seconds. All right, thank you everyone for joining today uh our session craft times SAP modernization in Azure powered by Azure Nav files. Now I work for NetApp but I like Azure so much I've decided to marry one of your employees and that wedding is next Saturday. So by being here you guys are also cordially invited. So congrats to you guys. Thank you very much for being here. No, but seriously, thank you for being here. Just a quick reminder, um, you guys can't or we please do not take any pictures of this and disclose this outside of this room without written permission from NetApp. All right. So, in the world of supply chain, businesses today are facing many challenges. It is clear that the key to success lies in cultivating connections and collaboration amongst your buyers, retailers, and suppliers. Craft Hinds is on a transformative journey by embracing digitalization. When it comes to optimizing performance, scalability, reliability, and data management of your SAP environment, consider the power of Azure NetUP files. Azure NetUP files not only addresses these critical aspects, but also is fully integrated into Azure to help fortify security, ensure compliance, and ensure storage availability. It is the full comprehensive approach to take your SAP experience in Azure to the next level. Up here presenting with me today, myself, Drew Guyire, ANF specialist, Ralph Clar, software architect from Microsoft Azure. And last but not least, Ashish Agrial, head of cloud IT engineering. Thank you guys for joining us.Quick agenda for today. We're going to start off with the problem statement. learn about what Craft Times was thinking about when moving their SAP from on-prem into Azure. Then we're going to do a quick review of ANF as a product to get a basic understanding. This will be followed by a discussion of why any customer would choose to use ANF for SAP. And then lastly, we're going to finish up with some architecture slides to show exactly how Craft Hind is using ANF today for their SAP landscape. Imagineyour business has chosen to embark on the journey of building out your SAP environment in Azure. This decision brings with it many design choices. Chief among them being whether to use an IAS or a paz storage offering. When it comes to IAS, this can lead to many complexities.concerning what we here at NetApp to be uh critical yet simple storage operations. These include snapshots, backups, test and dev cloning, managing performance, and ensuring storage availability. But here's where the challenge lies. When you're talking about managing an IAS storage environment, it can be very difficult to make sure all of your resources are provisioned to make sure your workload has consistent performance at all times. It becomes a problem of whether or not your resources can provide your workload with the consistent performance. Of course, all of this leads uh all these factors really converge in creating a complex puzzle in controlling the overall cost of your solution. So what is Azure NetUP files? Azure NetUP files is a Microsoft Azure first party solution. Now, I've been working with ANF for just over four years now. And whenever I hear a presentation, this is often quickly breezed over. In 2016, if you wanted to move an application into Azure, you would have very simple choices. If you needed block, you would use Azure Disk. If you needed SMB, you would use Azure files. And if you needed NFS, well, you could roll out your own Windows server, install Windows NFS services, and it kind of worked. NetApp being the godfather of NAS, Microsoft decided to ask for some help. Now at the time in other cloud providers, we already had a solution called cloud volume service which was our all flash arrays stored in a colo uh connected through the cloud providers and designated two customers through a lot of complex networking. Wanting to avoid all of that, Microsoft had the idea to one up this solution by bringing our most powerful all flash storage arrays into the Azure data centers, wiring them directly to compute. This would give customer vnets direct access to our most powerful all flash storage arrays. Azure Netup Files is a Microsoft Azure firstparty solution provisioned from the Azure portal, giving you the ability to take advantage of all of our abilities of our most powerful all flash storage arrays without having to worry or manage the operating system or the hardware. And now let's learn from Ralph a little bit why any customer would choose to use ANF for SAP. >> Yeah. Hi, good morning. >> So yeah, let's uh see why uh Azure Net of Files is a pretty cool solution for SAP workloads. First of all, the differences is uh when we start here in the upper uh left corner when you deploy SAP on manage disk, you create so silos and you need to manage uh for example all the um yeah local volume managers andyou need to maintain the storage if you need to increase the storage you need to add partitions to your LVM. So it can be a pretty complex scenario. Um when we install the SAP system within Azure Net Files or ANF, yeah, you see that you have a pool of volumes and those volumes get attached to the uh VMs via the network. Um what you also um see is that or what you also can do for example if you have higher security um aspects that you uh can set uh policies for each volume that only for example a certain IP address is able to mount that volume. Yeah. So in terms of security is also very important uh probably to mention here.Yeah. So we do not need those complex pacemaker clusters like you mentioned when you need an NFS service. So this um service is yeah general available and also provides um an SLA of 99.99 uh% u availability. Very important for especially the SAP customers is that we can do instantaneous volume cloning. This becomes very important when you do a system refresh from production to QA. Yeah. So this helps you absolutely um in this scenario volume resize and this goes on the fly also very important um feature um what we see for the SAP customers. Yeah. While your database is running you are able to increase data space, log space, log backup space. Yeah. And this on the fly. Yeah. So and it's not only you can make it not only bigger but you also can make it smaller. So in case of an event you need more space instantaneously you make simply bigger and afterwards you simply move the slider back to a lower volume size. This can be also done with the performance. If you suddenly need more performance on a certain volume, you can on the fly increase the performance for that volume. Yeah. So capacity and performance goes umyeah on the fly and without any interruption um of your pro um processing. Yeah. Why can we offer such an high SLA of 99.99% for the uh yeah for the service? Yeah, we have two power sources which feeds um yeah theso-called stamp. We have rate DP as a disk protection underneath. We have um yeah we built out NetApp clusters um for a larger environment and all this together and of course although the network attached directly in Azure um is multiple via multiple port channels um created so therefore end to end there's no single point of failure in the entire setup and that is one reason why we can allow to give such an yeah high SLA Yeah, as mentioned um a net files for SAP. So if we start on the left hand side, yeah, we need a very agile environment. So we need to stand up um yeah sandbox systems, trading systems, development systems. Yeah. Then we transport so then we are able to transport the transports to the QS system here as well and then further to the production system. The production systems are built here on a rock solid environment. You can also create scale out systems for SAP HANA for example or normal pacemaker clusters but all underlying infrastructure here is um Azenet files and what I mentioned in that slide before the system cloning I mean how long in general takes you to clone a system let's say 10 terabyte system from production to QS normally in normal environment so the copy process takes I know probably a day probably four hours, six hours to do today and this can be the cloning process can be done in minutes. I think this is prettyawesome for customers and this is also what we do here at KFines. Yeah, this is uh how a normal Azure landscape looks. Um so we have the customer. Yeah. Then usually the customer comes in via an express route into the hub VNET. So here are the general services usually located. Yeah. So ID management, shared services, gateways and so on. And then we peer the network to the SAP underlying infrastructure to the different networks. And for the ANF we have a delegated subnet. That means that because of the um management from Azure itself, we need to create our own IP space and that is uh that here delegated subnets from usually the application or database subnet. Yeah. And then you use um network security groups to protect your application set and also energies to protect uh also the database configuration. And from here yeah you can all the uh use the modern tools. So HANA system replication for example also to a different region. So all this of course is uh supported and will be created and this is also what Khines did in a as a reference architecture. what we see here. Any questions so far for what is ANF and why is it so cool for SAP? No questions. All cool. Thank you. Yeah. What we did here at Clients is um the decision was made to protect or to yeah to protect the non production um workload to the production workload. and still craftiness wanted to use all the nice features with cloning um of for the system refresh in the shared ANF vinet. Sowe did this with protection yeah that um yeah network protection that um let's say the servers or the server in the non-production VNET are not allowed and able to see anything from the provet. So only the required um yeah for example transports are stored here in the shared vinet and um yeah from here we can do all the things from the production database we create clones and the clones get um hooked up to the production uh network non-production network forexample database clones or test systems or all those things um very important also is that we have a DR region And from that the R region we also use a function like cross region replications that we are able to automate the um yeah a clone from the production volumes into the DR region. Yeah that is um automated done. How do we do this? Because we need um yeah a database consistency points. We have a tool called aaz snap. So Azure application consistency tool is a little bit complicated but with this tool we create um on the HANA side um consistent snapshot and that snapshot gets replicated then into the DR region when this we have the data in the production region and also in the DR region. Any questions for this? Okay. Yeah. And the cloning process is uh described here. So you see um our snapshot volume so the data volume yeah that creates a snapshot and when we clone uh the system or the volume for example for QA refresh then we are able with a push of a button to say create a clone of that snapshot to a new volume. Yeah. Then this is instantaneously available. So that means if you for example have a very large database again 10 12 terabyte for example. Yeah. Thisnew clone volume is immediately available even though the copy process takes place in the background. Yeah, that new volume is immediately available and can be hooked up to the QS system for the data refresh. Yeah, and all those features are used here um as well. That was pretty quick. Thank you. five minutes. Yeah. So, thank you for that, Ralph. That was awesome. So, here are just some key takeaways to make sure you leave here today with a clear understanding of how ANF can help you with your SAP environment. Through this strategic partnership, Craft Hind is going to be take going to be able to take all of the uh efficiencies gained by using this storage as a service model and reinvest those gains back into their core business operations. Also, because it's fully integrated into Azure, they'll be able to take advantage of all of Azure's robust analytics capabilities. And also um sorrythis resource will allow them to continuously optimize their supply chain so that they'll be able to swiftly deliver their products into the hands of their customers much more efficiently. And now we're going to close with Ashish with a couple of minutes on the summary and his experience with SAP on ANF. Thanks Drew. >> Yeah. So as Drew and uh you know uh Microsoft said like you know this was uh one of our first environment we just went live uh you know a couple months back. Uh the bigger one is coming up in April. You know that's our North America instance. Uh ENF is uh one of the key services in you know enabling this. Uh I would definitely you know agree um you know thegood uh the good part of ANF is it integrates so well with other native Azure services. So that really helped us you know uh being a first party you know service we didn't have to you know uh have additional resources for management and you know uh the scale and the performance you know one of the key reasons we were looking for a solution was that uh if we go with aVM based solution or you know a NAS solution that you know typically was you know uh in practice by you know that time um it would result into a lot of bottlenecks when it comes to virtual machine limits and uh various things. So, ANF came really handy there. Uh the replication cross-ite replication part helped us a lot. Wekind of you know um we use our uh DR environment uh for regression as well. So, you know, NF helped us a lot in that as well because we can kind of you know share the volumes and things like that. So yeah know um all in all it was a great partnership with Microsoft and NetApp. uh you know um so any questions you may have u ready to take those >> actually I'll come to you sir if I you don't mind I'll just give you the mic so we can uh hear you do>> you have any more details on the cost kind of >> the changes and the uh costs or savings realized by moving from on-prem to Azure >> well yeah u see our uh our business case for this whole program. This is much bigger than what we have already achieved so far. Uh it's a multi-year program that we are in right now. Uh sofar uh you know um what we have done is you know we have looked at the total you know cost of ownership you know uh most of the you know benefits are in long run uh when it comes to cost um because when we look at the operating cost you know as we are able to decommission our data centers and operations that side thenonly we realize some of the cost benefits for example the facilities charges and things like that. uh if you really compare the P into Q you know it won't materialize day one um so uh I want to be candid with you that you know uh first few years we have a dual run cost as well so first few years during the program we are actually taking the risk of additional cost uh but we understand that when we look at the business case over 5 to 8 years you know it gives us a lot of money back uh and that is what our leadership you know accepted >> great question uh any other questions Don't be shy. It's why we're here. >> All right. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. All right. Ashish, thank you so much. Thank you, Ralph. Thank you, Drew.