The Worst Weekend of the Year in IT: Saturday Disaster Recovery Testing

It’s the dreaded Saturday morning: you’ve just survived a week of back-to-back meetings, and now you’re stuck in a room with stale coffee and bagels, facing your Disaster Recovery testing playbook. Your business counterparts are there too, ready to test every step—and let’s be honest, you’d rather be anywhere else. Oh, and did I mention the college football game kicking off at noon? Yeah, you’re missing that too.
But here’s the thing: while it may feel like the worst way to spend your weekend, this testing is crucial for your SAP landscape. A disaster, even a small one, can cost your company big.
But it doesn’t have to be this painful!
With Pure Storage’s ActiveDR—a continuous storage replication solution—you can test your playbook without ever disrupting production, and even do it on a regular weekday! And if you’ve got SAP HANA System Replication for your HA systems, no worries—you can use both and there are zero performance penalties.
Want to know more? Check out my latest video below and say goodbye to the Saturday test grind!

SAP HANA on Pure Storage FlashArray File

SAP typically creates and maintains an organization’s most critical data.  But with the SAP mandate that your most critical SAP application, your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), must run on SAP S/4 HANA (powered by the SAP HANA database) by end the of 2027, it’s even more important than ever to have a fast, reliable and performant storage solution to meet your businesses growing needs.

Using Snapshots to move your S/4 HANA Data

I spent a good chunk of my career implementing SAP for numerous business processes across manufacturing, finance, services, and sales for a large storage company up here near Boston. I’ve spent the last five years at Pure Storage taking the knowledge I gained in running SAP to help customers understand how their infrastructure choices can help simplify their SAP platform. I’m happy to now take those experiences and put together a set of demo’s using SAP and Pure to show the possible. My first demo will be something every SAP customer has to go through – a system refresh of their IT environments with production data. Its a breeze with Pure Storage snapshots, especially with VMware vVols! I hope you enjoy and don’t hesitate to reach out with feedback!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog site – a place I hope to use my 18 years of SAP application and infrastructure experience to make your life easier when managing a complex SAP platform. Whether you’re application focused and want to compare favorite T-Codes or infrastructure focused and here to learn how Pure Storage can help be more then just a storage commodity – I’m happy you’re here! I’m eager for feedback so let me know if theres anything you want to discuss or any topics you think need a deeper dive. Again – welcome!