Build Own SAP HANA Home Training Server – VMware Images

Continuing my series for building own SAP HANA training server in this video I am goosing to show you my progress. I already wrote about buying guide and also about installing the memory on my workstation. In this post you will see screen recordings from my workstation showing you my VMware images with BPC 10.1 NW SP05 installed on MSSQL and HANA databases.

It took me really a lot of time to setup it. Probably about 3-4 weeks in the evenings after work I invested at least 1-2 hours each day. For sure it was not boring to me to do that. I learned a lot about the components on which BPC and HANA are build and I strongly believe this will help me in the future.

I started with installing BPC 10.1 on Netweaver single instance with MS SQL as a database and then move to installation on HANA SP09. Below you will see the screen recordings showing you my success.

By the way, as I mentioned in the videos, both images are upgraded till the latest patches available for the both BW and BPC. This was due to many bugs I found during my initial testing of the images. The MSSQL image ended being almost 60 GB in size, but the HANA images both combined are around 90 GB. Stay tuned to get my next videos which where I will start exploring BPC 10.1 Classic and Embedded versions.