SAP Migration lift&shift

Question

Hi,

please, I have SAP systems installed on servers with Windows Server 2012, which will soon end support, we are thinking of migrating the systems to machines where Windows Server 2019 will be installed, is it possible to do a "lift&shift" migration? that is, bring all the data with related filesystems to the new machines with Windows Server 2019? I have already verified that my version of SAP is compatible with Windows Server 2019.

Thank you very much to those who reply

Answer 1

Hi Vincenzo Montano,

Thank you for your qustion on Microsoft QNA.

Support for Server 2012 is already ended 2 days back!

The easiest and quickest option for you will be to On-board the Server to Azure ARC and get ESUs until 2026 OCT . Check the below link for details:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/windows-server-2012-r2-end-of-support

Coming back to the migration :

You have 2 options

• Go for an inplace upgrade of your Windows server On-premises and Migrate.
  • Migrate server on Azure perform inplace upgrade on Azure and once stisfied swith to Azure Server (recommended)

        -  This option will provide you testing opportunity before you go for production 
    
              -  also you don't need to worry much about breaking exsisiting system or capacity available on-prem. 
    

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows-in-place-upgrade

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