Hello. Welcome to the module, Google Cloud Services for SAP Deployments: Part 1. I'm Ramesh Suraparaju, Partner Technical Lead for SAP Strategy and Architecture at Google Cloud. In this module, you will learn about services and tools in Google Cloud that are relevant in the context of SAP workloads, along with some recommendations and best practices on how to use them for deploying SAP on Google Cloud. SAP workloads are often critical to the functioning of a business. As a result, SAP landscapes have advanced technical infrastructure and architecture requirements. In this module, you will look at the tools and services that are available on Google Cloud to deploy, run, and optimize SAP workloads. First, you will look into how to connect to Google. There are multiple ways to connect to the Google network, which we will cover in this module. Next, you will look at the network resources that you can use once you are on Google Cloud. These include firewall rules, VPC networks, and so on. We will also cover multiple infrastructure components like compute, persistent storage, and other components such as global storage and monitoring capabilities. Security impacts all the topics we cover. So we will look into that too. In particular, we'll look at the identity management as it is a significant part of an SAP deployment. SAP landscapes consists of multiple systems deployed in various environments like Sandbox, Development, Test, and Production. It is tedious to manually set up each of these Google Cloud services, like compute, storage for each system in your landscape manually. Manual setups are not only time consuming, but can also lead to errors. Google Cloud offers multiple tools for infrastructure automation like deployment manager, as well as automated operations like Cloud Scheduler and Cloud tops app. Finally, the value of Google Cloud comes from leveraging innovations like AI ML services by connecting SAP data with Google Cloud services like BigQuery, and exposing the application functionality of an SAP system through highly scalable and secure APIs. Throughout the next two sessions, we will cover how these Google Cloud capabilities and services are applicable in the context of SAP deployments. In this session or Part1 of the module, we will cover the key details and recommendations for SAP deployments, including connectivity options between Google Cloud regions and customers on-premises infrastructure, networking in Google Cloud for SAP deployments, Cloud security, identity, and access management, services for automation of deployment and operations, integration of SAP systems using Apigee, and high level overview of innovation using SAP data, BigQuery, and AI ML services. In the next session or Part 2 of the module, we will cover the core infrastructure components of Google Cloud, like Compute Engine, primary, and global storage, as well as monitoring.
