SAP HANA Cloud - Migration



There are various benefits that you can achieve if you migrate your existing applications to HANA Cloud platform. You have an option to scale your data storage requirement and pay only for storage and compute you need. With HANA cloud, you have an inbuild HANA Cloud data lake and you can choose between multi cloud like Amazon and Azure services.

Before you plan migration to HANA Cloud platform, you need to perform assessment of HANA Cloud capabilities, define different steps and plan the migration tasks under each phase and effort required to perform the migration.

Migrate HANA Service Database to SAP HANA Cloud platform

Precheck includes creation of HANA Cloud database in same Cloud Foundry as HANA Service Database that you need to migrate. Access to HANA Service Database and Cloud tools to be enabled using SAP BTP cockpit.

You can migrate HANA database using migration wizard in BTP Cockpit.

Note− If you don't complete the migration within 60 days then it will be automatically archived.

To start with migration, navigate to SAP BTP cockpit → Cloud Foundry Space.

BTP Cockpit

Navigate to SAP HANA Cloud migration → Select New Migration and provide the migration details → Create.

Deploy Applications

Enter the below information −

  • Name − Provide the relevant migration name

  • Description − Brief description of the migration

  • Source Type − You have to select the type of service to migrate → select SAP HANA service database

Under Plan section, select the Source system details and perform the compatibility check by clicking "Check Compatibility with SAP HANA Cloud". Follow the steps as per Migration wizard and finish the migration.

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