VMWare Vulnerability can cause Database Inconsistencies
SAP released a “Hot News” (SAP Note 2229228) on a significant problem using VMWare vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection with VMWare ESXi 6.0. Backing up a virtual machine (VM) with Changed Block...
View ArticleSQL Server AlwaysOn – Summary
AlwaysOn is a very large feature in SQL Server and we needed to talk about all of the parts so that you could understand how important different configuration steps are. But now we know you want to...
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SAP MaxDB, SAP liveCache and SAP Content Server are certified to run in...
We are pleased to announce certification and support for the three new SAP products on Microsoft Azure cloud: SAP MaxDB database SAP liveCache SAP Content Server SAP MaxDB Database SAP MaxDB is one...
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New White Paper on Sizing SAP Solutions on Azure Public Cloud
We have released a new white paper detailing how to size SAP solutions on Microsoft Azure public cloud. The document is attached to this blog. Initial work on this topic is mentioned in this blog: How...
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Improvements of SAP (BW) System Copy
For performing an r3load-based system copy of an SAP system you should use the SAP Software Provisioning Manager (SWPM). For a BW system it is mandatory to run the report SMIGR_CREATE_DDL before the...
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The Azure Monitoring Extension for SAP on Windows – Possible Error Codes and...
The Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP provides configuration information and performance data of the underlying Azure infrastructure and makes it available to the SAP application. It...
View ArticleAlways On – Synchronize SAP login, jobs and objects
SQL Server AlwaysOn is one of the High Availability solutions available for an SAP system. It consists of two or more computers each hosting a SQL Server with a copy of the SAP database. A listener...
View ArticleWhitepaper 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 also has been a long while that we were working on a successor paper. Too long because we needed to...
View ArticleSQL Server has encountered I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds
Most of us have seen these errors in the SQL Server error log pointing to a IO subsystem problem: 2015/06/15 12:43:01 spid8s SQL Server has encountered 1016 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer...
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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 2016 features. That is why we did not write anything about SQL Server 2016 despite the fact that we...
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Protecting SAP Systems Running on VMware with Azure Site Recovery
Introduction Azure Site Recovery delivers a powerful toolset to customers seeking to deploy or improve their Disaster Recovery solutions. The key differentiators between Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and...
View ArticleAzure Quickstart Templates for SAP
As part of the announcement during the keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW to support SAP on Linux on Azure we released 5 Azure Quickstart Templates on github and 4 PowerShell cmdlets. For a description of the...
View ArticleNew 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 released 5 Azure Quickstart Templates on github and 4 PowerShell cmdlets. For a description of the...
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SAP on SQL: General Update for Customers & Partners June 2016
Introduction SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best...
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SQL Server 2016 Distributed Availability Groups for SAP
As mentioned in an earlier blog, we wanted to introduce Distributed Availability Groups in a separate article. This is one of the articles. Just to refresh what Distributed Availability Groups are,...
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More offers in SAP Cloud Appliance Library for Azure
As you might already know, SAP has an offer called SAP Cloud Appliance Library (SAP CAL – http://cal.sap.com ). SAP CAL offers you to deploy pre-configured software appliances on different public...
View ArticleHow to slowdown a SQL Server Database Backup
Yes, you read correctly. We are not talking about accelerating a SQL Server database backup. In our customer case we encountered the challenge to slow down the full database backup execution of a SQL...
View ArticleHow to install or upgrade SAP Systems to SQL Server 2016
On 4/10/2016, SAP released support for SQL Server 2016 for some SAP NetWeaver based systems. In this blog we will talk about how you can update your existing installations on SQL Server to SQL Server...
View ArticleIn 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 and touch points of technology, we also decided to widen the topics we are covering in this blog. As...
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Where can I find documentation or information for ….?
Analyzing incoming SAP support messages around Azure, we realized that a lot of the messages were centered around asking for information and pointers to documentation. So we decided to take a first...
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