Devon Energy in partnership with Microsoft and SAP pioneered the journey to migrate 125 SAP application and database servers to Microsoft Azure successfully within a five-month timeline and a 72-hour window for go-live. The effort entailed designing and building an infrastructure for network, storage, and application management that met the technical and business requirements to leverage the scalability and elasticity of the tools that Microsoft and SAP have to offer.
The 6-terabyte ERP central component (ECC) system required an SAP HANA large instance to support the database, additional servers to support internet protocol (IP) table configuration for network connectivity, and building app servers on physical hardware versus virtual machines (VMs) to resolve performance issues found two weeks before go live.
App servers were built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 to allow for high-availability clustering in the future. High-availability (HA) and disaster recover (DR) solutions were only implemented for the database servers and have been tested with automated scripts. All SAP servers built on VMs were automated using Puppet. During and after the implementation of the re-platform to Microsoft Azure, the monitoring, backup recovery, HA, and DR capabilities were optimized for higher performance, reliability, and stability.
Key Business Benefits:
- Infrastructure scalability
- Reduced hardware costs
- Increased speed
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