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Changes in the selection list are indicated by a yellow dot. If you select a product for installation, you will see a green plus next to the product to install.

If you select a product for de-installation, a red minus appears. The installation starts and you see a progress screen. This section describes how you update the installed front ends when a newer version is available as a patch either on the installation server or on a distribution medium such as a DVD.

Therefore, you cannot upgrade to a new release by just applying a patch for the new release to your existing installation. Updating the front end basically involves the same steps as an installation, see section Installing Components from an Installation Server [page 43] [page 48].

You can update a standalone front end by running a patch on it. Updating involves the same steps as an installation. We recommend Updating the Front End from an Installation Server [page 48] instead of updating individual front ends by running a patch.

To migrate an existing Front-End Installation server that is based on release 7. Create a copy of your existing installation server for fallback purposes. On the first wizard page, choose Next on the first wizard page. On the next wizard page, choose Browse, navigate to the shared folder of the Front-End Installation Server to be upgraded, select that folder and then confirm the browse dialog. Choose Verify and then Next in case of a verification success.

The upgrade starts now and the progress bar of the wizard informs you about the progress of the upgrade. Start NwSapSetupAdmin. Mark your package with the right mouse button and choose Configure Properties. Some components of your old selection might be unselected because they were moved in the product hierarchy.

Mark them as selected. Then save the package. Test whether the new package updates existing clients successfully. First, unshare the folder so that the installation server is not available to front ends on the network. Delete the folder from the file system using the Windows explorer. If an application is running during the uninstallation, the user is prompted to reboot afterwards. A list of the installed applications appears.

Choose Remove. You will be presented with a report on completion of the check process. The workstation check tool will collect critical installation files and compress them into a cabinet archive. This CAB-File will be presented to the user after the completion of the process, and can be supplied to SAP support staff when reporting installation issues - for quicker diagnosis. The repair process includes an update of all Front End components as described in chapter Updating the Front End from an Installation Server [page 48].

If the version of a component on the installation server is higher than of the component installed on the workstation, then this component will be udpated.

When the repair process starts, a progress screen appears. When the repair process is complete, you see a confirmation screen. Your SAP front-end components are now successfully repaired and ready to use.

All the installation tools described in this document maintain an activity record in log files that you can find here:. Errors are stored in an XML format in files that you can view in any browser and you can find in the following folder:. Tool Log File Error File. Displays no other user interface. You can use command-line parameters to automatically replicate your master installation server across multiple locations.

Typically used by software distribution systems such as SMS to determine the success or failure of a remote installation advertised package installation. This command-line parameter is valid only together with one of the following:.

The following table lists the command line names of the products delivered on Presentation CD 1. These command line names can be used with NwSapSetup. If you start NwSapSetup. The following table gives an overview of the return codes for NwSapSetup.

In case of return codes , have a look at the error and log file for NwSapSetup. The component list describes the features and functions of the selectable components, and the prerequisites for using them. The components are grouped under component groups. It works only when installed on the workstation. The workstation updater works in two modes - one in the presence of a logged-on user and another in his absence:. The prerequisites for using the calendar synchronization are as follows:.

NET 4. Business Explorer The Business Explorer is the SAP Business Information Warehouse component that provides flexible reporting and analysis tools for strategic analyses and decision-making support within a company. Therefore these shortcuts are only created if SAP Logon is not selected.

The user can display and modify connection information for SAP systems. If this component is not installed, the online help from help. Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or higher. Translation tool to process translation packages offline. It is a high-fidelity shell that integrates various UI technologies and design generations aimed at a more efficient, intuitive, and complete user experience over different UI technologies.

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Jump to Page. Search inside document. Process Flow 1. These methods are described in more detail below. Workstation Installation from a Server The installation process from an installation server is flexible, easy, and customizable. Prerequisites You need local administrator rights under Windows operating systems with local security mechanisms.

