RH445: Red Hat High Availability Clustering for SAP Solutions

Course Information

Course Name

RH445: Red Hat High Availability Clustering for SAP Solutions

Duration

5 Days

Certification

Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Overview

Learn how to deploy, protect, and scale SAP infrastructure with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions. This course teaches best practices for deploying SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA in a high availability configuration. In addition, you will discover how to efficiently automate deployments with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat supported Ansible roles specific to SAP.

Audience Profile

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

Prerequisites

• 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.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability Clustering (RH436)

At Course Completion

Installing SAP HANA and S/4HANA on RHEL for SAP Solutions

Configuring the high availability cluster by using RHEL HA solutions for SAP

Using RHEL system roles and Red Hat Ansible collections for SAP HA cluster setup

Describing SAP HA concepts and components to be managed

Day 2 operations, including an introduction to troubleshooting and OS upgrade considerations

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Learn the basics of scaling SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Module 2: Introducing SAP Architecture

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

Module 3: 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.

Module 4: 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.

Module 5: 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.

Module 6: Automating SAP deployments with Ansible

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

Module 7: 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.

All Red Hat certification courses are conducted by certified trainers from Iverson.

Digital Methods acts as the official training partner and assists with program consultation, registration, coordination, scheduling, and administrative arrangements to ensure a seamless and professionally managed training experience.