Performing a Near Zero Downtime SAP HANA Update

You can update an SAP HANA database and the SAP HANA database components. After the update, the database is started again with the updated components in place.

Prerequisites

The general prerequisites for instance operations have been met.

For more information, see General Prerequisites for Instance Operations.
You comply with all prerequisites described in the Operations Guide for SAP HANA Tenant Databases.

For more information, see SAP HANA Tenant Databases Operations Guide.
You have retrieved the SAP HANA version and component versions.

For more information, see Configuring Additional Instance Information.
You have prepared your upgrade files on a host, and you have succesfully created an SAP HANA update repository, which has discovered release configurations (the SAP HANA update files).

For more information, see SAP HANA Update Repository.
Optional: You have specified the system user credentials and sidadm password during instance configuration.

For more information, see Configuring Databases.

Context

Using SAP HANA hdblcm mechanism, the SAP HANA database and its components can be updated to desired versions.

Procedure

Choose Operations .
Choose Systems from the tabs.
From the Operations dropdown for the tenant database, choose SAP HANA Processes Near Zero Downtime SAP HANA Update.
Choose  Parameters Required .
Navigate through the workflow and provide the parameters required.
Choose Set.
Choose Next.

All steps included in the process are displayed in a graphical form.

Note To view more details or to change parameters and settings such as the log and operation mode for an individual step, select a process step.
Choose Execute.

Next Steps

You can manage activities related to the operation that is currently running.

For more information, see Performing Operations on Activities.
You can view the log of all tasks involved in the process.

For more information, see Working with Logs.