For Development and Testing purposes (Integrating SAP BO 4.3) it was needed to install SAP HANA Express v2. SAP offers VMWARE images, but i’m using Hyper-V for all VM’s on my development system. So we had to install manually….
But why made the change when SAP is offering a free VMWARE image?
Playing together?
Why can’t Hyper-V and VMWare play nice together? The short answer for
those of us that aren’t virtualization experts – they both want to take
some level of exclusive control of the Hypervisor of the OS. This leads
to a completely incompatible situation where they can’t both have
exclusive control. Now Microsoft and VMWare seem to be working on the
issue by allowing a future version of VMWare to access a new set of
Hypervisor APIs.
It is known SAP HANA Express v2 is not supporting CentOS 8.2 but CentOS is very similar to RHEL (RedHat Enterprise Server). So give it a try ….
At first you have to create a Hyper-V VM with the following credentials:
CentOS 8.2 is supporting EFI drives. So we created a Generation 2 Hyper-V image.
The CentOS 8.2 Image was bound to the DVD drive and we ware installing from there. Firmware was then like the following:
CentOS installed the boot file shim64.efi so that the system can boot properly….
Secure Boot has to be disabled:
Memory has been set to dynamic allocations:
RAM will be allocated dynamically but real life shows its eating up 24 GB’s when running.
2 vCPU should be satisfying but with 4 vCPU’s we’re experiencing better performance
Guest Services should be enabled as well
Installation of CentOS was succeeding successfully without any issue.
The SAP HANA installation was complaining two RPM’s are missing from the system. After installing
HANA Express was up and running within a few minutes and is running pretty fine until now….
On the Windows Client machines you should install:
- HDB Windows Client
- SAP HANA Studio
Be advised you have to manage the firewall settings on the SAP HANA DB server. Port 39015 will be used for Connections…