Chapter 2. Planning an upgrade
An in-place upgrade is the recommended and supported way to upgrade your SAP HANA system to the next major version of RHEL.
Consider the following before upgrading to RHEL 9:
Operating system:
- SAP HANA is installed with a version that is supported on both the source and target RHEL minor versions.
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SAP HANA is installed using the default installation path of
/hana/shared.
Public clouds:
- In-place upgrades are supported for on-demand Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) instances on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform with Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI). In-place upgrades are also supported for Bring Your Own Subscription instances on all public clouds that use Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM) for a RHEL subscription.
Additional Information:
SAP HANA hosts must meet all of the following criteria:
- Running with normal repositories on RHEL 8.10
- Running on x86_64 or ppc64le systems which are certified by the hardware partner or CCSP for SAP HANA on the source and target OS versions
- Running on physical infrastructure or in a virtual environment
- Using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions subscription
SAP NetWeaver hosts must meet the following criteria:
- Using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions or Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Applications subscription
RHEL 8.10 is the final RHEL 8 release. There are no EUS or E4S repositories available in RHEL 8.10. RHEL 8.10 maintenance is defined by the Maintenance Support Phase policy.