Ivelina Kiryakova. August 29, 7 minute read. Installing IdM Core Component on the First Host Log on to the first installation host using an account with the required user authorization to run the installer. This is the host where IdM Core component is to be installed. Start SWPM by executing sapinst. SAR file. Use Google Chrome. Run the installation in a Typical mode. Enter the master password for all users. Provide the path to all required SAR archives.

You can either download them to a local directory before you start the installation or do it right away from the specified locations on the SAP Software Download Center. Select the database system. Enter the database host and port of the server where the IdM database is to run. Enter the credentials for the IdM database. Enter the prefix of the IdM database and the base-qualified name that is used for the IdM packages.

Enter the parameters for the IdM database users. The master password that you provided in Step 6 is populated in the password fields for the IdM database users. You can keep it and proceed further or provide individual passwords. Enter the name of the developer administrator user. This is the name of the initial developer administrator that is used to log on to the Identity Management Developer Studio. The initial developer administrator user must be named the same in the database and the UME.

Select the encryption and hash algorithm. Review your parameters. If you want to change a parameter, select it and choose Revise.

Then, choose Next to run the installation. It has the following subdirectories: global — globally shared data This is where the Keys. For the SAP scenarios, we are looking at, point-to-site connectivity is not practical.

Therefore, no further references are given to point-to-site VPN connectivity. Previously a single subscription was limited to one site-to-site VPN connection. This makes it possible to leverage more than one Azure Region for a specific subscription through cross-premises configurations. For more documentation, see this article. However often you have the requirement that the software components in the different regions should communicate with each other.

Ideally this communication should not be routed from one Azure Region to on-premises and from there to the other Azure Region. To shortcut, Azure offers the possibility to configure a connection from one Azure Virtual Network in one region to another Azure Virtual Network hosted in another region.

This functionality is called VNet-to-VNet connection. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute allows the creation of private connections between Azure data centers and either the customer's on-premises infrastructure or in a co-location environment.

ExpressRoute connections do not go over the public Internet. ExpressRoute connections offer higher security, more reliability through multiple parallel circuits, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical connections over the Internet. Express Route enables multiple Azure subscriptions through one ExpressRoute circuit as documented here. For VMs joining on-premises domains through site-to-site, point-to-site, or ExpressRoute, you need to make sure that the Internet proxy settings are getting deployed for all the users in those VMs as well.

By default, software running in those VMs or users using a browser to access the internet would not go through the company proxy, but would connect straight through Azure to the internet.

If software running in the VM is not doing that or an administrator manipulates the settings, traffic to the Internet can be detoured again directly through Azure to the Internet. In order to avoid such a direct internet connectivity, you can configure Forced Tunneling with site-to-site connectivity between on-premises and Azure. This chapter contained many important points about Azure Networking.

Here is a summary of the main points:. We need to be clear about the fact that the storage and network infrastructure is shared between VMs running a variety of services in the Azure infrastructure.

As in the customer's own data centers, over-provisioning of some of the infrastructure resources does take place to a degree. The Microsoft Azure Platform uses disk, CPU, network, and other quotas to limit the resource consumption and to preserve consistent and deterministic performance. The different VM types A5, A6, etc. This means that once the VM is deployed, the resources on the host are available as defined by the VM type. When planning and sizing SAP on Azure solutions, the quotas for each virtual machine size must be considered.

The VM quotas are described here Linux and here Windows. The quotas described represent the theoretical maximum values. The IOPS limit is enforced on the granularity of single disk. As a rough decision tree to decide whether an SAP system fits into Azure Virtual Machine Services and its capabilities or whether an existing system needs to be configured differently in order to deploy the system on Azure, the decision tree below can be used:.

The Azure portal is one of three interfaces to manage Azure VM deployments. The basic management tasks, like deploying VMs from images, can be done through the Azure portal. In addition, the creation of Storage Accounts, Virtual Networks, and other Azure components are also tasks the Azure portal can handle well. Administration and configuration tasks for the Virtual Machine instance are possible from within the Azure portal.

