HA for SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform on Amazon
In this guide, we’ll provide an example HA architecture that closely resembles a typical on-premises installation, and we’ll also show how Amazon features in combination with SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform installation options support an HA solution that extends beyond a single data center. For the Amazon Cloud, this means that the application is highly available within an Amazon Region and can survive the failure of a single Availability Zone. The HA solution discussed in this guide includes these design features:
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SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform nodes are distributed across multiple EC2 instances within a virtual private cloud (VPC). Although Availability Zone failure is a rare occurrence, to protect your application against such scenarios, install each tier of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform in multiple Availability Zones.
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Applications are deployed on a web server, following best practices from the Web Application Deployment Guide for Unix
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The CMS database is deployed with a failover node that is in a different Availability Zone from the primary node. This guide uses Amazon RDS for MySQL as an example of the SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform CMS database. Amazon RDS is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks. In this guide, we use an Amazon RDS MySQL 5.6 Multi-AZ deployment for the CMS database. See the Amazon documentation for details on how you can configure HA for an Amazon RDS MySQL database in a few steps.
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Input and output filestores are deployed on a shared file system such as an Amazon EFS file system. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable, elastic file storage
for use with Amazon Cloud services and on-premises resources.
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Amazon EFS isn’t available yet in all Amazon Regions; see a list of available regions. If you’re planning to use a region that doesn’t support Amazon EFS, you can choose a partner network file system (NFS) solution from Amazon Web Services Marketplace (such as Cloud Volumes ONTAP or SoftNAS) or you can deploy your own solution.