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MCW SAP NetWeaver on Azure

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SAP NetWeaver on Azure

Contoso Group is a US-based telecommunications company with worldwide operations serving almost 150 million mobile subscribers. The company is looking to optimize its IT environment and considering moving some of its on-premises SAP workloads to Azure.

The company's CIO wants to significantly improve times it takes to provision development and test SAP environments. At the same time, he stresses the importance of minimizing their cost. He also points out the criticality of the SAP production workloads and the need of protecting them against unplanned downtime.

Contoso CIO and the company CFO, along with Business Development Manager (BDM), Director of SAP Business Analysts, and Director of SAP Operations are all open to taking advantage of Azure as a platform and want their respective teams to be able to leverage the scalability and resiliency provided by the cloud platform.

March 2020

Target audience

• Infrastructure Architect

Abstracts

Workshop

In this workshop you will learn to deploy and configure SAP on Azure infrastructure and SAP NetWeaver deployment running on Azure infrastructure, including SAP NetWeaver ASCS and SAP NetWeaver database servers. Key takeaways are the Azure infrastructure solution components and the way they are put together to run SAP applications as well as the Solution architecture references.

At the end of this workshop, you will be better able to design and deploy SAP running on Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components and understand proper configuration of SAP NetWeaver ASCS, database and application servers in Azure.

Whiteboard design session

In this whiteboard design session, you will learn how to deploy SAP on Azure infrastructure components as well as perform an SAP on Azure need assessment, take part in an SAP on Azure architecture design discussion, and respond to an RFI/RFP for SAP on Cloud opportunity.

At the end of this whiteboard design session, you will be better able to architect for SAP running on Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components and understand proper configuration of SAP NetWeaver ASCS, database and application servers in Azure.

Hands-on lab

In this hands-on lab you will setup and configure SAP NetWeaver by using a combination of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) components. You will setup identity management by using Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS), file sharing by using Azure Files service, NetWeaver application and database tiers by using Azure virtual machines (VMs) and integrate them with Active Directory. You will then setup high-availability for SAP ASCS components hosted on Azure VMs by configuring failover clustering. Finally, you will configure the database tier with Always-On Availability Groups and configure the NetWeaver application servers for redundancy.

As you step through the hands-on-lab, you will learn how to optimize deployment of SAP on Azure, including configuration of SAP NetWeaver ASCS servers, SAP NetWeaver database servers, and SAP NetWeaver Application servers.

Azure services and related products

• SAP NetWeaver on Azure
• SAP NetWeaver Application Servers
• Azure VMs
• Azure Active Directory
• Azure Virtual Networks
• Load Balancers
• Failover Clustering

Azure solutions

SAP on Azure

Related references

• MCW

mcw-sap-netweaver-on-azure's Issues

Different basic sku and standard sku load balancer or public Ip resources in availability set is not allowed

While running the powershel script in Exercise 1 > Task 5 > Step 2, I am getting in to the following error :

WARNING: The output object type of this cmdlet will be modified in a future release.
Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface : Different basic sku and standard sku load balancer or public Ip resources in availability set is not allowed /subscriptio
ns/03df3539-4556-46c1-87d1-b5383cd0bb27/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-59091-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/s03-lb-pub-db and /subsc
riptions/03df3539-4556-46c1-87d1-b5383cd0bb27/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-59091-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/s03-pip-db-0.
StatusCode: 400
ReasonPhrase: Bad Request
OperationID : '5af4a69d-485f-409b-a3fc-56c30c3ff40c'
At line:41 char:9
+         Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface -NetworkInterface $nic
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface], NetworkCloudException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Network.SetAzureNetworkInterfaceCommand
 
WARNING: The output object type of this cmdlet will be modified in a future release.
Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface : Different basic sku and standard sku load balancer or public Ip resources in availability set is not allowed /subscriptio
ns/03df3539-4556-46c1-87d1-b5383cd0bb27/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-59091-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers/s03-lb-pub-db and /subsc
riptions/03df3539-4556-46c1-87d1-b5383cd0bb27/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-59091-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/s03-pip-db-1.
StatusCode: 400
ReasonPhrase: Bad Request
OperationID : 'e0382f3b-9a87-4606-ae96-7d49e6ad1ad6'
At line:41 char:9
+         Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface -NetworkInterface $nic
+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface], NetworkCloudException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.Network.SetAzureNetworkInterfaceCommand
 
WARNING: The output object type of this cmdlet will be modified in a future release.
Set-AzureRmNetworkInterface : IP configuration /subscriptions/03df3539-4556-46c1-87d1-b5383cd0bb27/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-59091-s03RG/provide
rs/Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/s03-nic-ascs-0/ipConfigurations/ipconfig1 is using the private IP address 10.0.1.8 which is already allocated 
to resource 

SKUs of some public IPs and load balancers are different(Basic and Standard).
Can you also look at this?

