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SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.6

End of 2017, we have delivered SAP Data Hub, developer edition. And early 2018, SAP Data Hub trial edition followed. This week we launched the new trial edition based on SAP Data Hub 2.6.

SAP Data Hub includes data sharing, pipelining and orchestration capabilities that help companies accelerate and expand data flow across a diverse data landscape. It includes features for Data Pipelines, Data Workflows as well as Data Governance.

SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.6

SAP Data Hub, trial edition is a complete deployment of SAP Data Hub for trial and evaluation purposes. It is available on Google Cloud Platform as well as Amazon Web Services. It is brought to you through SAP Cloud Appliance Library.

With the trial edition, you can look at all features of SAP Data Hub for 30 days. We do not charge you for the usage of SAP Data Hub, trial edition. You only need to cover the expenses Google respectively Amazon bills for using their infrastructure.

The following diagram visualizes the architecture of SAP Data Hub, trial edition:

How to get started?

To take a stab at SAP Data Hub, trial edition, you need a Google Cloud Platform respecively Amazon Web Services account. Afterwards you can deploy the trial edition through SAP Cloud Appliance Library.

In addition, there are a couple of tutorials which help you to familiarize yourself with the trial edition:

We would be happy to see you blogging about the scenarios that you build on top of the trial edition.

If you have questions, problems or proposals, feel free to post them as comments to this blog, or to the SAP Community. We will try to answer them in a timely manner and collect frequently asked questions here.

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      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Updated blog post for SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.3.

      Author's profile photo Abhijit Nilegaonkar
      Abhijit Nilegaonkar

      Thorsten, Thank you for the updated blog. Is there any particular region this should be hosted at? I keep getting this error. Quota CPUS exceeded. Limit: 24.0 in region US-Central1.  I tried couple of regions with no luck. Any help is appreciated.

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Abhijit,

      can you please check if this URL https://answers.sap.com/questions/684062/unable-to-activate-the-data-hub-23-instance.html answers your question. You need sufficient quota to run the trial. We will also update the Getting Started Guide with the quota mentioned in the referenced page to ensure that users are aware.

      If that does not solve the problem, please let me know.

      Cheers

      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Abhijit Nilegaonkar
      Abhijit Nilegaonkar

      Thorsten, I realized the region I was trying to create a trial instance in did not have sufficient CPU. I did not know the needed limit was 30. Thank you for pointing me to the link. I have requested additional quota. I think I should be good.

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Perfect. If there is anything else you need help with, just let me know.
      Cheers
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Abhijit Nilegaonkar
      Abhijit Nilegaonkar

      Ok My quota was increased. Now I get this Bad Request error.  I am going to terminate and Try again.

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      I will check that. BR

      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Abhijit,

      could you do me a favour and try again? I think the problem was caused by the following GKE release and the fact that the trial currently "hardcodes" the Kubernetes version.

      https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/release-notes#november-12-2018

      My suspision is that we changed our code to 1.9.7-gke.11, but this Kubernetes version was not (yet) available in the region you are using.

      If retrying does not help, can you please send me the region and zone you wish to deploy to.

      Thanks a lot. Best regards

      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Updated blog post for SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.4.

      Author's profile photo David Théroux-Bénoni
      David Théroux-Bénoni

      Hello,

       

      Under AWS I keep having the following error when trying to open the URL:

      https://<instance_code_name>.yl4.us-east-1.eks.amazonaws.com/

      Have you seen this issue before?

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi David,

      I have not seen this (at least not in this context). Let me check with some colleagues...

      Cheers
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo David Théroux-Bénoni
      David Théroux-Bénoni

      Thanks a lot Thorsten that’s really appreciated.

       

      I had found the following thread with a similar error but I don’t know how to access the yaml file on my AWS instance : https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/apiserver-builder-alpha/issues/225#issuecomment-396154494

       

      If you need more info please let me know.

      Author's profile photo David Théroux-Bénoni
      David Théroux-Bénoni

      Hello Thorsten,

       

      Look no further, I just waited more than 90min for the system to activate (looked like it was stuck on activating but I guess it was still doing something).

      Now it works! If someone else has the same issue, you can tell them to just be patient ;).

       

      Thanks for your prompt reply.

      D.

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi David,

      thanks for letting me know. 90 minutes is long (but it depends a bit how quickly e.g. the Docker images are mirrored).

      Have fun with the trial.

