This article shows how you can create an SAP HANA Cloud database within a Space of the Cloud Foundry environment on the SAP Business Technology Platform. An SAP HANA Cloud can only be created if the necessary basic structure is available in the SAP Business Technology Platform. We recommend going through the following article first: Setting up Global Account, Subaccount, CloudFoundry and Spaces
Key points:
You can create an SAP HANA Cloud database within the Cloud Foundry environment.
A database can be divided into several sub-accounts and spaces.
The HANA cloud is one of the most expensive components within the cloud infrastructure.
Creating the SAP HANA Cloud
In the SAP BTP Cockpit, you must navigate to a space in the Cloud Foundry environment within a subaccount. In this space, there is an entry “SAP HANA Cloud” in the menu bar on the left.
The “Create” button in the “SAP HANA Cloud” menu item takes you to a new interface for creating and configuring the database.
When creating the database, the organization that corresponds to the subaccount and the space in which the database is to be located must be specified. In addition, the name of the database and an initial administration password must be defined.
Note: You should not use any special characters or spacesin the name of the database.
Depending on the contract, you can select the size of the database. With the Free Tier, this is limited to 32 GB.
The IP addresses from which the database may be accessed can be set for the permitted connections. Unless there is a specific reason, as few IP addresses as possible should always be permitted.
For applications that are deployed on the SAP BTP, it is sufficient that only BTP IP addresses are allowed to access the database.
Finally, it takes a few minutes for the database to be fully created.
Further steps in the creation of the SAP HANA Cloud
Due to the fact that the SAP HANA Cloud is one of the most expensive parts of the cloud infrastructure, you should think carefully about the positioning and use of the database when designing it. In the article What architectures are available in the BTP? describes several possible architectures with different numbers of databases.
If you want to use a database in several subaccounts or Spaces, which makes sense from a financial point of view, the procedure for this is described in the article Sharing HANA DB between Spaces or subaccounts article.
For productive operation, it is important to have an overview of the possible backup scenarios for the database. These are described in the article Backup of the HANA database article.