Sun Cluster HA for SAP provides fault monitoring and automatic failover for the SAP application to eliminate single points of failure in an SAP system. The following table lists the data services that best protect SAP components in a Sun Cluster configuration.
Table 9-2 Protection of SAP Components
SAP Component |
Protected by |
---|---|
SAP database |
Sun Cluster HA for Oracle, if the database is Oracle |
SAP central instance |
Sun Cluster HA for SAP, the resource type is SUNW.sap_ci |
SAP application server |
Sun Cluster HA for SAP, the resource type is SUNW.sap_as |
NFS file system |
Sun Cluster HA for NFS |
Use the scinstall(1M) command to install Sun Cluster HA for SAP. Sun Cluster HA for SAP requires a functioning cluster with the initial cluster framework already installed. See the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Software Installation Guide for details about initial installation of clusters and data services. Register Sun Cluster HA for SAP after you successfully install the basic components of the Sun Cluster and SAP software.