Smart Assist for SAP MaxDB planning

Before you can install Smart Assist for SAP MaxDB you must have your environment setup correctly.

To correctly configure a SAP MaxDB/LiveCache database instance for high availability using Smart Assist for SAP MaxDB, review the following information:

• SAP MaxDB must be installed with its own logical hostname. If you install the SAP MaxDB as part of any SAP Software, for example SAP SCM, you must use SAP_USE_HOSTNAME environment variable when running the sapinst installation executable. If SAP MaxDB is going to be used outside of SAP applications, see the SAP MaxDB Libary for instructions.
• The SAP MaxDB software can be installed on any node in the cluster, however, the installation path and related files must reside on a file system that is setup as a shared disk.
• The administrator User ID for the SAP MaxDB database instance must be setup on all failover nodes with the same user ID and group ID.
• Verify that all SAP MaxDB database instances can run successfully on all the failover nodes by completing the following tasks:
  • Run the SAP MaxDB instance, by manually varying on all the shared disks used for storing SAP MaxDB program files and database instance files, and set up the logical IP addresses.
  • Resolve any possible licensing issues by running the SAP MaxDB software.

The following figure displays the setup for a typical two node cluster running a SAP MaxDB database instance for High Availability.