Start Using SAP HANA Cloud Free Tier Service in SAP BTP Cockpit

Before a service can be used in the SAP BTP cockpit, it must have its entitlements enabled.

1. In the SAP BTP cockpit, click on your subaccount.

   

2. Then click on Entitlements on the left-hand side menu and search for entitlements for SAP HANA Cloud.

   

3. Confirm that you have entitlements for the services and plans listed here:

   • SAP HANA Cloud:
     • tools (Application)
     • hana-free
     • hana-cloud-connection-free
     • relational-data-lake-free
   • SAP HANA Schemas & HDI Containers:
     • hdi-shared
     • schema
     • securestore

4. If you do not have any of the entitlements above, you need to add them to your account. To do that, click on Edit on the top right-hand corner of the screen, then click on Add Service Plans in the same area of the screen.

   In the pop-up that opens, type SAP HANA in the search box to see all relevant entitlements.

   

   After clicking on Add X Service Plans, where X is the number of services you want to add, make sure to click on the Save button.

   

In this step, a subscription will be created to the tool SAP HANA Cloud Central which is used to provision and manage instances of SAP HANA Cloud.

1. From SAP BTP cockpit, click on Services and then Service Marketplace. Search for SAP HANA Cloud and click Create in the top-right corner.

   

2. Select SAP HANA Cloud under Service and tools under Plan.

   

3. To ensure that your desired user has the necessary permissions to manage instances in HANA Cloud Central, navigate to Security > Users in the left-hand side menu. Then click on your user.

   

   Click on the Assign Role Collection button.

   

   Select SAP HANA Cloud Administrator then click Assign Role Collection.

   

4. Navigate to Services, Instances and Subscriptions and click on SAP HANA Cloud to open SAP HANA Cloud Central.

   

You now have the ability to provision your free tier instance of SAP HANA Cloud using SAP HANA Cloud Central. We will walk through this process in the next tutorial but before we do, let’s further examine the SAP BTP cockpit.

SAP BTP cockpit is a web-based interface used to manage SAP cloud applications, such as SAP HANA Cloud. This is where you can manage your SAP Business Technology Platform account and users as well as create new instances whenever necessary.

Use the Help button at the top right-hand corner of the screen once you are logged in. This will open a Help Topics pane where areas that you can get help custom to the page will appear, as well as embedded links to guided answers and documentation.

For further details, consult our documentation material here.

Your account on SAP Business Technology Platform is called a global account. As the administrator, you will have full control of your global account and be able to create directories, subaccounts, and instances. Subaccounts are a smaller part of your global account. Directories group subaccounts under the global account.

Below you can see a simplified diagram of a global account in SAP BTP cockpit with different ways in which directories, subaccounts, are used to organize SAP HANA database and data lake instances. Of course, once you use SAP HANA Cloud, you will most likely have many more databases, subaccounts, and perhaps even global accounts. These levels will then help you keep everything well organized.

Global Account: Your account on the SAP BTP Platform is called a global account. As the administrator, you will have full control of your global account and be able to create subaccounts, spaces, and instances.

Directories: Directories group subaccounts into a folder and are useful to organize them. For example, if your subaccounts are geographical regions such as countries, your directories could be continents.

Subaccounts: Subaccounts are a smaller part of your global account. For example, if your global account is your whole organization, your subaccounts could be either your geographical regions or specific departments, depending on what your internal structure requires.

Instances: You can create and access instances of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database and SAP HANA Cloud, data lake.

Spaces: You can choose to optionally provision an SAP HANA Cloud instance into the Cloud Foundry runtime. If you do, multiple Cloud Foundry spaces can be used to further organize instances.

Well done!

You have completed the second tutorial of this mission! Learn in the next tutorial how to provision an instance of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.