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A clustered SAP solution helps protect critical workloads and keep all the solution components up and running if a local hardware component or a whole data center fails. In these scenarios, the clustered solution enables the business to apply critical security updates and other planned maintenance while the system remains available. Users can continue to access their workloads and keep the business going. SAP HANA uses a Pacemaker cluster to protect against a single host failure. The ASCS instance of the SAP application layer is protected by VMware fault tolerance instead of through an ASCS-ERS HA cluster, simplifying the installation and reducing the overall complexity of the solution.
Other benefits that this solution offers include:
Note: A focus on SAP HANA is critical because all SAP customers are required to have SAP HANA as their only database to run SAP systems by 2027.