High availability and disaster recovery solutions for SAP are essential. Tier 1 application outages are costly and disruptive to the business. Even short periods of planned downtime for maintenance events like software updates or hardware upgrades can negatively impact end-user and IT productivity as well as critical business processes. Larger unplanned outages can be devastating, with significant business disruption, missed revenue, and lost reputation. By nature, SAP® workloads are often business critical, making downtime increasingly unacceptable. For example, losing the ability to process high-volume transactions or perform real-time analytics can have substantial negative business impacts.

There are multiple ways to configure SAP HANA for high availability and disaster recovery. Choosing the right option depends on performance and cost sensitivity, and what problems you are trying to solve with a high-availability solution.