Overview - System Rename

Overview – System Rename Procedure of
Software Provisioning Manager 1.0
SAP SE – Product Management
October 2016
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Introduction
The system rename procedure got integrated into Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 –
the procedure is no longer available as standalone tool
Overall, Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 offers relevant procedures required to install, copy,
and transform SAP systems in your landscape
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System rename
offers to change:
System Rename
Offering – easily change key characteristics of an SAP system
Host name
Instance number
System ID (SAPSID, DBSID)
<Host name>
SAP Instance
<Instance Number>
<SAPSID>
<DBSID>
You can change any combination of the above listed SAP system characteristics
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System rename
Overview
Customer situation:
 You want to rename an existing SAP system, such as for changing a physical host name to a virtual host name or
for changing the SAP system ID
– See the System Rename Guide for further supported use cases for your platform
 You want to rename an SAP system created as homogeneous copy of a source system:
– Many system landscape administrators copy existing SAP NetWeaver based systems for various reasons
– There are different tools and ways to perform this – system rename enables a faster alternative to the classical system copy procedure (also
see next slide)
– Copy methods supported by system rename:
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o
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o
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Systems created by using backup or restore with procedures offered by Microsoft Windows
Systems created by using SAP Landscape Management (fka SAP Landscape Virtualization Management)
Systems provided as virtual appliance
Cloned systems (virtual to virtual, virtual to physical, or physical to virtual)
UNIX only: SAP system created as copy of file system and database of source system
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System rename
System duplication + rename as alternative to classical homogeneous system copy
SOURCE
COPY
TARGET
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DB
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Export
Install
Transfer load
RENAME
SOURCE
DB
Import
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TARGET
1
DB
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Duplication
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DB
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System rename
Offering – types of SAP systems you can rename
Standard Systems
Distributed Systems
(main instances + database on
one host)
(main + database instances distributed to several hosts)
Host name: alpha
Example: Java System
Example:
SAPSID: DEV
PAS*
SCS*
Instance Nr: 00
Instance Nr: 01
Host name: gamma
Host name: beta
SAPSID:
PAS*
ASCS*
Instance Nr: 00
Instance Nr: 01
ABAP System
PRD
DBSID: PRD
DBSID: DEV
*PAS: Primary Application Server Instance, (A)SCS: Central Services Instance – optional instances not depicted in these examples
You can rename any ABAP-only, Java-only or dual-stack SAP system based on
SAP NetWeaver 7.0x and higher, independent from comprised product instances
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System rename
Offering
So far, such changes could only be performed via system copy
Constraints:
 Rename can be performed on primary application server instances – additional application server instances
have to be reinstalled
 See the System Rename Guide for further constraints (such as platforms, where system rename is not available)
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System rename
Two execution options
1
Integrated in easy, fast, and reliable end-to-end system copy and refresh procedure of
SAP Landscape Management – “darkmode” execution
SAP Landscape Management
System clone
System copy
Target system online
Cloning + isolation
System refresh
Export system configuration
Clone SAP system
Target system offline
Target system online
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Clone SAP system
Clone SAP system
Rename cloned SAP system
Rename cloned SAP system
Conduct post-copy activities
Conduct post-copy activities
(includes import of system
configuration)
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System rename
Two execution options
2
Standalone directly in SAPinst – execution with dialogs
 For other renaming use cases
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System rename
Available via the Software Logistics Toolset 1.0 (SL Toolset)
System rename procedure is offered by Software Provisioning Manager 1.0, it is no longer offered standalone
Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 is delivered in regular intervals, independent from SAP application product
shipments via Software Logistics Toolset, a central collection of software logistics tools, always up to date:
 SL Toolset is the central place in SMP download area to find & download SL tools
 Toolset and tools updated regularly, product-independent, downward-compatible
 Updates include new tools as well as recent improvements & enhancements
For more information and download, see SAP Support Portal at:
http://support.sap.com/sltoolset (incl. direct download links for comprised tools)
SAP recommends that you regularly check for updates and download the latest Support Package of the tool
to benefit from latest corrections!
For the integrated use case, SAP recommends to download new version latest with update of
SAP Landscape Management
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Further information
For more information on Software Provisioning Manager 1.0:
 SAP Release Note: SAP Note 1680045
 Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 in SAP Community Network
For more information on system rename:
 System Rename Guide in SAP Support Portal at: http://support.sap.com/sltoolset
 SAP Note 1619720
 System Rename in SAP Community Network
For more information on Software Logistics Toolset:
 Blog in SAP Community Network
 SAP Support Portal at: http://support.sap.com/sltoolset
For more information on SAP Landscape Management:
 SAP Landscape Management at a Glance in SAP Community Network
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Thank you
Contact information:
Boris Zarske
SAP SE – Product Management for Cloud and Lifecycle Management
[email protected]
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