Overview

This guide describes how to use the Enterprise Management service on HUAWEI CLOUD to quickly deploy Elastic Cloud Server (ECSs) and SAP S/4HANA. You must be familiar with the SAP on Cloud solution and HUAWEI CLOUD services related to the SAP on Cloud solution.

Applicable version: This guide applies only to the deployment of the SAP S/4HANA software of versions 1610, 1709, and 1809 on HUAWEI CLOUD.
Reference: If you are new to HUAWEI CLOUD, visit the following links to obtain more information.
- Log in at HUAWEI CLOUD (https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/solution/sap/) to obtain basic information.
- Log in to HUAWEI CLOUD Help Center (https://support.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/wtsnew-sap/index.html) to obtain technical details.

Introduction to SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA is for real-time resource management of enterprise digital services. Based on SAP HANA, a high-performance in-memory platform, SAP S/4HANA provides up to 1800 times faster business analysis and report generation compared with traditional platforms. HUAWEI CLOUD supports automatic deployment of SAP S/4HANA and ECSs, reducing deployment workload and time.

Required Cloud Services

Table 1 shows the cloud services used by a resource template to provision SAP S/4HANA ECSs in the quick deployment scenario.

**Table 1** Required Cloud Services
Cloud Service Name	Description
Elastic Cloud Server (ECS)	SAP S/4HANA is deployed on ECSs.
Elastic Volume Service (EVS)	All ECSs where SAP S/4HANA is deployed have EVS disks attached.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	All ECSs where SAP S/4HANA is deployed belong to the same VPC. They are isolated using VPC subnets and security groups for network security.
Image Management Service (IMS)	Images are required for creating ECSs.
Enterprise Management	Templates are used to create resources and install SAP S/4HANA.
Object Storage Service (OBS)	OBS bucket is used to store the SAP S/4HANA installation package, and initialization and automatic installation scripts.
Scalable File Service (SFS)	The backup volume of the SAP HANA database is provided by SFS.