To meet the customer’s System Refresh requirements, WFT designed a solution to address all the requirements by utilizing their SAP infrastructure and SAP BASIS expertise to refresh the SAP test landscape from SAP production landscape. From the infrastructure perspective, the layout of the file systems and configuration of disk groups were updated to align with the storage cloning requirements. The procedure also involved presenting cloned storage to the appropriate Solaris zones and renaming the system identifier of the Oracle database for each SAP component. Furthermore, the storage cloning was implemented in such a way that it enabled Federated single point-in-time copy for all SAP components in the landscape.
From a SAP BASIS perspective, the procedure involved executing multiple pre-processing and post-processing transactions that are specific to each SAP component to get the target landscape up and running, with the most up-to-date data from production landscape. In short, the solution incorporated efficient methodology to refresh SAP database and perform SAP post processing.
The solution provided by WFT proved to be a reliable and a flexible solution to perform SAP system refresh in a Solaris zones and Oracle environment. Furthermore, the solution also provides a repeatable process to perform system refresh for any SAP component irrespective of the underlying size of the database.