Based upon OSS notes that I have seen, it appears that SAP only supports the homogeneous system copy method for moving an SAP instance from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2012R2 server. using the magic of VMware, I actually upgraded my Windows 2003 server to 2008, then 2012R2 and everything works fine. With that said, I want to test the homogeneous system copy method. My problem is finding a clearly-documented procedure for doing this. Here is what i want to do:
Take Server1 running Windows 2003 and central instance DVEBMGS00 and now run it on Server2 running Windows 2012R2. Note that the computer name will remain the same. I will simply take Server1 down and bring up Server2. My database is DB2 on z/OS. I also run the central services (message and enqueue servers on z/OS (under Unix System Services). My concern about the system copy is that the database is totally separate from the SAP instance on the Windows server. My SAP system is a dual-stack (ABAP+Java) BI.
What I did:
On server1, I ran SWPM's sapinst from the path:
..System-Copy>IBM DB2 for z/OS>Source System Export>Central System>Based on AS ABAP and AS Java>Database and Central Instance Export.
Once this completed, I copied the export folder to Server2. I shutdown server1.
I started up Server2 and then ran SWPM's sapinst from the path:
..System-Copy>IBM DB2 for z/OS>Target System Installation>Central System>Based on AS ABAP and AS Java>Central System
This ultimately failed and my concerns are that the dialogs request a lot of parameters that do not seem pertinent to just laying down a new central instance on this server (Server2).
My question, if there a simple way to just run the central instance on a new server? I actually tested creating a new Dialog instance and then just renaming the file structure (D00 to DVEBMGS00) and that appears to work fine (keeping the old profiles).
Advice and insight appreciated,
Bill