Wednesday 19 October 2016

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

In my previous blog Secure your HANA, express edition I described how to register your HANA, express edition system with SUSE to receive critical security updates.

In this blog I will leverage this work to describe how to upgrade your HANA, express edition to the latest patch level. However, please be aware, that

  1. This increases the memory required from 7 GB to 9 GB for the Server only option.
  2. Also, temporarily, 24 GB of available RAM are needed for the upgrade.

To start with, I update the preinstalled VMware Tools to mount shared folders with the upgrade software packages.

As a prerequisite, I install the gcc:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

and kernel-default-devel packages:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

Then I mound the VMware Tools volume, copy and extract the file and run the installer. There is an existing version of VMware Tools installed, which I uninstall in the process:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

The two packages I installed earlier are needed in the configuration step:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

With that I can mount my upgrade directory:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

Next, I shut down my system to increase the memory size from its original 7 GB to 24 GB:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

From HANA Studio I start the HANA Platform Lifecycle Management, select my HANA Database upgrade package and add the HANA AFL upgrade package:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

As a result, my HANA Database will be upgraded from version 1.00.122.01 to version 1.00.122.02:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

This can take a while:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

But eventually, the update finishes successfully:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

Last but not least, I reduce the memory to now 9 GB:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

And everything is working nicely on the new version:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

Don’t worry about the one alert with HIGH priority. Logging into the HANA Cockpit reveals that this is due to the Log mode OVERWRITE which is fine for a sandbox system like this:

Upgrade your HANA, express edition

Source: scn.sap.com

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