Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is Getting Started with SAP HANA cockpit
and in this video, I will discuss some of the alternative options concerning system
preparation for cockpit.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
In the previous video, we looked at the available documentation about system preparation for
SAP HANA cockpit.
The Installation and Update Guide is very concise on this topic and refers, in fact,
to a number of SAP notes.
Some of these notes, we have seen, refer to yet another SAP note,
so particularly when you are looking at performing an on-premise installation of cockpit for
production purposes,
this might become a bit complex and requires serious preparation
and is best left to a seasoned Linux system administrator
and for this you might want to contact your SUSE or Red Hat partner.
Fortunately, we do have some alternative options that will make getting started with SAP HANA
cockpit a bit easier.
First, we can get a vendor-prepared image on a cloud provider marketplace.
As cloud provider, for example, we have got Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Microsoft Azure
and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Let’s start with Amazon.
Here, on the menu under Products
we have the AWS Marketplace
and if we search for 'sap', for example
we get a large number of results
If you select 'sold by SUSE'
we get three Amazon Machine Images (AMI’s)
for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SP2 is the latest supported version at the time of the recording
and I am expecting that SP3 will be supported soon (it has just been released).
If we return to our list,
you can see that we also have an AMI for Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA.
If we then switch to Microsoft Azure,
and open the Marketplace
search for 'sap'
We can see that we have a similar result set
Here we have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 for SAP HANA
published by Red Hat
and also SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
published by SUSE
If you scroll down a bit, you can find more information in the Useful Links section
Same thing for the Google Cloud Platform
Here the marketplace is called Launcher
Explore, launch, and manage production-grade solutions in just a few clicks.
If we search for 'sap' we only get SAP HANA, express edition solutions
but, if we search for 'suse'
we get the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
only SP1 is available
and it is not the recommended Enterprise Server for SAP Applications edition.
So, this might need some more tweaking.
If you search for 'red hat',
you also get Enterprise Linux 7 - and this VM is provided by Red Hat
Now, of course, with these machine images you will still have to double check the corresponding
SAP notes
and make sure that everything has been setup according to the latest recommendations,
or at least, particularly for production purposes, this would be prudent and might avoid nasty
surprises later on.
Now, should you just want to prepare a Linux system for cockpit installation for training
purposes, say,
something quick and dirty.
We have another option.
To be clear, this is not a best practice.
- in fact, it may be quite the opposite -
but this is what I have been doing to cut some corners and it works fine for my purposes.
Instead of taking a machine image prepared by the hardware vendor,
SUSE or Red Hat,
I am using the SAP HANA, express edition VM, server + applications.
Just start one up, remove express and install cockpit.
You may recall, that an SAP HANA cockpit system, in fact,
is SAP HANA express + XSA.
So, by leveraging a system already setup for express and XSA we can save ourselves some time.
In the next video, I will show you how you can do this.
It is very easy and very fast.
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