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Author's profile photo Rudi Leibbrandt

SAP HANA 2 – download your personal copy now!

It’s my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of SAP HANA, express edition 2.0.   (will refer to it as HXE for the rest of this post)

Since the initial introduction of HXE in September, thousands of users have downloaded HXE, interacted with our community experts, and gave us feedback on product features, the newly developed tutorials, and specifically designed content posted by the SAP HANA Academy.

So, what’s new in HXE?     HXE is a variant of the latest HANA release, which is covered by Lori Vanourek in this post.     HXE provides the simplest mechanism to get your hands on HANA 2, and provides you with a free license to use the technology for development or productive workloads, for up to 32 GB or RAM allocated.

The HXE launch page remains the entry point into all things HXE.   Once you’ve registered to download HXE, the updated download manager boasts a few more options to make life simpler.   We’ve included the HANA database client and the XS client directly from the download manager – so, no more searching around SCN for additional downloads!

The Virtual Appliance includes the latest required update for SLES.   A range of options or configurations that had to be done manually is now done out of the box – for example, the predictive functions are now ready to use without running any additional commands.

The Binary Installation method has been simplified significantly, with a single command to install HXE directly onto your Linux box, whether it be a laptop, server or in your favorite cloud provider.

Over and above the features now available for HANA 2, a brand new feature introduced in HXE is the Telemetry functionality, a configurable option to send anonymized, non-private usage data to SAP to improve the HANA product.    I’ll follow this post up with a detailed description of the implementation in the coming days.

My favorite “feature”, though, is the content in the community.   The Q&A forums are critical for getting first time users up and running. The tutorials and how to guides provide users with an efficient way to learn SAP HANA.

Then, The SAP Community blogs and contributions from HXE users, the SAP Mentors (@SAPMentors) and HANA Distinguished engineers (@SAPHDE) showcases project examples, short guides or getting started content by users of the product..

While it’s impossible to list all of them, I’ve picked a few posts by community members I suggest following, in no order of preference:

 

 

We invite you to access the launch page, and build your first SAP HANA 2 application!

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      Author's profile photo Gregor Wolf
      Gregor Wolf

      To help others who might want to install the SAP EA Designer. The correct path to the ZIP file is:

      /usr/sap/HXE/home/HANA_EXPRESS_20/DATA_UNITS/XSA_CONTENT_10

      And the correct spacing for the firstTime.mtaext file is:

      _schema-version: "2.0.0"
      ID: com.sap.hana.eadesigner.ext
      extends: com.sap.hana.eadesigner
      
      modules:
        - name: eadesigner-backend
          properties:
            ADMIN_PASSWORD: HXEHana1
      Author's profile photo Rudi Leibbrandt
      Rudi Leibbrandt
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Gregor, we'll update the doc.   Exited about EA Designer!

      Author's profile photo Michael Bruhn
      Michael Bruhn

      Hi Gregor,

      Thanks I really struggled with the correct spacing in the mta extension.

      As a side note for those of us who had long forgotten vi – consider downloading nano http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/RPMS/nano-2.2.6-1.x86_64.rpm

      and installing it using sudo zypper install nano-2.2.6-1.x86_64.rpm

      /MiB

       

      Author's profile photo Fernando Faian
      Fernando Faian

      Thanks a lot!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi

      I was not able to connect to the image, and after some troubleshooting I discovered that the default instance number on the image in 90. The old image was using 00. Do you know if this documented , and why has it been changed?

      Br
      Petter Huseby
      Affecto Norway

      Author's profile photo Rudi Leibbrandt
      Rudi Leibbrandt
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Petter.

      I think it could be clearer - thank you for the comment.     When you do the binary installation, you are prompted for the instance number, so it's more obvious

      For the VM, we had an internal decision to default to port 90, for a variety of different reasons.   The first indication that the port changed is in the section for changing your SYSTEM password.    The tutorial we link to doesn't mention it either.

      Already reached out to our teams.