Planning for using IBM HACMP for AIX

Information is provided about Data Protection for SAP that is useful when you plan for HACMP™ failover configurations.

The following example uses the mutual takeover configuration (each node can take over the other node). If the application server and database server are installed on different hosts, the described actions must be taken on the database servers only.

This figure illustrates the takeover environment:
Figure 1. Sample environment for HACMP takeover

This graphic shows an example setup with two hosts, each with two network adapters that are connected to a network and configured for mutual takeover.