Moving SAP from 1 server to another

[Former Member]

Dear All,

We have a BW 3.5 server here. Now we have a server with better hardware and we have to move the BW server to this new server.

All the filesystems for the BW server are on SAN (storage area network)

So i need help to find the right way to move SAP BW from old server to the new one.

I was wondering since all the filesystems are on SAN, So if i install the SAP BW on the new server with the same names and filesystems and then replace the filesystems with the filesystems of old server which are on SAN. Will this work?

If yes, Which filesystems i need to replace. All the oracle and /usr/sap/trans and other too?

Are there any files on OS level too which i will have to update?

Kindly help in this?

Thanks

Tajinder

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

The "clean" way to do this would be doing a systemcopy

http://service.sap.com/systemcopy

Instead of copying the files you can just present the LUN to the machine.

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Markus,

I am not able to find the guides of doing system copy of NW04 or BW 3.5 neither on service.sap.com nor on SDN. They are just for NW 7.

Can you please tell me the basic procedure of doing system copy. What all steps i have to do?

Thanks in advance

Tajinder

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

check following link

https://websmp109.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700009331552004E

regards,

kaushal

[Former Member]

Closing the thread. Thank you all for your support

[Former Member]

Hi,

I for got to mention.

I have OS = AIX here and Database is Oracle 9i