Course Overview
This 1-day course teaches IT professionals who have experience with SAP solutions how to use Azure resources that include setting up and configuration of SAP environments in Azure for virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Microsoft Entra ID. Learners will also explore backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring of SAP systems in Azure. Learn through the application of concepts, scenarios, and procedures through hands-on labs using Azure Center for SAP solutions.
Who Should Attend?
Administrators of SAP systems that run on Azure should take this course.
What You'll Learn
1 - Modernize and explore Azure for SAP workloads
Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
Explore your options with SAP on Azure
Discover common terms and meanings: SAP
2 - Modernize and identify SAP-certified configurations
Identify deployment options for SAP solutions on Azure
Discover supported Azure Virtual Machines for SAP products on Windows and Linux
3 - Modernize and examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
Recognize architectural components
Examine a sample functional workflow
4 - Modernize and explore Azure for SAP compute
Plan for implementing SAP solutions
Explore Azure virtual machines (VMs)
Examine constrained vCPU capable virtual machine sizes
Examine Azure virtual machine scaling considerations
Explore data flows
5 - Modernize and explore Azure network for SAP
Explore Azure virtual networks
Consider IP addressing
Explore name resolution
Explore Azure load balancer
Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations
Explore Azure Traffic Manager
Explore Azure Front Door
Explore virtual network connectivity
Explore SAProuter
6 - Modernize and explore Azure for SAP storage
Explore Azure Storage types
Explore Azure Files
Examine Azure Virtual Machines disks
Explore managed and unmanaged disks
Examine Azure Virtual Machines storage considerations
Explore Azure Virtual Machine NFS storage
Examine SAP HANA Azure Virtual Machines storage configurations
Explore NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files
7 - Modernize and explore identity services for SAP on Azure
Explore Azure Virtual Machine authentication, authorization, and access control
Explore Microsoft Entra ID
Explore SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication
Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication
Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP HANA
Integrate Active Directory with SAP single sign-on (Kerberos-SPNEGO)
Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services
Explore Azure Bastion
8 - Modernize and explore governance and manageability for SAP on Azure
Explore Azure Resource Manager
Examine Azure Resource Manager templates
Examine role-based access control (RBAC)
Explore Azure Policy
Explore security and compliance services
9 - Modernize and deploy single-instance implementations of SAP on Azure (2-tier and 3-tier)
Explore deployment methodologies
Prepare Azure Virtual Machines for a manual installation of SAP HANA
Discover key steps for SAP HANA installation using SAP SWPM
Discover key steps for SAP HANA installation using SAP HANA Database Lifecycle Management (HLM)
Implement SAP HANA scale-out
10 - Modernize and implement high availability in SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure Virtual Machines
Examine single SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment
11 - Modernize and explore Azure Center for SAP solutions
Discover Azure Center for SAP solutions
Examine prerequisites for Azure Center for SAP solutions
Choose deployment options with Azure Center for SAP solutions
Register an existing SAP system
12 - Modernize and implement high availability for SAP workloads in Azure
Explore high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads
Explore high availability of SAP workloads
Examine failover clustering
Explore deployment scenarios
Explore high availability of SAP application servers
Explore high availability of SAP ASCS-SCS instances
Explore SAP HANA availability
Explore SQL Server high availability for SAP in Azure
Explore Oracle high availability for SAP in Azure
Examine high availability capabilities of Azure infrastructure
Explore availability zones
13 - Modernize and implement disaster recovery for SAP workloads in Azure
Explore disaster recovery of SAP workloads
Explore simple availability between two Azure regions
Combine availability within one region and across regions
Explore site recovery
Implement disaster recovery for SAP deployments across Azure regions with Azure Site Recovery
Set up disaster recovery for Active Directory and DNS
14 - Modernize, perform backups and restores for SAP workloads on Azure
Explore backup and restore of Azure virtual machines
Examine application-consistent backup of Azure Linux virtual machines
Explore application backup
Explore SAP HANA backup
Explore SAP HANA file-level backups
Create SAP HANA snapshot-based backups
15 - Modernize, use the planning and deployment checklist for SAP workloads on Azure
Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist
Explore the project preparation and planning phase
Explore the production preparation phase
Explore very large database migration
16 - Modernize and explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
Explore the monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services
Explore Azure Virtual Machine monitoring considerations
Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
Troubleshoot Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
Before taking this course,
candidates should pass the Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305) exam and have completed training in SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver.
