CHAPTER 15High Availability Considerations and Solutions

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Introduction to Availability

• Single Points of Failure

• SAP Data Center Infrastructure SPOFs

• Server and Operating System SPOFs

• Database SPOFs

• SAP Application SPOFs

• Summary

• Case Study: Assessing SAP High Availability

Before you actually architect (much less technically implement!) an SAP solution, you need to understand the end users’ system availability requirements, or the amount of time that the system needs to be available to satisfy the needs of its business user community. In the world of SAP and other enterprise applications, this is referred to as availability, and the idea is to provide the appropriate level of high availability (HA). It’s not enough ...

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