Start Using SAP HANA Cloud Free Tier in SAP BTP Cockpit

• Customers with an enterprise account can use the free service plans for SAP BTP to explore, learn, and try SAP BTP services (such as SAP HANA Cloud) with a path to productive use.

• 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.

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

• If you do not restart your instance within 30 days, it will be deleted. Additional details are available at SAP HANA Database License. An alert is sent if the instance is not started for 15 days. Further details on how to view and receive alerts can be found at Alerts in SAP HANA Database and Data Lake.

• In comparison, SAP BTP trial (introduced in the first tutorial) allows you to build full applications in a test environment to learn and explore 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 as both a trial or free tier model – customers and partners can choose the option based on their preferences. Note that this tutorial contains details for the second option: SAP HANA Cloud free tier.

• Features such as JSON document store, knowledge graph, and Script Server require larger HANA Cloud configurations (3 vCPUs, 45G memory) and are therefore not supported when using free tier.

If you would like to use the free tier model to get started with SAP HANA Cloud, get an account on SAP BTP to try out free tier service plans by following steps 1 to 8 of the linked tutorial.

In order to use the SAP 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 (the next step will walk you through this). 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.

Once you have your SAP BTP account setup, proceed to the next step to learn how to add the appropriate entitlements to your account.

If you have an existing SAP BTP account, this section will walk you through adding entitlements to your SAP BTP account so you can start using the appropriate services.

1. In the SAP BTP cockpit, click on your subaccount.

   

2. Then click on Entitlements on the left-hand side menu and search for entitlements for SAP HANA.

   

3. Confirm that you have entitlements for the services (and service plans) listed here:

   • SAP HANA Cloud:
   • tools (Application)
   • hana-free
   • hana-cloud-connection-free
   • relational-data-lake-free

   • SAP HANA Schemas & HDI Containers:

   • hdi-shared
   • schema
   • securestore

4. If you do not have any of the entitlements above, you need to add them to your account. To do that, click on Edit on the top right-hand corner of the screen, then click on Add Service Plans in the same area of the screen.

   In the pop-up that opens, type SAP HANA in the search box to see all relevant entitlements.

   

   After clicking on Add X Service Plans, where X is the number of services you want to add, make sure to click on the Save button.

   

1. From SAP BTP Cockpit, click on Services and then Service Marketplace. Search for SAP HANA Cloud and click Create in the top-right corner.

   

2. Select SAP HANA Cloud under Service and tools under Plan.

   

3. To ensure that your desired user has the necessary permissions to manage instances in HANA Cloud Central, navigate to Security > Users in the left hand side menu. Then click on your user.

   

   Click on the Assign Role Collection button.

   

   Select SAP HANA Cloud Administrator then click Assign Role Collection.

   

4. Navigate to Services, Instances and Subscriptions and click on SAP HANA Cloud to open SAP HANA Cloud Central.

   

Congratulations, you have added free tier services to your account on SAP BTP! You now have the ability to provision your free tier instance of SAP HANA Cloud and start your journey.

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.

Use the Help button at the top right-hand corner of the screen once you are logged in. This will open a Help Topics pane where areas that you can get help custom to the page will appear, as well as embedded links to guided answers and documentation.

For further details, 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 directories, subaccounts, and instances. Subaccounts are a smaller part of your global account. Directories group subaccounts under the global account.

Below you can see a simplified diagram of a global account in SAP BTP Cockpit with different ways in which directories, subaccounts, are used to organize SAP HANA database and data lake instances. Of course, once you use SAP HANA Cloud, you will most likely have many more databases, subaccounts, and perhaps even global accounts. These levels will then help you keep everything well-organized.

Global Account: Your account on the SAP 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.

Directories: Directories group subaccounts into a folder and are useful to organize them. For example, if your subaccounts are geographical regions such as countries, your directories could be continents.

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.

Instances: You can create and access instances of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database and SAP HANA Cloud, data lake.

Spaces: You can choose to optionally provision an SAP HANA Cloud instance into the Cloud Foundry runtime. If you do, multiple Cloud Foundry spaces can be used to further organize instances.

Well done!

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