There are three main technical migration paths to SAP HANA. All of these methods have their own advantages and disadvantages compared to each other. My aim is to provide guidance and recommendation to plan your HANA technical migration using most effective approach for your business case.
Before starting I have to mention that all these methods (except maybe greenfield approach) would require a general technical planning and preparations such as;
Before starting I have to mention that all these methods (except maybe greenfield approach) would require a general technical planning and preparations such as;
- Housekeeping activities, removing obsolete data or archiving old data.
- Collect and update database statistics
- Perform consistency check for tables and dictionary objects.
- Operating system and database related checks and verifications.
- Parameterization for improved performance.