Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
I am Denys van Kempen and
the topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA 2.0.
In this video tutorial, we will discuss what's new for installation and update.
A good place to start to learn about what's new with HANA 2.0 are the release notes, which
you can find on the SAP Help Portal: help.sap.com.
You can browse it online or download the PDF
and here we have the section Installation and Update.
First, let's take a quick look at the documentation changes.
The Master Update Guide is no longer included in the documentation set.
This guide has been removed and the contents from the Master Update Guide are now included
in the regular Master Guide.
And in this section you will also find information about updating from HANA SPS 12 and earlier
to HANA 2.0.
Let's take a brief look at that section in the Master Guide.
It informs you about the prerequisites, the update process, and any post-update steps.
Also included is some information about the revision strategy.
You can select the link here and it will open SAP Note 2378962,
which contains a link to the slide deck.
OK, let's return to our What's New guide, documentation changes.
The Technical Operations Manual is also no longer part of the documentation set.
Some parts went to the Master Guide, others to the Administration Guide.
If we switch to the Master Guide again here we have the section on operating SAP HANA.
It is about the difference between HANA as an appliance and HANA tailored for data center
integration.
Couple of pages, not exactly a new topic but if you are not familiar with this you might
want to read about it here.
OK, back to What's New documentation changes.
The rest is mostly small fry but you may be interested to know that we now have a dedicated
guide to install the SAP HANA cockpit.
Cockpit 2.0 is no longer part of the HANA server but is a separate installation on a
separate system, sort of combines the functionality of cockpit 1.0 plus the web UI of the lifecycle
management tool, plus the functionality of the Database Control Center, DBCC - a former
Sybase tool - to manage entire landscapes.
This means that you can now have a single cockpit for all your HANA servers and perform
tasks with it that require HANA downtime like restoring a database, for example.
Very convenient.
OK. so much for documentation changes.
Let's take a look at what is new and what has changed for server installation and update.
New is that you now use the HANA database lifecycle manager web tool hdblcm to - it
says here to download, extract and update SAP HANA components and XS advanced applications
- if not mistaken, you could already do that with the previous releases but you can now
also upload and extract files to the HANA server.
This is documented in the Server Installation and Update Guide, section 6.1.5
Most of the server install and update guide is the same as the previous version, which
also means that the whole installation process is pretty much the same.
If you are familiar with HANA server installation you will have no trouble installing HANA 2.0.
When we take a look at the lifecycle management tool for 2.0 and compare it with 1.0 SPS 12,
you can see that a new tile has been added to upload and extract components, and we also
have a tile now that points to the online documentation.
SAP HANA platform lifecycle management in SAP HANA cockpit and here we have the section
about upload and extract.
If you select the tile, then you can choose whether to extract the component already on
the HANA server or upload archives to the HANA host.
This adds FTP functionality to the lifecycle management tool so you no longer have to make
a terminal connection to the HANA host.
You can then extract the file.
Note that it uses the SAP host agent to perform this task.
And from that point on you can use the install app to install the component.
OK, if we then return to What's New guide, we can read that uninstalling components with
existing component-specific hosts/roles can now be done in one step.
For example, say you wanted to remove Dynamic Tiering from the HANA system.
Then, with the previous release you first had to remove the host role, extended storage
worker, and then you could remove the component Dynamic Tiering.
With HANA 2.0, removing a component also removes the host role.
So, it saves you a couple of clicks.
Then the What's New guide also mentions that the lifecycle management tool now performs
a check to see if the minimal operating system requirements are fulfilled.
For 2.0, that is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2.
Of course, you can find this information on the product availability matrix as well, PAM,
on support.sap.com / pam and then under Technical Release Information,
for Operating Systems.
And there is also a note on supported operating systems for SAP HANA, 2235581.
So that's it for what's new with installation and update for SAP HANA 2.0
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