Preserve Your SAP HANA Integrity – SIOS shows the way

⇨ Continuous change in technology is essential for innovation and competitiveness, necessitating stable operations and effective disaster recovery strategies.

⇨ SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux offers a robust solution for high availability and disaster recovery in SAP environments, automating failover processes to minimize disruptions.

⇨ Establishing a solid backup plan and leveraging intelligent automation can alleviate the burden on IT teams, ensuring continuous operation of SAP HANA systems during disruptions.

In technology, continuous change is not just a normal condition, but a necessity. Without a change in environment, software updates or the creation of new solutions, it will be impossible to count on innovation and compete in the global market. However, continuous change also means a constant need to ensure that your applications operate stably and without disruptions to ensure a smooth flow of operations.

With that, SAP users may be looking for solutions that can help them maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) procedures, where automation and intelligence could allow them to focus on critical tasks, rather than be delayed by the stresses and complexities of manual handling. One of the ways to do that is by deploying a solution that can help build a clustered environment in your SAP, thus protecting your data during failures and establishing best practices during the failover process.

Take the solution offered by SIOS Technology Corp., the provider of software for business continuity and disaster recovery for large enterprises. Its solution, SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux, is a clustering software that provides HA and DR protection for SAP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle and MaxDB. The offering comes with an Application Recovery Kit (ARK), designed to enable SIOS LifeKeeper to ensure fast, safe recovery or failover of complex applications and databases.

When a problem is detected, SIOS LifeKeeper looks to automatically manage the response according to one of three preselected options – alerting the administrator, restarting the application, and/or managing a complete failover to another node. To help avoid disruption, ARKs ensure application operations continue on a secondary cluster node(s).

Specific features for SAP HANA allow the software to respond to application-specific demands and provide intelligence while helping to automate the configuration process. The HANA ARK can find the HANA instance during configuration and will present the customer with the instance, reducing the time spent on manual scripting and input, which would otherwise be likely to disrupt business processes and delay operations.

So, when it comes to the maintenance of the integrity of your SAP HANA system, it is necessary to establish a backup plan that can help ensure continuous HA and best practices in the case of disruptions and failovers. The already overwhelmed IT teams do not need to carry any additional burden on their backs when it comes to this – because there are solutions, like creating clustering environments and establishing an effective DR procedure with the help of automation. While it is possible to do it independently, many may want to opt for the help of an external hand, and someone like SIOS may just be the right partner in achieving that goal.