New Server and SAP Server - Need Advise

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Eddie D

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Hi Guys

We have a client who is running some really old hardware and need to upgrade their server. They currently using windows 2003 STD server as DC and a Win 2008 Server( 32bit) running SQL and SAP Business One. Both Servers are tired and we need to upgrade desperately.

Could anyone shed some light on what hardware you would recommend, do we use on single server ( have been advised against it), do we go VM? Any help and advise would really be appreciated.

( Is there a way to migrate the Old Win 2003 Domain controller? )

Thanks

Ed
 
Eddie D said:
Hi Guys

We have a client who is running some really old hardware and need to upgrade their server. They currently using windows 2003 STD server as DC and a Win 2008 Server( 32bit) running SQL and SAP Business One. Both Servers are tired and we need to upgrade desperately.

Could anyone shed some light on what hardware you would recommend, do we use on single server ( have been advised against it), do we go VM? Any help and advise would really be appreciated.

( Is there a way to migrate the Old Win 2003 Domain controller? )

Thanks

Ed
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For the AD, I think you would need to:
Make sure your Domain functional level is 2003 (not older)
Create a new domain controller with newer OS and add to the domain
Transfer FSMO roles to the new DC
Demote the 2003 DC
Increase Domain functional level

If you want to upgrade to 2019 or 2022, you will probably need to do this using at least one intermediate step to a 2012 R2. Depending on exactly what you're dealing with and the size of the environment, it may be worthwhile starting with a clean slate and a fresh domain.

I don't know SAP One but your SAP partner (or at least the documentation) should give you system requirements. If you stick with on-prem hardware, I can't imagine a situation in this day and age where you wouldn't want to use VM's over dedicated physical servers.

Public cloud could be an option but you will have to look at the cost versus benefits - typically lifting and shifting an on-prem workload as-is to Azure or AWS can get expensive quite quickly versus running VM's on a physical server - that said if you want proper high-availability, that really means at least 3 servers clustered which could shift things in the favour of cloud
 
InvisibleJim said:
For the AD, I think you would need to:
Make sure your Domain functional level is 2003 (not older)
Create a new domain controller with newer OS and add to the domain
Transfer FSMO roles to the new DC
Demote the 2003 DC
Increase Domain functional level

If you want to upgrade to 2019 or 2022, you will probably need to do this using at least one intermediate step to a 2012 R2. Depending on exactly what you're dealing with and the size of the environment, it may be worthwhile starting with a clean slate and a fresh domain.

I don't know SAP One but your SAP partner (or at least the documentation) should give you system requirements. If you stick with on-prem hardware, I can't imagine a situation in this day and age where you wouldn't want to use VM's over dedicated physical servers.

Public cloud could be an option but you will have to look at the cost versus benefits - typically lifting and shifting an on-prem workload as-is to Azure or AWS can get expensive quite quickly versus running VM's on a physical server - that said if you want proper high-availability, that really means at least 3 servers clustered which could shift things in the favour of cloud.
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Thanks for your input. I was also thinking of just biting the bullet and starting fresh. They have approx 25 users so not the end of fhe world.

I am a bit out of my depth in vm, would one decent server be able to handle a domain controller and a seperate sap server?
I would need some guidance.o n how to make these bulletproof in terms.of security and backups.
 
Eddie D said:
Thanks for your input. I was also thinking of just biting the bullet and starting fresh. They have approx 25 users so not the end of fhe world.

I am a bit out of my depth in vm, would one decent server be able to handle a domain controller and a seperate sap server?
I would need some guidance.o n how to make these bulletproof in terms.of security and backups.
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Hyper-V is the biscuit. You could even get some decent refurbished hardware and bump up the disks to SSD and it will run like a train
If you use refurb you can afford to buy 2 or 3.

Edit: Go for a couple of the Gen9 ones here and have the disks converted to SSD. https://www.buyrefurb.co.za/product-category/servers/hp-servers/
 
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