SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation Updates

SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation Updates

by Dino Quintero, Luis Bolinches, Rodrigo Ceron, Mike Heino, John Wright
Released July 2019
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738457857

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Book description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication updates Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions with SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, REDP-5443 with the latest technical content that describes how to implement an SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems™ high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution by using theoretical knowledge and sample scenarios.

This book describes how all the pieces of the reference architecture work together (IBM Power Systems servers, IBM Storage servers, IBM Spectrum™ Scale, IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux, IBM VM Recovery Manager DR for Power Systems, and Linux distributions) and demonstrates the resilience of SAP HANA with IBM Power Systems servers.

This publication is for architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone developing and implementing SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems integration, automation, HA, and DR solutions. This publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the technical teams, and documentation to the sales team.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 About this publication
    2. 1.2 The SAP HANA platform
      1. 1.2.1 What is new in SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems
    3. 1.3 High availability for SAP HANA
      1. 1.3.1 Disaster recovery: SAP HANA System Replication
      2. 1.3.2 High availability: SAP HANA Host Auto-Failover
      3. 1.3.3 High availability: SAP HANA System Replication
  5. Chapter 2. Planning your installation
    1. 2.1 SAP requirements for SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems implementations
      1. 2.1.1 Storage and file system requirements
    2. 2.2 Preparing your software
      1. 2.2.1 Getting your operating system image
      2. 2.2.2 Getting the IBM service and productivity tools for Linux on Power
      3. 2.2.3 Getting the SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems installation files
  6. Chapter 3. IBM PowerVM and SAP HANA
    1. 3.1 Introduction to IBM PowerVM and SAP HANA
    2. 3.2 Virtual I/O Server
    3. 3.3 Other considerations
      1. 3.3.1 IBM PowerVC
      2. 3.3.2 IBM Systems Lab Services
  7. Chapter 4. Operating system installation and customization
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 Creating the logical partition for SAP HANA
    3. 4.3 Installation to the logical partition
      1. 4.3.1 Starting the logical partition in SMS mode
      2. 4.3.2 Installing the Base Operative System from the Hardware Management Console virtual terminal
      3. 4.3.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server V12 SP3 for SAP applications installation
  8. Chapter 5. Storage and file systems setup and configuration
    1. 5.1 Storage layout
      1. 5.1.1 HANA shared area storage layout for scale-up systems
      2. 5.1.2 HANA shared area storage layout for scale-out systems
      3. 5.1.3 Probing for newly attached disks
    2. 5.2 Linux multipath setup
      1. 5.2.1 Applying changes to the multipath configuration
    3. 5.3 File system creation and setup
      1. 5.3.1 File systems for scale-up systems
      2. 5.3.2 File systems for scale-out systems
    4. 5.4 More Linux I/O subsystem tuning
      1. 5.4.1 I/O device tuning
      2. 5.4.2 I/O scheduler tuning
  9. Chapter 6. SAP HANA software stack installation for a scale-up scenario
    1. 6.1 SAP HANA installation overview
    2. 6.2 Installation methods
      1. 6.2.1 GUI installation
      2. 6.2.2 Text-mode installation
    3. 6.3 Postinstallation notes
  10. Chapter 7. SAP HANA System Replication for high availability and disaster recovery scenarios
    1. 7.1 SAP HANA System Replication methods
      1. 7.1.1 SAP HANA System Replication requirements
    2. 7.2 Implementing SAP HANA System Replication
    3. 7.3 SAP HANA System Replication and takeover tests
      1. 7.3.1 Creating a test table and populating it
      2. 7.3.2 Performing a takeover
  11. Chapter 8. SAP HANA and IBM PowerHA SystemMirror
    1. 8.1 Introduction
    2. 8.2 Installing PowerHA SystemMirror
    3. 8.3 Creating the PowerHA SystemMirror cluster
    4. 8.4 Starting PowerHA SystemMirror
    5. 8.5 Moving resources between nodes
    6. 8.6 Closing notes
  12. Chapter 9. SAP HANA and IBM VM Recovery Manager high availability and disaster recovery
    1. 9.1 Business continuity and recovery orchestrator
    2. 9.2 Power Systems HA and DR solutions for SAP HANA
      1. 9.2.1 PowerHA SystemMirror for Linux: A cluster-based HA solution for SAP HANA
      2. 9.2.2 IBM Geographically Dispersed Resiliency: A VM Restart Manager -based DR solution for SAP HANA
      3. 9.2.3 VM Recovery Manager HA: A VM Restart Manager -based HA solution for SAP HANA
      4. 9.2.4 SAP HANA HA management by using VM Recovery Manager HA
      5. 9.2.5 VM Recovery Manager HA: SAP HANA agent deployment and management
  13. Appendix A. HANA OS Healthchecker
    1. Introduction
    2. What it checks
    3. How to run the tool
  14. Appendix B. Example of a multipath.conf file for SAP HANA systems
    1. Introduction
    2. The multipath.conf file
  15. Appendix C. SAP HANA software stack installation for a scale-out scenario
    1. Differences between scale-out and scale-up installations
    2. Installing HANA scale-out clusters
    3. Postinstallation notes
  16. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Online resources
    3. Help from IBM
  17. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementation Updates
  • Author(s): Dino Quintero, Luis Bolinches, Rodrigo Ceron, Mike Heino, John Wright
  • Release date: July 2019
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738457857