Fabian Herschel, Author at SUSE Communities

March 24, 2020 10:50 am

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Good news! Updated Guide for SAP HANA Performance Optimized Scenario

Good news! Yesterday we published a major update of our setup guide for SAP HANA system replication on SLES for SAP 12 (SP4) for the performance optimized scenario. The updated guide describes planning, set up, and basic testing of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications based high availability solution scenario "SAP HANA […]

Categories: Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

December 6, 2019 4:28 pm

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Yes! SAP Web Dispatcher High Availability on Premise and Cloud!

More and more customers are asking SUSE how to integrate the SAP Web Dispatcher into the SUSE's cluster solution. This blog describes step-by-step how to integrate this important SAP software component into pacemaker. The base of the solution is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. You can use the solution for any currently supported […]

Categories: Interoperability, Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

October 23, 2019 3:28 pm

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A “Silly Season Blog” – Have Fun with Sapstartsrv and Pacemaker

This blog is about a funny integration of a plain Linux service into the SAP start framework sapstartsrv and SUSEs High Availability solution based on pacemaker. This solution is not intended to run in productive environments but should demonstrate how to integrate special services. At first we have decided which Linux server process could we […]

Tags: #TowardsZeroDowntime

Categories: Run SAP Solutions, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

October 2, 2019 11:23 am

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Hola Barcelona! – SUSE @ TechEd – All You Need to Know

20 Years of Partnership, Trust and Innovation Hola! SUSE will be exhibiting at TechEd Barcelona 2019. As it was always a great event in the past I am already looking forward to be in Barcelona again. This year we have a great set of video based demos about new features and capabilities available on our […]

Categories: Events, News, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

By: Fabian Herschel

March 19, 2019 8:49 am

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We did it again – Our HA solution is SAP Certified

End of January we have achieved a new mile stone for our SLES for SAP Applications cluster solutions. We passed the SAP certification named “SAP S/4-HA-CLU 1.0” as the first cluster vendor. We have selected SLES for SAP Applications 15 as platform for the certification. However you could also implement the cluster with […]

Categories: S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News

By: Fabian Herschel

December 13, 2018 11:10 am

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SAP HANA Cost-optimized – An alternative Route is available

Why should I change my route? Sometimes the direct way could end up in dead end. In such cases an alternative route is needed to come to the desired destination. What does that mean for my SAP HANA cost optimized scenario? Where is the possible dead end? In some installations we have seen that the […]

Categories: Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

November 27, 2018 5:29 pm

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Let’s flip the flags! Is my SAP HANA database in sync or not?

The problem You have setup your SAP HANA system replication cluster. The cluster is working. The tests are passed. Let's celebrate! But how can I see in the High Availability Web Konsole (HAWK), if the SAP HANA system replication pair is currently in sync? Is there an easy method to show the current replication status […]

Categories: S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

July 31, 2018 12:30 pm

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SUSE powers SAP HANA system replication in AWS cloud

We did it again! SAP's LinuxLab is an excellent place for collaboration projects. Architects from Amazon Web Services and SUSE developed a brand-new best practice available at https://www.suse.com/documentation. The new guide explains how to automate SAP HANA system replication (SR) in the AWS virtual private cloud with SUSE cluster technology. The solution is […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Digital Transformation, Run SAP Solutions, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

By: Fabian Herschel

July 16, 2018 5:34 pm

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SAP Enqueue-Replication High Availability on AWS Virtual Private Cloud powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Sever for SAP Applications 12

SUSE architects have improved the cluster architecture to be fully compatible with the updated SAP certification for SAP NetWeaver cluster integration. SAP released this updated SAP certification under the name NW-HA CLU 740. SUSE passed this certification on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 for both Intel X64 and IBM Power little endian […]

Categories: Alliance Partners, Cloud Computing, Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Fabian Herschel

February 14, 2018 8:11 am

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SAP NetWeaver SUSE Cluster Integration – the new sap_suse_cluster_connector version 3

For mission critical systems it is important to have the right direction towards zero downtime. To go towards zero downtime is not only to build just another high availability cluster running your critical resources. It is also important to align the maintenance processes. The SAP NetWeaver SUSE Cluster Integration using the sap_suse_cluster_connector exactly addresses the […]

Categories: Run SAP Solutions, S/4HANA, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News, Technical Solutions