A very interesting article was bought to my attention about two weeks ago regarding the installation of SAP HANA Platform Edition 1.0 SP05 on a VMware virtual machine (most likely VMware player). Thus being a SAP HANA enthusiast I decided to undertake the same process using Oracle VirtualBox v4.2.12. I had been a big fan of VMware player for a long time, but about 2 years ago I switched to VirtualBox (reasons that I won't get into right now).
So, after finally getting my purchase order approved by my wife, I upgraded my PC to 32GB of RAM and installed SAP HANA PE1.0 SP05 into VirtualBox running SAP SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.2.
The installation is relatively straight forward with a couple of minor VirtualBox issues. The full instructions can be found here thanks to W. Goslinga :
The key quirks with VirtualBox were:
Technical bits:
1. cd <virtualbox install dir>; VBoxManage setextradata [vmname]|global VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1
2. vi <path to HANA media>/DATA_UNITS/HDB_SERVER_LINUX_X86_64/server/HanaHwCheck.py
3. If using an NFS mount ensure its set to a "hard" mount eg: vi /etc/fstab
<nfshost>:/software | /software | nfs | rw,hard,intr 0 0 |
Below is a screen shot of SAP HANA Studio directly after I finished the installation of HANA.
I plan to post a YouTube video of the installation process shortly. The session will cover the full life cycle from VirtualBox guest creation including network config, through to the completion of the HANA installation. We'll also install SAP HANA Studio on the physical PC and connect to the HANA backend. Stay tuned.
Youtube videos now available!
Part 1 - SUSE installation - http://lnkd.in/bw7_yxB
Part 2 - HANA installation -http://lnkd.in/bWfhTax
Part 3 - NW 7.4 on HANA installation - coming soon!
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