Engineering Fail-Safe SAP Hana Operations in Enterprise Landscapes: How SUSE Extends Its Advanced High-Availability Framework to Deliver Seamless System Resilience, Automated Failover, and Continuous Business Continuity

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Published: 2022-06-09
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15662/IJRPETM.2022.0503004
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SAP HANA System Replication, SUSE High Availability Extension, Automated Failover, System Resilience, Business Continuity

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Sankar Thambireddy
Senior Technology Consultant, SAP America Inc., USA
Venkata Ramana Reddy Bussu
Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer, CodeTech Inc (DTE Energy), USA
Arunkumar Pasumarthi
Technical Specialist, HCL America, USA

Abstract

This paper offers a detailed analysis of how SAP becomes strong in ensuring the reliability of the operations of SAP HANA in enterprise systems with the support of SUSE advanced high-availability (HA) framework. Since SAP HANA remains a mission-critical in-memory database solution, business continuity, speedy recovery, and database consistency have become crucial to organizations that operate within highly competitive digital ecosystems. SUSE responds to these needs and adds value to the features of the native SAP HANA with robust clustering, automated failover, and management of resources, fully minimizing downtime and protecting business continuity. The paper explores the HA architecture at SUSE, the agents of the resources, and fencing mechanisms and how they are combined with SAP HANA system replication in both scale-up and scale-out deployments. Through a comparative assessment paradigm by assessing recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), failover time, and system availability, the study compares native SAP HANA resilience tools with the enhanced structure of SUSE. The results of the 2022 SUSE documentation and cloud-based implementation on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure show that with SUSE, failover speeds are much lower and operations more resilient but come with additional configuration complexity and overhead. The results show practical trade-offs, performance, and enterprise-wide advantages to implementing SUSE HA and provide practical advice to IT managers and system architects who need to make sure they maintain ongoing operations. In addition, the paper presents the existing limitations in containerized and cloud-native HANA systems and gives guidelines and further research directions on the development of high-availability strategies in present-day enterprise environments.

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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2022): The International Journal of Research Publications in Engineering, Technology and Management

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Engineering Fail-Safe SAP Hana Operations in Enterprise Landscapes: How SUSE Extends Its Advanced High-Availability Framework to Deliver Seamless System Resilience, Automated Failover, and Continuous Business Continuity. (2022). International Journal of Research Publications in Engineering, Technology and Management (IJRPETM), 5(3), 6808-6816. https://doi.org/10.15662/IJRPETM.2022.0503004

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