Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure (AZ-120T00)

Course Overview

1 - Explore Azure for SAP workloads

• Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
• Explore your options with SAP on Azure
• Evaluate Microsoft components

2 - Discover common terms and meanings for SAP on Azure

• Discover common terms and meanings: SAP
• Discover common terms and meanings: SAP deployments on Azure
• Discover common terms and meanings: Azure

3 - Identify SAP-certified configurations

• Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments
• Identify deployment options for SAP solutions on Azure
• Discover supported Azure virtual machines for SAP products on Windows and Linux
• Discover supported Azure virtual machines for SAP NetWeaver instances
• Discover SAP-certified operating systems for Azure virtual machines
• Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure

4 - Examine SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines

• Explore SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines
• Recognize architectural components
• Examine a sample functional workflow

5 - Examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines

• Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines
• Recognize architectural components
• Examine a sample functional workflow

6 - Explore Azure for SAP compute

• Plan for implementing SAP solutions
• Explore Azure virtual machines (VMs)
• Examine constrained vCPU capable virtual machine sizes
• Scale Azure virtual machines
• Examine Azure virtual machine scaling considerations
• Explore network bandwidth allocation
• Explore data flows
• Examine Azure virtual machine compute considerations
• Implement and verify high availability SAP HANA on Azure virtual machines

7 - Explore Azure for SAP networking

• Explore Azure virtual networks
• Consider IP addressing
• Explore name resolution
• Explore accelerated networking
• Explore Azure load balancer
• Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations
• Examine load balancing considerations
• Explore Azure Traffic Manager
• Explore Azure Front Door
• Explore Azure Firewall
• Consider networking changes for Azure virtual machines
• Examine Azure routing configurations
• Explore virtual network connectivity
• Explore Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection options
• Examine the virtual datacenter
• Explore cross-premises connectivity
• Explore SAProuter
• Examine networking support of Azure for SAP workloads

8 - Explore Azure for SAP storage

• Explore Azure Storage types
• Explore Azure Files
• Examine Azure virtual machine disks
• Recognize virtual machine images and disks
• Explore managed and unmanaged disks
• Explore caching for virtual machines and data disks
• Explore Write Accelerator
• Examine general database sizing
• Examine Azure virtual machine storage considerations
• Examine SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering 2.0
• Explore Azure virtual machine disks best practices
• Explore Azure virtual machine NFS storage
• Explore Azure virtual machine SMB storage
• Examine SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations
• Explore solutions with Premium Storage and Azure Write Accelerator for Azure M-Series virtual machines
• Explore Azure Ultra disk storage configuration for SAP HANA
• Explore NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files
• Examine sizing for HANA databases on Azure NetApp Files

9 - Explore Azure for SAP databases

• Explore database support of Azure for SAP workloads
• Explore SQL Server
• Consider database compression
• Store database files directly on Azure Blob Storage
• Explore Azure Virtual Machine security
• Consider security recommendations for Blob storage
• Apply SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption
• Explore the SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension
• Examine Oracle recommendations
• Lab - Implement Windows clustering for SAP on Azure virtual machines

10 - Explore identity services for SAP on Azure

• Explore Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
• Explore SAP Cloud Platform Identity authentication
• Integrate Azure Active Directory with SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication
• Integrate Azure Active Directory with SAP Fiori
• Integrate Azure Active Directory with SAP HANA
• Integrate Azure Active Directory with SAP NetWeaver
• Integrate Active Directory with SAP single sign-on (Kerberos-SPNEGO)
• Discover Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
• Explore primary scenarios using Active Directory Domain Services and Azure virtual machines
• Discover Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS)
• Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services

11 - 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 Azure Bastion
• Examine just-in-time (JIT) virtual machine access

12 - Explore governance and manageability for SAP on Azure

• Explore Azure Resource Manager
• Examine Azure Resource Manager templates
• Explore the Azure Resource Manager template structure and schema
• Examine role-based access control (RBAC)
• Organize Azure resources with tags
• Explore Azure Policy
• Explore management groups
• Explore Azure Automation
• Explore security and compliance services

13 - Deploy single-instance implementations of SAP on Azure (2-tier and 3-tier)

• Explore deployment methodologies
• Deploy via Azure Resource Manager templates
• Manually install single-instance SAP HANA on Azure virtual machines
• 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 HDBLCM
• Implement SAP HANA scale-out

14 - Implement high availability in SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines

• 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 the required DNS IP addresses
• Add registry entries on both cluster nodes of the SAP ASCS-SCS instance
• Set up a Windows Server failover cluster for an SAP ASCS-SCS instance
• Install SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition for the SAP ASCS-SCS cluster shared disk
• Implement a highly available NFS share
• Lab - Implement SAP architecture on Azure VMs running Linux
• Lab - Implement SAP architecture on Azure VMs running Windows

15 - 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
• Examine high availability of DBMS 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
• Understand service-level agreements
• Explore Availability Zones
• Examine principal architectures
• Determine latency between Azure virtual machines across Availability Zones
• Explore the Active/Active deployment scenario
• Explore the Active/Passive deployment scenario
• Configure combined high availability and disaster recovery

16 - 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 a multi-tier SAP NetWeaver app deployment (in Azure)
• Replicate Azure virtual machines running in Proximity Placement Groups to another region
• Set up disaster recovery for Active Directory and DNS

17 - 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 database backup
• Explore SAP HANA backup
• Implement SAP HANA backup scheduling strategy
• Explore SAP HANA file-level backups
• Create SAP HANA snapshot-based backups
• Explore SQL Server Backup to URL (Azure Storage)
• Explore SQL Server file-snapshot backups
• Explore Oracle backup
• Explore SQL Server backups
• Set up disaster recovery for SQL Server

18 - 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 pilot phase
• Explore the non-production phase
• Explore the production preparation phase
• Explore the Go Live phase
• Explore the post-production phase

19 - Explore migration options for SAP on Azure

• Analyze strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure
• Migrate to SAP S/4HANA from SAP Business Suite
• Compare classical migration with the SAP database migration option (DMO)
• Analyze the SAP database migration option methodology
• Explore one-step migration - DMO with system move option
• Explore two-step migration - lift and shift followed by DMO
• Explore downtime-optimized DMO

20 - Migrate very large databases (VLDB) to Azure for SAP

• Explore very large database migration
• Optimize the source system
• Optimize the source system - advanced
• Optimize network upload
• Optimize the target system
• Create recommended migration project documents
• Monitor the migration
• Examine very large database migration best practices

21 - Explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads

• Explore the monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
• Explore Azure virtual machine monitoring considerations
• Troubleshoot Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
• Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Explore SAP HANA alerts
• Examine diagnostic tools
• Explore operating system and workload updates for Azure virtual machines

22 - Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP

• Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP

23 - Explore licensing, pricing, and support for SAP on Azure virtual machines

• Price Azure virtual machine-based solutions
• Explore licensing, pricing, and support of Azure for SAP workloads

Prerequisites

• 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 network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments.
• Solid knowledge of SAP Applications, SAP HANA, S/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW, OS Servers for SAP Applications and Databases.
• Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration.
• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration.

 

Prerequisite Courses (or equivalent knowledge and hands-on experience):

• AZ-104 Azure Administrator
• Knowledge of SAP products such as SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver