SAP BW on HANA - Migration Tools

To perform the migration of SAP BW system to HANA, you can use the following migration tools −

Software Provisioning Manager

Software Provisioning Manager allows you to perform various provision tasks and covers a broad range of platforms with different productions. Software Provisioning Manager can be used to set up a standalone engine, for migration of systems, or to copy a NetWeaver system.

Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 supports the following provisioning scenarios for SAP systems based on SAP NetWeaver −

• Installation of new systems, instances, and standalone engines
• System copy of existing systems
• Transformation of systems such as via System Rename and Dual-Stack Split
• Deletion of systems, instances, and standalone engines

Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 supports the following SAP NetWeaver releases, SAP Business Suite products, and SAP Solution Manager Releases based on them.

You can get the latest version from the following URL: https://help.sap.com/sltoolset

1680045 - Release Note for Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 SP17

SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA

This tool is used to get an easy access to the most used and useful tools for migrating your SAP BW systems to and optimizing it for SAP HANA.

The SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA combines several tools to make the migration of an existing SAP BW deployment to the SAP HANA platform smooth and easy to perform.

To use the cockpit, install and run ABAP program. In order to use the Check for Updates function, you might have to maintain the proxy settings in lines 21 and 22 of the code.

Program: ZBW_HANA_MIGRATION_COCKPIT

This tool can be used with SAP BW release 3.5 or higher.

To get the tool, you can refer to SAP Notes 1909597 - SAP BW Migration Cockpit for SAP HANA.

Go to the attachment tab and you can download the zip file.

In case any of the tool is not available on your local system, you can refer to the documentation tab and you can access online help and available SAP Notes.

This SAP Note is referred by −

Data Migration Option of SUM

Data Migration Option (DMO) under Software Update Manager (SUM) simplifies the Unicode conversion, system update, and database migration in one tool.

SAP Note 2257362 - Database Migration Option (DMO) of SUM 1.0 SP17

To perform database migration using DMO, SAP HANA version 8.5 or higher is required. Target database SAP HANA depends on the source database with different requirements to perform an upgrade.