Planning

Planning is an essential part of any migration project, and you should not underestimate the importance of this phase. The systems included in your landscape and the target goal of migration, whether it is just a lift-and-shift or complex system transformation and innovation, will dictate the migration strategy approach. During the planning phase, you define what resources you require and what is the order of task execution. You should ensure that all areas of SAP migration are covered in detail, otherwise you may encounter unexpected surprises. For example, if the current network bandwidth does not allow you to copy your SAP system to Azure in an acceptable time, then you need to either temporarily upgrade your ExpressRoute connection or potentially set up additional site-to-site (S2S) VPN connections.

While in theory you could use an offline transfer solution such as Azure Data Box to migrate your data, in practice the current time for this service to get...