SUSE SLES for SAP

Product: SLES for SAP 12 (Product landing page)

Failover Services: HANA Scale Up databases and Netweaver central systems

Licensing: Bring your own SUSE subscription or use the AWS Marketplace SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 offering.

Status: Full support starting with SLES for SAP 12 SP1

This product relies on the SAP HANA system replication. It will monitor the master and the slave node for health. The Linux Cluster will failover a service IP address to the previous slave node when needed. The fencing agents will then reboot the previouse master node.

See:

• SAP NetWeaver High Availability Cluster 7.40 for the AWS Cloud - Setup Guide
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 for the AWS Cloud - Setup Guide

More Resources:

• Technical presentation SUSECon 2015: Fast SAP HANA Fail Over Architecture with a SUSE High Availability Cluster in the AWS Cloud
• 15 minutes video showing an automated failover
• SAP note: (1765442) Joined support SAP SUSE (SLES High Availability)
• SAP note: (2309342) SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension on AWS
• SAP note: (1763512) Supportdetails für SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
• SUSE Setup Guide: 
  • SLES 11 (no AWS support):Automate your SAP HANA System Replication Failover
  • SLES for SAP 12 SP1(with AWS Support): SAP HANA SR Performance Optimized Scenario
• Agent sources (not inidvidually required when SLES for SAP is being used)
  • Open source AWS fencing agent in github
  • Open source AWS move ip agent in github
• AWS Quickstart to install SLES HAE with HANA DB