Updating an SAP HANA System Landscape - Overview

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Updating an SAP HANA System Landscape - Overview

 Revision Update

1. Support Packages (SPS) Update
2. Version Upgrade – SAP HANA 1.0 to SAP HANA 2.0

SAP HANA system components like,

• SAP HANA Database
• SAP HANA client
• SAP HANA studio

Additional system components like,

• Application Function Libraries (AFL, EML and the product-specific AFLs IBP, RTL, TRP, VCH, XRP)
• SAP liveCache applications (SAP LCA or LCAPPS plug-in)
• SAP HANA EPM-MDS (EPMMDS plug-in)
• XS advanced runtime applications
• SAP HANA smart data access (SDA)
• SAP HANA XS Advanced Runtime

Above components can be updated using the SAP HANA database lifecycle manager (HDBLCM)

 

To update an SAP HANA system, we need to first download the individual components from Service Marketplace (SMP). This can be done manually download.

Prerequisite:

1. Before starting the update for the components in your SAP HANA landscape several prerequisites have to be fulfilled.

 Make sure you fulfil the following prerequisites:

• If you are performing an offline update, you have all the necessary installation files for the individual components.
• You have a valid, permanent SAP license for the SAP HANA database.
• You have user names and passwords for the following users:
  • <sid>adm user
  • sapadm user
  • S-user for the SAP Support Portal
• You have carefully read the update instructions for the individual components.
• You have made the necessary preparations to perform backups for the SAP HANA database and the other components.

1. Check you planned SAP Hana Target Version & Current Operating System Version. If required OS Upgrade for Target Planned SAP HANA version first Upgrade OS.

Upgrade the Operating System

The different versions of the SAP HANA Platform are only supported on specific operating system versions. For information about supported operating system versions for SAP HANA, see "SAP Note 2235581 - SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems".

When updating to SAP HANA Platform 2.0 SPS 00, you may need to upgrade the operating system. For information about the upgrade, refer to the documentation of the operating system vendor. For the operating system, we recommend that you choose a new installation as the upgrade procedure. We recommend the following procedures:

• RHEL

For RHEL 7.2 we recommend a new installation.

• SLES

For SLES 12 SP1 we recommend a new installation.

Here we example to take SAP HANA Database Component

Source System: 2.00.040.00 (Revision 40)

Target System: We planned to Update Revision 48

Source Version:

Software From Service Market Place with SAPCAR from Extract SAR File

Start Resident HDBLCM from below location:

Target Version: