SAP Landscape Management 3.0, Enterprise Edition

Copying a System

You copy a system to create a duplicate of an existing system with a different host name and a unique system ID. SAP Landscape Management creates a copy of the existing system and renames the copy.

Prerequisites

Context

To automatically adapt the copy to its new identity, you can use the following:

  • ABAP post-copy automation (PCA) for ABAP systems and SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) systems

  • Java PCA for Java systems

storage-based copy procedure
Storage-Based System Copy
VM-based copy procedure
VM-Based System Copy

Procedure

  1. Choose Provisioning.
  2. 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

  3. From the Provisioning dropdown for the system, choose Copy System.

    • 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. Basic
    2. Tenant Selection
    3. Tenant Details
    4. Hosts
    5. Host Names
    6. Instance Number
    7. Storage
    8. Consistency
    9. Users
    10. Rename
    11. Isolation
    12. ABAP PCA/Java PCA
    13. Summary

Next Steps

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