2021789 - SAP HANA Revision and Maintenance Strategy

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Symptom

You're seeking guidance on when to implement which type and release of an SAP HANA Revision, depending on your specific scenario.

For optimal usage and transition to, for example, SPS 08 the following recommendations should be followed.

Other Terms

SAP HANA revision strategy, SAP HANA Maintenance Revision, SAP HANA Datacenter Service Point,

Reason and Prerequisites

l You are facing planned or unplanned maintenance of the SAP HANA database to a SAP HANA Revision 69 or newer l You are familiar with SAP HANA Revisions, SAP HANA Maintenance Revisions and SAP HANA Datacenter Service Points, as described in the SAP HANA Revision Strategy document available from https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001182742013

Solution

SAP is strongly committed to supporting all of its customers by shipping regular corrections and updates for the SAP HANA Platform and all of its components. With the availability of SAP HANA Revisions, SAP HANA Maintenance Revision and the SAP HANA Datacenter Service Point, SAP provides several options to maintain or upgrade to a new release of SAP HANA. In the following we provide guidance as to when - and on the basis of which Revision – SAP HANA customers should schedule their maintenance:

l Customers running SAP HANA in a non-production environment or with a planned Go-live date more than 6 weeks in advance, may adopt new SAP HANA Support Package Stacks like the newly released SPS08 at any time of their personal choosing, depending on their individual requirements and demands. SAP further proposes the implementation of the highest SAP HANA Revisions available on SAP Service Marketplace in case of any SW related issues to benefit from incremental, but non-disruptive improvements, provided by the latest SAP HANA Revisions.

l To customers running SAP HANA in production environments or with a planned Go-live of less than 6 weeks, SAP recommends to stay on / to use the current Support Package Stack until the next SAP HANA Datacenter Service Point is reached. SAP therefore provides SAP HANA Maintenance Revisions, which allow you to stay on an older SPS for up to three months longer, while fixing major bugs only. Once the SAP HANA Datacenter Service Point is reached, customers should adopt the referenced SAP production system verified SAP HANA Revision.

More information on available SAP HANA Support Package Stacks and corresponding Maintenance Revisions can be found in the following release notes:

As part of its Going Live Service SAP offers continuous SAP HANA quality checks services for planned go lives and upgrades. Please refer to SAP Note 1892593 for more preperation details.

SAP further recommends to ensure that SAP EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) has been activated in your SAP HANA environment to ensure that you will get the latest up-to-date technical recommendation related to your SAP HANA landscape. For more information, please refer to SAP Note

2021789 - SAP HANA Revision and Maintenance Strategy

Version 7 Validity: 27.08.2014 - active Language English (Master)

Released On 27.08.2014 10:13:12

Release Status Released for Customer

Component HAN-DB SAP HANA Database

Priority Recommendations / Additional Info

Category Consulting

Support Package Stack Start Revision

Revision as of Datacenter Service Point (SAP production system verified SAP HANA Revision)

Last revision in SPS (before switch to Maintenance Revision)

1848976 - SAP HANA Platform SPS 06 Release Note

1880274 - SAP HANA appliance: Revision 60 of SAP HANA database

n.A.1935871 - SAP HANA SPS 06 Database Revision 69


1944771 - SAP HANA SPS 07 Database Revision 70






to be defined

1958910.

For any emergency corrections, please report the issue by sending the related incident ticket back to SAP. Any open issues and questions in regards to whether upgrading to a certain release, like SPS 08 or upgrading to a certain SAP HANA Maintenance Revision, please open a customer message under component XX-SER-RU-SHIP.

Further Information:

[1] SAP Release Strategy Brochure available from https://service.sap.com/releasestrategy [2] SAP HANA Revision Strategy available from https://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700001182742013 [3] Related blog on saphana.com http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2014/04/02/when-to-upgrade-your-sap-hana-system [4] Related blog on saphana.com http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2013/12/12/innovating-and-maintaining-sap-hana-with-sps-and-revisions

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References

This document refers to:

SAP Notes

This document is referenced by:

SAP Notes (10)

Software Component From Rel. To Rel. And Subsequent

HDB 1.00 1.00

2004651 SAP HANA Platform SPS 08 Release Note

1958910 EarlyWatch Alert For HANA Database

1948334 SAP HANA Database Update Paths for Maintenance Revisions

1935871 SAP HANA SPS 06 Database Maintenance Revisions


1892593 Preparing Support Services for SAP HANA Scenarios

1329189 GoingLive check for solutions

2047977 SAP HANA SPS 08 Database Revision 82

2043509 SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver Java on a Single Host

2043465 SAP HANA SPS 07 Database Maintenance Revision 74.04




1600929 SAP BW powered by SAP HANA DB: Information




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