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PowerShell Interface for SAP ( "Easycloud" ) simplifies a lot of tasks significantly. System Center Orchestrator runbook it's quite easy though to adapt this part. There will be always customer specific steps and configurations. All these steps cannot be covered completely by a pre-configured process. Still some additional post-copy work to do until the new system can be fully used ( e.g. The SAP rename tool will just fix the basics to make sure that the new target system will start. Runbook ( see more Details further down ). connmove just used it in unattended mode to put everything into an Orchestrator This is where the SAP rename tool will help again as described in my last blog about the
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That after the restore the target system won't come up because user and profile data and the hostnameĭon't fit. Everybody who is familiar with SAP NetWeaver knows Has to be restored on the new target system. Template means that the new target VM has already a SAP and SQL Server installation.Ī SQL Server database backup on the source side can be done online.
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SAP software is already installed on a VM template. System copy and published a live demo about it :įigure 1 : high-level workflow of an online SAP system copyĪs you can see the basic idea is to create a copy not from a VM perspective but from a SAP system They offer an implementation of an online SAP "Easycloud" product makes life again much easier. I mentioned them already in my former SAP cloud blogs. To show how the challenge described above could be solved I want to present an answer from our creating a virtualized system copy out of a bare-metal installation or a single-VM copy
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In addition the final process should have some flexibility toĪllow e.g. Therefore the question comes up how this could work then - if at all ?Īn important aspect when looking for a solution is to find something which is officially supported and The "create VM from VM" activity requires that the source VM is offline. So on ) it's not acceptable to take a production system offline for this purpose.Īs I showed in my last blog there is no "online VM copy" feature available right now in System Center testing a new feature, support package Installation and Have a little gap regarding the content ( e.g. This time I would like to describe a solution which allows to create a simple online SAP system copy.Ī typical use case could be to create a copy of a production system which then acts as a test orĭevelopment system where it's not necessary to be 100% synchronized. In my last blog I described how a simple "offline copy" of a SAP System could be accomplished :