You have highly available deployment of SAP NetWeaver on Azure that uses a third-party solution for clustering ABAP SAP Central Services (ASCS) components. You need to recommend a solution to reduce…

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Options

• AAzure NetApp Files
• BAzure shared disks
• CAzure Data Share
• DStorage Spaces Direct

• A
  94% (47)
• B
  4% (2)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Azure NetApp Files is an Azure native, first-party, enterprise-class, high-performance file storage service. It provides Volumes as a service, which you can create within a NetApp account and a capacity pool, and share to clients using SMB and NFS. You can also select service and performance levels and manage data protection. You can create and manage high-performance, highly available, and scalable file shares by using the same protocols and tools that you're familiar with and rely on on-premises. Key attributes of Azure NetApp Files are: *-> Performance, cost optimization, and scale. Simplicity and availability. Data management and security. Note: SAP Central Services cluster This architecture runs Central Services on VMs in the application tier. Central Services is a potential single point of failure (SPOF) when it's deployed to a single VM. To implement a highly available solution, use either a file-share cluster or a shared-disk cluster. For highly available file shares, there are several options. We recommend that you use Azure Files shares as fully managed, cloud-native Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS) shares. An alternative to Azure Files is Azure NetApp Files, which provides high- performance NFS and SMB shares. You can also implement the highly available file shares on the Central Services instances by using a Windows server failover cluster with Azure Files. This solution also supports a Windows cluster with shared disks by using an Azure shared disk as the cluster shared volume. If you prefer to use shared disks, we recommend that you use Azure shared disks to set up a Windows Server failover cluster for SAP Central Services cluster.

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