Planning the Landscape

To successfully install SAP® Mobile Platform for the first time, you must do a considerable amount of planning, make a number of strategic decisions, and gather many specific pieces of information about the technical environment into which you are installing. Upgrading an existing installation also requires you to collect key pieces of information.

If you have an existing installation of SAP Mobile Platform to upgrade, after you have filled in the upgrade worksheet for your scenario, go to the Upgrading chapter in this document.

If you are about to perform a new installation of SAP Mobile Platform, before you run the installer for the first time, go through the SAP Mobile Platform Landscape Design and Integration document and:

  1. Select one of these installation scenarios
    • Single-server installation
    • Simple load-balancing cluster installation
    • Installation with a standard Microsoft Failover Cluster
    • Installation with a Microsoft Failover Cluster with shared hosts

    Each of these is described in detail in Landscape Design and Integration.

  2. Resolve all licensing issues.
    Landscape Design and Integration details all the licensing options, and how licenses are managed. It also provides instructions for obtaining a license, if your company has not already purchased one.
  3. Complete the worksheet provided for the scenario.
    Use the worksheet to record all the important information that configure values in the installer. The information in the worksheets is organized in the same order in which the installer asks you to provide it.
Next

If you are upgrading an existing installation, go to Performing a Full Upgrade.

To add a server node to an existing SAP Mobile Platform cluster, see Adding an SAP Mobile Server Node to an Existing Cluster.

For new installations, proceed to the instructions for your chosen scenario: