C U STO M ER C ASE STUDY

Berger Paints

SAP HANA
MIGRATION TO
CLOUD

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 Low Cost
SAP DR Solution
on AWS

Existing Production
Workload Running
on Physical Servers

Near Zero
Production Impact

Cold DR Readiness

Compliance

BERGER
123, Tejgaon Industrial Area
Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh

IN Partnership with: AWS,

GetCo IT Services

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 ABOUT
BERGER PAINTS
BANGLADESH
Across the world – Berger is a
name that is synonymous to Paint.
Started in 1760, Berger is a leading
provider of Paints and Colors

BUSINESS
CHALLENGE
Maintaining a Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure involves heavy investment and
low usage, hence Berger was looking for Low
cost solution for their On Premises SAP
Infrastructure, through which their entire
production houses and factories are
dependent on SAP for Inventory to Dispatch
and Invoicing.

With market condition, the challenge was

up come up with a low cost solution for
compliance ready DR solution for SAP,
Exchange, AD and Share-point. AWS came
with the answer – along with local partner
GetCo IT Services and AWS Implementation
Partner- Minfy Technologies, presented a
unique solution which maintains the Ready
infra for use in case of a Disaster or DR Drill.

With the solution in place, Berger was also

able to maintain the important compliances
for which they are certified in, which
required the DR to be in place.

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SOLUTION
The Unique Solution was proposed with Using AWS Marketplace, and third party
help of AWS – Pay as you use functionality tools, back to back replication of DB from
and low cost 24x7 running DB instance for Production to AWS instance was made
replication of Production DB. possible and all DB clusters are in synch.

The Production Application Instances are

replicated and kept on shut down mode for
later use and hence not billed. The DB
replication ensure RPO/RTO for the App
and DB.

Replication Replication
Volume Volume

Replication Replication
Volume Volume
H L A

Replication Servers Replication

Cluster Servers

Replication Servers
Cluster
B E R G E R

Replication
Servers

Agent

Source Source

Volume Volume Volume Volume

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 DEPLOYMENT
With requirement of SAP, AD, Exchange and
Share-Point – to be made available at the least cost
possible for DR - the Deployment was planned as per
below to first make a replica of the Production.

Following were the SAP Stack and AWS Services:

Using Cloud Endure - established the synch schedule

for the essential components/data to be replicated
on AWS instances. The non-essential servers were
replicated and stopped to be used as and when
required. These non-essential services are mostly
static data and application UI.

INFRASTUCTURE
1. Server will be launched in the AWS Mumbai
Region. Access will be controlled via Identity and
Access Management (IAM) Console of AWS.
Custom IAM Policies and Roles will be written to
secure the access.

2. All of the servers have been launched under a

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC is like a cloud in
a cloud and private subnet components were not
accessible to the internet world.

3. Server instance and DB instances (ECC HANA +

BW HANA + SCM HANA) have been implemented
in a Private Subnets as this won’t be exposed on
public. Subnets are used to virtually segregate
the servers into various groups. Each subnet is
launched under its own subnet range for
additional security. Network Access Security List
(NACL) is a stateless firewall that provides both
inbound and out bound access restriction
features

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 4. Server instance (OpenVPN) have been imple-
mented in public subnet.

5. All the servers will be Auto recovery enabled.

Auto recovery provides an additional layer of
assurance that if there is any underlined Hard-
ware failure from AWS end, there will be no
impact on the servers above the hypervisor layer.

6. To perform Cloud Endure Service we need to

setup a same environment as in on premises

Seamless Migration Leveraging Cloud Endure

Management
Server(s)

Application Stack Could Orchestration

Discovery/Entry & Machine Converstion

Source Target Replica Application Stack

Continuous
Replication

Agent

Replication
CloudEndure Instance
Replication
Server(s)
Cluster

Agent
Replication
Instance
Replication Volumes Replication Volumes

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 Seamless Migration
LeveragingCloud Endur

1. Here we have implemented CLOUDENDURE, so

as to replicate the on-premises infrastructure to
AWS Cloud.

2. CloudEndure agents were implemented in the

on-premises, to initiate replication.

3. Using cloud endure console we need to setup the

environment with defined Security groups and
IAM roles, if it is defined perfectly the replication
will takes place without any error.

4. Each and every blocks of the volumes were

replicated synchronously and asynchronously
from on-premises to Cloud

5. With the help of VPN peering we establish

connection between on premises and AWS cloud

6. Here CloudEndure works in DR-Drill Mechanism,

in which if any disaster occurs in on-premises, the
total control will be taken from On-premises
infrastructure to Cloud infrastructure

SECURITY

1. Each server is launched in a security group.

Security groups are stateful firewall where-in we
can control the inbound IP and Port access.

2. APP Server in the VPC Private subnet do not have

public Internet connection. For the server to
access the public Internet a NAT server will be
provisioned. NAT behaves as a proxy for the
server inside the VPC. Server will get access to
Internet only through this NAT Server.
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 3. Since App server is behind a VPC there is no way
for the Admin/Dev/QA team to reach it. Open-
VPN will be installed on the VPC. Users need to
first login to this secure OpenVPN server to
access the server inside the VPC. This also allows
secure and restricted access to the client data in
the server.

BENEFITS

All the mission critical environment of and ensure investments in Production

Berger paints was migrated to AWS to be Assets to improve their business – and all
used as Disaster Recovery environment this was made possible by AWS to help
and a least operational cost – making achieve immediate business results.
them compliant on statutory audits and
DR Ready.

Their decision to move to AWS helped

them to reduce their investment on IT

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