Starting a SAP HANA Cloud Database

In this lesson, you'll learn how to start your SAP HANA Cloud database instance that you previously created in your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) account.

As a database administrator, you need to start your company's SAP HANA Cloud database deployed in the SAP Business Technology Platform.

Note

The steps to start your SAP HANA Cloud database instance also apply to an SAP HANA Cloud database instance that was created in an SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) enterprise account.

Your SAP HANA Cloud database instance is part of the SAP Business Technology Platform. To find your SAP HANA Cloud database instance you need to perform the following steps.

1. Log on to the SAP Business Technology Platform account, and navigate to the SAP HANA Cloud database area by following on of these paths:
   • For a BTP account: <your BTP home page> → <your global account> → <your subaccount> → <your development space>. From the navigation pane, select SAP HANA Cloud button. Then select the button Manage HANA Cloud.
   • For a BTP enterprise account: <your BTP home page> → your enterprise global account> → select the Subaccounts link → <your subaccount> → <your development space>. From the navigation pane, select SAP HANA Cloud button. Then select the button Manage HANA Cloud.
2. A sign-in tab opens. Select your e-mail address to continue the sign in process.
3. In the new tab, you are now logged on to the SAP HANA Cloud Central application.

You're now in the SAP HANA Cloud Central application where you get an overview of all the SAP HANA Cloud database instances that you've deployed in this development space.

Note

In an SAP Business Technology Platform enterprise account, depending on your entitlements and remaining quotas, you can deploy multiple SAP HANA Cloud database instances in a subaccount.

In the SAP Business Technology Platform trial environment, your applications and SAP HANA Cloud database instance are automatically stopped every day at midnight to preserve resources. This means that you need to start your SAP HANA Cloud database instance every time when you want to explore and test its capabilities and features.

Hint

In an SAP Business Technology Platform enterprise account, the applications and SAP HANA Cloud database instances are NOT stopped at midnight.

The following steps show you how to start your SAP HANA Cloud database instance:

1. In the SAP HANA Cloud Central application, locate your SAP HANA Cloud database instance that you want to start, and select the °°° (More) button.
2. From the drop-down menu, select the Start option.

Your SAP HANA Cloud database instance is now being started. The whole start process takes around 2.5 minutes.

It's also possible to start an SAP HANA Cloud database instance using the Cloud Foundry CLI. Before you can start a database instance, you need to install the Cloud Foundry CLI, and log on to the SAP BTP as previously explained.

To start an SAP HANA Cloud database using the Cloud Foundry CLI, execute the following steps:

1. Open a Linux Terminal or Windows PowerShell.
2. Log in to the SAP BTP using the command cf login -o <organisation> -s <space> -a <API endpoint>, and enter your credentials.
   • -o : The organization to connect to.
   • -s : The space to connect to.
   • -a : The API endpoint to use.
   Note

   If you use the SAP HANA Cloud trial account with one organization and space, you can omit the -o, -s and -a options.
3. To create a new database service, execute the command:
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   cf update-service <service name> -c
   '{"data":
       {
         "serviceStopped": false
       }
    }'

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   Example:

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   cf update-service HC200-Demo-Database -c '{ "data": {"serviceStopped": false}}'

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   The above command will start the stopped database.

Have a look at the Start and Stop an Instance Using the CLI page to have a complete list of parameters that can be used to start a database instance.