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
 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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 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Apps

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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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 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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 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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Know How and Best Practices - Workshop
The Experts
Beside vendors such as
HP, VMware, SAP and SUSE several
partners have implemented successful
SAP HA projects with SUSE Linux
Enterprise High Availability Extension:
• B1 Systems
http://www.b1-systems.de/
• Computer Concepts
http://cc-dresden.de
The Workshop
In a joint HA workshop users and partners developed, tested
and documented together with HP, SAP and SUSE best
practices for SAP high availability implementations:
Whitepaper: SAP solutions made High Available on SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications.
Best Practice Guide: Best Practices for Running SAP
NetWeaver on SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
Extension.

• LINBIT
http://www.linbit.com/

• Realtech
http://www.realtech.de/

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 High Availability
Validated best practices with partners at SAP Linux Lab
Simple Stack Enqueue Replication

DRBD Data Sync HA in Virtual Environments

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 High Availability
Six Best Practices and Technical Guides

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 http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31701
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 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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 Important Interfaces to Integerate 3rd party HA Solutions

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-25453

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 http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-28875
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 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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relationship
www.suse.com/sap

Thank you.

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