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No VIP? No Problem: Pacemaker-Based SAP HANA High Availability Using a Load Balancer Health Check

calendar_today June 25, 2026 person Vidyasagar (Sarath Chandra) Machupalli FBCS domain dzone

High availability is a non-negotiable requirement for mission-critical SAP HANA deployments. When a primary database node goes down without an automated failover in place, the business impact is immediate. RHEL Pacemaker has long been the standard cluster manager for SAP HANA High Availability(HA) on Linux; it detects failures, fences misbehaving nodes, promotes secondaries, and orchestrates the full recovery sequence without manual intervention.

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