CREATING A HIGH-AVAILABILITY SAP

PLATFORM USING RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS

SHERRY YU
Principal Partner Success Architect - SAP Solutions
April 2019
AGENDA

● HA Solutions for SAP HANA

○ SAP HANA System Replication
○ SAP HANA Scale-Up
○ SAP HANA Scale-Out NEW

● HA Solution for Netweaver or S/4 Based on ABAP Platform 1709 or older

○ Standalone Enqueue Server 1 (ENSA1)
○ Supported Configurations
● HA Solution for S/4HANA based on ABAP Platform 1809 NEW

○ Standalone Enqueue Server 2 (ENSA2 )

○ Supported Configurations
● RHEL for SAP Solutions

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WHAT’S NEW (as of April 2019)

● HA Solution for S/ 4 HANA based on ABAP Platform 18 0 9

○ Support for Standalone Enqueue Server 2 (ENSA2 )
● HA Solutions for SAP HANA Scale-Out (coming soon)

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HA SOLUTIONS FOR SAP HANA
SAP HANA SYSTEM REPLICATION (HSR)

● SAP HANA replicat es all dat a t o a

secondary SAP HANA syst em
(st andard SAP HANA feat ure).

● Dat a is const ant ly pre-loaded on

t he secondary syst em t o minimize
recovery t ime object ive (RTO)

● Failover is not aut omat ed, t hat

needs a 3 rd part y clust er solut ion

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AUTOMATED SAP HANA SYSTEM REPLICATION-
SUPPORTED CONFIGURATIONS
● Aut omat ed SAP HANA Syst em Replicat ion in SAP HANA Scale-Up
○ Two node clust er
○ Performance Opt imized
○ Cost Opt imized
○ Act ive/ Act ive in HANA 2 .0
○ Replicat ion Chain
● Aut omat ed SAP HANA Syst em Replicat ion in SAP HANA Scale-Out
○ Mult i-node HANA Scale-Out clust er
○ HANA Syst em Replicat ion bet ween t wo scale-out sit es

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HA SOLUTIONS FOR SAP HANA SCALE
-UP
 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
SUPPORTED CONFIGURATION- PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZED

∙ Secondary sit e is not act ive t o client / application servers.

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP 1

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
SUPPORTED CONFIGURATION- COST OPTIMIZED

∙ Support a QA/ Test inst ance running on t he secondary sit e (Cost -Opt imized)
∙ QA/ Test inst ance will be shut down first during t he failover of Prod

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP 1 Virtual IP 2

PRD PRD QAS

00 00 10

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
SUPPORTED CONFIGURATION- ACTIVE/ACTIVE

∙ Act ive-Active Read-Enabled: in HANA 2 .0 , t he secondary inst ance can t ake Read-Only
inquiries
∙ Support a second virt ual IP on t he secondary sit e

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP 1 Virtual IP 2

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
SUPPORTED CONFIGURATION- REPLICATION CHAIN

∙ "Mult i-t ier Syst em Replicat ion"/ "replicat ion chains" are possible, but t he t ert iary sit e can not
be managed by t he clust er

Client / Application Servers

PRD
Virtual IP 00

PRD PRD
00 00 S.R. Chain
TERTIARY

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
RESOURCE AGENTS

● SAPHana
○ Manages pre-configured SAP HANA System Replication
environment
● SAPHanaTopology
○ Gathers information about the current status of SAP HANA System
Replication
● Both are bundled in resource -agents -sap-hana rpm

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-UP
FAILOVER SCENARIO

∙ Syst em Replication modes: sync, [syncmem], async

∙ PREFER_SITE_TAKEOVER = True
∙ AUTOMATED_REGISTER = False
∙ No shared st orage volumes

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE -UP
FAILOVER SCENARIO - PRIMARY DOWN

∙ Primary node down

∙ Syst em Replication int errupt ed
∙ Pacemaker clust er fence t he primary node

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE -UP
FAILOVER SCENARIO - SECONDARY TAKEOVER
∙ Secondary becomes t he new Primary
∙ Virt ual IP binds t o t he new Primary node
∙ Previous Primary remains Primary, DUAL PRIMARY, because “AUTOMATED_REGISTER =
False”

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication PRIMARY

Pacemaker

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 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE -UP
FAILOVER SCENARIO - “AUTOMATED_REGISTER = True”

∙ Wait for “DUPLICATE_PRIMARY_TIMEOUT” t imeout

∙ Former Primary regist ers as t he new Secondary
∙ Syst em Replication st art s, in t he opposit e direct ion

Client / Application Servers

Virtual IP

PRD PRD
00 00

PRIMARY System Replication SECONDARY

Pacemaker

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HA SOLUTIONS FOR SAP HANA SCALE
-OUT
 AUTOMATED SAP HSR SCALE
-OUT

∙ Performance Opt imized Scale-Out is t o be support ed very soon.

