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If IT raises the Bat Signal, is your SAP disaster recovery plan ready?

If IT raises the Bat Signal, is your SAP disaster recovery plan ready?

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Even in universes crawling with superheroes, things still go awry from time to time. But when things go wrong in your world, data loss is never acceptable. If your infrastructure sends out a distress signal, do you have an SAP data rescue plan in place?

Our portfolio of SAP disaster recovery solutions is here to aid your rescue efforts, supporting:

  • Asynchronous and synchronous storage replication
  • Replication of non-database data, such as application server binaries
  • Use of disaster recovery resources for development and testing
  • Use of replicated data to refresh development and testing systems
  • Disaster recovery testing based on cloning
  • SAP HANA System Replication

No matter what unexpected scenario you end up facing, you can sleep soundly knowing you’ve got a rock-solid SAP disaster recovery plan to safeguard your data, making your SAP environment ultra-resilient and ready for whatever comes next.

Be in two places at once with SAP backups

Your SAP applications may not have superhuman strength or the power to manipulate time, but they can be in two places at once. Backups are a key feature of disaster recovery, keeping your data safe in a second location if something goes wrong with your system.

NetApp Snapshot technology creates database backups in minutes, independent of database size and without impacting performance. You can restore part of or an entire database to any point in time, slashing RTO from several hours to several minutes compared to conventional single-cycle tape backups. And if your SAP environment itself is in two places at once (on-premises and in the cloud), you can use NetApp SnapCenter as a central tool, managing data protection and data replication across both environments.

Application replication: secret hideouts for your data

Backups are great, but they still have the potential for data loss between the last backup and time of failure. Instead, many organizations opt for replication instead – either at the storage level or at the application level. These solutions deliver replicated data to remote, networked storage systems – like secret hideouts for your data.

Our portfolio of technologies and tools work together to create an extraordinarily versatile disaster recovery solution for SAP HANA. The solution includes NetApp SnapMirror replication, NetApp MetroCluster software, and NetApp FlexClone thin-cloning technology. No matter what scenario you might face, you’ll rest assured knowing your SAP HANA environment is resilient.

The best place to start is to have a clear picture and understanding on which systems and application are most vital to your critical business operations. Those systems and applications are key to running your business and therefore need to be available, 24/7.

Many studies have shown that business application downtime has a significant negative impact on business. In addition to potentially devastating financial impact, any downtime could affect staff morale, customer loyalty, or your very valuable reputation.

Yes, whether on-premises or in the cloud ONTAP solutions are there to help you run your SAP landscapes in the most efficient way possible, regardless of location.

An SAP backup and restore operation is a difficult and manual process that can run many hours. But with NetApp SnapCenter and automation, backup and restore operations can be completed in minutes, regardless of database size.

A very important step in the disaster recovery planning process is to test that plan. Testing will determine whether or not the systems reacts as stipulated. NetApp directly addresses this vital step with our FlexClone technology. Execute your disaster recovery failover test without influencing or interrupting ongoing replication.

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