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Start Design of SAP Workloads on AWS PracticeA company is planning to migrate its SAP S/4HANA system to AWS. The system requires high availability with an RTO of less than 30 minutes and RPO of less than 15 minutes. The SAP application layer runs on Linux. Which architecture should a solutions architect recommend to meet these requirements?
Explanation: The only viable choice to meet the RTO of less than 30 minutes and RPO of less than 15 minutes for an SAP S/4HANA system on AWS. Although the option states hourly snapshots, in practice snapshots can be taken more frequently (e.g., every 5 minutes) to achieve the required RPO. On instance failure, a new EC2 instance can be launched from the latest snapshot, and with automation the RTO can be under 30 minutes. The SAP application layer is stateless and can be restored quickly. Options A and C do not provide adequate recovery for the database (A relies on backups, C uses ephemeral instance store). Option D is invalid because Amazon RDS does not support SAP HANA as a managed database service.
A company runs SAP HANA on AWS and needs to restore a database from a backup stored in Amazon S3. The backup was created using the SAP HANA backup to S3 feature (backint). Which AWS service is required to facilitate this restore?
Explanation: AWS Storage Gateway can be used to facilitate the restore of SAP HANA databases by presenting the S3 backup as a file system share. This allows SAP HANA to read the backup files directly as if they were local, simplifying the restore process. While the backint agent can also perform restores, Storage Gateway provides an alternative method that may be preferred in certain hybrid architectures.
An SAP system on AWS is using an RDS for Oracle database. The operations team notices that database backups are taking longer than expected, impacting performance. Which change would most effectively reduce backup duration without affecting availability?
Explanation: Enabling the Backup Multi-AZ option for an RDS for Oracle database allows backups to be taken from the standby instance in a Multi-AZ deployment. This offloads the backup I/O overhead from the primary instance, reducing performance impact and backup duration while maintaining full availability for the SAP workload.
An SAP system on AWS uses an Oracle database on EC2. The database is experiencing I/O bottlenecks. Which THREE design changes can improve I/O performance?
Explanation: Amazon EBS io2 volumes provide consistent, low-latency I/O with guaranteed IOPS, directly addressing I/O bottlenecks. Option B is correct as EBS-optimized instances dedicate bandwidth to EBS, reducing contention. Option E is correct because offloading backups to Amazon S3 reduces I/O load during backup windows, improving overall performance. Option C is incorrect because Multi-Attach is for multi-instance shared access, not for parallel I/O in a single database. Option D is incorrect because instance store volumes are ephemeral and not suitable for persistent database files; they can cause data loss on instance stop/termination.
A company runs SAP S/4HANA on AWS and notices high latency in database transactions. The database is hosted on an r5.24xlarge instance with 768 GB of EBS gp3 storage. The SAP application servers are in the same VPC but different subnets. What should be changed to reduce latency?
Explanation: Gp3 volumes may not provide the low latency required for SAP HANA database transactions. Switching to io2 Block Express volumes offers higher and more consistent IOPS with lower latency, which can reduce high database transaction latency. Option C is misleading because EBS optimization is already enabled by default on r5 instances, so 'enabling' it is not a valid change.
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