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SAP HANA Operating System Upgrade
Available upgrade paths for scale-up solutions
Scale-up solutions upgrade paths

Scale-up solutions upgrade paths

  • Before performing an upgrade, determine if an upgrade path is available for your appliance and operating system version.

    For a Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system upgrade, it is recommended that you subscribe to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS channel to stay on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7. For more information, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase.

    If the current SAP HANA system is based on the PowerEdge R910, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 is the latest release for the Dell Technologies and SUSE certified platforms.

    To manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) model, determine if an upgrade to a later hardware generation is possible. With every CPU generation, expect a performance gain of up to 30 percent. The memory limits are increased from the PowerEdge R910 (up to 512 GB) to R940 (Skylake) (up to 6 TB).

    The following tables list the available upgrade paths for PowerEdge servers.

    Table 6.              Available upgrade paths for PowerEdge R910 scale-up systems

    Server model (CPU)

    Supported operating systems

    R910 (Intel Xeon X7560)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1/SP2 for SAP applications

    R910 (Intel Xeon E7-4870)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1/SP2/SP3 for SAP applications

    Table 7.              Available upgrade paths for PowerEdge R920 scale-up systems

    Server model (CPU)

    Supported operating systems

    R920 (Intel Ivy Bridge)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GM/SP1/SP2 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5/ 6.6/6.7 for SAP HANA

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 for SAP Solutions

    Table 8.              Available upgrade paths for PowerEdge R930 scale-up systems

    Server model (CPU)

    Supported operating systems

    R930 (Intel Haswell)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GM/SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6/ 6.7 for SAP HANA

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2/7.3/7.4/7.5/7.6 for SAP Solutions

    R930 (Intel Broadwell)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1/SP2/SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 GM/SP1 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 for SAP HANA

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2/7.3/7.4/7.5/7.6 for SAP HANA

    Table 9.              Available upgrade paths for PowerEdge R940 scale-up systems

    Server model (CPU)

    Supported operating systems

    R940/R740xd (Intel Skylake)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2/SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 GM/SP1 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3/7.4/7.5/7.6 for SAP HANA

    R940 (Cascade Lake)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 for SAP applications

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 GM/SP1 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 for SAP Solutions

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 for SAP Solutions

    Table 10.           Available upgrade paths for PowerEdge R840 scale-up system

    Server model (CPU)

    Supported operating systems

    R840 (Intel Skylake)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3/SP4 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4/7.5/7.6 for SAP Solutions

    R840 (Intel Cascade Lake)

    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 GM/SP1 for SAP applications

     

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 for SAP Solutions

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 for SAP Solutions

    To identify the latest version of the service pack that you can use with an appliance, see Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory.