Monday 28 November 2022

Automating SAP HANA Installation in Minutes (AWS) – Part 2

Introduction:


This  blog is part 2 of 2 in this series  of  Automating SAP Installation in minutes, refer the part 1 of this blog for the prerequisite to get started.


This article provides detailed steps and commands required  to get an EC2 instance provisioned, with the ‘XFS’ file system built automatically  with a successfully SAP HANA DB installation in AWS.

Walkthrough:


Step 1: Create a “main.tf” and init-script.sh with necessary attributes as mentioned in the part 1 of this blog (refer the links above), got to AWS-CLI with terraform configuration pointing to the selected region with your AWS access keys and initiate the terrfarom with the below command.

Command: terraform init

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Figure 1: Initializing terraform

Step 2: We are validating the configuration for a final time for any errors before we can confirm the resource creation in the selected AWS regions.

Command: terraform validate & terraform apply

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Figure 2: Validating and applying the configuration
 
Step 3: The timestamp has been captured before confirming the resource creation and at the
AWS CLI typing “yes” @ localtime 02:06:36 pm aka(14:06:36)

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Figure 3: Confirming the creation and capturing local time

Step 4: Verify the availability of created server through AWS console and login into the host.

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Figure 4: AWS Console
 
Step 5:  Verifying the file system & uptime of the EC2 host

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Figure 5: EC2 instance File system & uptime
 
Step 6: Verifying the time stamp of HANA DB installation (hdbinst.log) and the time captured includes the EC2 installation, File System Setup and HANA DB installation.

HDB Installation Start time: 02:06:36 pm aka (14:06:36)

HDB Installation End Time: 02:14:25 pm aka (14:14:25)

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Figure 6: HANA DB Installation log

Step 7: Finally connect to the HANA DB instance through HANA studio by providing the public IP.

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Figure 7: HANA Studio

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Figure 8: HDB Info

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