Google Cloud Platform: Your cloud destination for mission critical SAP workloads

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SAP kicked off its annual TechEd conference this week, and we thought we’d share an update on new capabilities and integrations we’ve built in collaboration with  SAP to provide customers with more infrastructure capabilities and options for their workloads.

Optimize your workloads with custom machine types

Custom machine types now let you right size your SAP workload by configuring the optimal amount of CPU and memory. We worked with SAP to define productive support for using custom machines for SAP applications. A combination of right sizing with custom machines and sustained use discounts can offer potential cost savings of more than 50 percent in infrastructure costs.

Here’s how it works. SAP workload sizing is typically done using SAPS (SAP application performance standard). Let’s say you determine that in order to exactly achieve the SAPS you need for your SAP workload, you will need 20vCPU. Without the certification for custom machines for SAP applications, you might need to provision a predefined machine type with either 16vCPU (under provision) or 32vCPU (over provision). With custom machines however, you can provision a machine with 20vCPU and pay exactly for what you need(20vCPU vs 32vCPU). And if your load characteristics change in the future, you can easily scale up the size of your machine by just restarting the machine with a larger number of vCPUs.

Here’s the current state of certifications for SAP workloads on custom machine types:

Announcing support for dynamic tiering

SAP HANA dynamic tiering provides disk-based, large-volume extended storage for your SAP HANA warm data. This lets you keep only the most useful or active data in memory, thereby reducing costs. Dynamic tiering also provides extensibility since you can use the same tools that you use to query SAP HANA with data stored in the dynamic tiering storage.

Today, we’re announcing productive support for dynamic tiering on GCP for your SAP HANA workloads. To make sure you have the best possible experience on GCP,  we conducted a series of functional tests including querying, backups, monitoring and operations, and followed the sizing guidelines and defined the optimum storage, networking, CPU and memory requirements.

You can find more information about the resourcing requirements in our planning documentation .

New certification to back up SAP HANA into Google Cloud Storage

Backint for SAP HANA is an executable program which can be implemented by a third party such as Google Cloud and installed in your SAP HANA environment so you can back up to a third party server. We developed a Backint executable that can back up your SAP HANA database to a Google Cloud Storage bucket, and we worked with SAP to make sure this interface meets all their certification requirements for backup and restore into SAP HANA.

With this certification , you can use Google Cloud Storage for backing up your production SAP HANA databases. This means you can take advantage of features such as geo redundancy, life cycle management, and instant access so you can build a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategy for your mission critical SAP HANA databases.

This certification will further expand our SAP HANA ecosystem by way of integration with first class GCP services.

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