SAP Note

1944799 - SAP HANA Guidelines for SLES Operating System Installation

Component: HAN-DB (SAP HANA Database), Version: 19, Released On: 20.12.2019

Symptom
For the first release of SAP HANA, SAP followed a very strict approach on controlling the initial setup and later maintenance of the
underlying operating system.
Over time, SAP considerably relaxed the conditions under which the operating system may be installed and configured. SAP Notes
1730928, 2055470 and 1730999 are examples of this additional flexibility.
With the availability of the installation certification exam customers (and of course also our partners) now have even more freedom of
choice in how to build their SAP HANA system.
This freedom also causes some drawbacks, however. The installation of the operating system - the layer between the hardware, shipped
by the SAP HANA certified hardware vendors and the SAP HANA software, supplied and documented through SAP - was also part of the
classic SAP HANA appliance delivery process. In the case of customers installing a SAP HANA system, the operating system
installation is of course also the responsibility of the customer. Nevertheless it is not explicitly part of the SAP HANA documentation,
nor the hardware partner offering.

Other Terms
HANA operating system, SLES, rpm

Reason and Prerequisites

For a list of hardware platforms and supported operatings system releases check SAP Note 2235581.

Solution
Check the attached document.

Attributes
Key Value

Other Components BC-OP-LNX-SUSE (SUSE Linux)

Operating system LINUX/INTEL

Software Components
Software Component From To And subsequent

HDB 1.00 1.00

HDB 2.00 2.00

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

784391 BC-OP-LNX SAP support terms and 3rd-party Linux kernel drivers

2235581 HAN-DB SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems

2228351 BC-OP-LNX Linux: SAP HANA Database SPS 11 revision 110 (or higher) on RHEL 6 or SLES 11

2205917 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 12 / SLES for SAP Applications 12

2055470 HAN-LM-INS HANA on POWER Planning and Installation Specifics - Central Note

2009879 HAN-DB SAP HANA Guidelines for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System
2001528 BC-OP-LNX Linux: SAP HANA Database SPS 08, SPS 09 and SPS 10 on RHEL 6 or SLES 11

1855805

1824819 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 11 / SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2

1730999 HAN-DB Configuration changes to SAP HANA system

1730928 HAN-DB Using external software in a HANA appliance

171356 BC-OP-LNX SAP Software on Linux: General information

1635304 HAN Central note for HANA support connections

1606643 BC-OP-LNX-ESX Linux: VMware vSphere host monitoring interface

1597355 BC-OP-LNX Swap-space recommendation for Linux

1056161 BC-OP-LNX-SUSE SUSE Priority Support for SAP applications

This document is referenced by

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

2981495 HANA is failing to start and system got hung post OS patching

2890314 HAN-LM-INS-DB Is HANA db reinstallation required in case of OS upgrade

2779331 HAN-DB HANA services use large SWAP memory

2684254 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 15 / SLES for SAP Applications 15

2588272 HAN-DB SAP HANA Support for aggregated virtualized environments

2369910 BC-OP-LNX SAP Software on Linux: General information

1984787 BC-OP-LNX SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 12: Installation notes

2240716 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 11 / SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP4

1954788 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 11 / SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3

1824819 HAN-DB SAP HANA DB: Recommended OS settings for SLES 11 / SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2

1730999 HAN-DB Configuration changes to SAP HANA system

1953429 HAN-LM-INS SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP on one Server

2235581 HAN-DB SAP HANA: Supported Operating Systems

1943937 HAN-DB Hardware Configuration Check Tool - Central Note

2165826 HAN-DB SAP HANA Platform SPS 10 Release Note

405827 BC-OP-LNX Linux: Recommended file systems

2055470 HAN-LM-INS HANA on POWER Planning and Installation Specifics - Central Note

2009879 HAN-DB SAP HANA Guidelines for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Operating System

2004651 HAN-DB SAP HANA Platform 1.0 SPS 08 Release Note

Attachments
File Name File Mime Type
Size

hana_sps11_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_11_x_for_SAP_Applications_Configuration_Guide_for_SAP_HANA_en.pdf 1707 application/pdf

hana_sps12_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_11_x_for_SAP_Applications_Configuration_Guide_for_SAP_HANA_en.pdf 1700 application/pdf

SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_x_for_SAP_Applications_Configuration_Guide_for_SAP_HANA_en.pdf 1530 application/pdf

SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_15_x_for_SAP_Applications_Configuration_Guide_for_SAP_HANA_en.pdf 1828 application/pdf