Red Hat High Availability Clustering for SAP Solutions (RH445)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SAP system administrators who need to support mission-critical SAP deployments in a high availability environment.

After this course participants should be able to:

• Install SAP HANA and S/4HANA on RHEL for SAP Solutions
• Configure the high availability cluster by using RHEL HA solutions for SAP
• Use RHEL system roles and Red Hat Ansible collections for SAP HA cluster setup
• Describe SAP HA concepts and components to be managed
• Manage Day 2 operations, including an introduction to troubleshooting and OS upgrade considerations

Introduction

• Learn the basics of scaling SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Introducing SAP Architecture

• Learn about the products in the sap portfolio, and how to plan your deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Explaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions

• Learn about the RHEL for SAP solutions offering, and how it differs from a standard RHEL entitlement. Learn about the components of high availability on RHEL.

Explaining SAP HANA System Replication

• System replication in SAP HANA, learn about the scale up and scale out resource agents, multitarget replication, and failover in SAP HANA with RHEL High Availability.

Explaining SAP NetWeaver and S/4 High Availability

• System replication with SAP NetWeaver and S/4, learn about the concepts of S/4HANA and NetWeaver in a Highly Available environment. Install the S/4 and NetWeaver resource agent. Learn about failover in these environments.

Automating SAP deployments with Ansible

• Automate deployments of HANA, NetWeaver, and S/4 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles.

Operation, Update, and Monitoring

• During this chapter we’ll focus on the necessary Day 2 operations such as updates, pacemaker maintenance, and monitoring. Activities like manual failover, perform acceptance tests and check status on the HA cluster will be crucial to maintain integrity and high availability of your highly available SAP environment.

• Students must have an SAP S-User with download permission
• https://blogs.sap.com/2021/03/09/learn-all-about-s-user-ids/
• SAP customers can download the installers if they have the license for the software. SAP Partners get dev and test licenses. The install software is good for 90 days without license (time-bombed).
• Complete the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam (EX294) or demonstrate equivalent Linux and Ansible experience.
• Follow Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Clustering (RH436)
• Internet access is required to download and license the SAP HANA Express Edition.

Take Red Hat free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills Red Hat Skills Assessment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (RH342)
• Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Performance Tuning (RH442)

• RH342 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• RH358 - Red Hat Services Management and Automation
• RH442 - Red Hat Performance Tuning: Linux in Physical, Virtual, and Cloud

• Official course book provided to participants