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Creating an SAP program in Yandex Cloud

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Updated at May 14, 2025

You will learn to configure an SAP server and write your first program exporting a list of system users in tabular format.

To create an SAP program in Yandex Cloud:

  1. Get your cloud ready.
  2. Create an SAP VM.
  3. Set up your VM file system.
  4. Configure SAP installation.
  5. Install SAP.
  6. Configure SAP.
  7. Make sure the program runs correctly.

If you no longer need the resources you created, delete them.

Getting started

Sign up in Yandex Cloud and create a billing account:

  1. Navigate to the management console and log in to Yandex Cloud or register a new account.
  2. On the Yandex Cloud Billing page, make sure you have a billing account linked and it has the ACTIVE or TRIAL_ACTIVE status. If you do not have a billing account, create one and link a cloud to it.

If you have an active billing account, you can navigate to the cloud page to create or select a folder for your infrastructure to operate in.

Learn more about clouds and folders.

The cost of an SAP installation includes:

Create an SAP VM

Create a VM and give it a public IP address:

  1. On the folder dashboard of the management console, click Create resource and select Virtual machine instance.

  2. Under Boot disk image, select the SLES for SAP 15 SP2 image.

  3. Under Location, select the ru-central1-d availability zone.

  4. Under Disks and file storages:

    • Select the SSD boot disk type and specify the disk size: 40 GB.
    • Create a secondary disk:
      • Click Add.
      • Select the disk type: SSD.
      • Specify the disk size: 24 GB.
      • Click Add disk.

  5. Under Computing resources, navigate to the Custom tab and specify the required platform, number of vCPUs, and the amount of RAM:

    • Platform: Intel Ice Lake
    • vCPU: 2
    • Guaranteed vCPU performance: 100%
    • RAM: 8 GB

  6. Under Network settings:

    • In the Subnet field, select the network and subnet to connect your VM to. If the required network or subnet is not there, create it.
    • Under Public IP address, leave Auto to assign a random external IP address to your VM from the Yandex Cloud pool. Alternatively, select a static address from the list if you reserved one.

  7. Under Access, select SSH key and specify the VM access credentials:

    • Under Login, enter the username. Do not use root or other reserved usernames. To run commands requiring root privileges, use the sudo command.

    • In the SSH key field, select the SSH key saved in your organization user profile.

      If there are no saved SSH keys in your profile, or you want to add a new key:

      • Click Add key.
      • Enter a name for the SSH key.
      • Upload or paste the contents of the public key file. You need to create a key pair for the SSH connection to a VM yourself.
      • Click Add.

      The SSH key will be added to your organization user profile.

      If users cannot add SSH keys to their profiles in the organization, the added public SSH key will only be saved to the user profile of the VM being created.

  8. Under General information, specify the VM name: vhcalnplci that will be used in the SAP installation script.

  9. Click Create VM.

Set up your VM file system

Create a file system structure for SAP installation.

  1. Connect to your VM over SSH via PuTTY.

  2. Switch to the root account:

    sudo su

  3. List all available disks:

    lsblk

    Result:

    vda    254:0    0  40G  0 disk
├─vda1 254:1    0   4M  0 part
└─vda2 254:2    0  40G  0 part /
vdb    254:16   0  90G  0 disk

    Where:

    • vda: Boot disk
    • vdb: Data disk

  4. Create two partitions on the data disk: 20 GB for the installation files and 70 GB for the SAP application server.

    1. Run fdisk to manage partitions:

      fdisk /dev/vdb

      If you get command not found, add fdisk to Path:

      PATH=/sbin:$PATH

    2. To create a new partition, type n and press Enter.

    3. Press Enter to select the primary partition type.

    4. Press Enter to accept the default partition number: 1.

    5. Press Enter to accept the default first sector: 2048.

    6. Type +20G to set the partition size and press Enter.

    7. Repeat these steps to add another partition. On the last step, do not type anything and press Enter. The partition will use the remaining available space: 70 GB.

    8. Type w and press Enter to save the changes.

      Result:

      Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.33.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.

Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xb58ce40a.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p):

Using default response p.
Partition number (1-4, default 1):
First sector (2048-182452223, default 2048):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-182452223, default 182452223): +20G

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 20 GiB.

Command (m for help): n
Partition type
p   primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e   extended (container for logical partitions)
Select (default p):

Using default response p.
Partition number (2-4, default 2):
First sector (41945088-182452223, default 41945088):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (41945088-182452223, default 182452223):

Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 70 GiB.

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

    9. List all available disks:

      lsblk

      Result:

      NAME   MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
vda    254:0    0  40G  0 disk
├─vda1 254:1    0   4M  0 part
└─vda2 254:2    0  40G  0 part /
vdb    254:16   0  90G  0 disk
├─vdb1 254:17   0  20G  0 part
└─vdb2 254:18   0  70G  0 part

  5. Create an ext4 file system on vdb1 and vdb2 partitions:

    mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb2

    Result:

    mke2fs 1.43.8 (1-Jan-2018)
Creating filesystem with 5242880 4k blocks and 1310720 inodes
Filesystem UUID: e878b21b-da84-42f9-ba9f-b6ad3c6edab6
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
   32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
   4096000

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

...

mke2fs 1.43.8 (1-Jan-2018)
Creating filesystem with 17563392 4k blocks and 4390912 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 14be2468-6a99-4178-a77b-26096c3fcad4
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
  32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
  4096000, 7962624, 11239424

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (131072 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

  6. Create directories for installation files and the SAP application server and mount them to vdb1 and vdb2 partitions, respectively:

    mkdir /usr/sap
mkdir /distr
mount /dev/vdb1 /distr
mount /dev/vdb2 /usr/sap

  7. For automatic remounting after reboot, edit the /etc/fstab file:

    vi /etc/fstab

    Make it look like this:

    LABEL=ROOT  /  xfs  defaults  0  1
/dev/vdb1 /distr ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/vdb2 /usr/sap ext4 defaults 1 1

Configure SAP installation

Copy the installation files to your VM and configure SAP installation.

