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Upgrading Plug-in for SAP HANA

Periodically, Veeam releases a new version of Veeam Backup & Replication that contains new features and bug fixes. The release package also contains a new version of Veeam Plug-ins.

If you want to upgrade Veeam Plug-in, note that Veeam Backup & Replication must be the same or later that the version of Veeam Plug-in. If you want to use the latest functionality, you must upgrade both Veeam Backup & Replication and to the latest version. After the upgrade, you don't need to to re-run the Veeam Plug-in configuration wizard, the plug-in configuration files will be preserved.

Important

Mind the following:

Version of Veeam Backup & Replication must be the same or later that the version of Veeam Plug-in. First, you must upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication, then you can upgrade Veeam Plug-ins. For instructions on how to upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 11 section of the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Operations in the terminal of the Linux machine require root privileges.
If you want to upgrade Veeam Plug-in on an SAP HANA scale-out cluster, repeat the described upgrade process on all cluster nodes.

Before You Begin

Veeam Plug-in installation files are included in the installation disk image of Veeam Backup & Replication. You must upload the installation file to the SAP HANA server. To do this, perform the following steps.

Mount the Veeam Backup & Replication installation disk (VeeamBackup&Replication_11.X.X.XXXX.iso).
Open the mounted disk image and go to the Plugins\SAP HANA\x64 directory.
Select the the Veeam Plug-in installation file and upload it to the SAP HANA server.

For instructions on how to upgrade Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA, see the following guides:

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (RPM)
Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (TAR.GZ)

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (.RPM)

To upgrade Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA from the .RPM package, perform the following:

Upload the new VeeamPluginforSAPHANA-11.X.X.XXXX.x86_64.rpm package to the SAP HANA server.
Run the following command. Note that the operation requires root privileges.

rpm -U VeeamPluginforSAPHANA-11.X.X.XXXX.x86_64.rpm

Tip

To find out which version of Veeam Plug-in is installed on your server, you can use the following command: rpm -qa | grep VeeamPlugin*

Upgrading Plug-in on Linux (.TAR.GZ)

To upgrade Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA on a Linux machine from the .TAR.GZ archive, do the following:

Upload the VeeamPluginforSAPHANA.tar.gz file to the SAP HANA server.
In the terminal, open the folder that contains the VeeamPluginforSAPHANA.TAR.GZ archive.

Unpack the plug-in files from the archive to the /opt/veeam directory. Old Veeam Plug-in files will be replaced by new files.

tar -xzvf VeeamPluginforSAPHANA.tar.gz -C /opt/veeam