CoreToEdge SAP Systems AMIs on Amazon Web Services Setup Guide

CoreToEdge 12/14/17 V1.1

1 Contents 2 CoreToEdge SAP Systems AMIs on Amazon Web Services ................................................................... 2

2.1 Before We Start............................................................................................................................. 2

2.2 Welcome ....................................................................................................................................... 2

2.3 Document version ......................................................................................................................... 2

2.4 Licensing ........................................................................................................................................ 2

3 How to create your own SAP Business Suite environment .................................................................. 3

3.1 Prerequisites ................................................................................................................................. 3

3.2 Create your own SAP instance on AWS ........................................................................................ 3

3.3 Connect to your SAP AWS instance .............................................................................................. 6

4 System Information............................................................................................................................. 12

4.1 ABAP Application Server Details ................................................................................................. 12

4.2 OS Users and Groups .................................................................................................................. 12

2 CoreToEdge SAP Systems AMIs on Amazon Web Services

2.1 Before We Start This document introduces a product offering by CoreToEdge and will guide the reader through the

process of setting up and deploying our product.

It is assumed that the reader has the proper technical knowledge on the technologies mentioned below

including but not restricted to: AWS architecture, Windows 2012 R2 Server, SAP Basis technology and

SAP ASE Database

2.2 Welcome CoreToEdge Preinstalled SAP systems AMIs include a SAP Business Suite system already installed.

Installation has been done by a team of experienced SAP Basis and AWS Consultants including all

available best practices for deployment of SAP systems on AWS.

These systems are ideal for small and medium deployments of non-productive systems where a single

instance can handle all workload and no high availability is required.

For production use cases and high availability scenarios we recommend the usage of custom built

systems that follow the best practices delivered by SAP and AWS and available on:

http://aws.amazon.com/es/sap/resources/ At CoreToEdge we can also offer custom deployment

options for large-scale, highly available and replicated SAP systems on AWS. You can reach us at

get@basis.support

The Preinstalled SAP systems AMIs do not include the corresponding SAP product license. You as a

customer acknowledge that you already have the license required to use this software. Also, you will be

responsible for operating your own AWS account.

2.3 Document version This document has been reviewed on April 14th, 2017 and reflects some changes implemented on the

latest versions of our WIN/ASE AMIs at that time.

These are the current AMIs we made available for you:

Platform SAP Product Version Database Product Version

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Standard 64-bit

EHP7 FOR SAP ERP 6.0 SAP ASE 16

Our team of consultants is continuously working on updating available AMIs and adding new products.

In case you miss something, please let us know by sending an e-mail to get@basis.support

2.4 Licensing This is offered as a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) model. Please obtain your SAP license through SAP

or your preferred SAP partner.

Then download your license file from SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com/licensekeys).

3 How to create your own SAP Business Suite environment

3.1 Prerequisites ▪ An AWS account - if you don't have one yet, you can register here (click "Sign Up Now"). Have

your credit card handy.

▪ Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) or EC2-Classic.

▪ An SAP Service Marketplace valid S-User Account for requesting the SAP License Key.

3.2 Create your own SAP instance on AWS ▪ Log on to Amazon Market Place: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace and find SAP

Preinstalled AMI by CoreToEdge Click into it and launch an instance.

▪ Configure AWS instance size from the available choices. For small SAP systems, up to 10

concurrent users, we recommend that you use an EC2 instance with at least 7.5 GB for

memory (ex. m3.large). For more detailed information about SAP Business Suite Sizing and

appropriate EC2 instance types, please refer to SAP documentation, SAP sizing tool and OSS

Notes (S-User required): (http://service.sap.com/instguides )

▪ (http://service.sap.com/quicksizer )

▪ (http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1656099 )

▪ You can launch the SAP System on EC2-CLASSIC or VPC:

▪ Next you can choose the EBS volume type, you can leave as default or use SSD / IOPS for best

performance:

▪ Next step is to tag the instance so you can identify it in the AWS Console:

▪ The next step is the security group. Default proposed values allow access from anywhere.

You should adapt these settings to meet your specific security policies:

▪ You can review your options here:

▪ After a few minutes, you can access your instance with SSH and do the final configuration

steps.

3.3 Connect to your SAP AWS instance • In the EC2 console, navigate to “INSTANCES Instances”. This should show all your

instances in Amazon EC2. Make sure the SAP instance you want to connect to is in “running”

state. If not, choose the instance, then click on “Instance Actions” menu, and click on “Start”

in the pulldown menu.

• Make a note of the IP address assigned to the instance. You will need it to connect to this SAP

instance in AWS.

• RDP to the instance with username “Administrator”.

• Set SAP users passwords by executing below commands right clicking Start icon and selecting

Command Prompt as Admin:

net user ertadm Ert2017Tst

net user sapadm Ert2017Tst

net user SAPServiceERT Ert2017Tst

net user sybert Ert2017Tst

• While command prompt is open, issue command below to open hosts file in notepad:

notepad C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

• Replace the last line (which includes hostname) with local IP address of your EC2 instance.

You can find it by checking your desktop background.

• Save hosts file using notepad File -> save option.

• You must change hostname to “erptest” and restart the instance afterwards.

• Once the system is restarted, run SAP Management Console on Desktop to start SAP.

Note that if you cannot see the instance under SAP systems, please check if all SAP services

are started using services.msc and relaunch SAP Management Console.

• Enter operating system user credentials. You can use Administrator or ertadm user.

• SAP System once it’s started and install the license.

Login to SAP system using SAP Logon on desktop with “SAP*” user and password “Ert2017Tst”.

• Get the instance’s hardware key using transaction SLICENSE to obtain the license from the

SAP Service Marketplace:

• Go to https://support.sap.com/keys-systems-installations/keys.html and obtain a valid

license key for your

• system (SID ERT and the hardware key obtained in the preceding step).

• Now you can install the SAP license using SLICENSE and start working with the system.

• You can use SAP MMC to stop SAP system.

NOTE: we strongly recommend that you update the Master Password and apply a proper

password management mechanism.

4 System Information

4.1 ABAP Application Server Details

Name Value Description

SID ERT System ID of the SAP system

CI Instance

Number

00 The instance number of the central instance (CI)

CS

Instance

Number

01 The instance number of the central services (CS) instance.

SAP Users

Password

Ert2017Tst Password of the master system.

Username DDIC

SAP*

These are the standard users which you can use to access the ABAP

server. (The master password is used for accessing the system)

Clients 800

810

These are the standard clients available in a newly installed SAP system.

Name Value Description

SAP User clouduser This is the generic user available in the SAP system. User is also available

in default client 800.

SAP User

Password

Ert2017Tst The master password is used for accessing the system.

4.2 OS Users and Groups

Name Description

Administrator System Administrator

ertadm SAP System Administrator

sybert SAP ASE Database System Administrator

sapadm SAP Administrator