SAP S/4HANA, on-premise edition trial

A Step by Step Guide to Help you Start Your 30 Day Trial

July 2015

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Experience the simplicity of SAP S/4HANA to

help you drive instant value in todays digital
economy.
Preactivated business content scope with sample data,
adjusted for SAP Simple Finance 1503 SPS1505:
End-to-end business processes across Finance,
Controlling, Manufacturing, Services, for example,
Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay; localized for US,
Germany and China
End-to-end Business processes for Chemicals and
Discrete Manufacturing industries, localized for US
SAP Fiori Apps
SAP BOBJ reports and Lumira reports
Sample scenario using Personas UX technology

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Cost Overview
The trial offering is hosted on Amazons Cloud (Amazon Web Services AWS).
The solution consists of three Amazon instances. An example of cost estimation for the whole solution is
~3.60 USD per hour (deployed in AWS US-East region). Additional costs apply for data transfer and
storage.

SAP ERP 607 SPS08

SAP HANA 1.0 SPS09

Amazon Instance Type:

r3.8xlarge: 244 GB RAM

Amazon Instance 1
SAP BI Platform Server
4.1 SPS05

Amazon Instance Type:

m1.xlarge: 15 GB RAM

Amazon Instance 2
Windows Frontend
Server

Amazon Instance Type:

m1.medium

Amazon Instance 3

Amazon AWS Cost Calculator: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

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Pre-requisites
Your own Amazon AWS account: http://aws.amazon.com.
The security credentials from your Amazon AWS account (security credentials are defined during AWS
account creation).

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Step 1
Go to the trial landing page http://go.sap.com/cmp/oth/crm-s4hana/s4hana-on-premise.html
Choose Start your trial now

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Step 2
You will be presented with the Log On screen to the SAP Cloud Appliance Library.
Enter your username and password on the Log On screen.
If you do not have an existing account, you can use the Register Now option to setup a new user.

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Step 3
After you entered your user credentials and logged on you will be presented with the Terms and
Conditions. Please scroll down, to read and get accept button active.
Choose I Accept.

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Step 4
In the SAP Cloud Appliance Library you will be asked to provide your security credentials from your
Amazon AWS account.
You can then also define the password for the Administrator account for the systems.
Choose Create Instance after you provided those details.

Instance of S/4HANA

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Step 5
You are now be directed to the Instances tab page for your new System.
The system is being created for you in your AWS account (see next slide for the timing of your systems
activation).

Instance of SAP S/4 HANA on premise trial

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Step 6
After approximately 45 minutes your system is ready for logon.
You can click on the systems line item (marked in yellow) to receive the details (next slide).
The Getting Started Guide provides technical details and sample demo process.

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Step 7
On the General Properties page you can view the IP address of your created instances. You will need
the external IP addresses in the following steps.
The solution will be automatically suspended after 8 hours. Use Schedule Configuration to define your own schedule for when the
solution should be active. The INSTANCE COST FORECAST shows the cost for running the solution for 8 hours, plus data storage
expense. The hourly cost differs from Region to Region.

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Step 8
On the overview page you can also start, stop, suspend and terminate the system.
It is recommended to use these commands instead of directly using the AWS Console to ensure the
configurations (for example, IP Numbers) are intact.
Inside the SCAP Cloud Appliance Library console, you can access to Community Support directly.

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System Connection (Option1)

Step 9 connecting to system via Windows Frontend Server

Click Connect in the INSTANCES view

Click Remote Desktop (S/4HANA Windows Frontend)

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System Connection (Option1)

Step 9 connecting to system via Windows Frontend Server

Confirm the pop-up window to allow Remote Desktop Connection

Enter the master password (see step 4)

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System Connection (Option1)

Step 9 connecting to system via Windows Frontend Server

You are now in the pre-configured Windows Frontend Server
Follow the information on the Welcome page for logging in and running sample scenarios.
After you have downloaded Chrome browser, the Weclome page can be accessed at any time via this
short-cut.

Please be noticed that the connection via Windows Frontend Server provides 2 concurrent sessions out-of-the-box. You can
either apply additional license for the Windows Frontend Server to extend the concurrent sessions or refer to Step 10
connecting to system via adjusted local /etc/hosts file.
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System Connection (Option2)

Step 10 -- connecting to system via adjusted local /etc/hosts file

Map hosts file on your local PC.

1
Open Notepad on your
local PC with the option
Run as administrator,
using right-mouse click.

2
Click File Open
Path for hosts file -<C:\Windows\System32\
drivers\etc>

File Name: hosts

Ensure you have selected

All Files (*.*)

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Enter the following entries, then Save the hosts file.
#S/4HANA on-premise trial
<External IP address of the SAP ERP/HDB> vhcalerpcs
vhcalerpcs.dummy.nodomain vhcalerpci
vhcalerpci.dummy.nodomain vhcalhdbdb
vhcalhdbdb.dummy.nodomain
<External IP address ofSBOP BI Platform> bihost
bihost.dummy.nodomain
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System Connection (Option2)

Step 10 -- connecting to system via adjusted local /etc/hosts file

Logon to SAP Fiori Launchpad on internet browser, with the following parameter value:
Parameter

Value

URL

https://vhcalerpci.dummy.nodomain:44301/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/
FioriLaunchpad.html

User

BPINST

Password

Welcome1

Client

Select your client (CN:114; DE:102;US:120)

Logon to BI Launchpad on internet browser, with the following parameter value:

Parameter

Value

URL

https://bihost.dummy.nodomain:8443/BOE/BI

User

BPINST

Password

Welcome1

Authentication

Enterprise

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System Connection (Option2)

Step 10 -- connecting to system via adjusted local /etc/hosts file

Open SAP Logon on your local PC
Add one User Specified System, with the following parameter value:
Parameter

Value

Description

Your own definition

Server

External IP address of the SAP ERP/HDB

Instance
Number

00

System ID

Your own definition, eg S4H

Logon to SAP GUI, with the following parameter value:

Parameter

Value

Client

Select your client (CN:114; DE:102;US:120)

User

BPINST

Password

Welcome1

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System Connection (Option2)

Step 10 -- connecting to system via adjusted local /etc/hosts file

Open SAP HANA Studio on your local PC
Add System, with the following parameter value:
Parameter

Value

Description

Your own definition

Server

External IP address of the SAP ERP/HDB

Instance
Number

02

System ID

Your own definition, eg S4H

Connect to HANA database, with the following parameter value:

Parameter

Value

User

BPINST

Password

Welcome1

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