SAP Server Landscaping

SAP SERVER LANDSCAPING 

It denotes the placement or the positioning of servers in a project. In a standard SAP landscaping their should be four minimum servers placed. Over and above four servers their can be more servers added to the landscaping depending on customer requirements.

Any server includes two clients i.e., consulting client and user client. The servers include,

1) SANDBOX SERVER: Plays as a play ground for the consultants to workout on the solution and find out the solution. It includes, SAP standard settings(reference data to find the solution) & SAP dummy data(testing data to know the process is working or not)

2) DEVELOPMENT SERVER:  This server will set up solutions for all the processes. It includes, SAP Standard settings + SAP dummy data + Customer specific settings.

This server has three clients. They are, Consultant, enduser and golden client.

Golden client: If all the solutions are perfect then they can be placed in this server as a request.

3) QUALITY SERVER: Quality of the solution will be checked by customer against their requirements and decisions will be taken. Quality and production servers will be empty and will not have any data, the data can be taken from golden client and save in this servers.

Golden Client     ------------------> Quality Server

It includes, customer specific settings and standard data.

4) PRODUCTION SERVER: In this server SAP system activates and company can actually start working on SAP. It includes, customer specific settings + live data.

If all the system is crashed then the company should have BACKUP SERVER.

We can also find UAT ( user acceptance testing ) SERVER : Users will check the solution first and will be transformed to production server.