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

Course Length: 3 days

Learn to deploy, migrate & manage SAP on Azure. Covers VMs, storage, networking, hybrid identity, security & monitoring for Azure administrators.

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Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure

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Course Overview

This course teaches IT Professionals experienced in SAP solutions how to leverage Azure resources that include deployment and configuration of virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Azure AD that includes implementing and managing hybrid identities. Students of this course will learn through concepts, scenarios, procedures, and hands-on labs how to best plan and implement migration and operation of an SAP solution on Azure. Your will receive guidance on subscriptions, create and scale virtual machines, implement storage solutions, configure virtual networking, back up and share data, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement Azure Active Directory, secure identities, and monitor your solution.

This course is for Azure Administrators who migrate and manage SAP solutions on Azure. Azure Administrators manage the cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle. They take end-user requests for new cloud applications and make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor and adjust as appropriate. This role requires communicating and coordinating with vendors. Azure Administrators use the Azure Portal and as they become more proficient they use PowerShell and the Command Line Interface.

Course Benefits

  • 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.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

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Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

Course Outline

  1. Explore Azure for SAP workloads
    1. Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
    2. Explore your options with SAP on Azure
    3. Evaluate Microsoft components
  2. Discover common terms and meanings for SAP on Azure
    1. Discover common terms and meanings - SAP
    2. Discover common terms and meanings - SAP deployments on Azure
    3. Discover common terms and meanings - Azure
  3. Identify SAP-certified configurations
    1. Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments
    2. Identify deployment options for SAP solutions on Azure
    3. Discover supported Azure Virtual Machines for SAP products on Windows and Linux
    4. Discover supported Azure Virtual Machines for SAP NetWeaver instances
    5. Discover SAP-certified operating systems for Azure Virtual Machines
    6. Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure
  4. Examine SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines
    1. Explore SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure Virtual Machines
    2. Recognize architectural components
    3. Examine a sample functional workflow
  5. Examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines
    1. Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
    2. Recognize architectural components
    3. Examine a sample functional workflow
  6. Explore Azure for SAP compute
    1. Plan for implementing SAP solutions
    2. Explore Azure Virtual Machines
    3. Examine constrained vCPU capable virtual machine sizes
    4. Scale Azure Virtual Machines
    5. Examine Azure Virtual Machine scaling considerations
    6. Explore network bandwidth allocation
    7. Explore data flows
    8. Examine Azure Virtual Machine compute considerations
  7. Explore Azure for SAP networking
    1. Explore Azure virtual networks
    2. Consider IP addressing
    3. Explore name resolution
    4. Explore accelerated networking
    5. Explore Azure load balancer
    6. Examine Azure Virtual Machine networking considerations
    7. Examine load balancing considerations
    8. Explore Azure Traffic Manager
    9. Explore Azure Front Door
    10. Explore Azure Firewall
    11. Consider networking changes for Azure Virtual Machines
    12. Examine Azure routing configurations
    13. Explore virtual network connectivity
    14. Explore Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection options
    15. Examine the virtual datacenter
    16. Explore cross-premises connectivity
    17. Explore SAProuter
    18. Examine networking support of Azure for SAP workloads
  8. Explore Azure for SAP storage
    1. Explore Azure Storage types
    2. Explore Azure Files
    3. Examine Azure Virtual Machine disks
    4. Recognize virtual machine images and disks
    5. Explore managed and unmanaged disks
    6. Explore caching for virtual machines and data disks
    7. Explore Write Accelerator
    8. Examine general database sizing
    9. Examine Azure Virtual Machine storage considerations
    10. Examine SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering 2.0
    11. Explore Azure Virtual Machine disks best practices
    12. Explore Azure Virtual Machine NFS storage
    13. Explore Azure Virtual Machine SMB storage
    14. Examine SAP HANA Azure Virtual Machine storage configurations
    15. Explore solutions with Premium Storage and Azure Write Accelerator for Azure M-Series virtual machines
    16. Explore Azure Ultra disk storage configuration for SAP HANA
    17. Explore NFS v4.1 volumes on Azure NetApp Files
    18. Examine sizing for SAP HANA databases on Azure NetApp Files
  9. Explore Azure for SAP databases
    1. Explore database support of Azure for SAP workloads
    2. Explore SQL Server
    3. Consider database compression
    4. Store database files directly on Azure Blob Storage
    5. Explore Azure Virtual Machine security
    6. Consider security recommendations for Blob storage
    7. Apply SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption
    8. Explore the SQL Server 2014 Buffer Pool Extension
    9. Examine Oracle recommendations
  10. Explore Azure networking for SAP RISE
    1. Explore responsibilities during Azure integration with SAP RISE managed workloads
    2. Explore Azure virtual network peering with SAP RISE
    3. Explore Azure virtual private network connection to SAP RISE
    4. Connect on-premises to SAP RISE
    5. Connect SAP RISE with the internet
  11. Explore identity services for SAP on Azure
    1. Explore Microsoft Entra ID
    2. Explore SAP Cloud Platform Identity authentication
