The client, a leading construction firm with a market capitalization of $6 Billion USD and an employee strength of more than 20,000 wanted to decrease downtime and improve performance issues and low IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second), which happened to be a result of the implementation of SAP on Azure.
To address the challenge, Hexaware suggested the following approach-
- Upgrading the Azure instances as per SAP recommendations
- Upgrading to premium storage for better IOPS to SQL servers
- Update SAP to the latest kernel
Business benefits derived:
- Total IOPS across all the VMs now less than 40 disks
- Improved Disk Read/Write operations on SQL VM
- Improved environment availability
- Faster provisioning of servers for development and testing purposes