  1. Download 11 SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 archives on your computer and unpack them.

  2. Save your current VM PuTTY session under any name you want.

  3. Install and run WinSCP.

  4. Import the saved PuTTY session into WinSCP.

    1. In the Login window, click Tools.
    2. Select Import Sites.
    3. In the Import from field, select PuTTY and then select the previously saved session.

  5. Connect to your VM via WinSCP.

    1. Select the session imported from PuTTY.
    2. Click Login.
    3. Enter your VM username.

  6. Import SAP installation files to your VM /distr folder.

    1. In the left-hand window, open the folder where you unpacked SAP files.
    2. Select all files and click Upload.
    3. Set /distr/*.* as the import destination.

    To import files, you should be the /distr folder owner. Alternatively, you should connect with root privileges or configure the use of sudo upon logging in.

  7. Install and run the UUIDD: UUID (universally unique identifiers) daemon required for SAP to work:

    zypper install uuidd
service uuidd start

  8. Check for the libaio and libaio1 packages:

    rpm -qa | grep libaio
rpm -qa | grep libaio1

    The command output will display the distribution package versions.

  9. Get your VM internal IP address:

    ip addr show

    Result:

    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
  inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
  valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  inet6 ::1/128 scope host
  valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
  link/ether d0:0d:11:31:ee:a6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  inet 10.0.0.29/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0
  valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  inet6 fe80::d20d:11ff:fe31:eea6/64 scope link
  valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

  10. Add your VM internal IP address to /etc/hosts.

    1. Open the file:

      vi /etc/hosts

    2. Add the following line:

      <inet> vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.ru-central1.internal.

      Where inet is an IP address following the inet parameter in the eth0 section of the previous command output.

      Result:

      127.0.0.1 localhost
10.0.0.29 vhcalnplci vhcalnplci.ru-central1.internal

  11. Check the host name:

    hostname

    Result:

    vhcalnplci

Install SAP

  1. Change the permissions for the SAP installation folder.

    chmod -R 777 /distr

  2. Navigate to /distr:

    cd /distr

  3. Run the SAP installation script:

    ./install.sh

  4. Accept the license agreement terms.

  5. Set a master password for standard SAP users.

    Password requirements:

    • At least 7 Latin characters.
    • Contains uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.
    • No special characters.

  6. Wait for the installation to complete.

    The installation may fail with the following error message:

    Abort execution because of Step returns modlib.jslib.caughtException 
Error: sapinst has finished with an error code, please find logs in /tmp/sapinst_instdir
Error code: 20

    This error is caused by an expired license. To resolve this problem:

    1. Download SAP ABAP AS Part License for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 from the official website.
    2. Unpack and copy the license file to your VM’s server/TAR/x86_64/ directory via WinSCP.
    3. Run ./install.sh again.

Start and configure SAP

  1. Install the SAP logon client on your computer.

  2. Run SAP logon and configure a connection to your VM:

    • Application Server: Your VM public IP address
    • Instance number: 00
    • System ID: NPL

    Once you log on to SAP, you will see the SAP Easy Access menu on the left. This is a custom user menu containing the items you will need for daily tasks.

    To configure SAP, you can use transaction codes linked to the SAP system functions. Enter these codes in the SAP command line or add them to bookmarks for quick access.

  3. Change the default passwords to ensure optimal security:

    1. From SAP Easy Access, run SU01.
    2. Navigate to Logon Data.
    3. Select the user you want to modify.
    4. Specify a new password.

Update your license

To continue using SAP, you need to update your license:

  1. From SAP Easy Access, run SLICENSE.
  2. Copy the Active Hardware Key.
  3. Open the SAP license key page.
  4. Select NPL — SAP NetWeaver 7.x (Sybase ASE).
  5. Specify the salutation, your first and last names, email address, and the Active Hardware Key you copied earlier.
  6. Accept the license agreement terms and download the NPL.tx license file.
  7. Copy the license file to your VM and upload it to SLICENSE.

Create your first program

To test whether your system works properly, create a simple program exporting a user list.

  1. Log in as DEVELOPER.

  2. Run SE38 (ABAP Editor).

  3. Name your program as ZTEST.

  4. Add program code:

    TYPE-POOLS: slis.

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

*& Data Declaration

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

DATA: it_usr01     TYPE TABLE OF USR01.
DATA: it_fieldcat  TYPE slis_t_fieldcat_alv,
  wa_fieldcat  TYPE slis_fieldcat_alv.`

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

*& START-OF-SELECTION`

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*

START-OF-SELECTION.
*Fetch data from the database
SELECT * FROM USR01 INTO TABLE it_usr01.

*Build field catalog
wa_fieldcat-fieldname  = 'MANDT'.
wa_fieldcat-seltext_m  = 'MANDT'.
APPEND wa_fieldcat TO it_fieldcat.

wa_fieldcat-fieldname  = 'BNAME'.
wa_fieldcat-seltext_m  = 'USER'.
APPEND wa_fieldcat TO it_fieldcat.

* display ALV list
CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY'
  EXPORTING
  it_fieldcat   = it_fieldcat
  TABLES
  t_outtab      = it_usr01
  EXCEPTIONS
  program_error = 1
  OTHERS        = 2

    Result:

    | MANDT| USER        |
| -----| ----------- |
| 001  | BWDEVELOPER |
| 001  | DDIC        |
| 001  | DEVELOPER   |
| 001  | SAP*        |

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