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<strong>SteelEye</strong> ® <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> on Linux Including<strong>SAP</strong> Application Recovery KitOne Simple, Flexible, Cost-Effective Solution <strong>for</strong> High Availability Clustering,Data Replication and Disaster RecoveryWhat happens to your business when your <strong>SAP</strong> system goesdown, <strong>for</strong> any reason – hardware failure, administrator error,routine maintenance or local disaster? The impacts can easilyinclude production and supply chain interruption, delivery delays,lost sales, customer service degradation, contractual liabilitiesand regulatory issues; the aggregate costs can be catastrophic.That’s why many companies run their mission-critical <strong>SAP</strong>application server, web application server, and databaseenvironments on high-availability clusters configured <strong>for</strong>automatic switchover. Best practice implementations require atightly integrated combination of clustering, continuousmonitoring, data replication, and configurable recoverycapabilities. But native support <strong>for</strong> these functions is limited ornon-existent in <strong>SAP</strong> itself and do-it-yourself development <strong>for</strong>Linux-based environments can be complicated, time-consuming,error-prone, and expensive.Fortunately, SIOS has a reliable, flexible and cost-effectivesolution with nearly a decade of proven service <strong>for</strong> over fifty majorenterprise <strong>SAP</strong> deployments worldwide.Integrated Application and Data <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>for</strong><strong>SAP</strong> on Linux<strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> on Linux (SPS-<strong>SAP</strong>) bringsbest-practice business continuity to <strong>SAP</strong> users with real-worldresource constraints. It’s the industry’s most comprehensive andscalable solution <strong>for</strong> eliminating <strong>SAP</strong> server downtime fromplanned and unplanned outages. It addresses all levels of uptimerequirements from local replication and failover to completedisaster recovery at a remote site, and it does so simply, reliably,and af<strong>for</strong>dably, with solutions that deploy in half the time and athalf the cost of conventional point products.KEY FEATURES & BENEFITSAchieve Superior <strong>Protection</strong> Protect your <strong>SAP</strong> servers and data with high availabilityclustering, multi-site disaster recovery and continuous datareplication – all in a single solution Achieve your desired recovery point and recoverytime objectivesSimplify <strong>for</strong> Greater Flexibility Intuitive, wizard-driven GUI simplifies installation,configuration and management Supports physical, virtual or cloud environments Supports a wide range of storage architectures Synchronous or asynchronous replication Supports <strong>SAP</strong> on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE LinuxEnterprise ServerReduce Your Business Continuity TCO Allows the creation of single- and multi-site clusters usingexisting servers and storage Eliminates the need <strong>for</strong> high-cost shared storage devices

Protect the entire <strong>SAP</strong> Stack The <strong>SAP</strong> Recovery Kit provides monitoring and switchover <strong>for</strong>key <strong>SAP</strong> components:Primary Application Server (PAS) InstanceABAP <strong>SAP</strong> Central Service (ASCS) Instance<strong>SAP</strong> Central Services (SCS) InstanceEnqueue and message serversDatabaseNFS MountsVirtual IPsLogical Volumes (LVM)SPS-<strong>SAP</strong> features a simplified user interface with wizard-basedset-up that streamlines installation and lets you monitor andadminister all your clusters through a single intuitive GUI. Itsupports both JAVA and ABAP versions of <strong>SAP</strong> servers runningon either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer, and accommodates a wide range of storagearchitectures. It provides an innovative integration of continuousmonitoring, real-time data replication, and automated failover thatlets you meet any combination of recovery time and recoverypoint objectives.Continuous Monitoring with Automatic orManual FailoverSPS-<strong>SAP</strong> constantly monitors the health of the entire <strong>SAP</strong>environment, including servers, operating systems, backenddatabases (Oracle, DB2, MaxDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL),NFS mounts, and the <strong>SAP</strong> Central Instance services. Exclusive<strong>SteelEye</strong> Application Recovery Kits monitor the health of thecomponent under protection and is able to stop and restart theapplication both locally and on another cluster server at either thesame site or another geographic location.When a problem is detected, SPS-<strong>SAP</strong> automatically initiates aconfigurable recovery action that can include a restart attempt onthe same server, switchover to a standby server, or alerting asystem administrator. Incremental recovery or completeswitchover is accomplished quickly and easily, greatly reducingdowntime from system failures or even entire site outages. Inaddition to protecting against downtime, SPS-<strong>SAP</strong> can beused to manually migrate services and client connectionsbetween systems to eliminate downtime associated withplanned maintenance.Real-Time Data Replication<strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> Server on Linux offers twooptions <strong>for</strong> continuous data availability – integration to an existingSAN, or its own real-time data replication capabilities. <strong>SteelEye</strong><strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> on Linux provides built-in continuousreplication from a disk on the active <strong>SAP</strong> Server to another diskon a back-up server, in synchronous or asynchronous replicationmode. Backup servers can be either local or remote, accessedvia the LAN or WAN.With real-time replication, <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong>Server on Linux delivers virtually immediate recovery from alocal