SAP apps and databases to be moved to the cloud easily, freeing customers to focus on expanding their business. FusionCloud provides end-to-end SAP-to-cloud planning, implementation, and consulting. It covers both software and hardware infrastructures, including storage, servers, virtualization software, and cloud management software, all of which are SAP-certified. FusionCloud also provides a unified cloud with multiple resource pools running SAP apps and SAP HANA, which is very attractive to ISPs and other enterprises.
Resource pooling to improve ROI and protect existing investments
ISPs want to deploy SAP apps and databases on their existing resource pools to protect their initial investment in IaaS resources while increasing their profits by providing SAP services to their customers. FusionCloud supports resource sharing, which allows SAP service users to apply for resources on demand. After resources are released, they are returned to the resource pools for use by other cloud services. This allows FusionCloud to improve resource utilization and maximize ROI.
Multiple specifications and deployment modes to meet a variety of performance requirements
ISPs serve many different customers with diverse business requirements, so they need to provide differentiated SAP services to match a wide range of service scenarios. The FusionCloud solution deploys SAP apps and databases on elastic cloud servers (ECSs) and bare-metal servers (BMSs). SAP on BMS provides ultra-high specifications and an outstanding migration experience without compromising performance, making it an ideal choice for deployment in production environments. SAP on ECS leverages the elastic resource scheduling capabilities of the FusionCloud cloud platform, so it can be used in development and testing environments to greatly reduce operating expenses (OPEX). These deployment modes provide more than 10 options for memory capacity, ranging from 128 GB to 6 TB, to match the operating requirements of different SAP systems.
Self-service, self-O&M, and life cycle management for SAP products
The FusionCloud solution provides a unified cloud management platform that allows users to apply for, provision, and manage SAP resources in self-service mode. The shared, elastic infrastructure resources of the FusionCloud platform can be applied for and allocated quickly and on demand. The entire cloud migration process is administrator-free and has been shortened from several weeks to just hours, to respond rapidly to customers’ SAP environment demands. FusionCloud also provides multi-tenant and multi-VDC services to support ISPs’ B2B business models.
Guaranteed security
Security is of critical importance in both B2B hosting cloud scenarios and self-hosted SAP environments. The FusionCloud solution uses ECS’s high availability (HA) technology to rebuild faulty nodes automatically. When an active SAP node is faulty, it enables the standby node and prepares a new one. This dual-insurance mechanism ensures that SAP services are continuous and reliable. Huawei is the only vendor that offers a complete solution of SAP-certified servers, storage, and cloud platform software and hardware. SAP itself provides after-sales support for certified products, so if a fault occurs, SAP and Huawei will both participate in troubleshooting to ensure that customers receive the best possible after-sales support.
In summary, Huawei’s FusionCloud solution is the optimal end-to-end solution for both B2B hosting clouds and self-hosted SAP environments. It will protect your existing investments and increase your ROI.
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Source: Huawei Enterprise Blog
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