End of maintenance for HANA 2.0 SPS05 in 2025 - plan your upgrade path

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS08 was released to customers at the end of November 2024. The release has 4 years of maintenance. In parallel, SPS05 will remain under maintenance until December 2025 and SPS07 until April 2028.

Feedback of customer projects and the labyrinth of the roles & responsibilities list

With SPS06 and even stronger in SPS07 the HEX engine was pushed to be used more often. This results on the one hand side in easy scenario to perfect results with lower memory and CPU consumption ending up in faster response times. But in scenarios with FAE (for all entries) together with FDA (fast data access), it can result in bad performance. After some customers upgraded their first systems to SPS07 I recommended to wait for Rev. 73/74. But some started early with Rev. 71/72 and we had to troubleshoot many statement. If you have similar performance issues after the upgrade to SPS07 feel free to contact us! Our current recommendation is to use Rev. 74 with some workarounds. The performance degradation is extreme in systems like EWM and BW with high analytical workload.

Please notice that when you want to run HANA 2.0 SPS07, you need defined OS levels. As you can see RHEL7 and SLES12 are not certified for SPS07. The SPS07 release of HANA is the basis for the S/4HANA release 2023 which is my recommended go-to release for the next years. Keep in mind that you have to go to SPS07 when you are running SPS06 because it will run out of maintenance end of 2023.

news instances with SAPS, memory and CPU values in comparison

Unforeseen cloud cost increases - RedHat announced back in January this year that the costs for cloud partners will be changed effective April 1, 2024. They called it scalable pricing.

SAP HANA 2.0 SPS08 Roadmap and features Q4 2024