Upgrade 4.7 to ECC6

[Former Member]

Hi Guys,

My company is planning on upgrading 4.7 to ECC6. Our specs as follows:

Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition

8GB RAM

MSSQL 2000

My questions are:

What is the recommended disk space?

Can we leave the MSSQL as it is or should we upgrade that to, say, Server 2003?

Thanks!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

What is the recommended disk space?

It depends on your current DB size.....

Can we leave the MSSQL as it is or should we upgrade that to, say, Server 2003?

Better to upgrade with latest (N-1) release(2003/2005)....

Regards,

Nick Loy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI Nick,

Many thanks. Our largest partition holds 299GB. Will this be sufficient? Also, I agree that the MS SQL should be upgraded but I can't find any supporting SAP document to back me up. Is there something in Marketplace where I can refer this?

[Former Member]

Thanks very much guys.

[Former Member]

Hi John,

For project planning you always needs to consider the business.

RAM:

everything depends on your business first then the SAP component version. if your business is very huge then first u need to use very high end RAM, 8GB is not sufficient. if your business is very low then u need not.

so this the best example to understand the hard ware configuration.

You can get the sizing details and all in SMP

https://service.sap.com/sizing

OS: for the operating system and Database related queries you will get the answers in SMP

https://service.sap.com/PAM.

Do the research in product available matrix for the Operating systema and Database versions. if required you need to upgrade OS and DB.

DB size:

for eg: if your system is using 300GB data now then for the upgrade add 150 GB more that should be fine.

For the upgrade you alwasy needs to think about hardware,OS and DB.

If your current hardware is not supportable then first u need to migrate hardware first.

then OS and DB then start the SAP version upgrade.

Upgrade is not a small task to understand in a single day, you will learn all the things once you get started with upgrade.

have fun.

-Srini

[Former Member]

299GB is suff for your upgrade, but again depends upon your current DB size.

And you can fins support guides in SMP under service.sap.com/install-guides and upgrades

Regards

Nick Loy