What does SAP offer to support the sizing of the future IT infrastructure?
When you perform an upgrade, you must first distinguish between SAP release upgrades without changes in the business processes (a so-called technical upgrade), additional or extended business cases set live together with the upgrade and unicode conversion. With the SAP GoingLive Functional Upgrade Check basic sizing and hardware requirements are verified. Furthermore, the SAP Safeguarding for Upgrade program includes additional services, for example, to reduce the existing database size and to postpone required hardware investements. The Quick Sizer is meant for initial sizings only and can not be used for upgrade sizing. You may only use it in case of an upgrade project where you include new business functions. Then the Quick Sizer can be used to size these additional functionalities and calculate the supplemental load you have to consider. For a technical upgrade you should directly contact your hardware vendor to verify if your current hardware will stand the requirements given afte
