Proactive Monitoring of Resources

LifeKeeper actively monitors and protects all resources required SAP, including volumes or file systems, file shares or NFS, IP, the database (Oracle, DB2, MaxDB, or MS SQL Server) and SAP itself.

LifeKeeper's active monitoring helps to ensure the highest level of availability; going beyond just checking whether the server is alive, as seen in many other products. LifeKeeper also verifies that SAP is running, file shares or NFS exports are available, and databases are mounted and available and that clients are able to connect.

Protection of additional SAP Components

The SteelEye Protection Suite for SAP provides the user the ability to not only protect SAP, but also any other SAP or third-party applications that may be dependent upon the SAP system. Using the LifeKeeper Generic Application recovery kit and the sample recovery scripts, LifeKeeper provides complete protection for your entire SAP infrastructure.

Flexible Configurations

LifeKeeper for SAP server can be configured in any one of the following configurations:

• Replicated or shared storage clustering
• 2-node active/passive cluster
• N+1 cluster (multiple active with single backup)
• Cascading failover (up to 32 nodes)
• Cross subnet clustering supported (failover across data centers)