The service group configuration in a cluster depends on some common characteristics that must be part of the configuration design.
These characteristics include the following:
The SAP application server must be dependent on the database server
Each SAP instance (Application Server, Enqueue, and Enqueue Replication) should have a separate virtual IP address assigned to facilitate network transparency.
Each SAP instance (Application Server, Enqueue and Enqueue Replication) should be placed on shared disk to facilitate cluster node transparency.
Common file systems to include the profile, global and transaction file systems should be managed from one or more shared disk objects. These systems must be available to the SAP application via NFS or any application such as Veritas Foundation Suite's Cluster File System (CFS).
Figure: Service group configuration for Application Server shows a sample service group configuration for Application Server.
Figure: Service group configuration for Enqueue Server instance shows a sample service group configuration for Enqueue Server instance.
Figure: Service group configuration for Enqueue Replication Server instance shows a sample service group configuration for Enqueue Replication Server instance.