Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
My name is Denys van Kempen
and in this video tutorial series we will discuss What's New with SAP HANA SPS 12.
The topic of this video tutorial is SAP HANA server installation and update.
For those that have performed SAP HANA server updates before
you will be familiar with the download location of the HANA software and any tools that you can use.
Of course, you could always logon to the SAP Service Market Place in a browser
and go to SWDC, the software download center, to download entire
support package stacks or individual components.
Alternatively, you could in SAP HANA studio check for updates.
The advantage here is that SAP HANA studio will detect what is locally installed on SAP HANA server
it will check what is currently available on the Service Market Place and
then will propose the components for you to download.
Similar functionality, of course, is also available in the SAP Solution Manager with the Maintenance Optimizer
but what's new for Support Package Stack 12 is that we now have a
download components tile in the SAP HANA lifecycle manager web interface.
Now most of you will be familiar by now with the new SAP One Support launchpad,
it's the familiar SAP Fiori look-and-feel and under System Operations and Maintenance
we have a tile for Software Downloads and if we select that we see the new UI of
the software download center, SWDC, but the dialogues are the same
you can select either Installations and Upgrades for Support Package Stacks
or Support Packages and Patches for individual revisions
and then go by alphabetical index or by category to navigate to the software you want to download.
Now what's new in SPS 12 is that in the SAP HANA platform lifecycle management tool,
the web interface, there is a similar Download Components tile
and when you select it, you'll be prompted to specify authorization
and then the system will make a comparison
with what’s locally installed and what's currently available on the Service Market Place
and proposes the components for you to download
and these you can then either directly download to the SAP HANA server or download to a client
and transfer them to the SAP HANA server using Windows secure copy or an FTP client like FileZilla
then in SPS 11 and earlier versions, you had to run a script
‘hdblcm_prepare.sh’ and this script would perform a number of prerequisites
so that the SAP HANA lifecycle management tool can use the component for installation.
Now new in SPS 12 is that we no longer need to run this script
we can use the hdlcm tool directly with flag ‘action=extract_components’
and this performs the same task.
OK, let's take a look at a live system.
I’m connected here to a Windows computer and have started SAP HANA studio.
I will first connect to an SPS 11 instance.
Menu: Lifecycle Management > Platform lifecycle Management > Check for SAP HANA components update
It will prompt me to log onto the SAP HANA system as the system administrator
so it can detect what is locally installed on the SAP HANA server
and then it will scan the Software Download Center on the SAP Service Market Place for available updates.
The first screen will allow you to make your selection
you will be prompted to provide a download directory
and when you select Finish, the files will be downloaded.
Now if we will perform the same steps in SPS 12:
Lifecycle Management > Platform Lifecycle Management > Check for SAP HANA component update
we will be connected to the lifecycle management web UI,
which will query us for the SAP Support Portal authorisations.
In the next screen, you can then select the components you want to download
and in the final screen you can use the download link.
Then I have transferred the file to the SAP HANA server and started a terminal session as the root user.
I will now switch user as the SAP HANA software owner, SID H12,
so, it's h12adm, and then run the SAP HANA lifecycle manager
with the command ‘action=extract_components’
This will prompt me for the location where I put my downloads
and it will propose a temporary extract directory
and I will accept the default. As it already exists, I will get a warning
Would you like to override it?
That's fine and then a summary before execution, which I will confirm with a yes
and our files will be extracted.
In the same process, we can then perform the update. So, it's the same tool.
Now the action is update components and I will specify component root and then the location to our temporary directory extracted
and this of course could very easily be scripted.
So let's briefly recap using the release notes for SPS 12, the What's New documentation,
SAP HANA Server Installation and Update.
As we've seen, there is now a download components tile in the SAP HANA hdblcm web user interface,
the SAP HANA lifecycle manager, and there is an extract component action added to the SAP HANA hdblcm
resident program in the command line interface.
Further, there are some usability improvements: if the list contains only a single option
it is selected as the default value.
how to install or update the SAP HANA server is documented in the SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide
and here you'll find the lifecycle management tool described
with its web, windows, and command-line interface and the different command line parameters and scripting options that are available.
So much, for what's new with SAP HANA SPS 12 Installation and Update.
Thank you for watching this SAP HANA Academy video.