system failure, because an identical copy of the data ismaintained on the backup server. It also allows the creation ofmultiple real-time copies through one-to-many replication,ensuring the highest possible level of data protection. Thisunique combination of efficient disk-to-disk data protectionwith high availability clustering, monitoring and failover makesthis a powerful plat<strong>for</strong>m <strong>for</strong> comprehensive <strong>SAP</strong> serverprotection solutions.WAN Optimized Replication<strong>SteelEye</strong> DataKeeper is optimized <strong>for</strong> replication across WANlinks. Having nine levels of compression allows <strong>for</strong> thecustomization of the environment to get the best WAN efficiency,host workload and data throughput. In addition, <strong>SteelEye</strong> DataReplication is architected is such a way that it is alreadyoptimized <strong>for</strong> the WAN, there<strong>for</strong>e the use of hardware basedWAN accelerators is not necessary to achieve optimalthroughput, regardless of the speed or latency of the WAN link.<strong>SAP</strong> Application Recovery KitThe <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> provides a comprehensiveset of tools to address all areas of <strong>SAP</strong> business continuity,including <strong>SAP</strong> data protection, <strong>SAP</strong> high availability, and <strong>SAP</strong>disaster recovery. SPS <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> was the first commerciallyavailable clustering solution <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> on Linux and continues to bethe leader in both the breadth and depth of <strong>SAP</strong> protection.Proactive Monitoring of ResourcesSPS actively monitors and protects all resources required <strong>SAP</strong>,including volumes or file systems, file shares or NFS, IP, the

database (Oracle, DB2, or MaxDB/<strong>SAP</strong>DB) and <strong>SAP</strong> itself. Itsactive monitoring helps to ensure the highest level of availability;going beyond just checking whether the server is alive, as seen inmany other products. SPS also verifies that <strong>SAP</strong> is running, fileshares or NFS exports are available, and databases are mountedand available and that clients are able to connect.<strong>Protection</strong> of additional <strong>SAP</strong> ComponentsThe <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> provides the user theability to not only protect <strong>SAP</strong>, but also any other <strong>SAP</strong> or thirdpartyapplications that may be dependent upon the <strong>SAP</strong> system.Using the SPS Generic Application recovery kit and the samplerecovery scripts, SPS provides complete protection <strong>for</strong> your entire<strong>SAP</strong> infrastructure.<strong>SAP</strong> Disaster Recovery<strong>SAP</strong> recovery in the event of a complete site loss is often theworse nightmare of an <strong>SAP</strong> administrator. The <strong>SAP</strong> recoveryprocess takes significant time and planning and is generally veryhard to test. In addition to the downtime involved, the recoverycould involve substantial amounts of data loss due to the fact thatthe databases need to be restored from the latest availablebackup. Using The <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong>, you areable to quickly and easily resume operations in the event of adisaster with little to no data loss.Automated DR TestingHaving a disaster recovery plan in place to assure businesscontinuity is only half the solution. It is important that this plan betested on a regular basis. The <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong>allows administrators to easily switch <strong>SAP</strong> to the DR site <strong>for</strong>testing purposes and then easily switch <strong>SAP</strong> back to the primarysite when testing is done.Alternatively, you may wish to leave <strong>SAP</strong> in service in the primarysite while still completing DR testing. In this case, you can simplyunlock the target data, bring <strong>SAP</strong> into service on the backupsystem and using the tools provided by SPS, simply redirect asingle test user or subset of users to verify recovery. This methodallows you to confirm the recoverability of <strong>SAP</strong>, with minimalimpact to your production network.Infrastructure Flexibility Reduces ImplementationCosts<strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> on Linux gives you theflexibility to deploy the cluster and storage topologies that makethe most sense <strong>for</strong> your business. Build your choice of sharednothing(data replication) or shared-storage clusters using a widearray of storage devices, including direct attached SCSI, iSCSI,Fibre Channel and more.Whether you need real-time, continuous data protection, highavailability application protection within a LAN, ordisasterrecovery across a WAN, <strong>SteelEye</strong> <strong>Protection</strong> <strong>Suite</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> onLinux meets all your business continuity needs.Trust SIOS <strong>for</strong> Proven <strong>Protection</strong>SIOS delivers innovative software solutions that provide simpleand cost-effective application availability and data protection <strong>for</strong>Linux and Windows, including virtual and cloud environments.SIOS solutions are easy to implement, use and manage –eliminating the complexity and capital expenditures associatedwith traditional approaches while offering superior availabilityand protection.To learn more about SIOS and our <strong>SteelEye</strong> solutions, visitwww.us.sios.com.SIOS Technology Corp. • US/Canada 866.318.0108 • Europe + 44 (0) 1638 569 775 • Int’l +1 (650) 645-70002929 Campus Drive, <strong>Suite</strong> 250, San Mateo, CA 94403 • www.us.sios.com© 2012 SIOS Technology Corp. All rights reserved. SIOS, SIOS Technology, LifeKeeper and <strong>SteelEye</strong> DataKeeper and associatedlogos are registered trademarks or trademarks of SIOS Technology Corp. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or othercountries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.