Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is SAP HANA on Google Cloud Platform and in this
video we are going to create a cloud storage bucket for the SAP HANA installation files.
This video has been recorded on release SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 03 from April 2018.
For earlier or later releases, please check the playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
OK — in the previous video, we looked into the planning and preparation aspects concerning
running SAP HANA on Google Cloud Platform and this video, we will get hands on and start
with the first preparations.
When running an automated deployment of SAP HANA on the Google Cloud Platform, the source
files for the installation are expected on an accessible storage location, sort of like
a Dropbox for files, which in case of the Google Cloud Platform is called Cloud Storage,
and a location, an area, where we can store our files is called a bucket.
So, what we need to do here is create the cloud storage bucket and upload the SAP HANA
installation files to this location.
For this, we first need to download the SAP HANA installation files to our computer.
Now, there are already multiple tutorial videos about how you can download the installation
media for SAP HANA, so I will only very briefly show it here assuming you already know how to do this.
Enter support.sap.com/swdc for software download center in the URL bar, or just go to the
SAP Support Portal home page, or to Software Downloads directly.
You can download the SAP products that are associated with your S-user ID, your support ID.
So, in case you get an access denied or you don’t get to see any SAP HANA software,
you need to sort this out first with the administrator of your company’s account, and if you don’t
know who that is, there is a link on the SAP Support Portal home page which can help you find one.
OK — Software Downloads, you can navigate by Alphabetical index (A-Z), by Category,
or not at all and just search for SAP HANA platform, probably the quickest and easiest.
OK — scroll down a bit, here we have SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0, Installation Product.
Select it.
Select INSTALLATION, on the Downloads tab, here.
And then we get all our platform 2.0 downloads.
24 in total, bundled in sets of 4, so 6 different versions.
Which one, do we need?
Well, first of all we have the different major versions, SPS or Support Package Stack.
SPS 03 is the latest, at the time of the recording, April 2018.
SPS 04 will be released, if everything goes to plan, in April 2019 or thereabouts.
Then, we also have two different platforms, Linux on Power, that’s for IBM Power Systems,
and Linux x86_64, that’s regular 64-bit Intel Linux, which is the one we are going to need.
Works for both SUSE Linux and Red Hat.
They are not always nicely ordered, so pay attention and select 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Then add to the Download Basket and then the using the SAP Download Manager, you can download
the files to your computer.
The Download Manager is a Java application, which you can also find on the Download Center.
Alternatively, you can also just download the files directly.
Works just as well, these days.
You can download the files simultaneously, as well.
OK — Here we have our files.
Do not extract them, just leave them as they are.
Now, this is the full media set, including all the clients, SAP HANA studio, additional
components — 4 GB in total — whereas we only need the server component, a little over 2 GB.
So, you might wonder, can we also just upload the server component?
Nope, at the time of the recording of this video, this is not an option.
We need the whole set.
Same for updates.
We are using the full media set here, so that’s revision 30 for SPS 03.
Revision 31, 32, etc., when released, will not come in a full media set.
So, if you need the very latest revision, you will have to update the SAP HANA server
component manually after the initial deployment.
OK — Next, we have the bucket.
Easy.
There are two ways how we can do this: command line or using the console web-interface.
It is all documented, of course.
Create Storage Buckets.
You need to have the project permission or the required role.
Then just open the Cloud Storage Browser in the Google Cloud Platform
It is here under Storage, in the menu.
Create bucket.
Give it a name.
Must be unique across Cloud Storage worldwide.
Including the project name is probably a good idea, as that’s already unique, and append
an identifier of some sort.
If you are going to use this bucket across all regions, you can select multi-regional.
In most cases, you probably want a regional bucket.
And then pick the region, you want to run your HANA platform.
Costs are returned.
0.023 per GB-month, so, maybe 30 cents a month for our 13 GB HANA set, plus some change to
upload and download the files.
Once the bucket is created you can upload the files, or upload a whole folder.
Easy enough.
Alternatively, you can do it on the command line, maybe you prefer to use a script.
Here we have our regions: gcloud compute regions list
I will pick europe-west1.
The command is: gsutil mb (make bucket) -l name of the region gs:// name of bucket.
If the name is unique, it will be created.
Then with the gsutil cp (copy) command, name of file, name of bucket, you can upload the file.
You can use wildcards.
You can enable parallel uploads.
It is all documented.
And then we have our files ready and we are done with step one.
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