Wharfedale Deploys Transatlantic SAP DR and Backup Solution

Wharfedale Technologies, Inc. (WFT), a SAP AG infrastructure services and cloud consulting firm, announced the deployment of a transatlantic SAP
DR and backup solution for a global healthcare company.

WFT’s customer is a healthcare company with offices in over 100
countries with major research centers in US, UK, China and Europe. The customer
was in the process of migrating their storage from one platform to another and
WFT was requested to be involved with the design of the migration approach, new
environment resizing, VIO configuration, SAN design, backup solution design and
DR design for their core SAP landscapes.

The customer’s SAP environment consists of a number of components,
such as ECC, SRM, SRM-MDM, SCM-Livecache, BW, EP, PI, GRC, TREX, IDM, MDM, CE,
BoE XI, Solution Manager, and NDWI. Within these components are combinations of
ABAP stack, ABAP & Java dual stack, Java stack, MCOD application types
residing on Oracle/MaxDB databases in a UNIX OS environment.

The scope of the engagement for WFT
has
involved the following:

• Provide advisory role for information gathering, understanding business
  requirements and providing solutions to meet the customer’s business need
• Provide design for backend disk layout based on SAP application requirement to
  achieve optimal
• performance and meet the HA, backup/recovery and DR requirements
• Develop and implement the migration plan to new storage platform with minimum
  down time
• Develop the SAP backup solution integrated with BRTOOLS Oracle RMAN and
  de-duplication appliances
• Develop and implement the SAP DR plan
• Develop monitoring capabilities for the backup and DR solutions

WFT designed backup solutions for databases, application and database
binaries, OSs, archive logs, non-database file-systems and NFS file-systems,
with all components capable of reverting back to any specific point in time.
This solution was then replicated across all the different components within
the SAP landscape to accomplish a backup across the landscape, which
enabled the customer to meet their RTO and RPO requirements.

WFT’s storage design expertise contributed to the enhancement of
optimal data layout performance by 40%. Its flexible, dynamic and scalable
backup recovery solution for the SAP landscape enabled the customer to take
advantage of all the SAP supported features of Oracle RMAN like incremental
backups, compression and integrate it with the salient features of BR*TOOLS.
The de-duplication of SAP backups also provided space savings for
the customer.

The ability to perform DR testing without impacting the production
data replication and usage of minimal server resources at the DR site with the
capability to scale up when needed, are some of the core capabilities of the
solution offered by WFT to this customer.