May 2019 Content update

Hello,
This workshop is scheduled for a May 2019 update. Please review open issue #13 and give your suggested updates for SME review.

Proposed development schedule:
Update issue created: 3/26/19
Update suggestions due: 4/1/19
SME review: 4/2/19 - 4/5/19
Draft due: 4/26/19
SME review: 4/29/19 - 5/8/19
Final due: 5/15/19
Published update: 5/20/19

Thanks,
Dawnmarie

Parameters are not matching

{"code":"DeploymentFailed","message":"At least one resource deployment operation failed. Please list deployment operations for details. Please see https://aka.ms/arm-debug for usage details.","details":[{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "InvalidRequestFormat",\r\n "message": "Cannot parse the request.",\r\n "details": [\r\n {\r\n "code": "InvalidJsonReferenceFormat",\r\n "message": "Reference Id /subscriptions/41ca5ed7-3e4f-4a30-b857-9cdad18ad91e/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-79007-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/s03-RG-vnet/subnests is not formatted correctly. The Id is expected to reference resources of type virtualNetworks/subnets. Path properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.subnet."\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"},{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "InvalidRequestFormat",\r\n "message": "Cannot parse the request.",\r\n "details": [\r\n {\r\n "code": "InvalidJsonReferenceFormat",\r\n "message": "Reference Id /subscriptions/41ca5ed7-3e4f-4a30-b857-9cdad18ad91e/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-79007-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/s03-RG-vnet/subnests is not formatted correctly. The Id is expected to reference resources of type virtualNetworks/subnets. Path properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.subnet."\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"},{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\r\n "error": {\r\n "code": "InvalidRequestFormat",\r\n "message": "Cannot parse the request.",\r\n "details": [\r\n {\r\n "code": "InvalidJsonReferenceFormat",\r\n "message": "Reference Id /subscriptions/41ca5ed7-3e4f-4a30-b857-9cdad18ad91e/resourceGroups/ODL-sap-netweaver-79007-s03RG/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/s03-RG-vnet/subnests is not formatted correctly. The Id is expected to reference resources of type virtualNetworks/subnets. Path properties.ipConfigurations[0].properties.subnet."\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n}"}]}

Customer objections & preferred objection handling do not match

PPT & trainer guide - Objection #5 reads:
For my dev environment, can I automate stopping VMs during idle times?

#5 in the Preferred objections handling sections of the PPT and trainer guide reads:
Can I automate the shut down at periodic times of day?

HOL/Trainer & Student Guide

1. The images have not been inserted into the document.
2. No alt text is provided for any of the images.

Missing image

Line 216 of trainer guide says Existing Contoso SAP environment, line 218 shows a .png but the image does not show in markdown.

Ready for QC - Results

Health probes not found.

In Exercise 1 > Task 4 > Steps 18 : lb00ProbePortxSCS health probe not found in s03-lb-ascs load balancer.
In Exercise 1 > Task 4 > Steps 20 : lb00ProbePortDB health probe not found in s03-lb-db load balancer.

3- tier Netweaver Template one currently differs from the instructions

There is slight changes in template. Instructions of lab guide differ from actual template. Can you please confirm and update

Missing image

Trainer guide - line 262, code shows image, .md not showing it.

Powerpoint

1. Many of the images do not meet the color contrast standards :

• Slide 10 - Graphic (light gray/medium gray) (blue/white)
• Slide 12 - Graphic (white/medium gray) (blue/white)
• Slide 13 - Graphic Fails AAA
• Slide 18 - “Availability Set” graphic (green/white; blue/white)
• Slide 24 - “Benefits of MCP” graphic (blue/white)
• Slide 25 - Graphic (white/medium gray) (blue/white)
• Slide 33 - Graphic (Green/red)

2. None of the images have alt text provided.

Deployment failing of "SAP NetWeaver application and database tier VMs " Exercise 1 task 5.

Custom script extension provisioning is failing for all the of application and database VMs in exercise 1 task 5 https://github.com/Microsoft/MCW-SAP-NetWeaver-on-Azure/blob/master/Hands-on%20lab/HOL%20step-by%20step%20-%20SAP%20NetWeaver%20on%20Azure.md#task-4-deploy-sap-netweaver-application-and-database-tier-vms

Following are the error screenshots:

Status in VM extension blade: Provisioning failed.
[
{
"code": "ComponentStatus/StdOut/succeeded",
"level": "Info",
"displayStatus": "Provisioning succeeded",
"message": "Windows PowerShell \nCopyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.\n"
},
{
"code": "ComponentStatus/StdErr/succeeded",
"level": "Info",
"displayStatus": "Provisioning succeeded",
"message": "The argument '.\shared\noop.ps1' to the -File parameter does not exist. Provide the path to an existing '.ps1' file as an argument to the -File parameter."
}
]

all issues resolved