What high availability solution are people using for SAP?

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are in the process of insourcing our HR system (4.6C), and will be running it on Oracle and Red Hat linux on X86-64.

Does anybody have experience with 10gRAC or ServiceGuard or DataGuard for this platform?

Regards, Torfrid

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As per your query What high availability solution are people using for SAP?

I would like to suggest you that go for Redhat cluster suite.

With the SAN setup. This is the good for HA

Thanks and Regards,

Kamal Kishore

[markus_doehr2]

> We are in the process of insourcing our HR system (4.6C), and will be running it on Oracle and Red Hat linux on X86-64.

> Does anybody have experience with 10gRAC or ServiceGuard or DataGuard for this platform?

HA solutions on Linux must be open source. Service-/DataGuard or Veritas Cluster is not supported (see note 784391 - SAP support terms and 3rd-party Linux kernel drivers)

RAC has some limitations:

621293 - Oracle 9i/10g: Real Application Clusters

527843 - Oracle RAC support in the SAP environment

581320 - FAQ: Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)

but if you search the forum, you'll find some threads about usage.

Markus

[lbreddemann]

Hi Torfrid,

what kind of protection do you want/need for this database?

What is the budget limit?

How trained are the administrators that will have to handle it?

How does the existing server landscape look like?

See HA is a broad topic and different solutions will suit different needs (and purses).

Perhabs you start with the obvious - the available documentation:

[High Availability for the Oracle Database (SAP Library - SAP High Availability)|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/08/5741fb4ae611d1894f0000e829fbbd/frameset.htm]

and of course the SAP on Oracle Homepage here in SDN: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ora.

Regards,

Lars