Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version B.04.02 and B.04.51 Release Notes, December 2007

Serviceguard Extension for SAP Versions B.04.02 and B.04.51 Release Notes
Announcements
Chapter 14
Announcements
HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) for HP-UX, extends HP Serviceguard’s failover
cluster capabilities to SAP application environments. It is intended to be used in conjunction
with the HP Serviceguard product.
SGeSAP provides a flexible framework of package templates to easily define cluster packages
that protect various components of a mission-critical SAP infrastructure. SGeSAP provides a
single, uniform interface to cluster ABAP-only, JAVA-only, and add-in installations of SAP
application components. This includes SAP R/3, mySAP, SAP Application Server, ABAP/JAVA,
and SAP Netweaver based SAP applications in a range of supported release versions.
The clustered SAP components include SAP ABAP Central Services, SAP JAVA Central
Services, SAP ABAP Application Servers, SAP Central Instances, SAP Enqueue Replication
Servers, Oracle single-instance databases, MAXDB databases, SAP liveCache and SAP MDM
components. For some platforms, support for liveCache hot standby clusters, DB/2 and
Informix databases is included.
It is possible to combine all clustered components of a single SAP system into one failover
package for simplicity and convenience. There is also full flexibility to split components up
into several packages to avoid unwanted dependencies and to lower potential failover times.
Multiple SAP applications of different type and release version can be consolidated in a single
cluster. SGeSAP enables SAP instance virtualization.
It is possible to use SGeSAP to move redundant SAP ABAP Application Server Instances
between hosts to quickly adapt to changing resource demands or maintenance needs. SGeSAP
allows utilizing a combination of HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers in a mixed cluster with
heterogeneous failover of SAP packages.