Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA Installation and Update and in this
video we will show you how to install the SAP HANA client both for the platform edition
and for SAP HANA, express edition.
This video has been recorded on release SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03, released in April 2018.
For earlier or later releases, please check the Administration playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
To download SAP software, go to the SAP Support Portal on support.sap.com and either add /swdc
to the URL or click Software Downloads.
From here, we can open Software Downloads on the SAP ONE Support Portal.
You can navigate to the SAP HANA platform by alphabetical index, H for HANA
or by Category, in-memory,
or just enter SAP HANA platform here in the search bar.
Just as quick. Scroll down a bit.
Here we have Edition 2.0 as installation product
and maintenance product.
Installation product is the main Support Package Stack, SPS, release
the full media set, about 14 GB.
For just the client, you can also click the installation and upgrades link to go up one level
and then select the Support Packages and Patches button
Scroll down a bit
Select SAP HANA Client 2.0 and then here we have our downloads.
Make sure the right operating system is selected. I will download the client for 64-bit Windows
and make sure the right version is selected. We have revision 0, 1, 2 and 3,
and this points to the SPS release.
The list is ordered by release date and patch 57 for SPS 02 was released after patch 78 for SPS 03
April 5th 2018, that’s the one we want.
Select it and add it to the download basket.
Note that the file type is a SAR file, a proprietary SAP Archive file and for this we will need the SAPCAR utility.
Maybe you already have it, maybe you don’t.
If not, just enter ‘sapcar’ here in the search bar.
Click the first entry, Latest version Again, check the platform: Windows for me
and add it to the basket.
Now, let’s switch to the client computer where we want to install the SAP HANA client.
I have already downloaded the SAP Download Manager previously.
If you don’t have it, just select the link on the SAP ONE Software Download app.
It is a Java application, so you will need to have a Java run-time installed as well.
You can use the same user name and password as for the SAP ONE Support Portal, just make
sure that you have updated the address to tech.support.sap.com this used to be service.sap.com
- but this URL is no longer active.
We are also using a proxy here, this might be required for your site as well.
Depends.
Here we have our client and SAPCAR.
Click Download.
The Windows client is only 100 MB, so this goes down pretty fast.
I will rename SAPCAR and remove the version identifier.
You could copy it to the Windows System directory, if you want, as Administrator or just leave
it in the Downloads folder.
You can also delete these label files.
Then, open a command prompt, go to Downloads.
Here we have our files.
SAPCAR -extract -file, xf, name of file.
Processing archive.
Done
Return to the Downloads, Go into SAP_HANA_CLIENT
We have a command line installer: hdbinst and a graphical, a Windows installer: hdbsetup
Let’s run that, as Administrator
SAP HANA Lifecycle Management
A previous version is detected, so we are prompted to Update.
Works for me. Next
Review and Confirm
Here we have all the software components included: ADO.NET, JDBC, ODBC, Python, node.js
Upgrade
Takes 9 seconds and we are done.
Now, what about you don’t have access to the SAP ONE Support Portal?
You don’t have an S-number account.
No licensed SAP software is being used in the company you work for.
No problem, just go to sap.com and then on the Developer tab, select SAP HANA, express edition
Click the Free Download button.
You will need to register if this is the first time, otherwise you might have to update a field or two.
Accept the Developer License agreement, if you want to continue
and click Register
Then we get to the downloads page
Again, I will pick the Windows installer.
There is one for Linux and one for the Mac, platform-independent
well, that depends on your point of view, I guess.
OK.
Back to my Windows client
Let’s run the Download Manager for express.
Remove the check marks for the VM and select Clients (Windows)
Click Download
OK
Extract clients_windows, it is a regular ZIP file this time.
Then extract the 64-bit client, assuming you want to use that, of course
very good
and then we have the same files we just saw.
Run the graphical installer, hdbsetup
SAP HANA Lifecycle Management
It is exactly the same version, 2.3.78 - at the time of the recording.
You know the rest.
OK
Installing the SAP HANA client is documented in the SAP HANA Client Installation and Update Guide
and here you can also find information about automating installations
using the batch mode installer and script files,
in case you need to update not 1 but 100 clients.
Might save you some time.
There are videos on this topic on the Academy.
That’s it.
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