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HP has partnered with SAP since the earliest days of SAP R/3®. Together, we’ve created a remarkable legacy providing world-class business solutions to worldwide customers.

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Serviceguard extension for SAP

How it works

HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) expands HP Serviceguard's powerful failover capabilities to SAP environments. Backed by world-class support from both HP and SAP, Serviceguard Extension for SAP is fully tested, approved and endorsed by SAP to minimize implementation risks. Customers can also integrate SAP with HP Serviceguard Solutions for disaster tolerance.

HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP extends the powerful failover capabilities of Serviceguard to SAP environments. It continuously monitors the health of each SAP node and automatically responds to failures or threshold violations. SGeSAP protects the SAP central instance and database—business-critical pieces in an SAP environment—within a Serviceguard cluster. As an added bonus, it can decrease planned downtime when performing SAP upgrades.

Building on the capabilities of HP Serviceguard, HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP allows a group of HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers to be configured as a highly available cluster that supports SAP environments on both HP-UX PA-RISC and Intel® Itanium® Processor Family platforms. These two products are tightly integrated to exploit the best features of HP enterprise clusters and SAP applications: high availability, data integrity, flexibility, scalability, and reduced database administration costs.

Business outcomes

  • Builds on top of Serviceguard clusters to simplify deployment
  • Failure detection and restoration of any SAP application maximizes application uptime
  • Faster upgrade of SAP, OS, or middleware to reduce planned downtime
  • Compatibility with disaster-tolerant solutions offers disaster protection for SAP environments
  • Fully tested and backed by SAP to ensure compatibility with new releases
  • Mission-critical support for SAP offers coordination with SAP for problem prevention and faster resolution

What's new

HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP now includes HP Hot Standby for liveCache, the first and only high availability solution for SAP liveCache that is proven in production and co-developed with and recognized by SAP. An off-the-shelf solution means you have no nasty surprises when you see the bill. You are completely covered with a solution that evolves as you do and is fully supported by HP. Using HP Hot Standby for liveCache, Serviceguard Extension for SAP slashes SAP liveCache recovery time from days or hours to as little as two minutes and is recognized by SAP as the first solution of its kind on the market.

How to get it

Serviceguard Extension for SAP can be purchased online from HP.
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