AZ-120 : Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure

Learn to plan and deploy SAP solutions on Azure, covering virtual machines, networks, storage, and hybrid identities, with hands-on labs and Azure best practices.

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)

• Understanding of on-premises and cloud virtualization technologies, including VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks

• Understanding of Active Directory concepts

• Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies

• Experience with Linux/Unix environments

Recommended:

• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration

• AZ-104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator

• Knowledge of SAP products such as SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver

• Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration

• Solid knowledge of SAP Applications, SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW, OS Servers for SAP Applications and Databases

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

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