Preparing Resources

Before deploying an SAP ASE system on HUAWEI CLOUD, you need to prepare the installation media, licenses, and operating system (OS).

Installation Media

Table 1 lists the required installation media.

**Table 1** Installation media
Installation Media	How to Obtain
Software Provisioning Manager 1.0	Visit the SAP Software Downloads website.
UC Kernel (folder K_<Version>_<N or U>_<OS>)
ASE Database Software (database patches)
Installation Export (folders EXP*)

Licenses

Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) is used for authorization. You can log in to the SAP help portal to apply for the license as required.

You also need to purchase some HUAWEI CLOUD resources.

OSs

The OS is SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For SAP Applications 12 SP3. SAP ASE database is mainly used for SAP NetWeaver 7.4 and 7.5. The Kernel version is 740 or later, and the ASE version is 16.0 or later.

For details about the version mapping, see the OS Support List on the SAP website.

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