HP Itanium server to Intel x86 Server

[Former Member]

Hi

We are using HP Itanium based server with Windows 2003, SAP ECC 5.0, SQL Server 2000. Now we plan to upgrade of windows 2008, SAP 6.4, SQL Server 2008.

Mean while we planned to upgrade the server. My doubt is whether Hardware Migration is possible for this - i.e. HP Itanium to Intel x86 Server?

Or can u suggest the best possibilities?

Thanks you

Thillai

[former_member204746 · Accepted solution]

you are changing servers ?

this is a must, you cannot keep the existing one and switch itanium to x86_64

[Former Member]

Hi Thillai,

We are planning to implement SAP BW on Windows Itanium Servers. On Win 2003 X64 with MAXDB our SANDBOX Server , when we run the DB backup for 200GB data it takes 4 - 5 hours.

While for the same backup size on AIX - MAXDB takes less than an 1 hour.

I wanted to know since your ERP is based on Windows Itanium how much time does it take for backups..

thanks& regards,

[Former Member]

HP Itanium Server - In this server, SAP installation is little different and Itanium to x86 is also possible. Changing from Itanium server is preferable because microsoft started to release separate OS for itanium based servers.

[markus_doehr2]

Migrations from X to Y are always possible, depending on source and destination it may be a simple system copy or you may need to do a full migration using the migration tools.

Windows is implemented as little endian platform on IA64, Windows on x86_64 is also little endian - so all you need to do is a homogeneous system copy using the database copy method.

It's as "easy" as starting sapinst with the system copy option and following the steps in the system copy guide.

Markus