HPE Serviceguard for Linux (SGLX) is a High Availability and Disaster Recovery clustering software designed to protect applications / workloads from planned and unplanned downtimes. It ensures 24x7 application / workload availability by continuously monitoring the health of the infrastructure and other resources impacting their availability . Any event or failure affecting the application / workload availability, SGLX automatically moves the application and its associated resources to other servers (nodes) in the cluster. SGLX inbuilt monitors quickly responds to failures affecting the server, storage, network, SAN & LAN connectivity, data replication, processes, memory, disk, operating system, and its framework allows monitoring and responding to any custom event e.g. security vulnerabilities. SGLX also allows moving the applications within or across on-prem and cloud environments to perform system maintenance or upgrades.

The offering is available via "BYOL" and you can get a quote for licenses from HPE SGLX product page.

Pre-requisite:

Ensure that the operating system image selected contains the Linux Operating System Repository (Yum/Zypper).
Ensure that the operating system image selected contains the default kernel provided by the Operating System Vendor.

Simple Four Step Procedure to standup a workload protected by HPE Serviceguard for Linux.

You need just one instance of SGMGR+ UI and Quorum Server across multiple clusters. If you do not have it already, select Centralized Serviceguard Management and Arbitration Instance from dropdown of SGLX Azure VM extension and create one. If you already have it then you can skip this step.
Provision Serviceguard Cluster Nodes for the workload of your choice by selecting the appropriate Serviceguard Add-on from dropdown of SGLX Azure VM Extension.
Install and configure the application on the systems provisioned in step 2. If desired application is already installed and configured on the selected nodes then you can skip this step.
From SGMGR+ Graphical User Interface (refer Step 1):
1. Navigate to HA-DR Platform under Infrastructure menu option, and follow the on-screen instructions to create a HA-DR Platform (cluster) of the nodes provisioned in Step 2
  OR
2. Navigate to Deploy under Workloads menu option, and follow the on-screen instructions to bring your workload in the purview of SGLX cluster on the nodes provisioned in Step 2

HPE SGLX latest version 15.30.00 is a simplified offering with two foundational editions:

HPE Serviceguard for Linux high availability (HA) E5 edition edition is the high availability offering to protect the applications using single target data replication, or having a shared storage. .

HPE Serviceguard for Linux high availability (HA) plus disaster recovery (DR) E7 edition brings in automated and push button disaster recovery capabilities in addition to E5 capabilities. For example, customers can configure an automated recovery on a near DR site and a push-button recovery on a far DR site. SGLX E7 edition is required for deployments using more than one target replication, as well as in the deployments needing DR capabilities across on-prem, cloud, or HPE GreenLake.

HPE SGLX offers several add-ons for popular enterprise applications and databases to enable seamless out-of-the-box integration into an HPE Serviceguard cluster. The portfolio includes add-on integration for

SAP (SAP HANA®, SAP S/4HANA®, SAP NetWeaver®, NFS),
Oracle®,
Microsoft SQL Server on Linux, and
NFS

HPE SGLX also has a generic toolbox that allows integrating any custom application with SGLX to enable HA / DR for the application.

HPE Serviceguard for Linux Centralized Management and Quorum Arbitration brings in a centralized Grapchical user Interface to Administer and Manage SGLX Clusters, Workloads and also provide Quorum for SGLX clusters. To Launch SGMGR+ https://hostname_of_sgmgr+:5511

Features

HPE Serviceguard for Linux provides fast fail-over in the event of a failure, in as little as four seconds without compromising on data integrity.
Provides Zero Recovery Point Objective (RTO) and enables near Zero RTOs using capabilities like Live Application Detach, Mobility, automated Data replication and DB role switchover etc.
High availability and disaster recovery for workloads within and across regions / availability zones in Microsoft Azure.
Workload-centric GUI providing a single pane view into the health of workloads, data replication, and health of nodes hosting the workloads.
SAP HANA Quarantine features to further improve application up time and reliability of the solution.
Workload mobility to move select workloads across OnPrem and Cloud environments at will
Disaster Rehearsal for select workloads
Rolling upgrades enable the upgrade of infrastructure components, operating system, and applications with minimal downtime.

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