openSAP Suse3-Pc Week 5 All Slides

Week 5: Tune and Test the Cluster
Unit 1: Designing the Cluster Tests

Designing the cluster tests
Overview of planning the cluster tests
• Designing test cases involves:

o Gathering the requirements
o Assessing the possible failure scenarios
o Walking through the possible outcomes
• In a complex, high availability environment, several types of
failures may occur
o The types of failures range from software crashes up to a loss of
the whole network or SAN infrastructure
• The cluster must be able to safely handle all possible failure
scenarios
• Testing each scenario, comparing it with the requirements,
and documenting the recovery procedure will enable
efficient handling of failures when they occur
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Planning the tests to perform
• There will be several test to be performed

• You must plan tests for every conceivable scenario
• Below are some example tests to be performed on the SAP
HANA SR primary:
o Stop Primary Database on node01
o Stop Primary Database on node02
o Crash Primary Database on node01
o Crash Primary Database on node02
o Crash node01
o Crash node02
• Below are some example tests to be performed on the SAP
HANA SR secondary:
o Stop the Secondary Database on node02
o Crash the Secondary Database on node02
o Crash node02
Example test procedure document
• A test procedure document should

contain all the information required to
perform the test and assess the
outcome
• This includes:
o Stating which component is being tested
o Description of the test
o The procedure for performing the test
o The recovery procedure
o The expected results
Walk through an example test – establish the initial cluster state
• The following test is based on the settings:

o PREFER_SITE_TAKEOVER=“true”
o AUTOMATED_REGISTER=“false”
o SBD_STARTMODE=clean
• This test will walk through the primary SAP
HANA database suffering a complete failure
• Check the current cluster status
o The cluster is healthy
o All resources are running
o The primary SAP HANA database is active on
node01
• You have now established the initial state
of the cluster and the configuration options
• Have the documentation for this test
available
Walk through an example test – execute the test procedure
• Create the failure by killing the primary

database
o In a terminal session on the node running the
SAP HANA primary, switch to the <SID>adm
user
o Run: HDB kill-9
o Monitor the progress
Walk through an example test – monitor the failover process
• The primary SAP HANA database running

on node01 has just been killed
o The multi-state resource
msl_SAPHana_HA1_HDB00 is in an unknown
state
o There is no master (primary) for this resource
o The IP address resource rsc_ip_HA1_HDB00
has moved to node02
• The cluster is in the process of re-

configuring and the SAP HANA primary
database is not located on either node01 or
node02
Walk through an example test – monitor the failover process
• The resource msl_SAPHana_HA1_HDB00 is

starting the master (SAP HANA primary) on
node02
o The IP address resource
rsc_ip_HA1_HDB00 previously moved to
node02 is active
• The resource msl_SAPHana_HA1_HDB00 is

running on node02
o The SAP HANA primary database is now active
on node02
What next? Review the test
• The failover of the SAP HANA primary database to node02 is

complete
o From a client, test the connection to the SAP HANA database is
working
• Check the documented expected outcome of the test
• Compare the documented outcome with the actual outcome
• Make any required updates:
o Documentation
o Cluster configuration
o Operations Manual
Thank You!
Contact Information:
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Unit 2: Activating SAP HANA SR on the Cluster
Activating SAP HANA SR on the cluster
Demonstration – activate SAP HANA SR on the cluster
• The cluster configuration is complete

o The cluster has been in maintenance mode during the
configuration process
• The SAP HANA status will be checked on both nodes to
ensure it is stopped
• The cluster status will be checked
• The cluster will be taken out of maintenance mode
• Hawk will be used to monitor the cluster loading the
resources
• The cluster status will be checked to ensure everything is
running as expected
Demonstration summary – activate SAP HANA SR on the cluster
• The cluster configuration is complete, and the cluster has

been in maintenance mode during the configuration process
• SAP HANA was stopped on both nodes
• The cluster status was checked
• The cluster was taken out of maintenance mode
• Hawk was used to watch the resources load
• The resources have started but there is a monitor error on the SAP HANA resource on
node02
• The monitoring error on the SAP HANA resource on node02 was

cleared
o This is a temporary warning which occurred as the cluster came out of
maintenance mode
• All the resources have started and there are no warnings or errors
• SAP HANA with system replication is now active on the

cluster
• The next stage is to perform tests on the cluster
hosting SAP HANA to make sure it performs as the
design specification states
Thank You!
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Unit 3: Testing the Completed Cluster Configuration
Testing the completed cluster configuration
Demonstration – perform an example test on the SAP HANA SR primary
• In this demonstration we will performed a single test on the

cluster hosting SAP HANA SR
o To fully test the cluster other tests must be performed
• The cluster and configuration will be checked before
performing the test
• The SAP HANA primary instance running on node01 will be
stopped using SAP tools and the cluster’s reaction to the
SAP HANA failure will be monitored using Hawk
• The cluster will be monitored until the SAP HANA
primary has been recovered
• The cluster status will be checked using the command line
Demonstration – perform an example test on the SAP HANA SR primary
• Once the failover has completed, the SAP HANA system

replication configuration on node01 will be viewed
• The SAP HANA system replication status will be checked
• The SAP HANA SR deployment will be returned back to
full HA, the SAP HANA primary will be running on
node02 and the SR secondary on node01
Demonstration summary – perform an example test on the SAP HANA SR
primary
• In this demonstration we performed a single test on the

cluster hosting SAP HANA
o To fully test the cluster other tests must be performed
• The cluster status before performing the test was
established
• The SAP HANA primary instance running on node01 was

stopped and monitored using Hawk
primary
• After some time the IP address resource was running on

node02 and the multi-state clone master SAP
HANA resource was also running on node02
o At this point the cluster has recovered the SAP HANA primary and
it is active on node02
• The cluster status was then checked using the command

line
primary
• The SAP HANA system replication configuration on node01

was checked
• The system replication status was checked from node01
• The next step is to return the SAP HANA SR deployment

back to full HA
primary
• The SAP HANA SR instance on node01 was configured to be

an SR secondary with node02 as the primary
• To bring back full HA the SAP HANA cluster resource must

be refreshed
Thank You!
open@sap.com

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Week 5: Tune and Test the Cluster

Unit 1: Designing the Cluster Tests

• Designing test cases involves:

• There will be several test to be performed

• A test procedure document should

• The following test is based on the settings:

• Create the failure by killing the primary

• The primary SAP HANA database running

• The cluster is in the process of re-

• The resource msl_SAPHana_HA1_HDB00 is

• The resource msl_SAPHana_HA1_HDB00 is

• The failover of the SAP HANA primary database to node02 is

• The cluster configuration is complete

• The cluster configuration is complete, and the cluster has

• The cluster was taken out of maintenance mode

• Hawk was used to watch the resources load

• The monitoring error on the SAP HANA resource on node02 was

• SAP HANA with system replication is now active on the

• In this demonstration we will performed a single test on the

• Once the failover has completed, the SAP HANA system

• In this demonstration we performed a single test on the

• The SAP HANA primary instance running on node01 was

• After some time the IP address resource was running on

• The cluster status was then checked using the command

• The SAP HANA system replication configuration on node01

• The system replication status was checked from node01

• The next step is to return the SAP HANA SR deployment

• The SAP HANA SR instance on node01 was configured to be

• To bring back full HA the SAP HANA cluster resource must

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