Chapter 1. Introduction

For organisations running SAP production applications, it is essential to ensure the highest possible uptime for their mission critical applications by deploying them in a highly available configuration. With Red Hat HA Solutions for SAP HANA, S/4HANA and NetWeaver based SAP Applications, Red Hat provides such customers with a set of solutions to set up highly available SAP environments on top of the industry leading Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability cluster framework.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Add-On provides all the necessary packages for configuring a pacemaker-based cluster that provides reliability, scalability, and availability to critical production services. On top of this, the Red Hat HA Solutions for SAP HANA, S/4HANA and NetWeaver based SAP Applications also allow for setup and configuration of highly available SAP HANA, S/4HANA and NetWeaver based SAP Applications, providing a standard-based approach to reducing planned and unplanned downtime in the corresponding SAP environment.