Upgrading from the SAP HANA Gen/App to the SAP HANA Recovery Kit

*Beginning in v9.5.0 SIOS has released the new SAP HANA Application Recovery Kit. SIOS will continue to support the SAP HANA gen/app based Recovery Kit with the 9.4.x releases until March 31, 2022. If you are using SIOS Protection Suite for Linux v9.5 or later you must use the new (built-in) SAP HANA Application Recovery Kit.

!The existing SAP HANA gen/app based Recovery Kit is not supported with v9.5.0. Users who wish to upgrade to the SIOS Protection Suite for Linux v9.5.0 must convert their existing SAP HANA gen/app based Recovery Kit to the new SAP HANA Recovery Kit. Please follow the upgrade steps below.

*Please refer to the Support Matrix before upgrading.

Upgrade SIOS Protection Suite/LifeKeeper

1. Upgrade SIOS Protection Suite to the latest version on all nodes in the cluster (refer to Upgrading SPS).

2. Install the SAP HANA ARK and the required corresponding license on all nodes in the cluster.

Remove SAP HANA Gen/App Resources

1. LifeKeeper should be running on all nodes and the gen/app resource hierarchy should be in service.

2. Backup the LifeKeeper configuration in case the resource hierarchies need to be restored to the previous settings. To perform the backup execute the following command:

/opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lkbackup -c --cluster

By default the backup file is located at /opt/LifeKeeper/config/archive.<date – yyyymmddhhmm>.tar.gz.

3. Right click the SAP HANA gen/app resource hierarchy in the left panel.

4. Choose Delete Dependency… if there are any dependencies attached to the gen/app resource (e.g., Virtual IP or AWS EC2 EIP).

5. After the dependencies are removed, right click the SAP HANA gen/app resource.

6. Choose Delete Resource Hierarchy… to remove the old SAP HANA gen/app resource.

*Please note that after the SAP HANA genapp resource is removed, there will be no SIOS Protection Suite Failover or Monitoring of the SAP HANA instance until a new SAP HANA resource is created. HANA System Replication will remain active unless changes outside of SPS cause it to terminate.

Create and Extend SAP HANA Resource

Create/Extend a SAP HANA resource using the newly installed SAP HANA ARK.

1. To create and extend a SAP HANA resource, follow the steps in Creating an SAP HANA Resource Hierarchy and Extending an SAP HANA Resource Hierarchy.

2. Once an SAP HANA resource hierarchy is created and extended, if you want to create or re-create any dependencies that were removed in Step 4 above, perform the following steps:

a. Right click the SAP HANA resource hierarchy in the left panel.

b. Choose Create Dependency… to create dependencies in the new SAP HANA resource (e.g., Virtual IP or AWS EC2 EIP) that were attached to the SAP HANA gen/app resource.

3. Verify/test the new SAP HANA resource hierarchy by performing the tests found here.

Remove HANA Gen/App Files

To remove the gen/app package from each system, execute the following command:

rpm -e steeleye-lkHOTFIX-HANA-SP1-9.1.0-6538.noarch