Well, I don’t even have a system, and I’m already learning about all the extra things that are required to support it. Normally, I wouldn’t mind learning new things, but some of this just isn’t what I want to be spending my time on. Let me tell you a couple of the things I’m struggling with.
- Using Linux. I’m sure this isn’t as bad as I’m guessing, but let’s face it. I’ve used windows for nearly 20 years, and before that, I spent some time on Unix, but that part of my memory is hazy at best. So, now I move from my comfortable, albeit sometimes annoying, windows environment, to Suse Linux. Not the end of the world, but all the tasks I took for granted, will no require Google searches to solve.
- Make sure you use the correct version. Ok, so I went to Suse, downloaded the latest version, and found that it isn’t supported by Hana. At least not yet. This is a minor inconvenience, but mostly annoying because the version I downloaded is for SAP Enterprises. You would think, with a title like that, it’s gotta work. Well, think again. I’m sure if I wait another month, it’ll be supported, but for now… I need to download 8 GB of a different version.
- VMWare. I can see the benefits of using VMWare over Virtual Box, but there a few big things that are causing me grief. VMWare is essentially, it’s own operating system. So this means it formats off your original OS, in order to better utilize the hardware. Ok, I get it. The thing that sucks now is that if I want to manage it remotely, I can no longer use Chrome Remote Desktop (which now works great for all my other systems). I don’t know if there is an iOS app or not to manage it, but in short, if I need to reboot or update a setting, I need to be at the machine, or install the rather large client on a bunch of different machines. And of course, I have no idea how VMWare works, so I’m having to spend way more time than I’d like learning that too.
- VMWare ain’t free. This is probably the biggest issue I have. You get a 60 day trial, then you gotta pay close to $600 to use it. That’s the cheapest plan I could find. This is a far cry from Virtualbox.
So, all of this new learning curve, and I haven’t even got to the HANA system yet. OH well, guess it’s the price you pay to keep up with the times.
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