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SLES for SAP HA Cluster
1. SUSE Linux Enterprise and
SAP NetWeaver 7.30 HA Cluster
Expert Networking Session
Lounge 7
Wednesday, October 17 5pm
Jan Weber Jeff Lindholm
SAP Product Manager Senior Sales Engineer
SUSE SUSE
Jweber@suse.com JLindholm@suse.com
2. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
®
The Linux infrastructure for SAP solutions
• Reference platform for SAP's software
development
• 7000+ Joint Customers, 100+ References
• 70+% Market share
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server optimized for SAP
• Full SAP NetWeaver certification since 2006
• SAP Certified High Availability Offering
• Virtualization support for VMware, XEN and KVM
• SAP Solution Manager
• SLES 24x7 Priority Support integrated within
SAP Customer Support Network
• Integrated Java Support
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3. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Apps
Page
Clam
Cache ESPOS Web YaST
SAP
Limit
High Availability SAP Installation
Extensions Framework
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SAP specific additional update channel
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4. SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2
High Availability Extension
High Availability
• Cluster
Extensions
management
• Cluster
filesystem
• SAP resource
Agents
• Templates &
best practices
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5. SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2
High Availability Extension
• Pacemaker - HA Cluster Manager
• OpenAIS Cluster Framework / Corosync
• Resource Agents to monitoravailability of system- and
application resources
• SAP Instance Resource Agent
• SAP Database Resource Agent (Oracle 10+11,
DB2, MaxDB)
• Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2) for concurrent
data access
• Cluster Logical Volume Manager (cLVM2)
• Distributed Replicated Block Devicse (DRBD8) for
data replication (sync/async)
• HA GUI and Cluster Shell
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6. Know How and Best Practices - Workshop
The Experts The Workshop
Beside vendors such as In a joint HA workshop users and partners developed, tested
HP, VMware, SAP and SUSE several and documented together with HP, SAP and SUSE best
partners have implemented successful practices for SAP high availability implementations:
SAP HA projects with SUSE Linux
Enterprise High Availability Extension: Whitepaper: SAP solutions made High Available on SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.
• B1 Systems
http://www.b1-systems.de/ Best Practice Guide: Best Practices for Running SAP
NetWeaver on SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
• Computer Concepts Extension.
http://cc-dresden.de
• LINBIT
http://www.linbit.com/
• Realtech
http://www.realtech.de/
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7. High Availability
Six Best Practices and Technical Guides
SAN based Mirror (EMC vPlex)
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10. SAP NetWeaver High Availability Cluster 730 Certification
Details of the certification:
• certifies the Start/Stop infrastructure within HA-Setups
(SAP NetWeaver Management Agents, Cluster-API).
• establish a single SAP HA setup scenario that will be
known to all HA Vendors and will be the reference.
• unify HA setups for SAP NetWeaver 7.x, based on 7.20
DCK availability for ABAP as well as for Java Application Servers
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-26718
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11. Important Interfaces to Integerate 3rd party HA Solutions
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-25453
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13. Resources
SLES for SAP Apps Landing Page
• http://www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap/
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Apps Resources:
• https://www.suse.com/products/sles-for-sap/resource-library/ (white papers, etc.)
• http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h9542-emc-vplex-
business-continuity-sap-wp.pdf
SUSE / SAP Alliance Webpages:
• http://www.suse.com/partners/alliance-partners/sap/
• http://www.experiencesaphana.com
Download SLES for SAP Apps 11 SP2:
• http://tinyurl.com/download-sles-for-sap
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16. Visit us online to learn more
about the SUSE and SAP
relationship
www.suse.com/sap
Thank you.
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