High Availability Solutions for SAP on VMware
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| Product | Windows | Linux | Application Monitoring | Enqueue Replication | vMotion Compatibility | Recovery Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | X | - | - | X | Restart of OS on OS and hardware failure. | |
| X | X | - | -(1) | X | Can be combined with VMware HA. Immediate recovery on hardware failure, no recovery on OS and application failure. | |
| X | X | X | -(1) | X | Can be combined with VMware HA and FT. Restart of application and / or OS on application failure. | |
| - | X | X | - | X | Can be combined with VMware HA and FT. Restart of application and / or OS on application failure. | |
| X | X | X | X | X(6) | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. | |
| - | X | X | X | X(2) | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. | |
| - | X | X | X | X | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. | |
| - | X | X | X | X | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. | |
| X | - | X | X | -(3) | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. | |
| NEC ExpressCluster | X(4) | X | X | X | X(5) | Can be combined with VMware HA. Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. |
| HP Serviceguard | - | X | X | X | - | Switchover of application on application, OS and hardware failure. |
1 Enqueue table resiliency with VMware Fault Tolerance
- enqueue table is protected against hardware failure
- enqueue table is not protected against OS failure
- with Enqueue Replication instance on the same OS, enqueue table is protected against enqueue server failure
2 Only applicable when disabling SCSI reservations
3 For details, see VMware KB 1037959
5 Only applicable when using data-mirror type or shared disk type based on NAS storage
6 Only applicable with certain versions, see details
