Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for SAP liveCache Guide

Sun Cluster HA for SAP liveCache Overview

Use the information in this section to understand how Sun Cluster HA for SAP liveCache makes liveCache highly available.

For conceptual information on scalable services, see the Sun Cluster 3.1 10/03 Concepts Guide.

To eliminate a single point of failure in an SAP Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO) System, Sun Cluster HA for SAP liveCache provides fault monitoring and automatic failover for liveCache and fault monitoring and automatic restart for SAP xserver. The following table lists the data services that best protect SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) components in a Sun Cluster configuration. Figure 1–1 also illustrates the data services that best protect SAP SCM components in a Sun Cluster configuration.

Table 1–1 Protection of liveCache Components

liveCache Component 

Protected by 

SAP APO Central Instance 

Sun Cluster HA for SAP 

The resource type is SUNW.sap_ci_v2.

For more information on this data service, see Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for SAP Guide.

SAP APO database 

All highly available databases that are supported with Sun Cluster software and by SAP. 

SAP APO Application Server 

Sun Cluster HA for SAP 

The resource type is SUNW.sap_as_v2.

For more information on this data service, see Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for SAP Guide.

SAP liveCache AP xserver 

 

Sun Cluster HA for SAP liveCache 

The resource type is SUNW.sap_xserver.

SAP liveCache database 

Sun Cluster HA for SAP liveCache 

The resource type is SUNW.sap_livecache.

NFS file system 

Sun Cluster HA for NFS 

The resource type is SUNW.nfs.

For more information on this data service, see Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service for Network File System (NFS) Guide.

Figure 1–1 Protection of liveCache Components

Illustration's purpose is to describe the protection of liveCache components. The preceding table also outlines the protection of these components.