This IBM® Redbooks® publication updates Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions with SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems, REDP-5443 with the latest technical content that describes how to implement an SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems™ high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution by using theoretical knowledge and sample scenarios.

This book describes how all the pieces of the reference architecture work together (IBM Power Systems servers, IBM Storage servers, IBM Spectrum™ Scale, IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for Linux, IBM VM Recovery Manager DR for Power Systems, and Linux distributions) and demonstrates the resilience of SAP HANA with IBM Power Systems servers.

This publication is for architects, brand specialists, distributors, resellers, and anyone developing and implementing SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems integration, automation, HA, and DR solutions. This publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to the technical teams, and documentation to the sales team.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Planning your installation

Chapter 3. IBM PowerVM and SAP HANA

Chapter 4. Operating system installation and customization

Chapter 5. Storage and file systems setup and configuration

Chapter 6. SAP HANA software stack installation for a scale-up scenario

Chapter 7. SAP HANA System Replication for high availability and disaster recovery scenarios

Chapter 8. SAP HANA and IBM PowerHA SystemMirror

Chapter 9. SAP HANA and IBM VM Recovery Manager high availability and disaster recovery

Appendix A. HANA OS Healthchecker

Appendix B. Example of a multipath.conf file for SAP HANA systems

Appendix C. SAP HANA software stack installation for a scale-out scenario