Woodgrove Bank runs SAP S/4HANA under RISE with SAP. The database has grown to the point where the memory footprint drives most of the subscription cost. Compliance requires that archived documents remain readable for ten years, and the archive must live in storage that the bank owns and controls, not in the SAP-managed subscription. Which approach should you recommend?
- A.
Export the tables to CSV files with an SAP query and copy the files to a customer Azure file share each month
- B.
Use SAP Information Lifecycle Management with the ILM Store writing archive files to a customer-owned Azure Blob Storage account
- C.
Enable Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management on the SAP-managed backup container so that older blobs move to the archive access tier
- D.
Schedule Azure Backup long-term retention of the SAP database and delete the archived documents from the database
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Answer: B
SAP Information Lifecycle Management moves data out of the database into an external archive store, and a customer-owned storage account behind a private endpoint keeps the archive under the bank's control.
- A. CSV exports are not a supported archiving method and lose retention rules, legal hold, and application readability.
- B. The ILM Store persists archive files in a customer-owned Blob Storage account, shrinking the database while retention rules keep the data governed.
- C. The SAP-managed backup container is not customer-controlled and holds backups rather than archived business documents.
- D. Backup retention keeps recovery copies and does not reduce the live database size or provide application-readable archives.