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Implementing High Availability for SAP Applications on IBM Power Virtual Server References

Implementing High Availability for SAP Applications on IBM Power Virtual Server References

The following is a comprehensive list of product documentation, Red Hat Knowledge Base articles, and SAP notes that you need to review before you implement high availability for SAP solutions. A Red Hat Customer Portal ID is required to access Knowledge Base articles and an SAP User ID is required to access SAP Notes.

General requirements

A valid RHEL for SAP Applications or RHEL for SAP Solutions subscription is required to enable the repositories that you need to install SAP HANA and the resource agents for HA configurations.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cluster product documentation

Table 1. RHEL 8 cluster documentation
Product Documentation
Configuring and managing high availability clusters
Table 1. RHEL 9 cluster documentation
Product Documentation
Configuring and managing high availability clusters

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions product documentation

Table 2. RHEL 8 for SAP documentation
Product Documentation
Configuring RHEL 8 for SAP HANA2 installation
Red Hat HA Solutions for SAP HANA, S/4HANA, and NetWeaver based SAP Applications
Automating SAP HANA Scale-Up System Replication by using the RHEL HA Add-On
Configuring a Cost-Optimized SAP S/4HANA HA cluster (HANA System Replication + ENSA2) by using the RHEL HA Add-On
Configuring SAP HANA Scale-Up Multitarget System Replication for disaster recovery
Configuring an active-passive NFS server in a Red Hat High Availability cluster
Table 2. RHEL 9 for SAP documentation
Product Documentation
Configuring RHEL 9 for SAP HANA2 installation
Red Hat HA Solutions for SAP HANA, S/4HANA, and NetWeaver based SAP Applications
Automating SAP HANA Scale-Up System Replication by using the RHEL HA Add-On
Configuring SAP HANA Scale-Up Multitarget System Replication for disaster recovery
Configuring HA clusters to manage SAP NetWeaver or SAP S/4HANA Application server instances by using the RHEL HA Add-On

Red Hat Enterprise Linux general cluster knowledge base articles

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP cluster knowledge base articles

SAP HANA product documentation

SAP Notes

Table 3. SAP Notes for RHEL 8
SAP Notes
SAP Note 2772999 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x: Installation and Configuration
SAP Note 2235581 - SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems
SAP Note 2777782 - SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS Settings for RHEL 8
SAP Note 2369981 - Required configuration steps for authentication with HANA System Replication
Table 3. SAP Notes for RHEL 9
SAP Notes
SAP Note 3108316 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x: Installation and Configuration
SAP Note 2235581 - SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems
SAP Note 3108302 - SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS Settings for RHEL 9
SAP Note 2369981 - Required configuration steps for authentication with HANA System Replication