Merge pull request #314814 from dennispadia/dp-rhelchanges

Remove meta attribute for ERS resources in RHEL ENSA2

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/sap/workloads/get-started.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ms.service: sap-on-azure
 author: msjuergent
 manager: bburns
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 03/03/2026
+ms.date: 04/16/2026
 ms.author: juergent
 # Customer intent: "As an IT administrator, I want to deploy SAP workloads on Azure VMs, so that I can leverage Azure's scalability and automated management features for mission-critical applications."
 ---
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ In the SAP workload documentation space, you can find the following areas:
 
 ## Change Log
 
+- April 16, 2026: Removed setting the 'resource-stickiness' meta-attribute from ENSA2 ERS resources across RHEL high availability guides [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VMs on RHEL with NFS on Azure Files](./high-availability-guide-rhel-nfs-azure-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines HA for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL with Azure NetApp Files for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines high availability for SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md), and [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications multi-SID](./high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md).
 - April 10, 2026: Added Note for deployment guidelines of SAP NetWeaver ASCS/ERS on 3-node pacemaker cluster for **RHEL** in [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VMs on RHEL with NFS on Azure Files](./high-availability-guide-rhel-nfs-azure-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines HA for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL with Azure NetApp Files for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines high availability for SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications multi-SID](./high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md) and for **SLES** in [High availability SAP NetWeaver with simple mount and NFS on SLES for SAP Applications VM](./high-availability-guide-suse-nfs-simple-mount.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VM on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with NFS on Azure Files](./high-availability-guide-suse-nfs-azure-files.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VM on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Azure NetApp Files for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-suse-netapp-files.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VM on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-suse.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VM on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications multi-SID](./high-availability-guide-suse-multi-sid.md).
 - March 03, 2026: Added required changes for RHEL 10 cluster configuration and created a separate tab for different OS releases in [Set up Pacemaker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Azure](./high-availability-guide-rhel-pacemaker.md), [High availability of SAP HANA on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](./sap-hana-high-availability-rhel.md), [High availability of SAP HANA scale-up with Azure NetApp Files on RHEL](./sap-hana-high-availability-netapp-files-red-hat.md), [High availability of SAP HANA scale-out system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](./sap-hana-high-availability-scale-out-hsr-rhel.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on VMs on RHEL with NFS on Azure Files](./high-availability-guide-rhel-nfs-azure-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines HA for SAP NetWeaver on RHEL with Azure NetApp Files for SAP applications](./high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md), [Azure Virtual Machines high availability for SAP NetWeaver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](./high-availability-guide-rhel.md), [High availability for SAP NetWeaver on Azure VMs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP applications multi-SID](./high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md).
 - March 03, 2026: Updated SELinux support statement in [Secure Azure infrastructure for SAP applications](./sap-security-infrastructure.md)

articles/sap/workloads/high-availability-guide-rhel-multi-sid.md

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ manager: juergent
 ms.service: sap-on-azure
 ms.subservice: sap-vm-workloads
 ms.topic: how-to
-ms.date: 02/23/2026
+ms.date: 04/16/2026
 ms.author: radeltch
 ms.custom:
   - linux-related-content
@@ -445,7 +445,6 @@ This article assumes that:
     op monitor interval=20 on-fail=restart timeout=60 op start interval=0 timeout=600 op stop interval=0 timeout=600
 
     sudo pcs resource group add g-NW2_AERS rsc_sap_NW2_ERS12
-    sudo pcs resource meta rsc_sap_NW2_ERS12 resource-stickiness=3000
 
     sudo pcs constraint order start g-NW2_ASCS then stop g-NW2_AERS kind=Optional symmetrical=false
     sudo pcs constraint colocation add g-NW2_AERS with g-NW2_ASCS score=-5000
@@ -466,7 +465,6 @@ This article assumes that:
     op monitor interval=20 on-fail=restart timeout=60 op start interval=0 timeout=600 op stop interval=0 timeout=600
 
     sudo pcs resource group add g-NW3_AERS rsc_sap_NW3_ERS22
-    sudo pcs resource meta rsc_sap_NW3_ERS22 resource-stickiness=3000
 
     sudo pcs constraint order start g-NW3_ASCS then stop g-NW3_AERS kind=Optional symmetrical=false
     sudo pcs constraint colocation add g-NW3_AERS with g-NW3_ASCS score=-5000

articles/sap/workloads/high-availability-guide-rhel-netapp-files.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ manager: juergent
 ms.service: sap-on-azure
 ms.subservice: sap-vm-workloads
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 02/20/2026
+ms.date: 04/16/2026
 ms.author: radeltch
 ms.custom:
   - devx-track-azurecli
@@ -664,7 +664,6 @@ The following items are prefixed with either:
     op monitor interval=20 on-fail=restart timeout=105 op start interval=0 timeout=600 op stop interval=0 timeout=600
    
     sudo pcs resource group add g-QAS_AERS rsc_sap_QAS_ERS01
-    sudo pcs resource meta rsc_sap_QAS_ERS01 resource-stickiness=3000
    
     sudo pcs constraint order start g-QAS_ASCS then stop g-QAS_AERS kind=Optional symmetrical=false
     sudo pcs constraint colocation add g-QAS_AERS with g-QAS_ASCS score=-5000

articles/sap/workloads/high-availability-guide-rhel-nfs-azure-files.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ manager: juergent
 ms.service: sap-on-azure
 ms.subservice: sap-vm-workloads
 ms.topic: tutorial
-ms.date: 02/20/2026
+ms.date: 04/16/2026
 ms.author: radeltch
 ms.custom:
   - devx-track-azurecli
@@ -584,8 +584,7 @@ The following items are prefixed with:
     AUTOMATIC_RECOVER=false IS_ERS=true \
     op monitor interval=20 on-fail=restart timeout=60 op start interval=0 timeout=600 op stop interval=0 timeout=600
     
-    sudo pcs resource group add g-NW1_AERS rsc_sap_NW1_ERS01 
-    sudo pcs resource meta rsc_sap_NW1_ERS01 resource-stickiness=3000
+    sudo pcs resource group add g-NW1_AERS rsc_sap_NW1_ERS01
 
     sudo pcs constraint order start g-NW1_ASCS then stop g-NW1_AERS kind=Optional symmetrical=false
     sudo pcs constraint colocation add g-NW1_AERS with g-NW1_ASCS score=-5000

articles/sap/workloads/high-availability-guide-rhel.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ manager: juergent
 ms.service: sap-on-azure
 ms.subservice: sap-vm-workloads
 ms.topic: article
-ms.date: 02/20/2026
+ms.date: 04/16/2026
 ms.author: radeltch
 ms.custom:
   - devx-track-azurecli
@@ -485,7 +485,6 @@ The following items are prefixed with:
     op monitor interval=20 on-fail=restart timeout=60 op start interval=0 timeout=600 op stop interval=0 timeout=600
 
     sudo pcs resource group add g-NW1_AERS rsc_sap_NW1_ERS02
-    sudo pcs resource meta rsc_sap_NW1_ERS02 resource-stickiness=3000
    
     sudo pcs constraint order start g-NW1_ASCS then stop g-NW1_AERS kind=Optional symmetrical=false
     sudo pcs constraint colocation add g-NW1_AERS with g-NW1_ASCS score=-5000