Besides restarting and shutting down a Virtual Machine you can also attach, detach, and create data disks for the Virtual Machine instance, to capture the instance for image preparation, and configure the size of the Virtual Machine instance. The Azure portal provides basic functionality to deploy and configure VMs and many other Azure services. However not all available functionality is covered by the Azure portal.

In the Azure portal, it's not possible to perform tasks like:. Windows PowerShell is a powerful and extensible framework that has been widely adopted by customers deploying larger numbers of systems in Azure. After the installation of PowerShell cmdlets on a desktop, laptop or dedicated management station, the PowerShell cmdlets can be run remotely.

More detailed steps on how to install, update, and configure the Azure PowerShell cmdlets can also be found in Install the Azure PowerShell module.

Customer experience so far has been that PowerShell is certainly the more powerful tool to deploy VMs and to create custom steps in the deployment of VMs. All of the customers running SAP instances in Azure are using PowerShell cmdlets to supplement management tasks they do in the Azure portal or are even using PowerShell cmdlets exclusively to manage their deployments in Azure.

Since the Azure-specific cmdlets share the same naming convention as the more than Windows-related cmdlets, it is an easy task for Windows administrators to leverage those cmdlets. As Azure provides more functionality, new PowerShell cmdlets are going to be added that requires an update of the cmdlets.

The new version is installed on top of the older version. For customers who use Linux and want to manage Azure resources PowerShell might not be an option. Microsoft offers Azure CLI as an alternative. For information about installation, configuration and how to use CLI commands to accomplish Azure tasks see. The first step can be one that is time consuming, but most important, is to work with compliance and security teams in your company on what the boundary conditions are for deploying which type of SAP workload or business process into public cloud.

If your company deployed other software before into Azure, the process can be easy. If your company is more at the beginning of the journey, there might be larger discussions necessary in order to figure out the boundary conditions, security conditions, that allow certain SAP data and SAP business processes to be hosted in public cloud. As useful help, you can point to Microsoft compliance offerings for a list of compliance offers Microsoft can provide.

Other areas of concerns like data encryption for data at rest or other encryption in Azure service is documented in Azure encryption overview. Don't underestimate this phase of the project in your planning. Only when you have agreement and rules around this topic, you need to go to the next step, which is the planning of the network architecture that you deploy in Azure. In this chapter, you learn the different ways to deploy a VM in Azure. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to deploy VMs and associated disks.

Thus it is important to understand the differences since preparations of the VMs might differ depending on the method of deployment. In general, we take a look at the following scenarios:. You plan to move a specific SAP system from on-premises to Azure. Therefore, generalizing the image is not necessary. See chapters Preparation for moving a VM from on-premises to Azure with a non-generalized disk of this document for on-premises preparation steps and upload of non-generalized VMs or VHDs to Azure.

For more information, see chapter Protect SAP of the About disaster recovery for on-premises apps guide. To prepare such a private image for duplication, the following items have to be considered:. There are small differences depending on the deployment method that is used. In this case, the guest OS of VM should not be generalized for multiple deployments. If the on-premises network got extended into Azure, then even the same domain accounts can be used within the VM as those were used before on-premises.

In this scenario no generalization sysprep of the VM is required to upload and deploy the VM on Azure. Set disk automount for attached disks as described in chapter Setting automount for attached disks in this document. In this scenario no generalization waagent -deprovision of the VM is required to upload and deploy the VM on Azure. For the OS disk, make sure that the bootloader entry also reflects the uuid-based mount.

For the OS disk, make sure the bootloader entry also reflects the uuid-based mount. The last step is to sign in to a VM with an Administrator account. Open a Windows command window as administrator. A small window will appear. It is important to check the Generalize option the default is unchecked and change the Shutdown Option from its default of 'Reboot' to 'shutdown'.

