Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
My name is Denys van Kempen and in this video tutorial series, we will discuss
installation and update for SAP HANA SPS 12.
The topic of this video tutorial is the Software Download Center.
You can access the Software Download Center on the SAP Support Portal on
support.sap.com/swdc (software download center)
and then select the 'Software Downloads' button on the page.
This will show the new SAP One Support Launchpad, which is a new UI with the Fiori look-and-feel
but the flow is the same as before.
So we have our two main access points, ‘Installations & Upgrades’ and ‘Support Packages & Patches’
and for SAP HANA this refers to either the main Support Package Stack, the main release
that come out every six months or so and the intermediate revisions, which come out
in a more higher frequency.
So we have ‘Installations & Upgrades’, that’s support package stack and we have
‘Support Packages & Patches’ and that’s revisions.
You can either navigate through the downloads by alphabetical index and HANA obviously would
be under the H, or by category and HANA is under SAP In-Memory.
In this category we not only find the Platform Edition but also the Enterprise Edition, additional
components, add-ons, and SAP Vora.
Select the Platform Edition, and then the next page will show, not only the SAP HANA
Platform Edition, but also all the different options: Data Warehousing Foundation,
Dynamic Tiering, Remote Data Sync, and so on.
If you are not familiar with the SAP HANA options, I suggest you take a look at help.sap.com
/ hana_options, and here you will find additional information.
Select the Platform Edition, then under the Info tab some general information about
SAP HANA Platform is given.
What is HANA?
The comprised parts, so those are the software components.
The Platform Edition contains several software components and a software component is a separately
installable unit.
So, not only do we have the SAP HANA database but, for example, we also have the SAP HANA studio,
the SAP HANA clients, and some additional components.
We find here also links to important SAP Notes, information about the license key, and documentation
and support.
I am returning to downloads and now I select my Platform Edition and now very conveniently,
at this stage, I can toggle here between ‘Support Packages & Patches’ and
‘Installations & Upgrades’, so the mayor support package stacks and the revisions and there is also
a link to the Product Availability Matrix we have discussed in a previous video.
I select Installation, and here we find our downloads.
For the SAP HANA Platform Edition SPS 12 they are divided into three separate downloads
and note, for example, for SPS 12 here, we have to select all three items, one-two-three.
First is an executable, the other two are RAR files.
So together, this will make a self-extracting zipped or RAR bundle.
If this was put in a single file it would have been 9 gigabytes, which is too big,
of course, for a 32-bit platform.
So, that is why it is split up: 4, 4 and 1.5.
Apart from the Platform Edition for 64-bit Intel, we also have the version for Power,
SPS 12.
We have the latest Data Service Point release for SPS 11.
Then there is the base release for SPS 11 for 64-bit Intel and the Power architecture.
There is SPS 10 and SPS 8, and that’s it.
Then you can either click the link to directly download the item or you can select it and
add it to the Download Basket and if I select the Download Basket link here below, we find
the items and then we can use the Download Manager, which you can download from the Support
Portal to perform the download unattended.
The Download Manager is a Java application that will run either on Linux or Windows and
it will manage your downloads, restart it when it is interrupted, etc.
OK. So much for downloading software from the
Software Download Center.
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