SAP HANA SPS 12 What’s New: High Availability and Disaster Recovery – by the SAP HANA Academy
Introduction
In the upcoming weeks we will be posting new videos to the SAP HANA Academy to show new features and functionality introduced with SAP HANA Support Package Stack (SPS) 12.
The topic of this blog is high availability and disaster recovery.
For the complete list of blogs see: What’s New with SAP HANA SPS 12 – by the SAP HANA Academy
For the SPS 11 version, see SAP HANA SPS 11 What’s New: HA/DR – by the SAP HANA Academy
Tutorial Video
SAP HANA Academy – SAP HANA SPS 12: What’s New? – High Availability and Disaster Recovery – YouTube
What’s New?
Monitoring System Replication with the SAP HANA cockpit
The System Replication tile in the SAP HANA cockpit now displays the operation mode, together with replication mode, tiers and status.
The overview page of the System Replication app displays (configurable) information for both primary and secondary sites, a performance graph with network statistics and a tile for Alerts, that links back to the Alerts app in the SAP HANA cockpit. From the status bar, the Log File Viewer can be opened.
The System Replication Details view displays information on the operation mode, the replayed log position, as well as the replayed log position time.
In a system replication scenario, the SAP HANA Cockpit for Offline Administration can be used to perform a takeover from the primary side by the secondary site.
System Replication Alerts
A new alert (#94 – Log replay backlog for system replication secondary) is raised when the system replication log replay backlog is increased. Thresholds and schedule are configurable.
Monitoring System Parameter Changes
The configuration parameter checker reports on any differences between primary, secondary, and – new for SPS 12 – tier-3 secondary systems. Also new with SPS 12 is that you can now replicate the system (or .ini file) parameters based on alerts. The parameter replication can be enabled to all sites.
[inifile_checker]
enable = true
replicate = true
Initializing the Secondary
Apart from using a full data backup, it is now possible to initialize the secondary system using a binary storage copy, that is, either a snapshot or a full offline database copy.
Alerting of Secondary Systems
The Alerts app of the SAP HANA cockpit now also displays alerts issued by secondary system hosts.
Supported Replication Modes Between Sites
In a multitier system replication scenario, support for ASYNC replication has been extended with both SYNCMEM and SYNC. In other words, all replication modes are supported for all sites.
Documentation
For more information see:
SAP Help Portal
- SAP HANA High Availability and Disaster Recovery (New and Changed) – What’s New in the SAP HANA Platform (Release Notes)…
- Monitoring INI File Parameter Changes – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Initializing the Secondary – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Monitoring Secondary Sites – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Supported Replication Modes between Sites – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Tile Catalog: SAP HANA System Replication – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- System Replication Details – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Tiles for Offline Administration – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- Perform a Takeover – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
- System Replication Alerts – SAP HANA Administration Guide – SAP Library
SAP Notes
- 2063657 – HANA System Replication takeover decision guideline
- 1999880 – FAQ: SAP HANA System Replication
SCN Blogs
- How to Perform System Replication for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA System Replication videos now available on the SAP HANA Academy
- Introduction: High Availability for SAP HANA | SCN
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Hi Denys
Thank you for sharing the information about what's new in HA&DR for SAP Hana SPS12.
It would be very Helpfull/interesting to have a more information "Video, Tutorial...etc" on how to initialize the secondary site using the a snapshot "the new feature of system replication in SPS12"
Best Regards.
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will put it on the list.
Hi Denys,
Good Day!
Is this possible to replicate the HANA DB from SPS 12 to SPS10 vice-versa SPS 10 to SPS 12?
Thanks,
Mohamed
Hi Khadar,
Replication between different patch (or SPS) level is supported as this is used for near-zero downtime (NZDT) upgrades. See, note 1999880 - FAQ: SAP HANA System Replication:
It is allowed to use different SAP HANA patch levels in a replication scenario as long as the patch level of the replicated system is not lower than the patch level of the primary system. It is also allowed that the replicated system is on a higher SPS level than the primary system. This possibility can be used for near zero downtime (NZDT) upgrades in replicated environments.
So this would concern SPS 10 (primary) -> SPS 12 (secondary) and address a particular business need (NZDT).
Vice-versa would not work.
To replicate data between two systems of different releases both ways, you could consider the regular replication technologies (SLT, Data Services, etc.).
Regards,
Denys / SAP HANA Academy
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Hi denys van kempen,
Is it advisable to have HOST AUTOMATIC FAILOVER BETWEEN THE TWO DATA CENTERS FOR WHICH SYSTEM REPLICATION IS ENABLED.
REGARDS
MUKUNTHAN
Hi Mukunthan,
Having troubles with Caps Lock? ?
Host automatic-failover enables you, on a distributed system, to automatically startup the standby instance when one of the active instances fails.
Using system replication, you can automate automatic takeover on the secondary site in case the primary site fails.
These are two different concepts. If you are new to the topic of system replication, you might find the overview video of interest:
It was recorded for SPS 09 but the concepts have not changed.