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 the available documentation for this task.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In the previous video, we discussed the PAM, the Product Availability Matrix - a great
source of information to prepare yourself for an SAP HANA installation.
In the Related Links section, we find a link to the Master Guide, the Installation / Upgrade Guide,
Release Notes, and some additional notes like Release Restrictions, Additional Release Information,
and Compatibility Information.
So how does this work?
Where do we start?
My suggestion, is to go first to the SAP Help Portal.
Note that this will open the SAP HANA platform product page for us, directly in the portal.
No need to go searching for it.
We also get the latest version, at the time of the recording: SAP HANA platform 2.0 SPS 02, July 2017
For documentation about earlier releases, you can use the drop-down menu, here.
On the Help Portal, we find What’s New information, the release note - including some of our video
material on this topic but also a section about Installation and Upgrade.
The SAP HANA Master Guide, Server Installation and Update Guide
Client Installation and Update Guide, and so on.
View All lists them all, adding the Direct Extractor Connection and the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA
plus yet another note: Supported Operating Systems - we will discuss SAP notes in a minute.
The Master Guide is our entry point, so let’s start with that.
The Master Guide is also listed on the PAM in the Related Links section.
If you are new to SAP HANA, you should certainly go through this guide.
You can download it as PDF, it is about 80 pages.
But also if you have been working with HANA for some time now, it still is a good idea
to browse the guide for any updates.
The guide provides some use cases, describes the architecture - we will discuss this in
a separate video platform software componentsand deployment options, on-premise or cloud and
finally, some general information about sizing and the installation process.
So, that’s the Master Guide.
Then, for each component, we have a separate guide.
So, for example, for the HANA server, we have the SAP HANA Server Installation and Update Guide
The y all have a similar structure: starting with an overview.
Where to download the software - we will discuss this in a separate video in this series
Important concepts and requirements Concepts: what’s an instance, what’s a system?
System types: single-host, distributed.
Deployment types: MCOD, MCOS, virtualized.
Server architecture of tenant databases: MDC - multi-tenant database container systems,
and then how to use the tooling, the installer: SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM)
then the installation process is described: mandatory installation values, changeable defaults.
Plus the guide also describes how to update your system, manage components - say, add
the AFL, the Application Function Library, and also, of course, how to perform an uninstall.
Again, you can generate your own PDF.
For download.
It is about 200 pages, this guide, a bit more - but the last part is the parameter reference.
Also note the Important SAP Notes section.
As you can see, it is quite a list.
Two pages.
There is a central note for SAP HANA, another one for the platform, another one for the
database, another for SAP HANA cockpit, and one for the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA.
The lists goes on.
If we open the platform SPS 02 Release Note, for example.
In the header, we can see the release status: RTC; the version (make sure you are reading the latest),
and then basically, all we find are references to other notes.
There is a note for What’s New.
There is a note for the revision and maintenance strategy.
This will be exactly the same one as the link on the PAM, you may recall.
The note will also be listed in the Master Guide, no doubt.
Supported Operating systems, we already saw that one
Supported Hardware; here we have the Hardware Directory list again, we already looked at
briefly in the previous video about PAM
A note about Release Restrictions, also referenced on the PAM and the Master Guide.
Documentation Additions; also important.
The documentation is published with the release.
Any inaccuracies or omissions are listed in this note.
The documentation itself is not updated, appears to be for legal reasons.
So, check the note.
And then we have a whole list of references and depending on the note, sometimes attachments.
Here we find a guide attached about sizing and system migration, for example.
Depends on the note.
Now, to be fair, if you just get started, this might be a bit intimidating.
You have your installation guide.
For more information, you have to check a certain note:
Supported Operating Systems, which in turn references another note:
SAP HANA guidelines for SUSE Linux, which has another configuration guide attached
(probably with some more notes)
but then there are also notes for each specific SUSE Linux release
with recommended operating system settings which references yet more SAP Notes.
Now, the longer you work with these notes, the more familiar you will be with them.
It might take a bit of time to get used to it but they will become a critical source
of information when working with SAP software
and again, you will find SAP Notes listed in the guides and also on the product availability matrix, for example.
and when we get to the SAP Software Download Center - guess what?
We will find the same references to SAP Notes.
OK - so much for this brief introduction about the available documentation concerning
SAP H ANA platform installation and update.
In the next video, we will take a look at where we can download the software.
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