What should you recommend for each tier?

HOTSPOT

You have an on-premises deployment of SAP Business Suite on HANA that includes a CPU-intensive application tier and a 20-TB database tier.

You plan to migrate to SAP HANA on Azure.

You need to recommend a compute option to host the application and database tiers. The solution must minimize cost.

What should you recommend for each tier? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

View Answer

Answer:

Explanation:

Text

Description automatically generated

Box 1: Ev3 series M Azure virtual machines

The Ev3 series pricing is starting from $58.40 /per month.

The E-series Azure VMs are optimized for heavy in-memory applications such as SAP HANA. These VMs are configured with high memory-to-core ratios, which makes them well-suited for memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, in-memory analytics workloads etc.

The Ev3-series VMs range from 2 to 64 vCPUs and 16-432 GiB of RAM, respectively. Example workloads include SAP HANA (e.g., E64s v3, E20ds v4, E32ds v4, E48ds v4, E64ds v4), SAP S/4 HANA application layer, SAP NetWeaver application layer, and more broadly memory-intensive enterprise applications, large relational database servers, data warehousing workloads, business intelligence applications, in-memory analytics workloads, and additional business-critical applications, including systems that process financial transactions of various nature…

Note: The M-series family of Azure virtual machines are memory optimized and are ideal for heavy in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA. The M-Series offer up to 4 TB of RAM on a single VM. In addition, these VMs offer a virtual CPU count of up to 128 vCPUs on a single VM to enable high performance parallel processing.

Example workloads include SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, SQL Hekaton and other large in-memory business critical workloads requiring massive parallel compute power.

Box 2: Hana on Azure (Large Instances)

The storage used in HANA Large Instances has a file size limitation. The size limitation is 16 TB per file.