Cloud solid foundation

Goal of SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud is to make the business Suite, business warehouse and innovative Applications on Hana on the Cloud to be made available as a managed service.

The basis for this is the Hana–Cloud-platform architecture, which includes several technical building blocks.

A total of three Suse building blocks underpin the Hana Enterprise Cloud. Namely SLES for SAP, the Suse Manager and the Suse Cloud.

All three elements work together and perform important tasks.

The following is a technical look behind the Hana-Enterprise-Cloud-The following table shows the results of the analysis of the Suse components used in this process.

Operational safety in view

The SuseCloud-Platform for Hana is the Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications Priority.

Its task is to ensure the operational safety of the SAP-system. The components that come into play are a cluster construction kit, extended service pack life cycles, antivirus, the Operating system, a performance optimizer, and a web-based management interface.

Whereby the support access in SAP Solution Manager is ensured. The integration of the Hana-infrastructure into an existing IT landscape, the Suse Manager takes over as the management Software.

It manages, controls and provides Hana-systems with a high degree of automation. This also makes it possible to use different Software-channels; or various staging methods can be implemented for rollout realizations.

In addition, service pack upgrades can be performed automatically.

In addition to the technical automation, the SAP-There is another important point on the basis of the IT governance, this concerns the compliance.

Audit-proof auditing is provided via Suse Manager reporting. The plus point here is that it significantly simplifies the verification obligation of the SAP-basis in terms of IT governance.

Complete platform

As another building block for an additional level of automation in the SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud is suitable for the Suse Cloud based on Openstack. With it, a layer of abstraction is virtually pulled in at the network level.

In doing so, the Suse Cloud automatically includes the hardware components of a network in its management.

The Hana VMs that are created are managed by the Suse Cloud automatically generated, orchestrated, managed and deleted again.

That is, the Suse Cloud takes over the complete lifecycle management of a Hana VM.

With this, Suse delivers nothing more, but also nothing less: an entire SAP–Hana-Enterprise-Cloud-Platform.

SAP-Project Titanium

SAP's Titanium project, launched just over two years ago, allows the distribution of SAP–Software in a standardized virtual appliance format into the public and private SAP Cloud.

The innovative approach of distributing SAP-virtual appliances into the Cloud offers the possibility to immediately realize the potential of pre-assembled and preconfigured SAP-solutions.

Fact is: This added value is carried by the Suse-Linux-platform with. And it was also made available as the first platform for the Titanium project.

It will be exciting

In the SAP Private Cloud the Landscape Virtual Manager (LVM) is the interface for application virtualization.

Here, too, there is a close development history with the Suse-Linux-platform on which the adaptive computing approach was first developed.

Overall, it will now be exciting to see how the approaches of SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud, the Titanium project with SAP Appliance Factory and LVM will grow together in the future.

One thing can already be said today: The Suse-Linux-Platform with SLES for SAP Applications Priority plays a central role here.