SAP on GCP
Moving your Small or Medium business SAP workload to the cloud can help you save costs by utilizing salable on demand infrastructure. Simple upgrade path with additional integration with Google Cloud BI capabilities
Book an SAP on GCP consultancy today : sap@cloudypedia.com
What is SAP on Google Cloud?
This service utilizes Google Cloud infrastructure to build greenfield ( fresh implementation ) of SAP environment or migrate existing SAP workloads from on-premises or other cloud providers to Google Cloud
Benefits of Google Cloud :
SAP customers need to upgrade hardware to meet the new HANA demand of high memory VMs by 2025. Google Cloud offers up to 12TB or RAM VMs with 35% cheaper than than on prim solutions
Pay as you go: Only pay for what you need, scale VMS with additional RAM on demand as your database grows or shrinks over the years
Pay per second of consumption , Compute(vCPU), RAM and Operating System Licences
Flexible payment for non production workload. when development or testing VM is off there is no cost
Custom machines option saves $$ on year over year resources growth
Google Cloud up time SLA is 99.999%
Streamlined incremental snapshot solution, only pay for the difference of data-backups, not the the full storage
Benefits of Cloudypedia Services :
Google Cloud Infrastructure specialization partner
Dozens of successfully SAP on GCP implementations since 2009
Dedicated SAP Consulting team
Unique methodology for SAP workload optimization on GCP
Certified SAP basis consultants in house
Main differentiation between traditional on prim or co-location hosting for SAP and Google Cloud
SAP on GCP Project Process
Adopting Cloud is done in weeks, not years
Strategy, Business Case and Planning
Project starts with Discovery of your current environment: (for free assessment click here)
SAP on GCP Adoption strategy :
Since the Cloud does not require 3 or 5 years capacity planning, the adoption plan helps understand the requirement and high level timeline :
SAP Landscape for current and future phases.
SAP consultant is consulted through the process. If customer has no SAP partner, Cloudypedia can provide the SAP for SMB Consultant
Optimize landscape for the Google Cloud Platform
Identify target SAP apps, size and price:
Based on the the adoption strategy, an estimate is created for the different phases.
Define use cases and prototypes
Define the additional Google cloud integration pints such as BigQuery and G Suite if needed
Finalize Architecture Blueprint
The outcome of the strategy and planning phase is a detailed architecture diagram along with project plan for the short, mid and long term project phases.
SAP Partner/consultant is consulted through the process. If customer has no SAP partner, Cloudypedia can provide the SAP for SMB Consultant
Execution
Once the business case, VMs discovery and Foundation for GCP project is setup actual data and VMs migration kicks off:
Define Sequence of migration
Automated Process: Using tools to do environment discovery such as CloudPhyscis . Useful for 10+ servers discovery. Also shows an accurate cost comparison for the servers on GCP and other cloud providers
Manual process : We fill in a discovery with the current environment details such as VMs Sizes, Operating Systems, Data size and plan accordingly
Pilot
If required, spinning up an SAP environment on GCP and testing it out to verify technical and business requirements.
Migrate:
Utilizing one or more of the following four migration process:
Velostrata (if customer has VMware, AWS, Azure)
Sureline Migration tool
Native replication services of SAP
System export, System import
Roll out
SAP Consultant to reconfigure, test and confirm
Phased roll-out if needed
System Admin GCP training
The Value of SAP on Google Cloud
A Quick overview on the value of SAP on GCP
Deploying SAP on GCP
Customer Story
NACITA
Nacita is a leading agency in the trading and servicing of automotive products and in providing logistics services.
"The (SAP on GCP) pilots, migration planning and careful contingency rollback designed by Cloudypedia gave us the confidence to be live on GCP within 3 weeks with our full production system"
Edward Shenoud, IT Manager, NACITA
