Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure (AZ-120)

Course Objectives

• Migrate SAP Workloads to Azure
• Design an Azure Solution to Support SAP Workloads
• Build and Deploy Azure for SAP Workloads
• Validate Azure Infrastructure for SAP Workloads
• Operationalize Azure SAP Architecture

Target Audience

• Cloud Architect
• SAP Architect

Prerequisites Required:

• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, including VM, VNet, Load Balancers, Storage (Blob, Files, Disks).
Recommended:
• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration.
• AZ-104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator
Required:
• Understanding of on-premises and cloud virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts
Recommended:
• Knowledge of SAP products such as SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver
Required:
• Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption
technologies.
Recommended:
• Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration.
Required:
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
Recommended:
• Solid knowledge of SAP Applications, SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW, OS Servers for SAP Applications and Databases. 

Course Outline

1) Explore Azure for SAP workloads
• Explore Azure for SAP workloads
• Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
• Explore your options with SAP on Azure
• Discover common terms and meanings for SAP on Azure
• Discover common terms and meanings for SAP, Azure, and SAP deployments on Azure
• Identify SAP-certified configurations
• Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments
• Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure
• Examine SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines
• Explore SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture's components
• Examine a sample functional workflow
• Examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines
• Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture's components
• Examine a sample functional workflow

2) Explore the foundations of IaaS for SAP on Azure
• Explore Azure for SAP compute
• Plan for implementing SAP solutions
• Explore Azure virtual machines
• Examine Azure virtual machine compute considerations
• Implement and verify high availability SAP HANA on Azure virtual machines
• Explore Azure for SAP networking
• Explore Azure virtual networks
• Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations
• Examine load balancing considerations
• Explore virtual network connectivity
• Explore cross-premises connectivity
• Explore Azure for SAP storage
• Explore Azure Storage types
• Examine general database sizing
• Examine SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations
• Explore solutions with Premium Storage and Azure Write Accelerator for Azure M-Series virtual machines
• Examine sizing for HANA databases on Azure NetApp Files
• Explore Azure for SAP databases
• Explore database support of Azure for SAP workloads
• Explore storing database files directly on Azure Blob Storage
• Explore Azure virtual machine and blob storage security
• Examine SQL Server and Oracle recommendations
• Explore Azure networking for SAP RISE
• Differentiate the responsibilities of the SAP RISE team, Azure support, and the customer
• Connect to SAP RISE with Azure virtual private network (VPN) peering
• Connect to SAP RISE with VNet-to-VNet
• Connect SAP RISE with an on-premises network
• Connect SAP RISE with the internet

3) Explore the foundations of identity and governance for SAP on Azure
• Explore identity services for SAP on Azure
• Define Active Directory Domain Services
• Define Microsoft Entra ID
• Discuss Microsoft Entra Domain Services
• Define Active Directory Domain Services
• Define Microsoft Entra ID
• Explore remote management for SAP on Azure
• Consider remote management of Azure virtual machines
• Set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management
• Explore access management
• Explore governance and manageability for SAP on Azure
• Explore Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager templates
• Examine role-based access control and Azure Policy
• Explore security and compliance services

4) Deploy SAP on Azure
• Deploy single-instance implementations of SAP on Azure (2-tier and 3-tier)
• Explore deployment methodologies
• Deploy via Azure Resource Manager templates
• Prepare Azure virtual machines for a manual installation of SAP HANA
• Implement SAP HANA scale-out
• Implement high availability in SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines
• Examine single SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment
• Examine multi-SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment
• Set up a Windows Server failover cluster for an SAP ASCS-SCS instance
• Examine Installation of SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition for the SAP ASCS-SCS cluster shared disk
• Explore Azure Center for SAP solutions
• Explain Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) and its services
• Deploy SAP workloads on Azure or register existing SAP workloads with ACSS
• Use ACSS to manage new and existing SAP workloads on Azure
• Monitor and troubleshoot SAP workloads on Azure

5) Ensure business continuity and implement disaster recovery for SAP solutions on Azure
• Implement high availability for SAP workloads in Azure
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads
• Examine principal architectures
• Determine latency between Azure virtual machines across Availability Zones
• Implement disaster recovery for SAP workloads in Azure
• Explore disaster recovery of SAP workloads
• Combine availability within one region and across regions
• Explore site recovery
• Implement disaster recovery for SAP deployments across Azure regions with Azure Site Recovery
• Perform backups and restores for SAP workloads on Azure
• Explore backup and restore of Azure virtual machines
• Explore application backup
• Explore SAP HANA backup
• Explore Oracle backup
• Explore SQL Server backups

6) Migrate SAP workloads to Azure
• Use the planning and deployment checklist for SAP workloads on Azure
• Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist
• Explore the phases from project preparation and planning, and through the Go Live and post production phases
• Explore migration options for SAP on Azure
• Analyze strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure
• Compare classical migration options
• Explore downtime-optimized migration
• Migrate very large databases (VLDB) to Azure for SAP
• Explore very large database migration
• Learn best practices for optimizing the source system, network upload, and the target system
• Examine very large database migration best practices

7) Monitor and troubleshoot Azure for SAP workloads
• Explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
• Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services
• Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Explore operating system and workload updates for Azure virtual machines
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Explore licensing, pricing, and support for SAP on Azure virtual machines
• Learn how to price Azure virtual machine-based solutions
• Explore licensing, pricing, and support of Azure for SAP workloads

8) LAB Outline
• Implement Linux clustering on Azure VMs
• Implement Windows clustering on Azure VMs
• Implement SAP architecture on Azure VMs running Linux
• Implement SAP architecture on Azure VMs running Windows
• Automate deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions
• Overview of prerequisites for deployment of Azure Center for SAP solutions (ACSS)
• Overview of deployment and maintenance of Azure Center for SAP solutions (ACSS)
• Overview of deployment Azure Center for SAP solutions