Client / Application Servers

VIP
Majority
Maker

W1 W2 W3 S1 W1 W2 W3 S1

System Replication

Primary DC Secondary DC

Pacemaker

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HA SOLUTION FOR SAP NETWEAVER
BASED ON ABAP PLATFORM 1709 OR OLDER
STANDALONE ENQUEUE SERVER 1 (ENSA1)

ASCS ERS

Pacemaker

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ASCS ENSA1 FAILOVER SCENARIO
● Typical t wo-node clust er set up

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance

Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance

Pacemaker

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ASCS ENSA1 FAILOVER SCENARIO
● If ASCS failed, it must fail over t o t he same node where ERS is running
● ASCS needs t o access t he replicat ion t able on t he ERS node

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance instance

Failover

Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance

Pacemaker

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ASCS ENSA1 FAILOVER SCENARIO
● ERS has t o be st art ed on a different node wit hin t he clust er

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance

X
Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance instance

Pacemaker

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ASCS ENSA1 FAILOVER SCENARIO
● St at e aft er ASCS failover

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance

Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance

Pacemaker

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 NETWEAVER ASCS/ERS ENSA1 HA

ascs-vip ers-vip pas-ip aas-ip hana-vip

Enqueue System
ASCS Replication ERS HANA Replication HANA
PAS AAS ...
node1 node2 node1 node2

Pacemaker Pacemaker

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HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR SAP BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
BASED ON ABAP 1709 OR OLDER

● Pacemaker based clust er resource agent s

● Support available in RHEL 7 and RHEL 6 .5 +

● Support s SAP Net Weaver based SAP Solut ions (ERP (aka ECC), CRM, SRM,
Solut ion Manager, Port al, ...)

● Support ed Dat abases:

○ Oracle

○ IBM DB2 LUW

○ SAP MaxDB

○ SAP ASE

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HA SOLUTION FOR SAP S/4HANA & BW/4HANA
BASED ON ABAP PLATFORM 1809
STANDALONE ENQUEUE SERVER 2 (ENSA2)

Pacemaker

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STANDALONE ENQUEUE SERVER 2 (ENSA2)
● ASCS doesn’t have t o failover t o t he node where ERS is running
● Mult i-node clust er is possible

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2 node 3 node 4

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance

Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance

Pacemaker

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ASCS ENSA2 FAILOVER
● ASCS fails over t o a different node, and ret rieves t he replicat ion t able
from t he Enqueue Replicat or 2 over t he net work

ABAP Instance

Physical Hostname Physical Hostname Physical Hostname Physical Hostname

node 1 node 2 node 3 node 4

Virtual Hostname
ASCS 01 ASCS 01 ASCS_HA
instance instance

Virtual Hostname
ERS 02 ERS_HA
instance

Pacemaker

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 S/4HANA ABAP 1809 ASCS/ERS ENSA2 HA

ascs-vip ers-vip pas-ip aas-ip hana-vip

Enqueue
ASCS Replication ERS 3nd
PAS AAS
node1 node2 node

Pacemaker

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HIGH AVAILABILITY FOR SAP BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
BASED ON ABAP 1709 OR OLDER

● Pacemaker based clust er resource agent s

● Support available in RHEL 7 and RHEL 6 .5 +

● Support s SAP Net Weaver based SAP Solut ions (ERP (aka ECC), CRM, SRM,
Solut ion Manager, Port al, ...)

● Support ed Dat abases:

○ Oracle

○ IBM DB2 LUW

○ SAP MaxDB

○ SAP ASE

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RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS
RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS
TAILORED FOR THE NEEDS OF BUSINESS CRITICAL APPLICATIONS

● Enabled for continuous availability of SAP applicat ions,

t hrough int egrat ion wit h SAP HANA and SAP Net Weaver High Availabilit y
Extended 4y SAP opt ions (RHEL HA add-on and Re d Hat SAP HA solut ion incl.)
Support

● Focus on SAP application lifecycle , providing a st able foundat ion

wit h full support for RHEL minor releases up t o 4 years from GA
(RHEL Ext e nde d Updat e Support for SAP incl.)
+
RHEL
● Proactive monitoring and remote management of SAP landscapes,
wit h real-t ime assessment for risks relat ed t o performance, availabilit y,
st abilit y, and securit y (Re d hat Insight s and Smart Manage ment add-on incl.)

● Ready to run , delivering high-performance profiles, runt ime libraries and file
syst em add-ons, t urning SAP int o a first class cit izen on RHEL for SAP
(RHEL for SAP solut ions spe cific soft ware compone nt s incl.)

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CONSUMPTION MODELS

● On-Premise
○ RHEL for SAP Solutions
● Public Clouds
○ BYOS - Bring Your Own Subscriptions via Cloud Access
■ RHEL for SAP Solutions
○ PAYG - Pay As You Go
■ RHEL for SAP with High Availability and Update Services

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SAP SPECIFIC CONTENTS IN THE SUBSCRIPTIONS

CHANNELS RHEL for SAP W/ HA AND US RHEL FOR SAP SOLUTIONS

RHEL FOR SAP APPLICATIONS x x

RHEL FOR SAP HANA x x

HA ADD-ON x x

UPDATE SERVICES (E4S) x x

SMART MANAGEMENT x

INSIGHTS x

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RESOURCES

∙ SAP HANA in pacemaker cluster configuration guide

∙ https:/ / access.redhat.com/ articles/ 30 0 4 10 1
∙ Configure SAP Netweaver ASCS/ ERS ENSA1 with Standalone Resources in RHEL
7.5 and newer
∙ https:/ / access.redhat.com/ articles/ 35 69681
∙ Red Hat Support of ASCS/ ERS ENSA2 in Pacemaker in RHEL for SAP Solutions
∙ https:/ / blogs.sap.com/ 2 0 19/ 0 3/ 27/ red-hat-released-support-of-standalone-
enqueue-server-2 -ensa2 -in-pacemaker-in-rhel-for-sap-solutions/
∙ Questions: sap@redhat.com

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THANK YOU!