      Cheers
      Thorsten

      PS: I will also check a bit on the activation time from our end...

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
      Blog Post Author

      Hey David,

      I have checked with colleagues. On AWS the start-up time for the trial is around 75+ minutes. So the 90 minutes (while I hope that we can finetune that a bit in the future) is expected.

      If you wait until all the "traffic lights" in CAL go green after creation of the instance, you should (always) be good to logon.

      Cheers
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Updated blog for SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.5. Now available on: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform

      Author's profile photo Martin Muttenthaler
      Martin Muttenthaler

      Hi Thorsten,

      great news about the 2.5 trial edition.

      Any plans for the developer edition 2.5?
      I am especially interessted in the ABAP operaters. Also the new Visualization concept for building UIs. Do I need the trial edition to explore that?

      Thanks
      BR
      Martin

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Martin,

      we like to update the developer edition to a newer version, but currently I cannot give a firm timeline for this. Sorry.

      Best regards
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Mert Kuybu
      Mert Kuybu

      Hi Thorsten,

      I have created an instance for the datahub trial edition 2.5 on GCP. However, the connection to CLOUD_STORAGE fails:

      Do you have any suggestions?

      Best, Mert

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Mert,

      has this connection always failed? I can only imagine that the service account (GCS credentials in the CLOUD_STORAGE connection) has a problem. But in that case I would have thought that already the creation of the trial instance failed. Having said that: you can either try to create a new trial instance or provide me access to the logs (easiest would be by access to the system; alternatively by downloading the logs for data-app and flowagent from Kubernetes)

      Cheers
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Mert Kuybu
      Mert Kuybu

      I have created a new trial instance and the connection does not fail anymore. Thank you!

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Adapted blog. SAP Data Hub, trial edition 2.6 is available. Check it out here: https://cal.sap.com/catalog#/solutions/8d684657-0fad-44ec-a55a-36b33ad840c9

       

      Author's profile photo Tim Korba
      Tim Korba

      I am receiving an error after I set up my Google Cloud Platform, create my service account with all of the necessary authorizations to the service account per 2.1 from the document, assigned the correct APIs to the project and when I go to link the SAP Cloud Appliance with the account, I am receiving the following error:

       

      An error from Google Cloud Platform occurred: GCP : com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden { “code” : 403, “errors” : [ { “domain” : “global”, “message” : “User is not authorized.”, “reason” : “forbidden” } ], “message” : “User is not authorized.”, “status” : “PERMISSION_DENIED” }

       

      I have reviewed the authorizations multiple times and not sure the issue.  Any insight on this on how to correctly debug and/or if anyone has experienced this before?

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Tim,

      could you maybe share a screenshot of your service account (from the IAM & admin section)?

      I have just checked the service account I am using (screenshot attached). It looks exactly like in the “Getting Started Guide” and it works (last time I created an instance was last week).

      Thanks.

      Best regards
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Tim Korba
      Tim Korba

      Here is my screen shot

       

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Tim,

      not the answer which I like to give, but the best one I have right now: I talked to colleagues. They observed this behavior a few times before. They "solved" it by creating a new service account (with exactly the same roles). Could you please try that and let me know?

      If it helps, then it is worth to follow up with Google regarding the service account afterwards. If it does not help, we take another look from our end.

      Sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Thorsten Schneider
      Thorsten Schneider
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      Hi Tim,

      hhhmmm... that looks very much the same as mine does. I will check with the team next week, what's the best way to troubleshoot...

      Cheers
      Thorsten

      Author's profile photo Sid Krishna
      Sid Krishna

      Great Post!

      Excuse me if I sound nerd in Container world!

      ​What is the recommended way to install SAP Data Hub on Azure. I want to have it installed as containerized application.

      Option 1:

      Using SAP CAL which in-turn spins the Kubernetes Cluster in Azure for Computation.

      Option 2:

      Using SAP SL Plugin. Spin the components on Azure myself and then install the Hub.

      Or Other which I am not aware of.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Sid,

      The Options 1 and 2 are for different use cases.

      On CAL you can quickly get SAP Data Hub trial edition on Azure, AWS or GCP.

      Software Lifecycle Container Bridge (SLC Bridge) the successor of the SL Plugin is recommended to install SAP Data Hub (e.g. on Azure) for all other use cases. You can find the details here: https://blogs.sap.com/2019/08/16/sap-datahub-2.6-installation-with-slc-bridge/

      Best regards

      Axel