Why is saphostctrl timing out when starting and stopping large SAP HANA databases ?

Issue

• Why is saphostctrl timing out when starting and stopping large SAP HANA databases ?
  Message seen in the logs

Info: saphostcontrol: Executing StopDatabase
Error: sapdbctrl: Failed to stop database: Timeout
Error: saphostcontrol: StopDatabase failed (sapdbctrl exit code = 1)
Apr 28 09:56:07 [26388] XXXX   lrmd:   notice: operation_finished:      SAPHanaXXX_stop_0:149070:stderr [ Error: Command execution failed. : Failed to stop database: Timeout (fault code: 127) ]

• Pacemaker logs

May 31 11:35:31 [12591] XXX lrmd: notice: operation_finished: SAPHanaXXX_stop_0:26514:stderr [ Error: Command execution failed. : Failed to stop database: Timeout (fault code: 127) ]