Last thing you wanna see is to wake up in the morning, run to your machine and see it`s been restarted by Automatic Updates! ? Be patient!!! Make sure you turn off Windows Automatic Updates. Depending on your machine, this phase can take from hours to couple of days. Longest phase will definitely be ‘ Import ABAP‘ phase. If you’d like to follow this article and use same names i used here, drop me a personal note, i’ll try to pass it over… Here 1st phase is ‘Check Solution Manager Key.’ You need to have a unique key for your installation that you need to obtain from SAP Solution Manager. Installer will start executing 23 phases.
At this point installer has got all required input from you. Once you are done revising input parameters, you can click next. For this demo, i chose 10 import jobs to be executed in parallel. Here i strongly recommend increasing number of database abap import jobs. Here if you want you can make some changes. Once you are done with entering all necessary parameters, parameter summary will be displayed. Installer will ask you in the order of 1, 4, 2, 3.
You’ll also use this password after installation to log in with DDIC and SAP* users. This password will be used for all SAP accounts created during installation. Then, enter master password for your system. Select EhP4 for ERP 6.0 > MS SQL Server > Central System installation option, as seen below. Go to installer folder > 51037622 > IM_WINDOWS_X86_64 > sapinst.exe. Since we are installing on a 64bit windows environment, we need to start the installer for that one specifically. At this point, make sure you have your installation details as follows:īefore starting, it’s always a good practice to organize installation media in logical folders so that it’s easier to find once sap installer asks for them. The reason is, once we start installation, as first step, installer will ask you to enter SAP Solution Manager Key for your installation.
Important!!! If you’ll follow this demo, make sure you name your SAP instance (SID) as ECC. Just to give you an idea, once installation is complete, just the size of database files will be 160GB!ĥ. Also, make sure that you have enough space on your drive for this installation. (i’d suggest using min 7200rpm drive!!!) It’s better to keep installation media and installation path (where you install your SAP instance) on different partitions. Although in this demo, i install using an external drive, if you have a chance, copy installation media to your hard drive and start installing SAP from your hard drive. If not, you may get some java runtime related errors during installation.Ĥ. Make sure you install correct version of JDK (link given above). This will increase both installation and SAP runtime performance.ģ. If you wish, you can continue installation like that, however it’s highly recommended that you increase your min virtual memory. Otherwise you’ll get a warning during installation prerequisite check. As for this demo, i renamed my machine to ECC6.Ģ. Otherwise you’ll get an error during installation during prerequisite check. Your machine name CAN NOT be more than 13 characters. There are also couple of important details to mention:ġ. If you have downloaded all necessary installation media as described in part 1( ) and prepared your installation guest machine as described above, now we can start installing SAP IDES ERP 6.0. For my installation, I used following version.Īlso, you should download Java Cryptography Extension 1.4.2 since SAP Installer will ask for it during installation. Java SDK versions provided in above link are specific builds for SAP customers. If you have problems finding a 64bit version for Java 1.4.2_? SDK, here is the link: you can only install SAP with this collation) * MS SQL Server 2008 圆4 with collation CP850_BIN2(this is very important. * Windows Server 2003 R2 – Standard 圆4 Edition Here are guest 64bit operation system details:
As host machine I used Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and VMware Workstation. Although SAP doesn’t recommend installation on laptops, I did my test installation on a virtual machine. In this 2nd part of the article, I’ll mention installation environment details.