Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA platform Installation and Update
and in this video we will discuss where and how to download the SAP HANA software.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In the previous video, where we discussed the PAM, the Product Availability Matrix,
I pointed out that you can use it to access the download area directly both for the full
support package stacks, the mayor releases and for the intermediate revisions.
We see both listed here.
As discussed, SAP lists almost 2,000 products, some go back quite some time, like Netweaver,
others were added to the lists through acquisitions, like Sybase, so the terminology is not always
as consistent as you would like it to be but as a rule we have mayor releases
- anything that comes with a What’s New release note - and minor fixes, patches, support packs, etc.
- anything that comes with a "what’s fixed" note.
In the video about documentation, we briefly looked at the SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide
which documents how to access the installation media and components for SAP HANA.
Components (SAP terminology) are independently installable units: anything with an installer.
We will see all components in a minute, when we access the Software Download Center.
There are quite a number of them.
The section here in the Installation Guide, about software components,
is actually about editions and SAP HANA options.
We will touch upon this topic a few times in this video but we will also address it
in a separate video about HANA options and editions.
Back to Software Download.
Here we find the two access paths: installation media for SAP HANA SPS
(that’s the mayor release) and Support Packages and Patches.
Let’s first take the long way home and access the SAP Support Portal
Download Software
which will open the SAP ONE Support Launchpad
Alternatively, you could have just entered support.sap.com/swdc (Software Download Center)
which would also brought up a page on the support site with a link to the downloads area
of the SAP ONE Support Launchpad, same thing.
A Google search on ‘SAP SWDC’ would have brought you there as well, of course.
OK
We see Installations & Upgrades, Support Packages & Patches and Databases.
The Databases tab you can ignore: does not apply to SAP HANA.
Then we have By Alphabetical Index (A-Z), By Category
and some other entries which you can also ignore.
We only care about the first two.
We see them listed on Support Packages & Patches as well.
By Alphabetical Index
H like SAP HANA, easy enough, but then we get 79 categories to choose from.
SAP in-memory (SAP HANA), an SDK for iOS, geospatial content,
a whole list of SAP HANA Analytics
some HANA options: Data Warehousing Foundation, Dynamic Tiering
The platform edition
More options, SDI (Smart Data Integration), Streaming Analytics, and so on.
The platform edition opens another selection page: HANA 1.0 or HANA 2.0
And should we have selected in-memory, we get a different menu: add-ons, platform edition,
enterprise edition or Vora.
Select platform edition here, and the selection screen shows all the different HANA options:
Data Warehousing Foundation, Dynamic Tiering, SDI but also Platform Edition,
which brings us to the version page again.
It can be a bit of a labyrinth, if you are new to this.
If we return to the initial page and select By Category
You can see that SAP HANA is listed under SAP In-Memory and this brings us back to the
page with VORA and the Add-ons, we already saw.
Enterprise edition, by the way, will guide you to SAP Data Services (former Business Objects)
and the SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (Netweaver technology)
but not to SAP HANA at all.
Just the additional enterprise edition components.
HANA Platform brings us the options.
Again, there is a separate video about edition and options - and also a blog on the Academy
I will add the link to the description of this video below.
For those that are less familiar on this topic.
To download SAP HANA, select platform edition and then edition 2.0.
Note that we now have a button here for Support Packages and Patches
and if we select it, we get the support packages and patches for all components.
Like I said, it is quite a list.
But notice that now the button has changed into Installations and Upgrades
and if we select it, we get back to our main release page.
So, it is very easy to toggle between the main release (SPS) and the minor releases (revisions).
The Info tab gives us additional information and like we discussed in the tutorial video about
documentation, this is yet another area where we will find references to important SAP Notes.
Here we have the Central Note, the Maintenance Strategy, Supported Operating Systems, and so on.
We already looked at them, plus a reference to the PAM and the Master Guide,
which will both list some of these notes, once again.
For the downloads, click installation
And here we find a list of 20 items available to download.
This is today, tomorrow might be different.
We can see that SAP HANA cockpit is included.
We find both Linux on Power and Linux on Intel, 64 bit.
So, pay attention to that.
And then, the actual download is split.
You can see that WinRAR is used, with one self-extracting executable file, EXE, and
three RAR files.
With a reference to multispanning and UNIX, explained in an SAP Note.
For Power, this is the same thing.
Also note that both SPS02 revision 20 and SPS01 revision 10 are listed.
SPS 00 is no longer available.
If we quickly switch to the PAM
You can see that here: General Information, Support Package Stacks: Archived.
Again, SPS is the mayor release.
In the past, this would be on a DVD, and it includes all components, server, clients (all of them)
studio, XSA, AFL, you name it
To download, you can select the link
Or you can tick the box and then select the shopping cart
We can see that they have been added.
And if we then select Download Basket, here in the footer, we see them listed.
You would then have to install the download manager, a Java application - so works on
any platform, to perform the actual download.
If we then return to our list and select Support Packages and Patches.
Now, we would first have to select the actual component we want to download
and remember, a component is a separate installable unit,
So, let’s pick the SAP HANA database.
13 items available to download
This time, for the architecture, there is a selection box: Power or Intel.
Then, if we ignore the debug symbol packages,
we have revision 2.00.012 (SPS 01), 2.00.022 (SPS 02), and 2.00.002 (SPS 00).
For all mayor releases, we are on the second revision, in other words, 2, 12 and 22.
The revision comes as a SAR file, an SAP Archive file, somewhat similar to a UNIX TAR file but not quite.
We will look into extracting SAR files in another video.
So, if you are already on SPS 02 and you want the latest revision for this release,
revision 22, here, is the one you need.
Again, you can download it directly or add it to your download basket.
That’s the long w ay home.
What about the shortcut?
Well, as mentioned, for this we have the PAM.
For the mayor release, select Installation & Upgrade
bring us straight to the DVD’s, say
and Support packages and patches brings us straight to the list of components.
Might save you a bit of time, there, looking for stuff.
Now, before we wrap up, we also have some free trials.
Just google "SAP Trials" and then here we find the SAP HANA client, for example.
Click Download, and it will actual direct you to the SAP Store, where you can get this as a free download.
Select Trial Version, provide contact information and agree to the terms and then you will get
an email which will direct you to a download page.
Note that here we only have revision 120 for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux.
Revision 120 would be SPS 12, HANA 1.0
So not the latest versions, and not for all platforms, no UNIX, no IBM Power, for example.
For HANA studio, you can go to tools.hana.ondemand.com and select the HANA tab.
Here it is explained how you can add the studio plugin to your Eclipse environment.
There are videos already on this in the installation playlist of the SAP HANA Academy.
It is pretty straight forward.
So, for some components, HANA client, HANA studio, there are alternative download locations
but for most, particularly any licensed software, you have to go to the Software Download Center
on the SAP ONE Support Portal, for which an SAP account will be required.
OK - so much for downloading SAP HANA software.
In the next video, I will show you how to download the installation media for a mayor
release, SPS 02, and how to extract the files, and also how to download the latest for this SPS.revision
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