High Availability on Virtualization for SAP Ecc6

[ritesh_bhatia2]

Hi,

We are migrating on virtualization soon.

Currently we are on ECC 6.0 with three system Landscape.

Database : MAXDB 7.6

Operating System: Windows 2003 X64

Our production is on Microsoft Cluster.

Since we are starting the migration of hardware soon.

We are planning to go ahead with VMWARE ESXi 4.1.

Please Suggest how we can achieve High Availability?

Please Share Step by Step Guide and Also case study?

Please Share your experience on this.

Regards,

Ritesh Bhatia.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

regarding the High Availability design for SAP systems on Windows, see SAP Note 1374671.

A reference for SAP software using vSphere HA capabilities is Miami-Dade County Public Schools:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/customers/10Q3_MIAMI_DADE.pdf

There is also a description of the different scenarios for SAP on vSphere using vSphere HA features and Microsoft Cluster Server:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10031

For a detailed description on how to set up MSCS on vSphere 4.1 see here:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_mscs.pdf

Kind regards,

Matthias