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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.

(https://blogs.sap.com/?p=1649584?source=email-global-notification-mod)

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

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

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)
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.
Figure 4: AWS Console

 

Step 5:  Verifying the file system & uptime of the EC2 host


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)


Figure 6: HANA DB Installation log

 

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

Figure 7: HANA Studio


Figure 8: HDB Info

References:

SAP on AWS immersion Day


https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/754ba343-2704-404a-8abe-be7b21c4d9d5/en-US

SAP HANA Academy


https://blogs.sap.com/2018/02/08/sap-hana-installation-automation-by-the-sap-hana-academy/

Terraform Tutorials


https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials

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