Start Using SAP HANA Cloud Trial in SAP BTP Cockpit
- How to add SAP HANA Cloud to an existing SAP BTP trial account
- How the SAP BTP cockpit is structured and where to find SAP HANA Cloud in it
Christopher KollhedFebruary 7, 2024
Tracy Wai
Chhanda Madhuchhanda
Chaitya PatelPrerequisites
- You have signed up for an SAP HANA Cloud trial account
This tutorial is part of a mission, in which you will learn in a hands-on, end-to-end setting how to use SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database. SAP offers two free options to use SAP HANA Cloud. This tutorial covers the second option, which is using SAP HANA Cloud free tier. The free tier option can be easily upgraded to a paid version but does require payment details, while the trial allows you to use SAP HANA Cloud in a test environment and does not require payment details to sign up. If you would like to learn more about the free tier option (SAP HANA Cloud trial), navigate to the next tutorial.
Help Alex gain business insights using SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.
In this mission, we will help Alex, the CEO of a fictitious company called Best Run Travel to answer a concrete business question with SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database:
- As a global travel agency, Best Run Travel has data from many different affiliates.
- Alex needs to know the top 5 partners of their agency and wants to find out the days with maximum booking of each partner.
- Best Run Travel uses SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database to store and manage all its data. Now, your mission is to help Alex find a subset of the data related to the partner sales and create a way for Alex to share this subset with other departments in Best Run Travel.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add the new multi-environment tooling SAP HANA Cloud to new or existing trial accounts of SAP Business Technology Platform. Having access to SAP HANA Cloud is a prerequisite for all other tutorials in this mission.
If you have a production environment of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database, you may also follow the steps described in this mission.
- Step 1
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In the SAP BTP Cockpit, click on your subaccount.
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Then click on Entitlements on the left-hand side menu and search for entitlements for SAP HANA.
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Notice that the following entitlements are shown.
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SAP HANA Cloud:
tools (Application),hana,hana-cloud-connection, andrelational-data-lake -
SAP HANA Schemas & HDI Containers:
hdi-shared,schema, andsecurestore
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- Step 2
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From SAP BTP Cockpit, click on Services and then Service Marketplace. Search for SAP HANA Cloud and click Create in the top-right corner.
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Select SAP HANA Cloud under Service and tools under Plan.
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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.
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Navigate to Instances, Instances and Subscriptions and click on SAP HANA Cloud to open SAP HANA Cloud Central.
Congratulations, you have added the SAP HANA Cloud entitlements and subscribed to the multi-environment tools. You now have the ability to provision your trial instance of SAP HANA Cloud and start your journey.
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- Step 3
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.
There is also some built-in functionality that can help you with using SAP BTP Cockpit and provide you with more information:
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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.
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Use Trial Period to get more information about your SAP BTP Trial.
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For further details, consult our documentation material here.
- Take the virtual tour once you start your trial for the first time.
- Step 4
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 are groups of 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 and 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 first tutorial of this mission! Proceed to the fourth tutorial in this mission to learn how to provision an instance of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.