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Creating an SAP program in Yandex Cloud

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Updated at December 16, 2024

You will learn to configure a server with an installed SAP environment and write your first program. It will export existing system users in tabular format.

To create an SAP program in Yandex Cloud:

  1. Prepare your cloud.
  2. Create a VM for SAP.
  3. Set up the VM file system.
  4. Set up an install configuration.
  5. Install SAP.
  6. Configure SAP.
  7. Check that the program runs as expected.

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

Getting started

Sign up for Yandex Cloud and create a billing account:

  1. Go to the management console and log in to Yandex Cloud or create an account if you do not have one yet.
  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.

If you have an active billing account, you can go 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 a VM for SAP

Create a VM with a public IP address:

  1. On the folder page in 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 size: 40 GB.
    • Create a secondary disk:
      • Click Add.
      • Select the disk type: SSD.
      • Specify the 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 listed, create it.
    • Under Public IP, keep Auto to assign your VM a random external IP address from the Yandex Cloud pool or select a static address from the list if you reserved one in advance.

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

    • Under Login, enter the username. Do not use root or other names reserved by the OS. To perform operations requiring superuser permissions, 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. This host name is used in the install script.

  9. Click Create VM.

Set up the VM file system

Set up the created VM's file structure for the SAP install.

  1. Use SSH to connect to the created VM via PuTTY.

  2. Switch to root to get superuser privileges:

    sudo su

  3. Review a list of all the 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 (vdb): 20 GB for the distribution and 70 GB for SAP.

    1. To manage hard drive partitions, run the fdisk utility:

      fdisk /dev/vdb

      If you get the command not found error when launching fdisk, add fdisk to Path:

      PATH=/sbin:$PATH

    2. To add your first partition, type the n command and press Enter.

    3. To select primary for default type, press Enter.

    4. To select 1 for default number, press Enter.

    5. To select 2048 for first default sector, press Enter.

    6. Set the size to +20G and press Enter.

    7. Repeat these steps to add another partition. Do not specify partition size in the last step. It will use the remaining 70 GB of disk space by default.

    8. To save the partitions you created, type the w command and press Enter.

      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. Check the disk structure:

      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. Configure the ext4 file system on partitions vdb1 and vdb2:

    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 the distribution and the SAP application server. Mount these to partitions vdb1 and vdb2:

    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 install

Add the SAP installation files to your VM and configure the upcoming installation.

  1. Download the 11 archives with the SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 installation files and unpack their contents to a local folder.

  2. Save the current VM connection session in PuTTY. You can use any name.

  3. Install and run WinSCP.

  4. Import the saved PuTTY session settings into WinSCP.

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

  5. Connect to the VM via WinSCP.

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

  6. Import the SAP installation files you unpacked from the previously downloaded archives into the /distr folder on the VM.

    1. In the left-hand window, open the folder with the unpacked SAP files.
    2. Highlight the files and click Upload.
    3. Set /distr/*.* as the import location on the VM.

    To be able to import the files, you must be the owner of the /distr folder. The other option is to connect via WinSCP as a user with root access or configure the use of sudo when logging onto the system.

  7. On the VM, install and run UUIDD. This is the UUIDD (universally unique identifiers) daemon. It is required for SAP to run:

    zypper install uuidd
service uuidd start

  8. Check for the libaio and libaio1 libraries:

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

    The response will display the library versions built into the distribution.

  9. Find out the VM's private IP:

    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 private IP address to /etc/hosts.

    1. Open the file:

      vi /etc/hosts

    2. Add a line to it as below:

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

      Use an inet value from the eth0 block.

      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. Modify the permissions to the folder containing the SAP install files.

    chmod -R 777 /distr

  2. Go to /distr:

    cd /distr

  3. Run the SAP install script:

    ./install.sh

  4. Accept the terms of the license agreement.

  5. Set a master password for the users to be created during the SAP install.

    Password requirements:

    • At least 7 English characters.
    • Contains capital letters and numbers.
    • No special characters.

  6. Wait for the installation to complete.

    The install may produce 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

    The error is related to an expired license. To resolve:

    1. Download the SAP ABAP AS Part License file for SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP Developer Edition 7.52 SP04 from the official website.
    2. Unpack and copy it to the server/TAR/x86_64/ directory on the VM. You can do this using WinSCP.
    3. Run ./install.sh again to install SAP.

Run and configure SAP

  1. Install the SAP Logon front-end client on your computer.

  2. Run SAP Logon and configure a connection to the VM:

    • Application Server: Public IPv4 address
    • Instance number: 00
    • System ID: NPL

    Once you log on to SAP, you will see the SAP Easy Access user menu on the left-hand side of your screen. This is a user-specific entry point. The user menu only contains those elements that you require for daily tasks.

    You perform SAP configuration via transaction codes. These are related to SAP system functionality. Transaction codes must be input through the SAP command line. For quick access, you can add these to your bookmarks.

  3. Change the default passwords for security:

    1. Use the SAP Easy Access interface to run transaction SU01.
    2. Go to Logon Data.
    3. Select the user you would like to edit.
    4. Enter a new password.

Update license

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

  1. Use the SAP Easy Access interface to run transaction SLICENSE.
  2. Copy the Active Hardware Key field value.
  3. Open the SAP license key page.
  4. Select NPL — SAP NetWeaver 7.x (Sybase ASE).
  5. Specify the form of address. Enter the name, last name, email, and the Active Hardware Key value you copied earlier.
  6. Accept the terms of the license agreement and download the license file called NPL.tx.
  7. Move the downloaded license file to the VM and add it to the SLICENSE transaction.

Create your first program

To verify system functionality, create a simple program to export the user list.

  1. Log in as DEVELOPER.

  2. Run the SE38 transaction. It is the ABAP Editor program.

  3. Name the program: ZTEST.

  4. Add a 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*        |

How to delete the resources you created

To stop paying for the resources you created:

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