SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 What's New: Installation and U...
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In the upcoming weeks, we will be posting new videos to the SAP HANA Academy to show new features and functionality introduced with SAP HANA 2.0 Support Package Stack (SPS) 00.
The topic of this blog is Installation and Update.
For those familiar with installing the SAP HANA server, there is some good news: the SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide is almost the same as the one for SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12. In other words, the whole installation and update process is the same, so if you are familiar with this task you will no problem installing the HANA server.
Both the SAP HANA Master Update Guide and the SAP HANA Technical Operations Manual are no longer included in the documentation set, the contents have been added to the Master Guide, section Updating an SAP HANA System Landscape and the section Operating SAP HANA.
SAP HANA Platform Lifecycle Management in SAP HANA Cockpit
The SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM) Web user interface is included in the new SAP HANA cockpit but unlike the cockpit is still hosted on the SAP HANA server itself, as before, by the SAP host agent. The URL format has not changed:
The Upload/Extract Components app allows you to upload files to the HANA server, or extract archives that are already on the HANA server, saving you the trouble to connect to the host with a terminal session to extract the file with SAPCAR, or connect to the host with FTP to upload a file. This is a great timesaver as typically in production landscapes the HANA server might not be directly connected to the SAP SoftWare Download Center (SWDC) so some staging is required.
Another time saver is that to remove certain components like Dynamic Tiering, in the past two steps were required: 1) remove the host role and 2) remove the component. This has now been simplified: when you uninstall a component, the host role is removed automatically.
Supported Operating Systems
SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2.
The SAP HANA database lifecycle manager now performs a check to verify this condition is fulfilled.
For more information about operating system support, see the notes section below.
Playlist
On the SAP HANA Academy, there is a full playlist covering all aspects of installation and update: bit.ly/SAPHANAIU
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