HP Plug-in for SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization Management for Storage manual Cloning

6 Cloning

Preparing the source and target SAP systems

Before you configure in SAP LVM, complete the following preparation steps for the source and target SAP systems:

1.Create mount directories with specific user permissions and user groups on the target server similar to that of the Source system.

2.Install the Storage library in the SAP host agent directory and restart the SAP host agent, on both source and target servers. For Windows, extract the .zip file into the directory. For HP-UX, extract the .tar file into the directory.

3.HP recommends you to run multipath on the source SAP landscape system to ensure that the Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) presented on the server are active.

4.Verify connectivity of the HP 3PAR/XP Storage arrays to the target server. HP 3PAR/XP connectivity can be verified using the 3PARInfo or XPInfo tools. The XPInfo and 3PARInfo tools are bundled with the Storage Library for Windows target systems.

5.Configure the landscape in SAP LVM.

Configuring landscapes in SAP LVM

To configure landscapes in SAP LVM, do the following:

1.Configure pools, services, resources, Virtualization Managers (vCenter credentials), network, and Storage Manager.

2.Click Setup→Operation settings→Allow Multiple services on same resource.

3.Add the source SAP system with the following host agent settings:

•Username—sapadm

•Password—password of the SAP system

4.Edit the Database, Central Services, and Central Instances with the required credentials, and test the same wherever applicable.

5.Click Configuration→Services→Edit Mount Points, and click Export Path. Configure the export path to ArrayIdentifier$ArrayDiskIdentifier.

a.Verify the mount point. However, if the mount points are not available, then retrieve the mounts from the Retrieve Mount Point List.

NOTE: For HP 3PAR StoreServ:

•ArrayIdentifier is Array World Wide Node Name (WWN)

•ArrayDiskIdentifier is Array Disk WWN

For HP XP P9000:

•ArrayIdentifier is Array Serial Number

•ArrayDiskIdentifier is Array Disk WWN b. Configure the mount point presented to that instance.

6.Add the target resource in SAP LVM, and edit the required details.

7.Click Operations→Instance→Validation, and click Validate All to successfully validate all the services and resources.

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