Solutions Designed for SAP Landscape Management
Key Takeaways
⇨ Increased Productivity: Dell EMC's SAP LaMa solution automates SAP system clone, copy, and refresh processes, freeing administrators for higher-value work and providing on-demand copies using efficient snapshots.
⇨ High Performance: The solution offloads CPU overhead from the production server to the storage system, allowing quick creation of production system copies with minimal-to-no impact on production performance.
⇨ Lower Costs: By utilizing highly efficient snapshots, Dell EMC reduces storage costs for SAP copies, offering a cost-effective method for managing complex SAP landscapes and supporting rapid innovation.
In the digital era, enabling business agility for new initiatives while controlling costs is priority number one. Today, though, the CIO’s biggest challenge is that 80% of the IT budget is trapped in operations and maintenance, with only 20% left for innovation. It is not surprising then, that simplifying management of complex SAP landscape is a top priority.
Cut Time, Costs and Complexity for SAP System Provisioning
One area that’s ripe for simplification is SAP system clone, copy and refresh processes. SAP Admins spend a great deal of time creating and managing copies of SAP production systems to support development, test, QAS and training environments.
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The process can be time consuming with SAP system copy / refresh taking several business days. Most common challenges include:
• Coordination among storage, server and virtualization teams
• Manual, time-consuming, complex post-processing steps
• Risk of manual errors and quality of copy / refresh
• Large data footprints leading to increased storage costs
These circumstances slow innovation and increase the risk of data inconsistencies and corruption major reasons organizations are looking for new ways to improve the process within the landscape.
DELL EMC VALIDATED USE CASES
• System clone
• System copy
• System refresh
• Restore-based system refresh with PowerProtect DD Series Appliances
• System relocation
• End-to-end visibility and monitoring
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