    3. Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication
    4. Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP Fiori
    5. Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP HANA
    6. Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP NetWeaver
    7. Integrate Active Directory with SAP single sign-on (Kerberos-SPNEGO)
    8. Discover Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
    9. Explore primary scenarios using Active Directory Domain Services and Azure Virtual Machines
    10. Discover Microsoft Entra Domain Services
    11. Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services
  12. Explore remote management for SAP on Azure
    1. Consider remote management of Azure Virtual Machines
    2. Set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management
    3. Explore access management
    4. Explore Azure Bastion
    5. Examine just-in-time (JIT) virtual machine access
  13. Explore governance and manageability for SAP on Azure
    1. Explore Azure Resource Manager
    2. Examine Azure Resource Manager templates
    3. Explore the Azure Resource Manager template structure and schema
    4. Examine role-based access control (RBAC)
    5. Organize Azure resources with tags
    6. Explore Azure Policy
    7. Explore management groups
    8. Explore Azure Automation
    9. Explore security and compliance services
  14. Deploy single-instance implementations of SAP on Azure (2-tier and 3-tier)
    1. Explore deployment methodologies
    2. Deploy via Azure Resource Manager templates
    3. Manually install single-instance SAP HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
    4. Prepare Azure Virtual Machines for a manual installation of SAP HANA
    5. Discover key steps for SAP HANA installation using SAP SWPM
    6. Discover key steps for SAP HANA installation using HDBLCM
    7. Implement SAP HANA scale-out
  15. Implement high availability in SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines
    1. Set the required DNS IP addresses
    2. Add registry entries on both cluster nodes of the SAP ASCS-SCS instance
    3. Set up a Windows Server failover cluster for an SAP ASCS-SCS instance
    4. Install SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition for the SAP ASCS-SCS cluster shared disk
  16. Explore Azure Center for SAP solutions
    1. Discover Azure Center for SAP solutions
    2. Examine prerequisites for Azure Center for SAP solutions
    3. Choose deployment options with Azure Center for SAP solutions
    4. Register an existing SAP system
  17. Implement high availability for SAP workloads in Azure
    1. Examine failover clustering
    2. Explore deployment scenarios
    3. Understand service-level agreements
    4. Examine principal architectures
    5. Explore the Active/Active deployment scenario
    6. Explore the Active/Passive deployment scenario
  18. Implement disaster recovery for SAP workloads in Azure
    1. Explore disaster recovery of SAP workloads
    2. Explore site recovery
    3. Implement disaster recovery for SAP deployments across Azure regions with Azure Site Recovery
    4. Set up disaster recovery for a multi-tier SAP NetWeaver app deployment (in Azure)
    5. Replicate Azure Virtual Machines running in proximity placement groups to another region
    6. Set up disaster recovery for Active Directory and DNS
  19. Perform backups and restores for SAP workloads on Azure
    1. Explore backup and restore of Azure Virtual Machines
    2. Examine application-consistent backup of Azure Linux virtual machines
    3. Explore application backup
    4. Explore database backup
    5. Explore SAP HANA backup
    6. Implement SAP HANA backup scheduling strategy
    7. Explore SAP HANA file-level backups
    8. Create SAP HANA snapshot-based backups
    9. Explore SQL Server Backup to URL (Azure Storage)
    10. Explore SQL Server file-snapshot backups
    11. Explore Oracle backup
    12. Explore SQL Server backups
    13. Set up disaster recovery for SQL Server
  20. Use the planning and deployment checklist for SAP workloads on Azure
    1. Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist
    2. Explore the project preparation and planning phase
    3. Explore the pilot phase
    4. Explore the nonproduction phase
    5. Explore the production preparation phase
    6. Explore the Go Live phase
    7. Explore the post-production phase
  21. Explore migration options for SAP on Azure
    1. Analyze strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure
    2. Migrate to SAP S/4HANA from SAP Business Suite
    3. Compare classical migration with the SAP database migration option (DMO)
    4. Analyze the SAP database migration option methodology
    5. Explore one-step migration - DMO with system move option
    6. Explore two-step migration - lift and shift followed by DMO
    7. Explore downtime-optimized DMO
  22. Migrate very large databases (VLDB) to Azure for SAP
    1. Explore very large database migration
    2. Optimize the source system
    3. Optimize the source system - advanced
    4. Optimize network upload
    5. Optimize the target system
    6. Create recommended migration project documents
    7. Monitor the migration
    8. Examine very large database migration best practices
  23. Explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
    1. Explore the monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
    2. Explore Azure Virtual Machine monitoring considerations
    3. Troubleshoot Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
    4. Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
    5. Explore SAP HANA alerts
    6. Examine diagnostic tools
    7. Explore operating system and workload updates for Azure Virtual Machines
  24. Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
    1. Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
    2. Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
  25. Explore licensing, pricing, and support for SAP on Azure virtual machines
    1. Price Azure Virtual Machine-based solutions
    2. Explore licensing, pricing, and support of Azure for SAP workloads

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Azure class:

  • 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, OSÂ Servers for SAP Applications and Databases.
  • Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration.
  • Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration.

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