Upgrade to EHP8 along with OS and DB.

[sujit_sharma]

Dear All,

We are planning to upgrade our existing SAP ERP landscape from ECC6.0 EHP 7 to ECC6.0 EHP8.

Below is the current environment:

ERP : ECC6.0 EHP 7

OS : RHEL 6.7

DB : Oracle 11G (11.2.0.4)

Planned environment:

ERP : ECC6.0 EHP 8

OS : RHEL 7.2

DB : Oracle 12C

I wanted to validate the steps which we are planning:

1. Upgrade Oracle from 11G to 12C in source system.

2. Install RHEL 7.2 in target machine.

3. Install Oracle 12C on target machine.

3. Perform homogeneous system copy and build target system.

4. Upgrade SAP ECC6.0 from EHP7 to EHP8.

Kindly let me know if the above steps are correct or should we follow different approach.

Thanks in advance,

Sujit

[former_member182967 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sujit,

From my understanding, they are fine.

If you use export/import method to switch to the new hardware and DB, then step 1 can be skipped.

Regards,

Ning

[sujit_sharma · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ning,

In that case we can export from system based on Oracle 11G and import on target based on 12C ...Correct ?

Best regards,

Sujit

[former_member182967 · Accepted solution]

Hi Sujit,

Yes, the content of database export using SWPM is database independent.

Regards,

Ning

[sujit_sharma · Accepted solution]

Thank you Ning,

Skipping step 1 mentioned in my first post saved good amount of time and effort for us.

Best regards,

Sujit

P.S. Thank you S Sriram& Anurag Das for your valuable inputs.

[former_member185327]

Hi Sujit,

Yes, my onshore counterpart upgraded the OS/DB and then performed the System Copy and handed over to me for the Upgrade.

That is the approach we have taken.

Regards

Anurag

[Sriram2009]

Hi Sujith.

Yes, You can follow the all four steps

BR

SS

[former_member185327]

Hi Sujit,

Looks ok to me.

Actually in our EHP 8 upgrade we took the same approach of the homogeneous system copy.

Regards,

Anurag

[sujit_sharma]

Hi Anurag,

Thank you for your response.

So did you also had similar requirement i.e. upgrade of OS and DB ?

Best regards,

Sujit