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What is the difference between homogeneous system copy and

heterogoneous system copy?

This article answers the following queries:

What is System refresh?

What is the difference between homogeneous system copy and
heterogeneous system copy?
What is the difference between System refresh and System
copy?
What is the need of System refresh?

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System Refresh:

System refresh is nothing but copying an SAP system to another.

Let us say the system from which copy is being done is called as
source system and system in which data to be copied as target
system.
If the target SAP system already exists then this is known as system
refresh.

Difference between homogeneous system copy and

heterogeneous system copy:

If the target SAP system doesnt exist and you are building a new SAP
system on the same o/s and database then this process is called as
homogenous system copy. In case the o/s and database are
different in your source and target SAP systems, then that process is
called heterogeneous system copy or migration.

What is the need of System refresh?

In real time scenarios,

i) If Quality system data is outdated with Production system,

testing may succeed in quality system but may fail in Production
system. So, it is required that Quality system should have same data
as Production system, so that better testing can be done in Quality
system whose data is similar to production. So, it is suggested to
refresh quality system with production system data periodically.
ii) There might be a requirement to perform a production system
upgrade (like support pack / version upgrade.) Instead of performing
upgrade directly on actual production system, it is better idea to
setup a mock / test system similar to production system with the
actual data and perform the upgrade there first. After performing
upgrade on mock system, some details related to errors likely to
occur, actual time it took for upgrade, major issue if any can be
identified so that necessary precautions can be taken while
performing the upgrade on the actual production system.

iii) In case a newly inducted team should be given training, instead of

providing training to them on the actual system( DEV/QA/PRD), a
system refresh can be done and a test/training system can be setup
and access can be given to those systems. This makes sure that no
damage is done to DEV/QA/PRD systems.

Will explain you the steps involved in System refresh(with

screenshots) in the next article.