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Is a highly available SAP environment crucial to your continued success?

Expand HP Serviceguard's powerful failover capabilities to your SAP environments with HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP). Built on more than 13 years of collaboration and world-class support from both HP and SAP, Serviceguard Extension for SAP is fully tested, approved and endorsed by SAP. You can integrate SAP with Serviceguard, Serviceguard disaster recovery solutions, HP-UX virtualisation capabilities, and various storage solutions to optimise your operations with the highest reliability.

What's New

Ensure your SAP environment stays available with the latest certification from SAP, SAP Application Server HA Interface Certification via SAP integration scenario NW-HA-CLU 730.

Features

Experience the high availability of Serviceguard for your SAP environment

Provides automatic failover to another system and immediately restarts the application so you can continue working— without compromising data
Reduce the setup time of your Serviceguard cluster as SGeSAP automatically discovers the SAP components of your system and per populates them into the Serviceguard Manager
Split up your SAP components to prioritise the failover order and facilitate daily monitoring
Allows you to upgrade your operating system or middleware and install patches during routine maintenance without interrupting business, you can failover to another system in the cluster and return to full functionality when maintenance is completed
Purchasing SGeSAP gives you a single point of contact for support even though the solution comes from two vendors, and when you purchase with technical support from HP you receive automatic upgrades

Smooth your operations with full integration of major HP-UX components

Ease the deployment and configuration of high-end complex SAP environments through integration with SGeRAC
Optimise your SAP application utilisation through the SGeSAP integration with HP-UX virtualisation, Virtual Machines and Virtual Partitions
Protect your SAP environment across distances as your SGeSAP protection is integrated and extended to the Serviceguard Disaster Recovery solutions
Protects the SAP central instance, SAP system central services, SAP dialog instances, SAP replication instances, SAP liveCache, SAP MDM, and underlying Oracle, IBM DB2, or SAP MaxDB databases

Application Toolkits	HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Database Replication Solutions and HP Serviceguard Developers Toolbox allow you to extend HP Serviceguard protection to other mission-critical applications and service with easy-to-use templates and step-by-step directions for creating high-availability protection.
Disaster Recovery Solutions	HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster, complementary with HP Serviceguard, allows you to cluster two to three data centers up to 100 km apart to failover in the case of a local disaster. HP Serviceguard Metrocluster spans up to 300 km to recover, transfer and continue your mission-critical workload in the case of a site outage. HP Serviceguard Continentalclusters recovers your workload at unlimited distances so you stay worry free. You can combine up to four data centers into four clusters to make sure your business stays available.
Extensions	HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP (SGeSAP) maximises utilisation of SAP environments with easier deployment and faster failover. HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC (SGeRAC) boosts availability and simplifies management of your Oracle Real Application Cluster, with benefits of a richer integration with the Serviceguard Disaster Recovery Solutions. HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle E-Business Suite (SGeEBS) saves up to 93% of cost and time to cluster Oracle EBS and protects databases and applications. It can be integrated into a solution with Insight Dynamics to optimise resource utilisation.
HP Serviceguard	HP Serviceguard provides the best availability for your HP-UX environment. Minimising planned and unplanned downtime to save you money on IT while also keeping your business running to grow and profit. HP Serviceguard Manager helps you configure and manage your server environment with a simple graphical interface. You will need less people spending less time to keep your operations running smoothly.
HP Serviceguard Solutions for HP-UX	Experience #1 availability for UNIX using HP Serviceguard Solutions for HP-UX, a comprehensive suite of high-availability applications, disaster recovery solutions, storage management options, toolkits and extensions. Serviceguard reduces both planned and unplanned downtime by monitoring and restoring any system failures from hardware faults to application errors. Each Serviceguard component helps build you a solution that fits perfectly into your data center to save time on IT operations and money on lost business.
Storage Management	HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite provides speedy data recovery, down from hours to minutes, improved manageability, and reduced storage costs.
Toolkits	HP Serviceguard Network File Server (NFS) Toolkit allows you to customise your environment to increase the availability of your Network File Servers and also gives you the ability to continually watch over your servers with special health monitors. HP Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master (ECMT) Toolkit delivers easy deployment, failure detection and restoration for your Apache Tomcat and HP Common Internet File System (CIFS), as well as databases such as Oracle, IBM DB2, EnterpriseDB PPAS, MySQL Server, and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE).