SAP sandbox environment

Proof of concept

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Background
March 2006: SAP R/3 4.7 in production at University of Oslo using external suppliers (ASP) Performance problems and downtime++ Autumn 2007: University decides to move SAP environment (as-is) to Center for Information Technology Services (USIT) February 2008: Request for Proposal (all areas) May 2008: Proof-of-concept request to HP

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Main objectives
Proof of concept
System migration of SAP R/3 4.7 using HP hardware Installation of infrastructure Heterogeneous system copy from win2003-64 IA64 to RedHat linux x86-64 SAP failover using HP ServiceGuard (MC/SG) Installation, configuration and tests

Competence transfer from HP to USIT

SAP basis specifics SAP and Oracle specifics SAP and MC/SG specifics SAP and linux specifics

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SAP Reference system

The reference system consist of a SAP*GUI TerminalServer (win2003, x86-64) and a windows server (win2003-64, IA64) running the SAP R/3 4.7 environment (single server installation).

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Infrastructure
SAP reference system
Windows 2003-64 on IA64 hardware. SAP R/3 4.7 single server installation. Oracle 10.2.0.2 database (size ~160GB)

SAP sandbox environment

2x BL460c G1 (2x quad-core 2.33GHz, 16GB RAM, 2x 146GB HDD) EVA8100

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Recommendations from HP
RedHat linux version supportet (5.2?) Version of MC/SG (11.18?) Oracle database version (today 10.2.0.2) Number of LUNs and size (SAP, database, transport, MC/SG)

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SAP Sandbox environment

Sketch of sandbox environment on linux (RedHat, x86-64) with EVA8100 storage system. Automatic failover.

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USIT-resources
Jan Thorsen (Project Manager) Anette Wilberg (SAP functional) Lars Gustav Gudbrandsen (SAP functional) Robert Rdsten (SAP basis) Kristian Rikvold Jess (SAP basis) Andreas Sbstad (SAP basis) Audun Lea Hansen (DBA, infrastructure) Torfrid Leek (DBA) Gunnar Steira Mikkelsen (DBA) Morten Werner Forsbring (Infrastructure) Trond Hasle Amundsen (Infrastructure)

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Reference
Home page SAPUiO-project (in norwegian) Technical documentation (mainly in norwegian) Technical sketch of possible SAP-environment

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