Hi, and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy. My name is Julie. In this series of videos
We've been taking a look at the SAP HANA Express edition
HANA Express is a streamlined version of SAP HANA that you could run on a laptop or in cloud based virtual machines
It comes in four different sizes with 32 gigabytes
64 , 96, and 128 gigabytes
For most of the videos and exercises we've shown so far we've been using the smallest 32 gigabyte version that is free from SAP.
It's a great starter edition and works well for learning and beginning development with HANA
But what if your needs change and you require more space?
Maybe you want to hold many more years' worth of data in your sales model, or include different types of data in the system
Or perhaps you're using predictive analytics services, and you need to have more data in your model to more accurately fine-tune your algorithm.
Maybe you want to add seasonality or other types of modeling
Or maybe you want to do more with series data or graph processing or other more complex predictive algorithms
that may require more data and also probably more processing support?
Well, then you can actually upgrade your system to one of the larger versions of SAP HANA Express that are available through the SAP Store.
So let's take a look at what that might look like. First, we can open a browser and go to SAPStore.com
Then, in the search box we shall type in Hana Express
Here we see the HANA Express page showing all the various versions of SAP HANA express available.
If you need to get the starter edition. go ahead and click the button here to register and download that edition.
We've already done that so we're going to continue on..
Scrolling down you can see some of the features of HANA Express highlighted.
These capabilities are available in all sizes of HANA Express and provide very powerful capabilities to be able to do application development
and some advanced analysis and modeling.
We can also find the links to the Getting Started Guide, find more detail about what's included in the version, and an FAQ link.
Next we'll see various upgrade packages available with their monthly subscription costs.
For support, you will find the robust online community the FAQs and of course the many HANA Academy videos
If we scroll to the bottom of the page, we'll get to the prerequisites area.
This is important as it has instructions about what we need in order to upgrade from our free version to our paid subscription version.
As I mentioned, you'll always start with a 32 gigabyte edition.
if you haven't already downloaded that you can do that now by clicking here and registering it
Note that some of the videos in the SAP HANA Academy show this process for you
and will walk through the installation of either the virtual machine or the Linux binaries
Once you have your 32 gigabyte system up and running
We can go back to the prerequisites area and find the information on how to install the new license key for the upgraded system
purchased from the SAP Store.
As you can see, you can do this through either through the command line or through the HANA studio.
So let's go ahead and upgrade to the 64 gigabyte subscription. I'll click Buy Now and then fill in the information for my scenario.
I need to determine whether I want a 6 month or 12 month subscription, and here's where I'll enter my hardware key
So let's go ahead and get that from our existing system
if I pull up my system in SAP HANA studio I can right click on System,
choose Properties, then License,
and here we see our hardware key. We can go ahead and copy that
We'll take note of our System ID as well and we'll go back and paste that key into the order form
It should validate that it's a legitimate hardware key,
and let's go ahead and click continue
Now we need to fill in all the other information for licensing. Note if you already have an SAP account
with the SAP Store, you can connect using that user id and information.
Otherwise you'll need to fill in the form with your contact information to create an account on the SAP Store
You will want to make sure that you create a password that follows with the required standards.
So once you're done, you can click Submit,
Enter your payment information, and click Submit.
Then you want to make sure that you agree to the terms and conditions, and if everything is good you're going to click Place Order.
Once your order has processed, you'll receive an email from the SAP Store with a link to SAP Store > My Account.
Go ahead and click that link and enter into the SAP Store accounts page
You may need to log in using that SAP Store ID that you created earlier.
You should see the order that you just requested. Go ahead and click on the order number,
and that will open up the order. If you scroll down
You'll see a link to say Download Key. Clicking that link will download the text file with your new key in it
for your new larger Hana Express edition.
Go back into your HANA Studio and delete the existing file.
Then install the new file just that you just downloaded and click OK
Now your licensed for the larger version of SAP HANA express.
You'll of course need to stop and start the server to see the effects of the license change.
So now that you've upgraded your system,
You may want to see some of the other features or functions available within SAP HANA express edition.
Please remember that there's a library of free tutorial videos available from the SAP HANA Academy,
Just search for HANA Academy YouTube, then you can search the channel specifically for HANA Express.
There you will see the playlist of over 35 videos currently published related to using the HANA Express edition.
Of course there are many more videos that show the capabilities that are included within your HANA Express ,
such as data provisioning, advanced analyses like predictive and text, and modeling and much much more
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