Managing Serviceguard Extension for SAP on Linux (IA64 Integrity and x86_64), February 2008

Planning a File System Layout for SAP in a Serviceguard/LX Cluster Environment
Overview
Chapter 238
Overview
The following table outlines important concepts that you should
understand before using Serviceguard with SAP. Each step is
cumulative, that is each step builds upon itself.
The following sections detail each step in greater detail.
Table 2-1 Understanding the Different SAP Environments and
Components
Step Concept
See the following topic
for more information
1 Understanding the difference between the ABAP
and JAVA SAP configuration environments
About SAP Configuration
Environments
2 Which SAP components are used with either the
ABAP or JAVA configuration environments. For
example, ABAP Central Instance, JAVA Central
Instance, and so on.
About SAP Components
3 Depending on which SAP configuration environment
and components, which file systems are impacted,
for example for ABAP Dialog Instance, the following
file system is impacted - /usr/sap/...
About Impacted File
systems
4 Depending on which SAP configuration environment
and components, in an SGeSAP/LX cluster
environment, which file systems can be separated
into LOCAL, SHARED NFS or SHARED
EXCLUSIVE storage.
Configurations Scenarios
5 Understanding how can the results of the analysis of
step 1-4 be implemented in a Serviceguard package.
Putting it all Together