Migrate SAP to Microsoft Azure
In the previous chapter we looked at how to architect SAP on Azure to meet your business needs. We covered topics such as sizing and designing the Azure Infrastructure as a Service to meet your business availability requirements. A few of you may be implementing SAP for the first time, in which case this chapter is not relevant, but for the vast majority of you, you will already be running SAP and you will need to migrate some or all of your existing SAP landscape to Azure.
The options for migration depend on the source operating system (OS) and database management system (DBMS) you are currently running and the target OS and DBMS you plan for Azure. Whatever your intentions, all these migration options use proven techniques and tools that have been in use for many years. Migrating SAP to Azure is no different to migrating SAP to any new data center, and many of you will have experience of this from the past.
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