Introduction

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to outline the infrastructure and network architecture for SyWay project.

Scope

This document will describe the high-level infrastructure and network design for SAP RISE and non-RISE deployments. It will also cover the network design for specialized integration scenarios and deployment in China region.

Out of scope:

Overview

SyWay systems can be classified into 3 hosting models:

Hosting model

Description

SAP RISE

S/4HANA and SAP applications that are hosted in SAP RISE cloud tenants and managed by SAP.

Non-RISE

Non-SAP and SAP applications that cannot be hosted in SAP RISE will be hosted in Syensqo Azure tenants.

SaaS

Applications that follow the SaaS model and managed by the service providers.

In addition to the different hosting models, SyWay systems can be deployed to 1 or more region (North America, Europe and China). The figure below describes how SyWay systems will be deployed across Syensqo’s network.

Infrastructure Architecture

SAP RISE

Overview

S/4HANA will be the core system that will be hosted in SAP RISE along with supporting connectors and web dispatchers. SyWay project will leverage a common Sandbox, Development, Integration Testing and training landscape that will be deployed in Europe region and individual UAT, Parallel Testing and Production systems that will be deployed to all 3 regions.

The table below describes the landscape and systems that will be hosted in the 3 regions.

Region

Land-scape

Systems

S/4HANA

Web Dispatcher

SAP Cloud connector

SAP Data Provisioning Agent

SAC Agent

OpenText Connector

Europe

SBX

DEV

1

1

1

1

INT

TRG

UAT

PAR

PRD

North America

UAT

1

1

1

1

PAR

PRD

China

UAT

1

1

1

1

PAR

PRD

 1System will be shared across all non-PRD systems

Landscape Provisioning

SAP RISE landscape will be provisioned in stages to optimize cost. The following diagrams illustrates the systems that will be provision for the different phases.

Europe

S/4HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery

In SAP RISE, High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) is applicable to Production instances. For SyWay project, S/4HANA will be provisioned with the following RISE add-ons.

With these add-ons, S/4HANA production will be deployed across 2 availability zones and with pacemaker clusters for HA.

The table below describe how HA is achieved for the different components.

ComponentHA Design
Web DispatcherDeployed to both AZs in active-active configuration and Azure load balancer is used to distribute incoming HTTP traffic to both instances.
S/4HANA Application servers2 application servers will be deployed to each AZs in an active-active configuration.
S/4HANA Message server (SCS & ERS)Pacemaker cluster is configured between SCS and ERS servers to ensure SCS & ERS services fails over in the event of a failure.
SAPMNT Shared folderNetApp files is used to host the SAPMNT shared folder and is mounted across all S/4 application, SCS and ERS servers.
HANA DB2 HANA nodes are deployed across 2 AZs in an active-standby configuration. HANA synchronous replication is configured to replicate data from the active to standby node. Pacemaker cluster is configured to ensure that the standby node is promoted to active node in the event of a failure.

The table below summaries the SLA for HA and DR.

LandscapeAvailability SLARPORTO
PRD99.9%12h~0
Non-PRD99.5N/AN/A

SAP RISE VM Specs

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Non-RISE

Systems that follow an IaaS or on-premises deployment model and are not hosted in SAP RISE will be hosted in Syensqo’s Azure subscription. The following systems are classified as Non-RISE.

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Network Architecture 

Network Design

SAP RISE 

172.16.32.0/20 IP range has been allocated for for all SAP RISE provisioning. The following table lists down the IP allocation for the different subnets.

RISE RegionRegion IP Allocation RISE SubnetSubnet IP AllocationRangeUsable Hosts
Europe172.16.32.0/22Production

172.16.32.0/23.0/23

172.16.32.0 - 172.16.33.225

510

Parallel Testing

172.16.34.0/27

172.16.34.0 - 172.16.34.31

30

UAT

172.16.34.32/27

172.16.34.32 - 172.16.34.63

30

Development

172.16.34.64/27

172.16.34.64 - 172.16.34.95

30

Sandbox

172.16.34.96/27

172.16.34.96 - 172.16.34.127

30

Test

172.16.34.128/127

172.16.34.128 - 172.16.34.159

30

Training

172.16.34.160/27

172.16.34.160 - 172.16.34.191

30

Unassigned

172.16.34.192/26

172.16.34.192 - 172.16.34.255

30

Unassigned

172.16.35.0/24

172.16.35.0 - 172.16.35.255

254

North America

172.16.36.0/22

Production


Parallel Testing


UAT


China172.16.40.0/22Production


Parallel Testing


UAT


Unassigned172.16.44.0/22-

172.16.44.0/22

172.16.44.0 - 172.16.47.255

1022

Non-RISE 

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SAP RISE Network Connectivity

North America (NAM) and Europe (EMEA) SAP RISE vNETs will be connected to Syensqo regional hub routers via ExpressRoute and Megaport Virtual Cross Connect (VXC) as shown below.

The table below lists down the regional hub and Azure edge location for NAM and EMEA regions.

RegionMegaport LocationAzure Edge location
EuropeParis Equinix PA2/3 & Paris Interxion PAR5Dublin
North AmericaAshburn Equinix DC4 & Reston CoreSite VA1

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DNS Architecture

SAP RISE Domain 

The following domains will be used for the respective RISE regions.

RISE RegionDomain
Europe

*.sap.eu.cloud.syensqo.com

North America

*.sap.us.cloud.syensqo.com

China 

*.sap.cn.cloud.syensqo.com

DNS Integration

SAP RSIE supports 3 different DNS integration types: DNS Zone Transfer, Conditional DNS Forward and DNS Domain Delegation.

Conditional DNS forwarding has been choose for Syensqo for the following reasons:

The table below lists down the Syensqo and SAP DNS that will be integrated.

RegionSyensqo Primary DNSSyensqo Secondary DNSSAP RISE DNS
Europe172.18.164.7 (DNS_EMEA_01)172.18.164.22 (DNS_EMEA_02)
North America


China


Network Firewall

An active-active cluster of Palo-Alto Firewall VM-Series is deployed to North America and Europe Megaport locations along slide SD-WAN regional hub routers. The figure below illustrates the architecture Europe regional hub routers and firewall. The same architecture applies for North America.

Network connection to and from SyWay systems (SAP RISE and Non-RISE), will be controlled by the respective regional firewalls. To allow network connections, firewall requests for must be submitted to the network team

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 Internet Traffic

All inbound and outbound internet traffic will be filtered by the firewalls hosted in Megaport except for integration scenarios mentioned in integration section.

Outbound Internet Traffic

Outbound internet traffic from SAP RISE or Syway vNET will be routed to the regional hub router and firewall. The firewall will filter the traffic before allowing it to the external application.

If the external application requires source IP to be whitelisted before accepting the connection, a public IP can be assigned at the firewall.

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Inbound Internet traffic

Inbound traffic from external application will be filtered through the firewall before the region hub router routes it to SAP RISE or Syway vNET. The external application will need to provide a static public IP or FQDN to be whitelisted on Syensqo firewall. Syensqo firewall will also manage the public IP and translation to internal IP.

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User Access


Integration