Building a SAP HANA Server

[Former Member]

Hi everyone,

My name is Stephen and I'll be building a HANA server with my company soon.  I came across this CRM on HANA cookbook >> https://cookbook.experiencesaphana.com/crm/deploying-crm-on-hana/

And I am wondering, can I use this as a general setup guide for building my company's HANA server, even if I don't use it for CRM purposes.

My plan is to use that guide for it's pre-installation, installation and post installation up till the part about "Activating the SAP CRM web client" portion. Then I plan to add SAP Business Suite 4.0 instead of SAP CRM. 

Looking for some advice on installation of HANA server.  If anyone know of a common checklist that I should perform that would be great too.

Thanks! Looking forward to everyone's answers/suggestions.

[former_member187175]

Hi Stephen,

HANA comes pre-installed by the hardware partner on the HANA Appliance. Once delivered onsite the partner runs a HANA rename tool to set your hostname, ip address, networking, etc. Then it can be update the to the latest version, some partners do this for you. The installation guide on help.sap.com/hana is a generic guide, but does not get into details like storage configuration and network setup. The hardware partner sets this up according to how (the hardware was certified and gets the best performance.

As for the cookbook, there is also an ERP on HANA cookbook:

https://cookbook.experiencesaphana.com/erp/d62e56e8ac5840f2b198c0c905892407.html

Regards,

Serge

[vivekbhoj]

Hi Stephen,

Check the guide as mentioned by Sunny

Additionally you can also check:

Server Installation and Update Guide:

http://www.saphana.com/docs/DOC-1031

Regards,

Vivek

[former_member187175]

Hi Vivek,

the link you posted is an old guide and should only be used for SAP HANA SP4. Since SAP HANA SP6 has been out for months please always use the latest guides which uses HANA Lifecycle Manager to update SAP HANA: http://help.sap.com/hana_platform/#section2

If you use the guide you posted to update or install SAP HANA SP6 you will have an incomplete installation.

Regards,

Serge

[vivekbhoj]

Thanks for the update Serge

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hello,

You can follow below guide for HANA installation.

http://help.sap.com/hana/SAP_HANA_Server_Installation_Guide_en.pdf

Thanks,

Sunny