Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is Getting Started with SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure
and in this video, I will show you how create
an SAP HANA, express edition instance using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In the previous video, the first of the series, we introduced
the SAP Cloud Appliance Library (CAL) as cloud solution marketplace
similar to the Microsoft Azure marketplace and
showed you how you can create a cloud solution provider account in CAL.
With the cloud providers set up we can return to our solutions page and search for express.
This will return SAP HANA, express edition.
At the time of the recording, there is only one solution for express.
It is available for both AWS and Azure.
Select it for more detailed info.
It is the complete version.
Server + applications.
In the description is mentioned that it can run on laptops
but you will need a pretty powerful laptop for that as you can see,
the recommended size is 30.5 or 32 GB.
32 is also the maximum size for the free edition.
If you want to use more memory, you will need to license express.
More Information points to the express edition page on the Developer community.
If you are new to this edition, you might want to read up a bit about it.
Great tutorials as well.
Terms and Conditions contains the fine print
and the Getting Started Guide provides more information about the solution:
system details, how to connect with SAP HANA studio, should you want to do that,
and license information.
To create an instance, select Create Instance here in the header.
Choose the account you want to use.
I will be choosing Azure here.
We then get a cost forecast (with disclaimer).
Just like the weather, I guess.
33 dollar cents per hour when active.
5 dollars per month when suspended, this is for storage and the license fee for SUSE Linux.
HANA is for free.
There is no charge from SAP for the express edition.
Give the solution a name.
I will use ha-hxe- 1 Region, I cannot make any selection here;
depends on your account.
Pick one closest to where you work.
And enter a password that respects the requirements here.
And then you can click Create.
For those that would like a bit more control, you can go into Advanced Mode
but before we do this let’s pause for one second.
We are about to create an SAP HANA, express edition virtual machine on Azure in the cloud
and all we had to do was think of a name and a password.
That’s it.
Consider an on-premise installation where you had think about the hardware,
networking, storage, security, preparing the SUSE Linux operating system,
installing SAP HANA, performing post-installation configuration requirements.
Maybe not rocket science but still there is a fair amount of work that needs to be done.
With CAL, all you need to come up with is a name and a password.
What’s up with Advanced mode?
Step 1. Account Details - is the same: Choose the account.
Step 2. Instance Details -
Fortunately, the information we already provided is picked up,
no need to enter the same data twice.
Network and Subnet. The selection will depend a bit on what’s
already there on Azure for your account.
We will explore the possibilities in another video.
Public Static IP Address might be an interesting option.
Default here is an ephemeral IP, as it is sometimes called.
This means that each time you start a VM, you get a new IP.
Now should you want to store the URL to HANA cockpit or the SAP web IDE
as a favorite in your browser, this is of course not going to work
with a different IP each time, so you may want to go for a static IP.
There is a small charge for this.
Step 3 allows us to specify the size and access points for the virtual machine.
E4_v3 is selected as default.
4 cores and 32 GB of RAM.
You could pick D12_v2 with 28 GB as well.
The D series on Azure are for memory intensive applications.
E4 is for high-end D series; Microsoft recently introduced this.
Depends a bit on the region what you see here.
They run on the Intel Broadwell and Haswell processors.
The other default configurations have more than 32 GB and,
for HANA express edition, would require a license, as mentioned.
Note also that the platform has been tested but for HANA express there is only community support.
Then we have the access points.
This concerns the firewall configuration.
There is a whole list of them, documented in the getting started guide.
I will address this is a separate tutorial.
Step 4.
Concerns the solution password.
This will be for the operating system administration account,
the software owner, adm, for HANA express with SID=HXE, hxeadm,
and for the SYSTEM database administration account both for the system database and for
the HXE tenant database.
Step 5. Schedule Details -
allows you to configure scheduling options.
First, set your time zone.
Then you can choose between activation by schedule: for example, office hours
or have it running until a certain date
(end of the project).
or manually activate and suspend, which is the one I will select.
Optionally, you can also set the termination date of the solution instance.
Termination means that the instance will be deleted. Removed. Gone.
Review to review.
As a reminder, in basic mode, all we selected was the name and a password for the solution.
Maybe the region.
For Advanced, I have added a static IP.
This is optional.
You can also easily do this in the Azure Cloud Portal.
Click Create to create.
We get another warning on Supported VM Sizes.
As mentioned this is only for the express edition.
Then we get a pop-up that the private key has been generated.
This enables you to access the VM in command line with your Azure account.
Typically, you would want to store it in CAL.
So, that’s what I will do here.
Click Store.
Then, you will also want to download the key, assuming you are on the computer that you
will use to connect to the VM.
We will address is in the next video.
If you want, you can encrypt the key with a password.
Depends a bit on the use case.
This is just a demo system, so I won’t do this here but if you are doing anything serious,
you might want to consider this.
Then we get a message that the solution is prepared to be used for the first time and
that this will take approximately 20 minutes.
The first time it can actually be a bit more, the time it takes to copy over the canned
VM to your region.
Then a couple of minutes more to prepare.
So, if we time travel here a bit, fast forward, we have our solution ready, active.
From the Operations menu we can Suspend the VM, meaning stop it.
We can also Edit, Reboot, or Terminate the VM, and t erminate here means delete, remove, gone.
Select it for more detailed information.
We have our cost forecast.
The IP addresses, the internal one and the public one, that we will need later on to connect.
Solution info with a link to the Getting Started Guide.
The different access points.
And the activation schedule.
In the header, we have the same operation options:
Suspend, Edit, Reboot, and Terminate and also the option to download the private key to
connect to the VM.
Select Edit and now we can modify some of the options.
Edit header to change the name of the VM.
We can activate Termination Protection to avoid that you or anyone from your team that
can also access this account delete the VM unintentionally.
We can disable some of the access points.
And change the schedule.
If we briefly switch to the Azure Portal and, from our Dashboard, access Resources and filter
on the access group SAPCAL-username-subscription id, we can see the resources that were created for us.
The virtual machine A number of disks
The public IP, Network interface and the Network Security Group for the access points.
OK
So much for this second video, creating an SAP HANA express edition VM on Microsoft Azure
using the SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
In the next video, I will show you how you can connect to HANA using the different access points.
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