AZ-1006 Migrate and Modernize SAP in the Microsoft Cloud

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