Optional - Provisioning a SAP HANA Cloud instance
This is an optional hands-on experience with a guided tour detailing the provisioning of an SAP HANA Cloud Database Instance within your SAP BTP account.
SAP HANA Cloud Central is the place to provision and manage your SAP HANA Cloud instances. In a fresh SAP BTP account, SAP HANA Cloud Central is empty, until the database administrator provisions any SAP HANA Cloud databases. The provisioning wizard provides assistance to setup SAP HANA Cloud instances.
Provisioning Wizard - Step 1: Create a Database Instance Using SAP HANA Cloud Central
During the provisioning process the following components are created and configured:
- A SAP HANA database instance is created with data at rest encryption enabled.
- One or two replicas. The replicas are used for providing high availability.
- The SAP HANA database instance is connected to SAP HANA Cloud Central, SAP HANA cockpit and database explorer.
- The database user DBADMIN is created for administration purposes.
- The SAP HANA database is connected to existing backup infrastructure via the Backint interface.
- A backup cycle of 14 backup generations is setup, and the initial backup is created.
- The cloud connector can be configured and activated.
- The key management service is configured and activated.
Provisioning Wizard - Step 2: System Information
In this step, you must provide important information like instance name, description, the administrator password, and the version to be installed.
In the Basics area, you must specify the database instance name (between 1 and 63 characters long) and description (between 1 and 255 characters long) of the SAP HANA database instance you want to create. An instance in SAP HANA Cloud is like a tenant for an on-premise SAP HANA database and isn’t restricted to three characters.
In the Administrator area, you specify the productive password for the database administrator account DBADMIN. The password needs to be at least eight characters long, with one UPPER and two lower case letters and one number.
There’s no SYSTEM user available. You must use the DBADMIN user for the initial setup tasks. The DBAMIN is the super user for your SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database instance. This user shouldn’t be used on a daily basis. Create new user accounts and roles for all users accessing the database.
Provisioning Wizard - Step 3: System Requirements
In the third step you specify the SAP HANA database memory and storage. The number of vCPUs depends on the amount of RAM you specify. As not all SAP HANA workloads are the same, SAP has introduced the following performance classes:
| Performance Class | High Compute | Compute | Memory | High Memory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compute-Memory Ratio | 1:4 | 1:8 | 1:13 – 16 | 1:30 |
| Compute | 8 – 90 vCPUs | 4 – 144 vCPUs | 2 – 440 vCPUs | 120 vCPUs |
| Memory Range | 32 – 360 GB | 32 – 912 GB | 32 – 5970 GB | 3600 GB |
| Description | Optimized to support compute-intensive workloads that require less memory resources | Optimized to support compute-intensive workloads | Default compute-memory ratio, which is suitable for most workloads | Optimized to support the processing of large data sets that require a lot of memory |
The required number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs) can’t be changed manually, but is automatically determent via the Compute-Memory Ratio based on the requested memory. The amount of storage space also depends on the requested memory, but the requested storage space can be bigger.
Try it out!
Begin your hands-on experience with the Provisioning of a SAP HANA Cloud Database Instance tour to explore how simple and intuitive the tool is to use. Just follow the on-screen guidance to get started.
For more information see https://learning.sap.com/learning-journeys/provision-and-administer-databases-in-sap-hana-cloud
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