New Installation of S/4HANA 1610FPS2- Part 1 – Maintenance Planner

This procedure is Part 1 of the series which describes the very first steps to download the media. We will focus on creating Sandbox type instance with co-deployed (embedded) gateway.

Please refer other blogs as follows:

There is the video for of installation of S/4HANA 1610 FPS0 for reference:

As a prep you may like to empty the download basket for your S-000 user so that any files added to the download basket are meant for this task and will help to ensure that only the required files are included.

As a prep you may like to empty the download basket for your S-000 user so that any files added to the download basket are meant for this task and will help to ensure that only the required files are included.

You need to login to Maintenance Planner to access system assigned to your S-user. Please ensure landscape data is uploaded to SAP support portal via LMDB of SAP Solution Manager. The system that you are converting has to be defined in OSS under your customer ID. The diagram below shows the Maintenance planner cloud service and how it integrates with Customer system.The source system data is (1) sent to SLD. (2) data from SLD is synchronized with Landscape Management Database (LMDB). (3) From LMDB the data is uploaded to customer profile in SAP support portal using Solman daily job – “landscape Fetch”. If there is issue in replicating you may be asked to apply Note 2186164 – Problem in replicating systems to Maintenance Planner
TIP: This data based on Customer Number is used by Maintenance Planner for all planning activities. So ensure you use same customer number to define system in sapnet as well as use same S-user id.

Select the Fiori tile Plan for SAP S/4HANA

Choose Install a new SAP S/4HANA system. You can click on the link for the SAP S/4HANA Installation Guide for the documentation and click on Next.

In the next screen enter SID = S4H; select Target Version = SAP S/4HANA 1610; Target Stack = Initial Shipment Stack and Click on Next.

In the next screen choose Co-deployed with Backend and checkmark Target Product Instances depending on which SAP FontEnd Applications you need.
In the next scree click on Continue Planning

In the next screen Click on Next

In the next screen select OS/DB dependent files checkmark Linux on x86_64 bit and click on Confirm Selection.

In the next screen click on Next

In the next screen click on Download Stack XML, Download Stack Text File, Download PDF and Export to Excel to download the files to your desktop. Out of these you will have to ftp the stack.xml file to the server. It will look something like this – MP_Stack_2000110386_2045_.xml

Click on Push to Download Basket. This will load the Download Basket with files you need.

In the pdf file downloaded above, in the Planned Changes section there is a link provided that takes you directly to Service Marketplace to download the media.

In the screen below choose INSTALLATION

Checkmark to select below files to add to Download Basket

In addition to above please download latest version of SPAM – KD75163 or above as shown belowIn case you want to install new HANA DATABASE please download media below. If you already have a database the procedure to add database container will be shown in next part. Add this to the download basket.

If you want to install LiveCache you will require the HANA database LCAPPS plugin as below:

Download all the media and separate the following into separate directories for convenience under /sapmedia:

51050947_EXP1
51050947_LANG (optional)
51051135_SCM (optional)
51051522_CLIENT
51051432_3_KERNEL (optional)
51051151_HANASP12_4             <-you can use latest DB,HANA 2 Requires min SUSE Linux 12
download                     <- This download  includes all files from MP + SPAM + HANA DB

Mahesh Sardesai
Product Expert – S/4HANA RIG (Regional Implementation Group)