Upgrade your HANA, express edition

[architectSAP]

In my previous blog Secure your HANA, express edition I described how to register your HANA, express edition system with SUSE to receive critical security updates.

In this blog I will leverage this work to describe how to upgrade your HANA, express edition to the latest patch level. However, please be aware, that

1. This increases the memory required from 7 GB to 9 GB for the Server only option.


2. Also, temporarily, 24 GB of available RAM are needed for the upgrade.

To start with, I update the preinstalled VMware Tools to mount shared folders with the upgrade software packages.

As a prerequisite, I install gcc:



and kernel-default-devel packages:



Then I mount the VMware Tools volume, copy and extract the file and run the installer. There is an existing version of VMware Tools installed, which I uninstall in the process:



The two packages I installed earlier are needed in the configuration step:



With that I can mount my upgrade directory:



Next, I shut down my system to increase the memory size from its original 7 GB to 24 GB:



From HANA Studio I start the HANA Platform Lifecycle Management, select my HANA Database upgrade package and add the HANA AFL upgrade package (please check SAP Note 2078425 - Troubleshooting note for SAP HANA platform lifecycle management tool hdblcm in case of any issues):



As a result, my HANA Database will be upgraded from version 1.00.122.01 to version 1.00.122.02:



This can take a while:



But eventually, the update finishes successfully:



Last but not least, I reduce the memory to now 9 GB:



And everything is working nicely on the new version:



Don’t worry about the one alert with HIGH priority. Logging into the HANA Cockpit reveals that this is due to the Log mode OVERWRITE which is fine for a sandbox system like this: