SAP HANA Cloud - Enabling Trial

SAP provides 30 days fee trial for HANA cloud and this can be extended up to 365 days. It includes starter scenarios and you can extend your on-premise solution to cloud or can use HANA cloud as single solution for deploying your application.

To start your free 30 days trial, navigate to this URL − www.sap.com

Cloud Trial

Click on Get started with a 30-day trial, to setup the trial it involves 3 steps −

  • Registration
  • Verify your email
  • Access all Resources

For registration, you need to provide a valid email address, First Name, Last Name, Company, Country, Phone# and Relations to SAP. Provide the password at the time of registration and after Accepting Terms and Conditions, click on Submit button.

If you are already an existing user, you can use Login option on right to directly login to HANA Cloud platform.

Loggin Details

After completing the registration, you will get a welcome email on your provided email ID. It guides you to access the HANA Cloud URL login using below options −

SAP BTP trial home page → Next is to Click on the "Enter Your Trial Account" button. This takes you to the SAP Business Technology Platform Cockpit.

SAP Trial

Click on the "trial" subaccount tile.

SAP Account

Under Spaces, click on the "dev" space as shown below −

Create Space

Access your Trial Option → Once you click on any of the link, it will take you to Logon page where you need to pass your email ID and password provided during registration step.

Registration Step

Next is to accept the Legal disclaimers for SAP BTP Trial as below → Accept. This will load SAP BTP cockpit and you will land on below page.

Terms Conditions

Once you are logged in, you will see SAP BTP cockpit home page with your Global Account number. Click on top right icon to see validity of your trial period. When your trial expires, your application hosted on HANA cloud will stop working however your data will not be deleted. You have an option to extend the trial up to 365 days as below −

Global Account

Trial account is usually recommended for personal use and exploration of features and not for Production or team use. Use of platform resources and services are restricted in Trial account and you can explore basic features of SAP BTP platform. Following are key features related to HANA Cloud Trial account −

  • SAP offer BTP trial accounts in multiple regions. When you login to Trial account, it shows you the region in which the account is created.
  • Using trial account allows you to create directories as per need.
  • Trial also allows you to use both productive and beta services.
  • It is also possible to manage members in BTP trial platform.
  • SAP provides 4GB of memory in Trial account to explore Application development and 8GB of instance memory
  • You can use 2 configured on-premise systems with the Cloud connector.
  • In Trial account, SAP doesn't provide SLA's regarding availability of Cloud platform as it is recommended only for personal use.
  • In HANA Cloud, application stop automatically on daily basis to manage the performance and you need to restart the application manually.
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