Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is Getting Started with SAP HANA on the Google Cloud Platform
and in this video we will give a bit of an overview and discuss some of the basics.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In this video tutorial series, we will show you ho w you can use the Google Cloud Platform to run SAP HANA.
We will talk about the free developer edition, SAP HANA express,
but also about running the regular platform edition on a 4-node cluster with 64 cpu’s.
We will look into installing the HANA server, optional HANA components,
the HANA database client, the HANA XS client,
to manage the built-in HANA XS Advanced model application server, and so on.
And also explain how to connect the bits and pieces together.
You can run both the HANA server and the HANA client on the cloud platform
but you could also do a local install on your laptop, for example,
of HANA studio running in Eclipse and then connect it to the HANA server.
So, we will need to do a bit of networking, configure the firewall.
I will show you how you can do that as well.
We are also going to cover the operations side.
Once we have deployed SAP HANA in the cloud, how can we keep everything running smoothly?
How do you use the Google Cloud Storage for backups, for example?
But first, let’s briefly touch on the topic of Google Cloud Platform, GCP for friends.
What’s that?
Well, if have already worked with AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Azure from Microsoft, then
the learning curve for Google Cloud will not be that steep.
Basically, it is the same thing.
Different vendor: Pepsi, Coke.
If this is you, you can skip the rest of this video and move to the next one, where we will sign up.
But if you are new to cloud computing and thought that Amazon only sells books and Microsoft is for Windows,
then we have a little bit of explanation to do.
Now, don't worry.
I will keep it very short.
This is not a course about cloud computing.
We only tell you what you need to know and then we get our hands dirty.
If you search for 'computer network architecture' or similar terms, you always find the internet
depicted as a cloud.
That’s where it is coming from: Internet, cloud, same thing.
Not on your laptop or PC, and if you are a business, not from your own data center but from somewhere out there.
In the early days of the telephone, every big company had its own telephone exchange.
Today, business or consumer, we all get our monthly bill and pay per use, or have some data plan.
Makes no sense to run your own telephone exchange.
Same story for computing.
Twenty years from now, your kids will learn that in the early days of the computer,
every big company had its own data center
but now, business or consumer, we all get our monthly bill and pay per use.
Makes no sense to run your own data center.
That’s what’s going on, computing is moving into the cloud.
In the last decade, we have seen these massive data centers popup all over the place.
They are run by the experts, a couple of companies, companies like Google.
Doing what they do best.
Making computing secure, reliable, and performing.
If you want to learn more about what it takes to run a data center just go to
google.com > about > data centers
and browse the site.
It is pretty impressive.
OK.
Enough about cloud computing.
Let’s get up and running.
Now the good news with the Google Cloud Platform is that you can try it out, all for free.
We are going to install an enterprise class SAP HANA system
and it is not going to cost you anything.
At the time of the recording, Google is offering this $300 credit for free to spend on Google Cloud,
so you can learn how this all works.
No small print, no strings attached.
No salesman, oops sorry, no salesperson, knocking on your door.
Just free money.
Awesome.
In the next video, I will show you how to sign up
and explain the the Google Cloud Console a bit, so you won’t get lost.
That’s it for the introduction.
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