Start Using SAP HANA Cloud Free Tier Model or Trial in SAP BTP Cockpit

• Customers and partners with an existing CPEA or Pay-As-You-Go contract can start using the free tier model for SAP BTP to explore, learn, and try SAP BTP services (such as SAP HANA Cloud) with a path to productive use.

• With the free tier model for SAP BTP you start with a productive account right away. The free tier means you can try out selected services up to a specified capacity limit and switch easily to the paid tier, without losing any work. In order to use the HANA Cloud free tier model, you will need to have the SAP HANA Cloud service entitlement available in your subaccount. To provision a free tier instance, the free tier service plans must be enabled in your subaccount entitlement. If you plan to upgrade your instance to a paid tier, the paid tier service plans must also be enabled. No charges will occur if you are only making use of the free tier service plans. However, if you decide to upgrade to a paid tier service plan, applicable charges will occur once the instance has been upgraded.

• For the SAP HANA Cloud free tier model, simply choose the Free Tier license type when provisioning your instances as shown below.

  

• In comparison, SAP BTP trial allows you to build full applications in a test environment to learn and explore of the capabilities of SAP BTP. However, once customers and partners are ready to move to the next phase and deploy to production, they will need to get a new productive account and start over.

• SAP HANA Cloud services are available for both free tier model and trial – customers and partners can choose the option based on their preferences. Note that this learning journey contains details for both options.

• You can use your free trial account to test the components SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database and SAP HANA Cloud, data lake.

• If your trial account remains inactive, you will be asked to extend your trial every 30 days. If you regularly log in to your trial account, it will be automatically extended.

• If you already use other services in SAP Business Technology Platform, those will not be affected or limited in any way by your participation in the SAP HANA Cloud Trial.

• Trial database instances will be stopped every day at midnight in the time zone of the server location you selected. Each time you start working with your trial instance, you need to restart it first.

• If you do not restart your instances within 60 days, they will be deleted. Your trial account, however, will continue to exist and you can easily provision an instance again, if you wish to do so.

• The configuration of your trial instance of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database is 30GB of memory, 2vCPUs, and 120GB of storage.

• The ScriptServer that enables machine learning capabilities is not available on a trial account as it requires larger instances that cannot be configured in a trial account.

In this step, you can learn how to sign up for the free trial of SAP HANA Cloud. There are two options indicated by the two tabs in this step.

If you do not have an SAP BTP trial account yet, follow the steps in the tab “Sign up for the SAP HANA Cloud trial”.

If you already have an SAP BTP trial account, follow the steps in the tab “ Add SAP HANA Cloud to existing BTP trial”.

Click on the option that applies to you.

SAP BTP cockpit is a web-based interface used to manage SAP cloud applications, such as SAP HANA Cloud. This is where you can manage your SAP Business Technology Platform account and users as well as create new instances whenever necessary.

When you first access your trial account, you will see the Trial Home Page.

In a production environment, you do not see the Trial Home Page.

This is where you can enter your account but also find helpful resources to get to know the SAP BTP cockpit in detail:

• Take the virtual tour once you start your trial for the first time.

  

• Use the Help button at the top right-hand corner of the screen once you are logged in.

• Consult our documentation material here

Your account on SAP Business Technology Platform is called a global account. As the administrator, you will have full control of your global account and be able to create subaccounts, spaces, and instances. Subaccounts are a smaller part of your global account. Under subaccounts are spaces, in which your instances are located.

Below you can see a simplified diagram of a global account in SAP BTP cockpit with different subaccounts and spaces that each contain SAP HANA database and data lake instances. Of course, once you use SAP HANA Cloud, you will most likely have many more databases, spaces, subaccounts and maybe even global accounts. These levels will then help you keep everything neat and organized.

Global Account: Your account on BTP Platform is called a global account. As the administrator, you will have full control of your global account and be able to create subaccounts, spaces, and instances.

Subaccounts: Subaccounts are a smaller part of your global account. For example, if your global account is your whole organization, your subaccounts could be either your geographical regions or specific departments, depending on what your internal structure requires.

Spaces: Under subaccounts are spaces. These can be, for example, lines of business, such as product management, development, or operations.

In the context of SAP HANA Cloud, this means that each space within each subaccount will have their own SAP HANA Cloud area.
Spaces are separate from one another, and so are all the databases and data lakes existing under the subaccount. This is important to keep in mind with regards to security, members and data management.

Instances: Within your space, you can create and access instances of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database, SAP ASE, SAP ASE Replication and data lake.

Well done!

You have completed the first tutorial of this mission! Learn in the next tutorial how to provision an instance of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.