If you want to perform the procedure with a VM already running in Azure, follow the steps described in this article. How to capture a Linux virtual machine to use as a Resource Manager template. Another possibility is the use of the tool 'AzCopy'. The tool can copy VHDs between on-premises and Azure in both directions. Consult this documentation for download and usage of AzCopy. A third alternative would be to use various third-party GUI-oriented tools.

However, make sure that these tools are supporting Azure Page Blobs. For our purposes, we need to use Azure Page Blob store the differences are described in Understanding block blobs, append blobs, and page blobs. This is important because this efficiency in compression reduces the upload time which varies anyway depending on the upload link to the internet from the on-premises facility and the Azure deployment region targeted. Such a VM does NOT need to be generalized and can be uploaded in the state and shape it has after shutdown on the on-premises side.

The same is true for additional VHDs, which don't contain any operating system. This is a multi-step process. You can move SAP systems from Azure back into the on-premises world as well. Even when downloading disks, which are mounted to VMs, the VM needs to be shut down and deallocated. If you only want to download the database content, which, then should be used to set up a new system on-premises and if it is acceptable that during the time of the download and the setup of the new system that the system in Azure can still be operational, you could avoid a long downtime by performing a compressed database backup into a disk and just download that disk instead of also downloading the OS base VM.

Then you can copy the underlying blob to a new storage account and download the blob from this storage account. The command could look like:. In order to do that, you need the name and the container of the VHD, which you can find in the 'Storage Section' of the Azure portal need to navigate to the Storage Account and the storage container where the VHD was created and you need to know where the VHD should be copied to.

Then you can leverage the command by defining the parameters blob and container of the VHD to download and the destination as the physical target location of the VHD including its name. Neither the Azure functionality of copying disks nor the Azure functionality of saving disks to a local disk has a synchronization mechanism, which snapshots multiple disks in a consistent manner.

Therefore, the state of the copied or saved disks even if those are mounted against the same VM would be different. This means that in the concrete case of having different data and logfile s contained in the different disks, the database in the end would be inconsistent. Only then you can copy or download the set of disks to either create a copy of the SAP system in Azure or on-premises.

Data disks can be stored as VHD files in an Azure Storage Account and can be directly attached to a virtual machine or be used as an image. In this case, the VHD is copied to another location before being attached to the virtual machine. As mentioned earlier already, the name is kind of a three-part name that looks like:.

Data disks can also be Managed Disks. In this case, the Managed Disk is used to create a new Managed Disk before being attached to the virtual machine. The name of the Managed Disk must be unique within a resource group. To create a new Managed Disk, use az disk create as shown in the following example. The copy of a VHD itself within a storage account is a process, which takes only a few seconds similar to SAN hardware creating snapshots with lazy copy and copy on write.

After you have a copy of the VHD file, you can attach it to a virtual machine or use it as an image to attach copies of the VHD to virtual machines. This task cannot be performed on the Azure portal.

The next time, the primary machine needs to connect to the secondary machine, it will connect using an SSH certificate instead of a password. If NTP is not yet set up, do so. This avoids the two machines from running into issues because of time differences. On the tab General Settings , activate Now and on Boot. Add a time server by clicking Add. Click Server and Next. Then specify the IP address of a time server outside of the cluster. Test the connection to the server by clicking Test.

Finish with OK. In the next step, choose fencing options. To avoid split-brain situations, SBD uses a disk device which stores cluster state.

The chosen disk must be available from all machines in the cluster under the same path. Ideally, use either by-uuid or by-path for identification. To define a device to use, click Add , then choose an identification method such as by-uuid and select the appropriate device.

Click OK. If your machines reboot particularly fast, activate Delay SBD start. The following page allows configuring watchdogs which protect against the failure of the SBD daemon itself and force a reboot of the machine in such a case. It also lists watchdogs already configured using YaST and watchdogs that are currently loaded as detected by lsmod. To configure a watchdog, use Add.