Protecting SAP Systems Running on VMware with Azure Site Recovery
Combine the power of Azure with your existing VMware or Hyper-V landscape in your regional datacenter.
The Azure Site Recovery Toolset contains disaster recovery solutions for different hypervisors, guest operating systems and databases running on-premises.
SAP supports its applications on Linux and Windows guests on VMware vSphere (SAP Note 1492000). You can use Azure Site Recovery with both guest operating systems starting with VMware vSphere 5 and higher. Additionally ASR covers many databases like Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase.
For more information on prerequisites, costs, recommendations of this setup, check this blog and this blog. They contain many insights and implementation details how to set up such a scenario.
For more information on SAP on Azure in general, check my Wiki site SAP on Azure.
Hello Claudia,
We are currently looking to replicate a 2-Tier SAP Source system (including MSSQL) to an ASR recovery site.
As I understand, this is unfortunately not recommended (it would be better to have a 3-Tier system), but this is historically setup like this at the customer.
In your blogpost you state that ASR covers databases such as MSSQL, but I assume that this is in combination with classic DB replication methods (like it is stated in the other blog).
Is there a recommendation how to move forward or what the best-practice would be in this case with a 2-Tier system?
Lieven
hi Lieven,
you might find some interesting topics in section 6 of this blog. Furthermore, my Microsoft colleague who advises on this topic, listed some remarks:
In case of further questions, you could get in touch directly with him.
Best regards, Claudia