Heterogeneous Migration Planning

Migrating an SAP landscape to Azure is a complicated task with lots of moving parts. Apart from the sheer volume of data, a migration can involve software upgrades and data conversions. Not only will a landscape need to work properly once migrated, but in most cases, the migration needs to happen quickly as SAP systems are usually the information backbone of an organization.

Once the target environment structure has been finalized the next important phase is planning the migration so that system downtime is kept to a minimum. There are different migration strategies to suit multiple scenarios and this lesson looks at which strategy works best for each scenario. We then look at ways to optimize a migration, and its pros, cons, and issues to look out for.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the main scenarios and considerations when migrating from SAP to Azure
• Learn the two methods for getting your data into Azure
• Understand the difference between homogeneous and heterogeneous migration
• Understand how the database migration option available in SAP can be used to migrate your data to Azure
• Learn about the SAP HANA Large Instances service from Azure

Intended Audience

• Database administrators
• Anyone looking to migrate data from SAP to Azure

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic knowledge of both Microsoft Azure and SAP.