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General

Setup

Free Trial

Please go to this page and register for the free 30-day trial. After providing your information, you’ll be sent a confirmation email to begin your trial. In addition to the trial, you’ll be provided with useful hands-on materials to quickly get started.

After the 30-day trial is over, you’ll be given the chance to renew your trial period twice. After 90 days, you can start a new trial, but any data you created on your previous trial instance will be deleted and cannot be recovered.

Sizing and Pricing

The native storage extension is enabled by default in an SAP HANA Cloud instance. In the launch version of SAP HANA Cloud, data in native storage extension is managed by the user. You still need to explicitly specify tables/partitions/columns to be page loadable to take advantage of native storage extension. In the future, there will be also the ability to provision incremental disk storage to increase native storage extension capacity. In a later update, we plan to automate data management in native storage extension. However, you will be always able to control the native storage extension.

Connections and Access

Development

SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise, adaptive server enterprise replication & data lake

These services are built to handle SAP ASE and SAP IQ workloads within SAP HANA Cloud. SAP ASE and SAP IQ, originally known under the Sybase name, have been relied upon by our clients for decades:

SAP ASE is known as an Extreme Online Transaction Processing database (XOLTP). Clients use it for quickly and reliably processing high volumes of mission-critical transactional data.
SAP Replication Server was the first commercial replication product on the market. It’s a high-performance and low impact solution for data replication and disaster recovery.
SAP IQ was the first commercially available columnar database on the market. It excels at storing and analyzing massive volumes of data at a low cost.

SAP ASE and SAP IQ are installed on-premise for thousands of customers. But as data volumes increase exponentially, many of our customers are looking for cloud solutions. With SAP HANA Cloud, SAP offers increased scalability and flexibility, with on-demand provisioning and consumption-based pricing.

SAP is committed to supporting all SAP database customers and will ensure customers continue to benefit from our full database portfolio, both on-premise and in the cloud.  You can keep track of this through the product availability matrix.

SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise, adaptive server enterprise replication, and data lake are included and no additional license is necessary.

SAP HANA Cloud uses the SAP Business Technology Platform cloud credit system for consumption-based pricing. This means that you buy credits and use those credits as you wish. You can find our pricing estimator here (simply select the services that you wish to use).

In addition, SAP customers who have a Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement can use SAP HANA Cloud services under that agreement.

SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise supports a minimum size of 128 GB and a maximum size of 65536 GB. You can choose from 4 to 60 vCPUs, and you can choose a ratio of memory to vCPU of 4 GB:1vCPU, 8 GB:1vCPU, or 16GB:1vCPU.

SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise replication supports a minimum storage size of 16 GB and a maximum storage size of 1024 GB. You can choose from 2 to 30 vCPUS, with 4 GB of RAM supported for each vCPU.

SAP HANA Cloud, data lake supports a minimum size of 1 TB on AWS, and a minimum of 4 TB on Microsoft Azure, with a maximum of 90 TB supported on each.

These sizes will continue to evolve as SAP continues to invest in these services.

SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA’s SQL engine can process data being stored in the data lake, but not in SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise. Multi-model processing will only be available within SAP HANA Cloud and the SAP HANA core engine. You will be able to access the data lake through virtual tables, but the expectation is that performance will not be good if analyzing large amounts of data.

Multi-model analytics natively in SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise and data lake is presently not available.

SAP HANA and IQ have been working together for many years, and many optimizations have been made in the SAP HANA smart data access communications between the two. One example is that IQ and SAP HANA can exchange data in larger, more easily processed chunks (ITABS) than a standard SAP HANA smart data access connection to a third-party library, which would only exchange data row by row. These functionalities are also available in the SAP HANA Cloud data lake.

Migrating from SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry

SAP HANA Service will continue to be supported, but SAP HANA Cloud is the next evolution when it comes to new capabilities.

SAP HANA Cloud represents SAP’s state of the art solution for cloud data management. However, we will continue supporting SAP HANA Service for current customers in accordance with existing contracts. Apart from that, SAP is fully committed to assisting SAP HANA Service customers during their transition to SAP HANA Cloud with both the technical support and the license migration. Read this blog post from one of our product managers to learn more about the benefits of migrating.

Migrating to SAP HANA Cloud from SAP HANA Service offers several benefits, such as improved scalability, access to the built-in data lake, significantly lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), and much more. With the self-service migration tool, it’s easy to migrate your data to SAP HANA Cloud.

Who is eligible to use the self-service migration tool?

If you are currently using the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, you can already migrate to SAP HANA Cloud by taking advantage of the free, self-service migration tool. All SAP HANA Service users are entitled to use the migration service free of charge.

Using SAP HANA On-Premise with SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud offers the same power and performance that you might already be familiar with in SAP HANA. However, SAP HANA Cloud is built natively for the cloud, which means greater connectivity and several new features. It’s also a database as a service, offering greater flexibility. With SAP HANA Cloud, you don’t have to worry about managing hardware, operating systems, backups, and other types of maintenance. All of this is taken care of by SAP.