Production-ready Systems

We now offer an automated SAP S/4HANA system deployment that is based on a configurable SAP S/4HANA Software stack and uses SAP installation tools. This page will be serving up concepts and details for the offering and related use cases.

Production-ready deployment of SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Appliance Library

We now offer an automated SAP S/4HANA system deployment that is based on a configurable SAP S/4HANA Software stack and uses SAP installation tools.

While our preconfigured appliances we had – and still have – in the catalog are designed for quickly getting to a sandboxing, training or proof of concept system, the new type results in a production-ready SAP S/4HANA system. Here we do not unwrap prebuilt content into infrastructure with fix names but use default or custom stacks to install an SAP S/4HANA system guiding the user through the set up where system IDs, server names, sizing etc. can be freely chosen.

The Products section in SAP Cloud Appliance Library gives you an overview of the supported stacks.

This production-ready deployment is designed for Microsoft Azure and has a tight integration into it.

Current scope

- Guided installation by SAP and Microsoft​

- Standardized SAP System set up​ offering default stacks for:

    • SAP S/4HANA  – non HA setup 
    • SAP S/4HANA  – HA with system replication 
    • SAP S/4HANA  – HA with cluster set up (Pacemaker)

    - use custom SAP software stacks​ leveraging Maintenance Planner

    - Less time to market due to automated set up approach​

    - System start stop operations (graceful system shut down)

    - Easy LaMa Cloud onboarding for further operations​

    see also: Deploying a System


    Videos and Learning Material

    Plan a new system and deploy a custom software stack (Part I)

    Default stack and deployment creation (Part II)

    Monitor the deployment progress, connect to system and start/stop system (Part III)

    Usage for conversion

    You may also use the installed SAP S/4HANA system as a target system for the migration and conversion of your existing SAP ERP on-premises system by using the DMO to Azure procedure. With this procedure, you can do the migration from your on-premises data center to Microsoft Azure while doing the conversion to SAP S/4HANA in the very same step. This means that you will need only one business downtime for both steps.

    Target system for data migration option

    Using a pre-installed high-available SAP S/4HANA system with SAP HANA system replication has the benefit that you do not have to configure the high-availability cluster and SAP HANA system replication on your own. Instead, everything is already pre-installed according to the SAP reference architecture and pre-configured for you.

    The procedure will differ from the DMO to Azure procedure detailed in the technical whitepaper Converting from SAP ERP on Premise to SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure because we are using the

    pre-installed SAP S/4HANA system as the target. We will explain the procedure in a separate detailed blog post, so please stay tuned.