Topic 1, Litware, inc
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Overview
Litware, inc. is an international manufacturing company that has 3,000 employees.
Litware has two main offices. The offices are located in Miami, FL, and Madrid Spain.
Existing Environment
Infrastructure
Litware currently uses a third-party provider to host a datacenter in Miami and a disaster recovery datacenter in Chicago, it.
The network contains an Active Directory domain named litware.com.Litware has two third-party applications hosted in Azure.
Litware already implemented a site-to-site VPN connection between the on-premises network and Azure.
SAP Environment
Litware currently runs the following SAP products:
* Enhancement Pack 6 for SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (SAP ECC 6.0)
* SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
* SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)
* SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI)
* SAP Solution Manager
All users run on the Windows Server platform. All databases use Microsoft SQL Server. Currently, you have 20 production servers.
You have 30 non-production servers including five testing severs, five development servers, five quality assurance (QA) servers, and 15 pre=production servers.
Currently, all SAP applications are in the litware.com domain.
Problem Statements
The current version of SAP ECC has a transaction that, when run in batches overnight, tables eight hours to complete. You confirm that upgrading to SAP Business Suite on HANA will improve performance because of code changes and the SAP HANA database platform.
Litware is dissatisfied with the performance of its current hosted infrastructure vendor. Litware experienced several hardware failures and the vendor struggled to adequately its 24/7 business operation.
Business Goals
Litware identifies the following business goals:
* Increase the performance of SAP ECC application by moving to SAP HANA. All other database will remain on SQL Server.
* Move away from the current infrastructure vendor to increase the stability and availability of the SAP services.
* Use the new Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S) in Recipe Management function.
* Ensure that any migration activities can be completed within a 48-hour period during a weekend.
Planned Changes
Litware identifies the following planned changes:
* Migrate SAP to Azure.
* Upgrade and migrate SAP ECC to SAP business Suite on HANA Enhancement Pack 8.
Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements:
* Implement automated backups.
* Support load testing during the migrate.
* Identify opportunities to reduces costs during the migration.
* Continue to use the Litware.com domain for all SAP landscapes.
* Ensure that all SAP applications and databases are highly available.
* Remove all SAP components from the on-premises network once the migrate is complete.
* Minimize the purchase of additional SAP licenses. SAP HANA license were already purchased.
* Ensure that SAP can provide technical support for all the SAP landscapes deployed to Azure.

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-instant-restore-capability

The SAP Solution Manager is a centralized robust application management and administration solution used to implement, support, operate and monitor your SAP enterprise solutions, SAP Solution Manager is a platform providing integrated content, tools, methodologies and access to SAP systems.
Incorrect Answers:
C: Data volume management is a framework that helps the solution operations team of an SAP-centric solution to balance the need of business' access to a wealth of data and IT efforts to monitor and control data growth and to minimize data volume.
Reference:
https://blogs.sap.com/2009/02/20/sap-solution-manager-overview-for-dummies/

Azure Policy enables you to set policies to conform to the GDPR. Azure Policy is generally available today at no additional cost to Azure customers. You can use Azure Policy to define and enforce policies that help your cloud environment become compliant with internal policies as well as external regulations.
Azure Policy is deeply integrated into Azure Resource Manager and applies across all resources in Azure. Individual policies can be grouped into initiatives to quickly implement multiple rules. You can also use Azure Policy in a wide range of compliance scenarios, such as ensuring that your data is encrypted or remains in a specific region as part of GDPR compliance. Microsoft is the only hyperscale cloud provider to offer this level of policy integration built in to the platform for no additional charge.
Reference:
https://azure.microsoft.com/de-de/blog/new-capabilities-to-enable-robust-gdpr-compliance/

ExpressRoute circuits are configured to allow you to burst up to two times the bandwidth limit you procured for no additional cost.
Scenario: It is estimated that during the migration, the bandwidth required between Azure and the New York office will be 1 Gbps. After the migration, a traffic burst of up to 3 Gbps will occur.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/expressroute-faqs