Disasters due to service failures, application failures, and natural disasters or calamities cause downtime for enterprise applications, revenue impact, and data loss.
To mitigate the severe impacts of such events, Disaster recovery planning is important for companies running mission-critical and business-critical applications like SAP.
Organizations that need to be protected from data loss need to have a Sap disaster recovery plan and solution in place.
In this piece, we’ll walk you through what you need to know about SAP disaster recovery. Continue reading!
What is an SAP disaster recovery solution?
DR (discovery recovery) solutions are platforms, which automate and streamline disaster recovery measures to keep businesses protected around the clock. The solution type you go for and the specific recovery method you implement usually depends on the environment in which your applications and systems live, and your needs.
Traditional on-premise data recovery solutions need an on-location data backups system, which can be costly to maintain and install. On the google cloud or Alibaba cloud, disaster recovery processes can be implemented at less cost and more quickly.
Today, platform tools offer comprehensive disaster recovery services, which include app failover measures, continuous data protection, and synchronous data and system replication.
How to choose the right SAP disaster recovery solution
To choose the right SAP disaster recovery solution, you need to:
1 – Determining your company app requirements
There are two key concepts used to define the requirements:
• RPO (recovery point objective) It is the amount of transactional data you can afford to lose in a disaster.
• RTO (recovery time objective) – the amount of time it takes to recover normal business operations after an outage. The recovery time is typically measured in seconds, minutes, or hours)
Outlining and knowing RPO and RPO for your company can help you narrow down the solution search to those with services and features, which deliver what your business needs.
2 – Industry-best practices and standards for SAP DR solutions
The next thing is to consider the industry-best practices and standards to look for in your solution search. Here are a few vital features to look out for:
• Compatible vendors
• Disaster recovery (DR) solution customization
• Commitment to RPO and RTO objectives
3 – Valid track record
It is important to know how the potential provider’s solution has succeeded in real events. Case studies, industry-top lists, and client success stories of protection buyers can give one insight into how a solution has held up under lots of pressure.
Another important thing to prove is the SAP certification, which is a well-known standard for all SAP partners.
RTO and RTO of DR (disaster recovery) features
SAP HANA system provides three features of DR:
• SAP HANA Backups and recovery – There are different options to create and configure backups of the SAP HANA database.
SAP HANA System replication – It involves configuring a secondary standby system that is an exact copy of the active primary system.
• SAP HANA Storage replication – It involves configuring a secondary system that is a copy of the active primary site or system.
SAP discovery best practices
SAP system is the backbone of several businesses and it’s important to have a well-crafted disaster recovery plan in place in order to ensure business continuity.
By following the below best practices, companies can ensure that their data is secure and that their SAP systems are fully protected from threats such as ransomware attacks. If you are new to this, you can read any free guide for ransomware.
• Defining the scope of your DR plan
• Identifying important business apps and processes
• Determining how much downtime your can afford or is acceptable
• Considering the impact of a data loss or breach
• Doing an SAP disaster recovery test at least annually
• Ensuring that you’ve adequate bandwidth for failover
• Documenting everything
• Keeping your recovery plan up-to-date
General DR (disaster recovery) plan considerations
Most companies operating important business apps on Azure set up HA (High Availability) and DR strategies.
Guaranteed data security and availability, and low-cost place Azure Site Recovery at the top.
SAP workload on Azure operates on virtual machines in combination with different Azure services to deploy different layers ((standby database servers or primary database) ) of an SAP Netweaver.
For disaster recovery on Azure, companies should consider different events that can trigger failover.
• Azure services (such as object storage and virtual machines) are unavailability within a region because of the widespread failure.
• SAP applications
• Potential vulnerabilities and threats to the app
• Business compliance needed operational tasks in order to test disaster recovery strategy.
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