Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version A.06.00 Release Notes for Linux HP Part Number: T2392-90018 Published: May 2013 Edition: 1.
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Contents Overview................................................................................................................................4 Announcements...................................................................................................................4 New features ..........................................................................................................................5 Modular-style SAP application cluster packages....................................................
Overview This document provides version-specific information about HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP A.06.00 on Linux. Announcements HP SGeSAP/LX (Serviceguard Extension for SAP on Linux ) extends HP Serviceguard's failover cluster capabilities to SAP application environments. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the HP Serviceguard Linux product and the HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux.
BB077ACE HP SGLX SAP x86 4-8P 1y 24x7 & PCL E-LTU BB076AA HP SGLX SAP x86 Media Hewlett-Packard high-availability consulting services are available to ensure a smooth installation and rollout. Contact your HP representative to inquire about high-availability consulting, for the latest firmware revisions for disk drives, disk controllers, LAN controllers, and other hardware. These release notes are subject to change without further notice.
Diagnostic Agents with their instances. An issue during relocation of the Diagnostic Agents would not prevent proper relocation of the mission-critical instances. The livecache module provides instance failover capabilities to SAP livecache instances. The sapinfra module complements the SAP instance clustering with capabilities to cluster SAP infrastructure software that does not become installed as part of a formal instance, including saprouter, sapccmsr, and webdispatcher.
HP SGeSAP/LX software monitors provide local software restart capabilities in accordance to the SAP HA certification requirements. The enqueue replication monitor is enabled to perform up to three local restart attempts for the failing replication software before switching the package. The message server monitor cooperates with the SAP startup framework to implement similar behavior.
Changed features Modular-style HP SGeSAP/LX provides a superset of the functionality of legacy-style HP SGeSAP/LX and is recommended to be used as its substitute. The modular-style HP SGeSAP/LX package logic is a new implementation. It varies from the legacy-style package in the logging behavior and functionality. Modular-style package has extended functionality compared to its legacy-style equivalent. The changes maintain compliance with SAP’s Netweaver 7.30 recommendations.
Patches, Fixes, Known Problems, and Workarounds There are no known patches or fixes at the time of this publication. However, this is subject to change without notice. For a current list of patches, known problems, and workaround, contact your HP support representative or go to the appropriate Hewlett-Packard Support Center website http:// www.hp.com/go/hpsc. NOTE: Patches can be superseded or withdrawn at any time. Ensure to check the status of any patch before downloading it.
SAP and database software version compatibility The following table lists which SAP kernel releases are supported with the modular-based packages provided by this version of HP SGeSAP/LX. New SGeSAP/LX 6 legacy packages must not be created, but existing legacy packages of a previously installed HP SGeSAP/LX A.03.00 continue to work for the SAP releases specified in the HP SGeSAP/LX A.03.00 release notes documentation. Table 1 HP SGeSAP/LX 6 support matrix—SAP components Part 1 EP BW XI PI 7.31 7.31 7.
Table 3 HP SGeSAP/LX 6 support matrix—SAP components Part 3 (continued) CRM SRM 2007 2007 6.0 6.0 2006s/2 5.5 5.2 2005SR3 2006s 2005SR2 5.1 2005SR1 2005 2005 CE SAP Kernel 7.0 5.0 3.0SR1 2004SR1 6.40_EX2 2004 6.40 4.0 Single-instance database clustering support is included for: • ORACLE RDBMS 10gR2 and 11gR2 • IBM DB/2 9.5, 9.7, and 10.1 • SAP Sybase ASE 15.7 • SAP MAXDB 7.5 - 7.9 • SAP Livecache 7.5 - 7.
• HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS version A.03.03.10 for Linux User Guide • Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware virtual machines Software availability in native languages Serviceguard Manager GUI with HP SGeSAP/LX Version A.06.00.10 is available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese versions.
