1. ClusterLion Automatic switchover for SAP HANA Robert Graf CEO

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4. High Availability in IT
High availability is a MUST in today’s IT world!
Most businesses depend on their critical applications!
“Always ON” became mandatory for many companies!
Downtime cost productivity, money and image!
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5. Is SAP uptime important to your business?
Cost of Downtime
Is SAP uptime important to your business?
File Activity
IT downtime causes significant damage to businesses!
Source:
ServiceMax, from GE Digital, commissioned Vanson Bourne to conduct a global study into unplanned downtime, “After The Fall: Cost, Causes and Consequences of Unplanned Downtime. “The Study surveyed 450 IT & field services decision makers in the UK, US, France and Germany across the manufacturing, medical, oil and gas, energy & utilities, telecoms, distribution, logistics and transportation sectors, among others.

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8. always-ON availability
The Main Question is:
Do you need
always-ON availability
for your
SAP applications?
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if YES:
Automatic Switchover is needed!
if NO:
Manual Switchover is a valid Solution!

9. General System Replication Setup
virtual IP
Client
App Server
General System Replication Setup
SAP HANA
– primary (active)
HANA
vSphere Hypervisor
SAP HANA – secondary
Persistent Storage
(data pre-loaded)
Mgmt
Redo
Data
SAP HANA System Replication
Log Transfer by SAP HANA Database kernel
HANA
(active)
Mgmt
Do you need
always-ON availability
for your
SAP applications? VM
always-ON availability
achieved?
vSphere Hypervisor
How about
automatic Switchover?
Server
Persistent Storage
Storage
If YES:
Two datacentres and sync. data replication are needed
Linux Clustering
need to be configured!
Log
Data

10. SAP HANA System Replication
virtual IP
Client
App Server
SAP HANA
– primary (active)
SAP HANA – secondary
SAP HANA System Replication
Log Transfer by SAP HANA Database kernel
HANA
(active)
HANA
(data pre-loaded)
Mgmt
Mgmt VM
Let’s configure Linux clustering!
Linux Cluster Services
Very complex to setup and maintain!
vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Hypervisor
Heartbeat
Server
3rd Datacentre
Voting
Device
Persistent Storage
Storage
Log
Data
Redo
Data
“Pacemaker”
Persistent Storage

11. SAP HANA System Replication
virtual IP
Client
App Server
SAP HANA
– primary (active)
SAP HANA – secondary
SAP HANA System Replication
Log Transfer by SAP HANA Database kernel
HANA
(active)
HANA
(data pre-loaded)
Mgmt
Connect Agents
Mgmt VM
Let’s configure Linux clustering!
Linux Cluster Services
No Linux Clustering needed!
Replace 3rd Datacentre
by Cloud-Quorum
vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Hypervisor
Server
Done!
Persistent Storage
Storage
Log
Data
Redo
Data
Persistent Storage

12. SAP HANA System Replication
virtual IP
Client
App Server
SAP HANA
– primary (active)
SAP HANA – secondary
SAP HANA System Replication
Log Transfer by SAP HANA Database kernel
HANA
(active)
HANA
(data pre-loaded)
Mgmt
Mgmt VM
Reduce complexity
to gain
uptime!
vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Hypervisor
Server
Persistent Storage
Storage
Log
Data
Redo
Data
Persistent Storage

13. always-ON availability SAP HANA System Replication
Client
App Server
virtual IP
always-ON availability
achieved!
SAP HANA
– primary (active)
SAP HANA – secondary
SAP HANA System Replication
Log Transfer by SAP HANA Database kernel
HANA
(active)
HANA
(data pre-loaded)
Mgmt
Takeover
Mgmt
Outage VM
<< Monitoring
Monitoring >>
vSphere Hypervisor
vSphere Hypervisor
Server
Persistent Storage
Storage
Log
Data
Redo
Data
Persistent Storage

14. Disadvantages: Advantages: Complex cluster setup!
Complex Linux Cluster Setup
Simple ProLion Setup
Disadvantages:
Complex cluster setup!
High risk of failures! (Cluster Services, Human Error)
Complex to maintain! (Testing, Patch-Mgmt,etc.)
Bad traceability!
Advantages:
No more Linux clustering!
Easy to setup and configure!
Simple Patch management!
Easy to test and maintain!
Lowest TCO! (no 3rd datacentre)
Simple monitoring!

15. No SAP Solution Certification for Cluster-Managers!
No solution certification is offered for cluster managers – Support is handled by solution partner directly
Note:
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Data source:

16. Easy Setup, Installation and Maintenance!
clusterlion
clusterlion
clusterlion
clusterlion
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17. Portal Screenshots
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18. ProLion Premium Support
24x7 Support
Proactive customer notification
Proactive configuration check

19. …the question is if you can afford to run SAP without ClusterLion?
The question is not if you can afford ClusterLion…

20. ...we go the extra mile...