Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
My name is Denys van Kempen
installation and update for SAP HANA 2.0.
The topic of this video tutorial is the Software Download Center.
You can access the Software Download Center from the SAP Support Portal on support.sap.com/swdc.
Note the bar here, “Have you previewed the new Software Download page?”
and when I select it, this will open a page with the new
Note that you can only download SAP products that are associated with your S-User ID.
You need a logon for the Download Center.
But also, the product needs to be linked to your account.
As mentioned here, access requires the download software authorization, which you can request
via your company’s super administrator.
Now if I select the link, no user’s found.
So I guess, I am the superman here, but hopefully, in your case, you actually get a contact
you can go to.
OK.
Couple of sections; first, types of software.
Unfortunately, the terminology used here on the software download center does not exactly
match the release terminology used for SAP HANA.
Here we have ‘Installations and upgrades’ and ‘Support packages and patches’ .
A patch is a code-correction, a bug-fix some would say, support packages are a collection
of patches, released according to a set schedule and, if we go down a bit,
support package stacks are a collection of support packages.
Now, this is certainly the case for ABAP systems, for example, but for SAP HANA the terminology
is a bit different and support package stacks have a slightly different meaning.
HANA is released in revisions.
This started with revision 1 back in 2011 and we are now, at the time of the recording,
because with HANA 2, we started all over again.
The next revision will be 01, then 02, and so on.
All revisions contain code corrections but they are not called support packages and
they are not called support package stacks.
They are called revisions.
Then twice a year: for HANA 1, this used to be November and May; for HANA 2, this
will be in early April and end of July,
Again, this will a certain revision but now it will end with a zero, and it will have
an SPS number, a support package stack number.
So, SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 00 is revision 0, and SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 12 is revision 120,
SPS 11 revision 110, and so on.
These are mayor releases, with new functionality,
not just fixes.
For this reason, for HANA, you have to look for the SPS releases under
‘Installations and upgrades’, and not under ‘Support packages and patches’.
And there aren’t really upgrades either because
every revision is an upgrade, you could say.
Then, to make the download a bit easier, SAP also has a download manager.
It is a standalone Java application.
Allows you to download multiple files simultaneously, schedule downloads, pause and continue downloads,
and so on.
Here we have the download manager. It is not the most sophisticated piece of software
but it works as advertised.
You enter your credentials to the SAP Service Market Place,
your S-User, or I-user if you are an SAP employee,
any proxy setting,
and then here we have it.
You can schedule your downloads,
and either download a single item or a bunch of them.
Then, I should also point out the ‘Help & Resources’ section.
There is a PDF here that provides an overview,
on how to navigate on the software download center,
There are links to relevant SAP notes and knowledge base articles,
Frequently asked questions and schedules for maintenance deliveries
and here we can see, I am looking at the version that was refreshed today, that for example
for HANA 2, in Q2 2017, we have week 15 in April, for SPS 01, subject to change, and
in Q3, week 30, end of July, for SPS 02, again subject to change.
Note also we have a link to the product availability matrix, we discussed in the previous video
of this series.
OK Let’s connect to the software download center.
Software Downloads Access downloads
We see the two sections again: ‘Installations & Upgrades’ and ‘Support Packages & Patches’
Databases you can ignore, does not apply to HANA.
And then you can either browse by alphabetical index (a to z) or browse by category.
This is the same for both sections.
Here you look under ‘H’, like SAP HANA and for the category, you have to go down
to 'SAP In-Memory' and both will get you to the HANA downloads.
Then you need to select the platform edition.
The Add-Ons concern all the different products powered by HANA.
Enterprise edition, additional components link to Data Services and the SAP LT Replication Server,
but not to HANA
and Vora links to Vora; no idea why it is listed here, actually.
Platform edition.
Then, we first get a list of all the options.
The Enterprise Architect Designer, Data Warehousing Foundation, Dynamic Tiering, and so on.
We will discuss SAP HANA options and editions in another video.
Then, again, select platform edition.
Now we can make the choice between version 1 and version 2.
The Info tab is now active, so we can get some general information about SAP HANA.
Very brief introduction, with a link pointing to the product home page.
SAP HANA Overview, features and benefits.
Deployment options, as an appliance or in the cloud -
we will discuss deployment options in another video as well - and then the 2 versions.
Back to downloads, HANA 2.
We are getting there.
Note that at this stage, we can toggle between ‘Support Packages and Patches’,
the intermediate revisions between the main SPS releases,
and ‘Installations and Upgrades’.
Very convenient.
So you can quickly check, what the latest revisions is.
On the support packages and patches page, I can go to down to SAP HANA database.
Here we can see that it is revision 00 for HANA 2,
In other words, the base release, the Support Package Stack, SPS 0.
Back to ‘Installations and Upgrades’.
At this level, the Info tab now provides some more information:
The different SAP Notes that you should be familiar with;
information about the license key;
Documentation and Customer Support.
Back to Downloads.
Installation And then finally, here we have our downloads. to download.
It says 10.
There is a version for IBM Power Systems and one for Linux 64-bit.
So five items per platform.
One for the HANA cockpit, this now runs on a dedicated server.
And four for HANA.
There is a note about Multispanning.
Packages larger than 4 gig will be packed in an archive.
We have a RAR archive, with the first file as executable,
so the package can be extracted automatically.
Then you can either select the link to download the file,
or, as is recommended for larger downloads, select them and then select the shopping cart here
and add them to your download basket
and then here below, you can view the contents of your basket
with a link to the download manager, in case
you have not installed it yet.
OK. One more thing.
If you have watched our video about the product availability matrix,
you will already know this.
The product availability matrix is a great place to start when you are preparing an installation.
It also contains the two links for the software: ’Installation and Upgrades’ and
‘Support Packages and Patches’ and when you select them, they will bring you directly
to the software download center.
So you do need to do all this navigation, click here, click there, and so on.
So it is very convenient.
OK. So much for our brief introduction to the
Software Download Center.
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