SAP Hosting Migration

I was a very happy SAP Hosting customer until SAP decided to discontinue their hosting offering. We looked at many SAP Certified Hosting partners before deciding on Secure-24.

Now we are in the middle of the migration and so far I am a fairly happy customer. We have a complex SAP NetWeaver environment including ECC 6.0 in a clustered environment, BI 7.0, BCS, GTS, Solution Manager, and an Enterprise Portals Environment with security for external as well as internal exposure.

We are scheduled to complete the migration the weekend of November 8, 2008. I will keep you posted on how it goes.

This is the second SAP Hosting migration I have undertaken. The first was a migration from HP Hosting in Atlanta to SAP Hosting in Germany. Now we are moving our data from SAP Germany to Secure-24 in Michigan.

I really like the approach this time. SAP Hosting has backed up our environment to USB drives and sent the to Secure24. S24 will receive the drives today, extract / decompress the data and restore it to new servers. In the mean time, SAP is collecting log files and sending them over the WAN on an hourly basis. Once S24 has completed the restore from the drives, they will begin to decompress and restore the log files. This will allow us to complete the migration over a weekend resulting in downtime of only 1 weekend for our users! We will hand over the system on Friday evening and S24 will give it back to us by Saturday at noon. This will allow us to complete the Single Sign-On configuration, test printers, perform a financial validation and our golden transaction all before our facility in Asia comes on line Sunday afternoon (Asia's Monday morning).

If this is successful, it will the fastest migration (with the least amount of downtime) we have done.

I will let you know how it goes.