You have an on-premises SAP NetWeaver application server and SAP HANA database deployment. You plan to migrate the on-premises deployment to Azure. You provision new Azure virtual machines to host…

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Options

• Athe virtual machine that will host the application server
• Bthe virtual machine that will host the database
• Cthe on-premises database server
• Dthe on-premises application server

• A
  4% (2)
• B
  12% (6)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  82% (40)

Explanation

SUM must run on the on-premises application server (D) because DMO with System Move is a combined upgrade-and-migration operation that is orchestrated by the Software Update Manager installed on the source SAP application server - the one that currently owns the ABAP stack and the system being transformed. SUM reads the existing system landscape, drives the migration to the new database, and controls the cutover, so it must start where the live system lives today.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• (A) & (B) - the Azure VMs are the target environment; they don't yet have a running SAP system for SUM to act upon, so SUM has nothing to orchestrate from there at initiation time.
• (C) - the on-premises database server hosts the data, not the SAP application stack; SUM is an application-layer tool and is not installed or started on the database server.

Memory tip: Think of SUM as the conductor - it always starts in the house where the orchestra currently plays (the on-premises app server), and from there it moves everything to the new venue (Azure). Source app server = SUM's home base.

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