Hi, my name is Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
You are watching a video tutorial that is part of
a series about the SAP Business Technology Platform certification
SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA Cloud Provisioning and Administration.
This tutorial covers the topic area Introduction to SAP BTP and SAP HANA Cloud.
This video was recorded in July 2022.
For the latest tutorials on the topic, please check the playlist.
As a reminder, here we have the topic areas
Introduction to SAP BTP and SAP HANA Cloud has a 23% weight, or about 18 questions; a fair amount.
It is one of the larger topic areas.
What do we need to know?
When we take a look at the learning content, we can see that each of the units under SAP HANA
Cloud Provisioning and Administration ==map to a topic area, and that, as a consequence,
the first four units under Foundation plus the first unit Provisioning and
Administration concern the introduction, 5 units in total that is, 14 lessons.
Those familiar with the SAP HANA platform, on premises, and the corresponding certification
will recognize the main personas, the administrator, our focus, the modeler,
analytical processing, and the developer, and,
as we saw in the previous video tutorial, there is a separate certification for each persona.
If you have watched any webinar by SAP in the last two years,
you will have heard about the intelligent enterprise.
Wvhat it is, exactly.
It is a framework, a concept, not something you can get from the SAP Store,
which also applies to the Business Technology Platform
If you are interested, there is a whitepaper you can read
and there is also a page about BTP, the business technology platfrom
which quote, unquote, comprises solutions spanning data and analytics, application development and
automation, integration, enterprise planning and artificial intelligence technologies.
HANA Cloud is part of data and analytics,
together with Analytics Cloud, Data Warehouse Cloud, Data Intelligence Cloud. and so on
In the training material and older illustration is used, you may have seen this before,
where database and data management and analytics are separate categories, and where we find both
cloud services as on-premises products listed (cloud, on premises, hybrid, edge)
This is not to confuse you, just so you know.
Intelligence enterprise, business technology platform, these are concepts, this is marketing,
and what’s in the box changes over time.
This is the platform you are expected to visualise, the four categories,
portfolios, and what’s inside.
What’s HANA Cloud?
the key aspects:
transactions and analytics in one solution, that is combining OLTP,
online transaction processing with OLAP, analytical processing.
Typically, these are separate systems, one optimized for throughput, high performance,
and one optised for large volumes, the petabyte scale.
HANA combines both, and the term HTAP,
hybrid transaction/analytical processing, was coined by Gartner for this purpose.
Next, we have multi-model processing; relational, graph, spatial, document store (NoSQL): different
engines, which again, typically are separate systems, but with HANA this is all blended.
Third point is the multi-tier storage, with mission critical data stored
in-memory, and less critical data stored on disk, or using different type of caching.
Anything unique here to HANA Cloud,
as opposed to the HANA platform on-premises? No, applies to both.
Here we have the product page
HANA Cloud is a database as a service (DBaaS).
For those already familiar with HANA a bit, you may have heard about about different versions,
different editions, HANA as a service, the Neo environment,
for the exam you can forget about all of that; there are no questions about legacy.
Here we have another solution brief
HANA Cloud with the multi-model capability
data stored in-memory, on disk with NSE,
native storage extension, or in an associated, attached, data lake
access to SAP or third-party applications using federation,
virtual access, with the data remaining in place, or replication, elastic scale
as illustrated
data tiering: hot, warm, cold, at different price and performance points
HTAP with the different engines
and a picture to illustrate the extend capability
with the different cloud providers below, you can run HANA Cloud on Azure, AWS,
Google Cloud, although not in each and every region, as we will see
HANA Cloud runs in the Cloud Foundry environment;
the business technology platform provides different environments to host applications:
ABAP, Cloud Foundry, and Kyma, based on Kubernetes
HANA Cloud runs as a Kubernetes pod, although this is all under-the-hood,
there is nothing to configure at that level
Benefits
Quick facts,
okay, so much for the solution brief
Another resource you should be familiar with is the SAP Discovery Center
Here we can find information about the different services
hosted on the platform from the service catalog
You can go to the entry using search or by capability, database and data management
in column view
There is a free service plan, with the available providers,
and regions, and as you might know, there are a lot more AWS and Azure regions then listed here
There is also a HANA service plan, with CPEA (Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement),
subscription, and pay-as-you-go commercial models,
this time also available in the Google Cloud and with Alibaba,
The SAP HANA Service is an older offering hosted in SAP data centers, which we can ignore
More pricing information we can get by selecting the entry,
although you won’t get any questions on this
same for the missions to explore business cases, and the customer stories,
on the Overview tab, we find some resources, pointing to the documentation
on the SAP Help Portal, and to a number of tutorials, hosted by the SAP HANA Academy.
Here we have the documentation
Note that there is a single service: SAP HANA Cloud, with two components:
the SAP HANA database, and the data lake.
There is an overview guide
with a definition
features, we already discussed some of them
the environment of the service
and an overview of the responsabilities regarding provisioning,
monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades
the components
how HANA Cloud relates to BTP, same illustration as in the solution brief
the different tools, we will see them in action in subsequent videos but to summarize
there is a web interface to create, to provision HANA Cloud instances called HANA Cloud Central.
there is a tool manage the database, called the HANA cockpit, which is very similar
to the HANA cockpit used for the HANA platform on-premises, for those familiar
same for the database explorer, a tool to browse database catalog objects, tables,
views, and to run SQL statements from the built-in SQL Console
to develop applications, you would use the Business Application Studio.
This tool is relevant for the modeling and development certification,
but not for administration. We won’t be using it. Just know it exists.
and the BTP Cockpit, a web UI, to interact with BTP, the business technology platform.
some information about security, which we will cover in a dedicated video on the topic
a list of end-to-end resources
sourced from the documentation, SAP Community blog post, YouTube tutorials
also some SAP Notes listed
for example about the differences between the platform on-premises and SAP HANA Cloud,
which in this case points back to the documenation
again, the SAP HANA Cloud Migration Guide, but this topic is beyond scope of the exam
the release strategy, there is a new version each quarter, latest time of recording is QRC 2/2022
each QRC can be used for up to seven months, after which the version is no longer supported
an automatically upgraded to the next version (not the latest)
backup and restore, we will cover this when discussing database maintenance
and that’s pretty much it
there is more to the topic, of course, but we will cover this as we go along,
creating the HANA Cloud instance, and performing database administration activiities.
You can find the links to the resources mentioned in the description of this video below.
This video tutorial was recorded by Denys van Kempen, SAP HANA Academy.
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