Fail-Safe Operation of SAP HANA®: SUSE Extends Its High-Availability Solution

“SAP customers invest in SAP HANA” is the conclusion reached by a recent market study carried out by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC). In Germany alone, half of companies expect SAP HANA to become the dominant database platform in the SAP environment. In many cases, the “SAP Business Suite® powered by SAP HANA” scenario is already being discussed in concrete terms.

Naturally, SUSE is also accommodating this development by providing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications – the recommended and supported operating system for SAP HANA. In close collaboration with SAP and hardware partners, therefore, SUSE will provide two resource agents for customers to ensure the high availability of SAP HANA system replications.

Using Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) to connect to SLES11 SP2

"Why?" might be your first thought and quickly followed by "But I use VNC for Linux". That is correct, but many IT departments have no VNC Client in their standard software portfolio. For this reason I have written this document to show you how to configure the SAP HANA server to allow connections via the Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) protocol. This setup is a 100% SAP HANA server-side configuration, so the IT departments doesn't need to change their policy on the VNC Client software.

As of SLES11 SP2 for SAP the package xrdp is shipped. For the installation and configuration perform the following steps:

• Installation xrdp package
• Configuring the Firewall to allow RDP
• Start xrdp during boot 

Installation xrdp package
The xrdp package is shipped with SLES11 SP2 for SAP, so it can be installed from the installation DVD. No extra software download is needed.
1.  Start the YaST2 Control Center by selecting Menu => System => YaST