Running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform
This blog provides information about running SAP Applications on the Microsoft Platform. The blog is written by people who are working with SAP on the Microsoft Platform for decades.
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Version 2.0: Updated 11/20/2017 - Adding SBOP BI Platform 4.2 supported Azure Data Services,...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 10/24/2016
In a changing market we now offer a broader spectrum of topics
Hello folks, given the fact that the relationship between Microsoft and SAP widened in integrations...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 10/23/2016
How to slowdown a SQL Server Database Backup
Yes, you read correctly. We are not talking about accelerating a SQL Server database backup. In our...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 08/10/2016
More offers in SAP Cloud Appliance Library for Azure
Version 2.0 News!!! - SAP Cloud Appliance Library now deploys with Azure Resource Manager Deployment...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 08/03/2016
SQL Server 2016 Distributed Availability Groups for SAP
As mentioned in an earlier blog, we wanted to introduce Distributed Availability Groups in a...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 06/16/2016
New Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Azure Enhanced Monitoring
As part of the announcement during the keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW to support SAP on Linux on Azure we...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 05/16/2016
Azure Quickstart Templates for SAP
As part of the announcement during the keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW to support SAP on Linux on Azure we...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 05/16/2016
Protecting SAP Systems Running on VMware with Azure Site Recovery
Introduction Azure Site Recovery delivers a powerful toolset to customers seeking to deploy or...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 05/06/2016
SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn for SAP
We know we are a bit late. But honestly we were very busy, also with exploring the great SQL Server...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 05/02/2016
Whitepaper SAP on SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014
It has been a long while since we published the last whitepaper about SAP workload on SQL Server. It...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 03/07/2016
Always On - Synchronize SAP login, jobs and objects
SQL Server AlwaysOn is one of the High Availability solutions available for an SAP system. It...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 02/25/2016
The Azure Monitoring Extension for SAP on Windows – Possible Error Codes and Their Solutions
The Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP provides configuration information and performance...
Author: GoranCondric Date: 01/29/2016
Improvements of SAP (BW) System Copy
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 01/27/2016
SAP MaxDB, SAP liveCache and SAP Content Server are certified to run in Microsoft Azure Cloud
We are pleased to announce certification and support for the three new SAP products on Microsoft...
Author: GoranCondric Date: 10/23/2015
SQL Server AlwaysOn - Summary
AlwaysOn is a very large feature in SQL Server and we needed to talk about all of the parts so that...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 10/23/2015
VMWare Vulnerability can cause Database Inconsistencies
SAP released a “Hot News” (SAP Note 2229228) on a significant problem using VMWare...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 10/15/2015
Data distribution and SQL Plans
For customers of SAP (and others) it is very important that the runtime of the different reports or...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 10/09/2015
World Record SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark for SAP cloud deployments released using Azure IaaS VMs
In this article we want to talk about four SAP 3-Tier benchmarks that SAP and Microsoft released...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 10/05/2015
Foodstuffs North Island Retire Legacy Technology and Lower Costs by Moving Decommissioned SAP Systems to Azure on Demand
SAP Retail Customer Saves Money by moving legacy Info Assets to AzureFoodstuffs North Island (FSNI)...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 08/03/2015
Global Advisory Firm Improves SAP BW Performance and Lowers Costs by Moving SAP Landscape to Windows & SQL Server on Azure and Hyper-V
The Australian subsidiary of a Global Advisory and Accounting Practice has migrated their SAP...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 07/16/2015
Required SQL Server patch for Columnstore
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 06/29/2015
How to Size SAP Systems Running on Azure VMs
Rahat Ahmad from our Partner Architect Team has contributed this blog. In one of the partner...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 06/19/2015
Clustering SAP ASCS Instance using Windows Server Failover Cluster on Microsoft Azure with SIOS DataKeeper and Azure Internal Load Balancer
We released new white paper on clustering SAP ASCS instance using Windows Server Failover Cluster on...
Author: GoranCondric Date: 05/20/2015
Max degree of parallelism (MaxDOP)
The configuration option "Max degree of parallelism" (MaxDOP) defines how many processors SQL Server...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 04/29/2015
Azure Premium Storage is available for SAP workloads
Version 2.0 - Correction on statements how existing VHDs get mapped into P10, P20 and P30 Today...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 04/24/2015
WORST Practices for Maintaining SQL Server SAP systems (i.e. Things to AVOID)
Database and System Administrators are frequently and appropriately risk averse. Thus the best...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 04/21/2015
Important Information for those Customers still using Windows 2003 – April 2015
Any customer that is still running Windows 2003 should read this blog and immediately start planning...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 04/21/2015
Columnstore Optimized Flat Cube in SAP BW
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/27/2015
Concepts of SQL Server 2014 Columnstore
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/24/2015
SQL Server 2014 Columnstore: Released for SAP BW
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 03/23/2015
Software Logistics on SQL Server 2014
SAP recently release support for SQL Server 2014 for SAP NetWeaver based systems. See Juergen's blog...
Author: Sebastian Dusch - AzureCAT Date: 03/20/2015
SQL Server 2014 now released by SAP for SAP NetWeaver 7.xx
Last year we already released a series of articles on this blog site where we introduced new...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 03/11/2015
SAP Support for Microsoft KBA 2964518
{NOTE – The SAP Note hyperlinks are only available if you have an S-User account for access.}...
Author: Mark Weber - Premier Field Engineering SQL and SAP Date: 03/06/2015
Deadlock Analysis (Advanced)
With this blog my small deadlock serie will be completed. We started with the basics, then we...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 01/19/2015
Deadlock Analysis (Examples)
As promised in my former blog about Deadlock Analysis we proceed today with the deadlock serie with...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 01/18/2015
SQL Server Column-Store for SAP BW: Status and Release Planning
This blog has been re-published at...
Author: Martin Merdes Date: 01/08/2015
SQL Agent Jobs in an AlwaysOn / Mirroring Environment
Running SQL Agent Jobs in an AlwaysOn or Database Mirroring environment can be a challenge, as the...
Author: Clas Hortien Date: 12/03/2014
Protecting SAP Solutions with Azure Site Recovery
We have released a new whitepaper detailing how to build a DR solution for SAP systems based on...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 11/19/2014
Setup of WSFC with Azure Virtual Machines and SIOS Datakeeper using Azure Powershell
Introduction This blog post is a complement to the Azure blog article published recently about the...
Author: HermannDaeubler Date: 11/19/2014
More Azure VMs supported by SAP now
Version 2.0: Corrected wrong data in first table As of October 27th, SAP and Microsoft have extended...
Author: Juergen Thomas - MSFT Date: 10/30/2014
Message misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO in SQL Server Error Log
Summary Disk Manufacturers introduced a new specification for disk storage formats in 2011. ...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 10/01/2014
Client Aware Parameter for Multiple Clients has been Defaulted to Enabled
Summary Customers running SAP systems with multiple clients may intermittently observe slow...
Author: Cameron - MSFT SAP Program Manager Date: 07/01/2014