SAP ECC Migration from Physical to ESX

Dear All,
My company is moving from Physical Servers to Virtual Platform (Vmware ESX). We are using 7.2 kernel on RHEL 5.3 64 bit for SAP HCM. My plan is;
1) Shutdown all services
2) Clone Physical Server into VM using vCenter Converter
3) change all DNS Base information and update IP address
4) Restart the services on new server with new IP Address
My take is i need to request new License for new Hardware. Please suggest me what else i need to consider during this process.
Thanks.

Hi,
My take is i need to request new License for new Hardware
Yes you need to request for new license since your hardware is changing.
Apart from the steps mentioned by you,
1) You need to readjust the RFCs
2) Adjust the TMS configuration
3) Adjust the SAPlogon pad entries for endusers.
Regards,
Deepak Kori

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Hi all,
We currently have two older versions of R/3 running 4.6c and 4.7ee, both IDES versions.
These versions have been out of support for some time.
We have these instances running for reference purposes. We have new versions of R/3 ECC 5.0, 6.0
also running in our company. All these versions of R/3 are IDES.
Our Windows administrators are of the opinion that servers on which the instances 4.6c and 4.7ee are running are very old,
and spares are hard to find. So they want to move these instances from a physical environment to a virtual environment.
I have read through the Note: 1409608.
It says,
SAP does not support SAP systems that are installed on Windows 32-bit
in a virtualized environment. If you plan to migrate your SAP system that is running
on native hardware on Windows 32-bit to a virtualized environment
on Windows 64-bit, it might be necessary to upgrade the SAP system to a higher release.
For these configurations, SAP recommends to migrate the SAP system to Windows x64 first
and then upgrade the SAP system.
Now, I don't think is it quite possible to upgrade 4.6c and 4.7ee to 64 bit.
License keys on windows are based on SID, Hostname, MAC address of the network card.
If we make sure that the MAC address is the same and
that its at the same place as before(sequence of multiple network cards is the same),
we can still Use the old license.
Our Windows guys say its very hard to retain the MAC address, they can try it.
So with these old versions of R/3, how can we keep them running, if they have to be moved from Physical to virtual,
as license keys and installation software is hard to get.
Regards,
Vishnu.

Hi Markus,
Thanks for your reply. Would open an OSS call.
I have looked at the note mentioned by you, and since our OS is windows, I thought the below statement
holds good in my case. From the note I have also deduced that for Windows, licenses are based only on the Hardware Key.
Am I wrong in assuming this?
Only Windows uses a hardware key that does NOT depend on the hardware.
A new installation of Windows definitely causes the hardware key to change.
I have also looked at note 793649, which says Hardware key changes only when,
1. Formatting the machine and reinstalling Windows.
2. When changing the computer name.
3. When changing the domain (it will not change back when returning to the previous domain).
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SAP Archiving - Migrating from one archive backend to another.

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We use SARA for archiving and the archiving system is IBM Provided Filenet Database with ACSAP middle-ware.
From 1999 till 2009 we have archived terabytes of data into Filenet Database.
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Chandra.

Hello Chandra
yes- there are ways to migrate data out of Filenet into 3rd party tool without retrieving them back through SAP. I am not aware of any SAP tool itself but we have one and could help you with this effort. Please contact me at 610 3508677 and we can discuss the possibilities.

SAP ECC upgrade from EHP6 to EHP7

Is GTS upgrade from NW 7.2 to GTS 7.3 to be mandated as ECC is getting upgraded from ECC 6.0 EHP6 to EHP 7 . Why?

Hi John,
Your statement looks a bit misaligned.. There is no GTS 7.3 version, the SAP Netweaver 7.3* application server on which SLL_LEG GTS component sits.
The underlying Netweaver AS versions between ECC and GTS systems can be different BUT what needs to be the same is the GTS plugin component in ECC and GTS components in GTS system itself, as best practice they should also be on the same support pack level.
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I found an old thread about the subject Migrate Solaris 10 Physical Server to Solaris 10 Zone but i have a question.
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Edited by: 875571 on Dec 9, 2011 7:38 AM

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Hey All
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> What we are concerned with is that if after a few days of upgrade when the system is functional and users have performed some quantum of transactions on it, in case if the system fails then and we have to revert back to R/3 4.6C how can we get back all the information that we processed on ECC back to R/3.
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Hi,
Recently I have done similar kindly of implementation (Green field)
Assumption
Existing report are fixed no more requirement changes
Best approach
BODS is more flexible to load data to BW and reduce abap coding by 70% instead of Oracle to BW
Go by phase wise
Please kindly see answer are inline
Is it we require functional people for this project.
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Is it BO-BI integration project? .
Yes
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BASIS(1)
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Secondary stuffing (experience level less than 3 years )
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BO(2) - Two Reporting developer
ABAP(1)
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Also we want to know on how to find the report / interfaces where the code is written in native SQL (PL SQL) and not in open SQL (ABAP).
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> Our client has decided to move the SAP database from Oracle 10.0.2 to IBM DB2. We will like to know list of activities which are required to be done from application side to support this.
http://service.sap.com/osdbmigration
> Also we want to know on how to find the report / interfaces where the code is written in native SQL (PL SQL) and not in open SQL (ABAP).
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Upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to SAP ECC 6.0

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Our organisation has been running SAP R/3 4.6C on Solaris 8 with Oracle 8i database. We are considering an upgrade to SAP ECC 6.0.
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> Our organisation has been running SAP R/3 4.6C on Solaris 8 with Oracle 8i database. We are considering an upgrade to SAP ECC 6.0.
Oh.. you're aware of the fact, that Oracle 8 as well as Solaris 8 is out of support?
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Hi Experts,
I am very new to BODS and I have want to load historical data from non SAP source system into SAP R/3 tables like VBAK,VBAP using BODS, Can you please provide steps/documents or guidelines on how to achieve this.
Regards,
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Hi
In order to load into SAP you have the following options
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