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DR Solution for SAP
SAP provides solutions for several vertical industry and cross industry solutions. Enterprises use SAP for production planning, purchasing, logistics, inventory management, customer service and finance. Each of these applications are critical to the running of the business, hence need a Disaster Recovery solution that will work when needed.There are several considerations that influence the design and implementation of a disaster recovery solution for SAP.

Recovery Point Objective: The business set RPO goals determine how much data can be lost before it starts adversly impacting the business. The RPO primarily influences the choice of the data replication technology to protect the database in use with the SAP applicaiton.

Recovery Time Objective: This is the amount of time available to bring up the application at the DR site. The number of actions, the complexity and expertise required to correctly execute each action determine the achieveable RTO for the SAP applicaiton.

The SAP solution supports a distributed architecture that can be tuned to meet customers requirements of scale and performance. There are three logical layers that make up the SAP solution. The presentation layer, application layer and the database layer.The presentation layer is typically a web based interface or SAP GUI client that runs on a end user workstation. The application layer executes the business logic, manages client transactions, runs reports and cordinates access to the database. The database layer is a off-the-shelf RDBMS and stores business generated data.

How Sanovi DRM works
Sanovi DRM software provides a solution to the various stages of SAP's DR lifecycle. A typical SAP DR solution lifecycle includes:

  • Configuration/provisioning
  • On going monitoring of data replication, RPO, health
  • Regular DR Drills
  • Failover and recovery at the time of primary outage
  • Reporting on compliance and deviations

Unique Features and Benefits of Sanovi DRM for SAP

DR Health and RPO Dashboard
Once a DR solution has been implemented, IT does not have the visibiliy to be confident that the solution is meeting business set RPO metrics. Sanovi DRM provides a single dashboard that gives IT operations the required visibility into the SAP application RPO and the DR health status. No longer will you be caught unaware and risk failure during the application recovery at the DR site.

Flip-of-switch Failover and Drill
Application recovery has the highest success rate if it is not dependent on the right person doing everything correctly. Sanovi DRM provides a DR aware workflow engine that automates execution of the various actions required to failover and bring up the SAP on DR. Sanovi customers have consistently experienced over 70% reduction in time required to do DR Drills that brings up the SAP application on DR.

Recovery Dependency Database
SAP application have several critical subsytems that must be up and available.. For SAP to come up on the DR, the database, Central Instance and all the dialogue Instance must come up in a orderly manner, this is besides any networking and directory services recovery that must also be done. Bring up and recovery of dependent subsystems in an orderly mannger is a huge challenge and currently requires manual co-ordination amongst various IT groups. Sanovi DRM provides the ability to maintain the required dependency relationship for SAP and the corresponding automation required to bring up subsystems in aN orderly manner.

Compliance and Deviation Reports
No longer do you have to manually compile DR Drill reports, evidence of control for DR drills and number of times SAP application deviated from its recovery objectives. Sanovi DRM provides reports that can be submitted to regulatory authorities, upper management and also useful in doing capacity planning of your infrastructure. Through the reports, it becomes evident where the bulk of the DR Drill time was spent, number of time the configured RPO value was exceeded in the last month and which of the enterprise applications have been tested in the last six months.

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