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SAP S/4HANA 1809 Installation – Part 1

SAP S/4HANA 1809 has released in September 2018. It includes many features which helps in digital transformation of all business modules. This blog helps you to install S/4HANA 1809.

1. Hardware and Operating system requirements

Hardware: S/4Hana 1809 having HANA 2.0 as a database. To install HANA 2.0, minimum Intel Haswell CPU or IBM POWER8 CPU or later are strongly recommended. If you are planning to upgrade of a current HANA system from SAP HANA 1.0 to SAP HANA 2.0, you can use Intel Ivy Bridge or Westmere CPU based compute nodes.

Operating system: Below are the supported operating systems for SAP HANA –

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Please refer below links for more information:

Hardware information    Operating system information    HANA DB OS settings

2. Media download

Installation media can downloaded from below path:

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/softwarecenter

-> By Alphabetical Index (A-Z) -> S -> SAP S/4HANA -> SAP S/4HANA 1809 -> INSTALLATION (AUTOM. DOWNLOAD) -> S4CORE103_INST_EXPORT_1.zip ~ S4CORE103_INST_EXPORT_20.zip.

No need to extract the *.zip files. Store them in a directory and give the path of first *.zip file when SWPM prompts.

Alternatively, you can download the media using Maintenance Planner.

Make your download basket empty and login to maintenance planner with your S-User.

Select the tile Plan for SAP S/4HANA.

Select Install New SAP S/4HANA System and click Next.

Enter SID for the new system and select target version – SAP S/4HANA 1809.

Click Next.

In the next screen, select Co-deployed with Backend and check the Target product Instances depending on SAP Frontend applications required.

In the next screen, select continue planning

Click Next.

In the next screen, select OS/DB files.

Click Next.

In the next screen, click on Download Stack XML and Push to Download Basket.

Now go to Download manager and download all the media and store them in a directory in the system.

Refer sap note: 2717369

 

HANA DB media download:

To install HANA DB, we need to download below files.

Software Downloads -> SUPPORT PACKAGES AND PATCHES ->By Alphabetical Index (A-Z) -> H -> SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION -> SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0 -> SAP HANA DATABASE 2.0

Software Downloads -> SUPPORT PACKAGES AND PATCHES ->By Alphabetical Index (A-Z) -> H -> SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION -> SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0 -> SAP HANA CLIENT 2.0

 

3. HANA DB Installation

To install HANA DB, first UNCAR file IMDB_SERVER20_*.SAR file by creating signature file as below screenshot.

SAPCAR –xvf IMDB_SERVER20_*.SAR –manifest SIGNATURE.SMF

Execute ./hdblcm

Select option 1 to install new database.

Referring above screenshot, select required option depending on System Usage.

Next, enter all the values for Data/log volume path, Hostname, DB SID and Passwords.

Enter Y to continue.

After installation, check the HANA DB process status.

usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/sapcontrol -nr 00 -function GetProcessList

We have completed HANA DB installation and check SAP S/4HANA 1809 Installation – Part 2 for remaining installation.

 

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      Author's profile photo Sai Kumar Dudala
      Sai Kumar Dudala

      It was very good & clear explanation. Kudoo’s

       

      Author's profile photo Navakanth D
      Navakanth D
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks Sai

      Author's profile photo Florence Mae Guzon
      Florence Mae Guzon

      Thank you for the very detailed Navakanth. I have managed to install HANA DB by following the steps above. I was also able to login via Hana STudio with SYSTEM user. Currently, I am installing S/4 HANA 1809 and following the steps in Part II. However, i suddenly lost access to the SYSTEM DB user. Even when I tried resetting the password for SYSTEM, I still get the same error.

       

      Have you encountered this before?

       

      Regards,

      Florence

      Author's profile photo Navakanth D
      Navakanth D
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Florence,

      Sorry for the late response. I didn't get this error. If you still having the issue, Send me the log file. will check.

       

      Thanks,

      Navakanth

      Author's profile photo Sanjay Ram
      Sanjay Ram

      Hi Navakanth,

      Is it possible to read the SAP S/4 HANA DB from an external application like PHP and build an application? What ODBC drivers need to be installed?