Automate SAP S/4HANA infrastructure deployment on IBM Power Virtual Server with deployable architectures

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When companies want industry-leading efficiency scalability and reliability for his or her SAP ERP panorama, they flip to IBM® Power® for his or her compute infrastructure. I can pull a listing of benchmarks that spotlight why over 4,500 clients run SAP HANA on Energy—highest SAP-certified reminiscence scalability, management in SAPS efficiency benchmarks, ranked most dependable amongst SAP-certified infrastructure platforms, and so forth. 

IBM Power Virtual Server delivers that platform expertise in a multi-tenant atmosphere with entry to IBM Cloud providers. We’re targeted on accelerating the cloud transfer for Energy deployments by automating the Day 1 and Day 2 operations in Energy Digital Server. Automation can shrink SAP deployment from weeks to hours and assist keep away from error and configuration variance. The time taken by varied automated elements is detailed in Mike Moore’s blog post.

Deployable architectures

Automation in IBM Cloud is delivered as a “deployable structure.” We GA’ed the deployable structure (DA) for SAP S/4HANA which is predicated on the most effective practices from each IBM and SAP. Let’s dive into the small print. 

To entry DAs, click here or go to IBM Cloud catalog and choose Deployable architectures from the filters on left facet of the web page.

You’ll discover the beneath tiles, together with different DAs.

• Energy Digital Server with VPC Touchdown Zone
• Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA 

Energy Digital Server with VPC touchdown zone

Shoppers transferring from on-premises to Energy Digital Server might not be accustomed to community connectivity, storage configurations and the most effective practices to deploy cloud infrastructure. Energy Digital Server with VPC touchdown zone helps to get the cases up and working shortly, securely and with minimal guide intervention. It automates the deployment of the next elements: 

• Provisions three VPCs with one VSI in every VPC: 
  • One administration (bounce/bastion) VSI
  • One inet-svs VSI configured as squid proxy server
  • One private-svs VSI configured as NFS, NTP, DNS server
• Installs and configures the Squid Proxy, DNS Forwarder, NTP forwarder and NFS on hosts, and units the host because the server for the NTP, NFS, and DNS providers by utilizing Ansible roles.

A PowerVS workspace occasion with the next community topology. Creates two personal networks: a administration community and a backup community. Creates one or two IBM Cloud connections. Attaches the IBM Cloud connections to a transit gateway. Attaches the personal networks to the IBM Cloud connections. Creates an SSH key.

Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA

This DA is designed to help you in deploying SAP S/4HANA software program landscapes into the IBM Energy Digital Server infrastructure. That is the second step within the deployment course of to arrange SAP-certified Energy Digital Server cases for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workloads. After the deployment is full, you could (relying on the framework you selected) start putting in SAP on the configured cases or login to your newly created SAP cases instantly.

The Energy Digital Server for SAP HANA structure automates the deployment of the next duties, all primarily based on greatest practices:

• Creates and configures one Energy Digital Server occasion for SAP HANA.
• Creates and configures a number of Energy Digital Server cases for SAP NetWeaver.
• Creates and configures one non-obligatory Energy Digital Server occasion that can be utilized for sharing SAP recordsdata between different system cases.
• Connects all created Energy Digital Server cases to a proxy server that’s specified by IP tackle or hostname.
• Optionally connects all created Energy Digital Server cases to an NTP server and DNS forwarder which might be specified by IP tackle or hostname.
• Optionally configures a shared NFS listing on all created Energy Digital Server cases.

Get began

These deployable architectures not solely assist automate the deployment of the infrastructure for SAP provisioning however can be used for AIX, IBM i, or Linux deployment on Energy Digital Server. You’ll be able to additional join it to x86-based workloads working on IBM Cloud, enabling you to reap the benefits of workload-optimized infrastructure throughout Energy and x86. 

Check out the deployable architectures for IBM Power Virtual Servers

Documentation: 

Automation sources:

Senior Product Supervisor – SAP on PowerVS