SAP CAL S/4HANA 2023 FPS02, Fully-Activated Appliance

[YO-YO]

I have a question about the SAP CAL appliance template.
Is it possible to already use the "S/4HANA 2023 FPS02, Fully-Activated Appliance" that was released yesterday, December 16th?

The 2024 release plan announced in 2023 was supposed to be "Fiori configuration only."

2024 Release Plan：
https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/planned-appliance-template-updates-in-2024/ba-p...

If anyone has the latest information, please let me know.

[tsvetinka_gaydazhieva · Accepted solution]

Dear YO-YO ,

There are two separate offerings in the SAP Cloud Appliance Library catalogue from Q4 2024:

• One appliance template with pre-configured and activated SAP S/4HANA Fiori UI, named “SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS02” ( link )
• And another appliance template with pre-activated SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA and demo data and scenarios on top, named “SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS02, Fully-Activated Appliance” ( link )

You can take a look at their description and getting started guides (both can be found following the links provided above) to gain a better understanding of what each template brings and decide which will suit your needs best.

Best regards,

Tsvetinka

[jbungay · Accepted solution]

Hi, Is there a timeframe for when this will be available to download via note 2041140? Cheers, James

[JoergWolf · Accepted solution]

@jbungay, the on-prem shipment (as outlined in note 2041140) is in the final steps, should be there in the next days. Best, Joerg

[YO-YO · Accepted solution]

@tsvetinka_gaydazhieva

[YO-YO · Accepted solution]

@tsvetinka_gaydazhieva　Thank you. I appreciate your reply. It helped me a lot.

[jbungay · Accepted solution]

Hi, one more question - is there a way to set this up as a separate windows app server and linux db server instead of a central instance on linux? I can't seem to find any information on whether this is possible or not. Cheers, James

[JoergWolf · Accepted solution]

@jbungay, the appliance can only be deployed on Linux. Edit: there might be a way to get a custom app server running on WIndows (without using the appliance files) but that's pretty much trial&error. If you have a Linux box with HANA running, just add the app server to it as well (performance will not go down significantly). 

Best, Joerg

[tsvetinka_gaydazhieva]

Dear YO-YO ,

Yes, you could use the mentioned by you appliance template and create an appliance out of this template. It contains also SAP Best practices for SAP S/4HANA and demo scenarios.

Based on https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blogs-by-sap/planned-appliance-template-updates-in-2024/ba-p... the appliance template, which contains Fiori configuration only is SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 .

Best regards,

Tsvetinka

[YO-YO]

According to the information in the URL, [SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01] was updated from "Fiori configuration only" to "fully activated appliance" in the second quarter of 2024. As for [SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS02], in the CAL appliance template list, FPS02 is also displayed as "fully activated appliance". However, when checking the information in the URL, as of the fourth quarter of 2024, it is "Fiori configuration only", so information is currently being collected.