SAP HANA Recovery Kit

The same SAP HANA Recovery Kit now handles both SAP HANA Platform Edition 1 or 2.

SAP HANA provides three different mechanisms to increase the availability.

• Host Auto-Failover – At least one standby node added to a SAP HANA system. These nodes are configured to work in standby mode.

• Storage Replication – The storage used on the SAP HANA node replicates all data to another SAP HANA node. This replication works without a control process from the SAP HANA system. The Storage Replication is provided by hardware partners.

• System Replication – SAP HANA replicates all data by using their own feature to a secondary SAP HANA node. Data is constantly pre-loaded on the secondary SAP HANA node.

With the SAP HANA Recovery kit SAP HANA systems can be controlled through an activated system replication in SIOS LifeKeeper.

The Recovery Kit is able to start the SAP HANA system on all nodes and perform the Takeover process of system replication. To ensure the functionality of the SAP HANA system, the following processes and states are continuously tested:

• SAP Host Agent on all nodes

• SAP Start Service of instance (sapstartsrv) on all nodes

• State of SAP HANA database on all nodes

• State of system Replication mode (primary on active node, sync|syncmem|async on secondary nodes)

If the required processes or the databases are not active, it will try to start them again. In case of an unsuccessful restart of the processes, the status of the SAP HANA resource is marked as faulty (OSF) for the corresponding server. Manual intervention is necessary to correct this condition and to set the state of the SAP HANA resource to “in Service” and monitored (ISP).
In case of an invalid state of the System Replication, the SAP HANA resource is also placed in the state faulty (OSF). It has to be decided with the help of a database administrator if a takeover is to be performed or how the System Replication mode should be corrected.

When carrying out the “Out of Service” action only the database on the primary node is stopped. The database on the secondary node remains active and also the System Replication mode still remains.

In order for the entire SAP HANA system to be shut down, the control flag “!volatile!noHANAremove<Tag Name>” must be deleted by using /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/flg_remove –f “!volatile!noHANAremove<Tag Name>” before carrying out the “Out of Service” action. The <Tag Name> refers to the tag name assigned when creating the HANA resource in LifeKeeper.