Creating SAP HANA System Replication Tiers

You copy an original system to create an SAP HANA system replication tier for system replication.

Prerequisites

You have the authorization to perform the operation.

For more information, see Standard Permissions.
You have assigned the roles and groups required to perform the operation.

For more information, see Standard Roles and Groups.
Your system is prepared for a storage based system copy.

For more information, see System Provisioning Configuration.
For scale-out systems, you have to copy standby nodes. If not needed you can remove the standby nodes afterwards manually.

Procedure

Choose Provisioning.
Choose Systems from the tabs.
The system displays the following:
- Systems enabled for cloning, copying, and renaming
- Systems enabled for SAP HANA system replication configuration
- Cloned and copied systems
- Systems enabled for application server (un-)installation
- Systems enabled for Diagnostics Agent (un-)installation
From the Provisioning dropdown for the system for which you want to create a system replication tier, choose Create System Replication.
- If one of the following steps, sections, or fields is not applicable, it is not displayed or not eligible for selection in the roadmap.
- If the validation generated one or more warnings, the navigation to a following step is canceled. To ignore warnings, choose the Ignore warnings for this step button and choose Next to proceed with the following steps.
- To validate the data entered in one of the workflow steps without triggering a navigation, choose the Validate Step button.
- To reset one of the workflow steps to its default values, choose the Reset Step button.
1. Replication
2. Hosts
3. Host Names
4. Storage
5. Rename
6. Summary
Choose Execute.

Next Steps

You can manage activities related to the operation that is currently running.

For more information, see Performing Operations on Activities.
You can view the log of all tasks involved in the process.

For more information, see Working with Logs.

Perform system replication operations.

For more information, see SAP HANA Replication.