HANA SP Upgrade (Revision and Maintenance) Strategy

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SAP HANA DB Update paths-

An upgrade from maintenance revision 69.01, 69.02, 69.03, 69.04, 69.05, 69.06, 69.07 to SP revision 70.00 (SPS 07) will not be possible due to incompatibility of these versions.

An upgrade from maintenance revision 69.04 to SP revision 70.00, 71.00, 72.00, 73.00 will not be possible due to the incompatibility of these

versions.

An upgrade from maintenance revision 74.01, 74.02, 74.03 to SP revision 80.00 (SPS 08) will not be possible due to the incompatibility of these

versions.

An upgrade from maintenance revision 74.03 to SP revision 81.00 (SPS 08) will not be possible due to the incompatibility of these versions.

Current maintenance revision               Possible target SP or maintenance revisions

Revision 69.00                                    Upgrade to revision 70.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.01                                    Upgrade to revision 71.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.02                                    Upgrade to revision 71.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.03                                    Upgrade to revision 71.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.04                                    Upgrade to revision 74.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.05                                    Upgrade to revision 74.01 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.06                                    Upgrade to revision 74.01 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 69.07                                    Upgrade to revision 74.01 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 74.01                                    Upgrade to revision 74.02 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 74.02                                    Upgrade to revision 74.03 (or any higher maintenance revision) and revision 81 (or any higher SP revision)

Revision 74.03                                    Upgrade to revision 82.00 (or any higher SP or maintenance revision)

Revision 74.04                                    Upgrade to revision 82.00 (or any higher SP revision)

Please note: The revision numbers 75 to 79 are skipped.

The following table lists all SAP HANA Revision to which this applies:

SAP HANA Datacenter Service Point                SAP production system verified SAP HANA Revision

SPS 07 (released in March 2014)                       SAP HANA database Revision 73

SPS 08 (released in August 2014)                       SAP HANA database Revision 82

SPS 09 (planned for March 2015)

SPS 10 (planned for September 2015)

Please note the following -

->If you upgrade from a Revision prior to SPS 06, first upgrade your system to the latest SPS 06 Revision (Revision 69.07) before upgrading

to this Revision.

->In order to run the SAP HANA Database Revision 80 (or higher) on SLES 11, additional operating system software packages are required.

->With SP09 "SAP HANA STUDIO 2" comes.

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Thanks

DK