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You need operating system root access to the SAP HANA appliance. All appliances must be registered with SUSE or Red Hat before you can upgrade to a later version using an operating system upgrade tool (for example, Zypper or yum).
To determine if a supported upgrade path is available for your hardware and operating system version, see the SAP HANA operating system revisions matrix.