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Planning and administering Microsoft Azure for SAP workloads
Course Description
AZ-120: Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads
Plan, migrate, and run SAP on Azure with confidence. This hands-on course teaches you to migrate SAP workloads, design and build the supporting Azure infrastructure, implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR), and keep SAP systems healthy in production. It prepares you for the AZ-120 exam and the Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty certification.
Duration: 4 days (about 28-32 hrs) | Format: Instructor-led or self-paced | Level: Beginner to advanced (on-ramp included) | Prerequisites: Basic IT infrastructure knowledge
What You’ll Learn
- Migrate SAP workloads to Azure: sizing, supported scenarios, migration approaches
- Design and implement infrastructure for SAP: compute, storage, networking, identity, landing zones
- Build high availability and disaster recovery for SAP HANA and NetWeaver
- Maintain SAP on Azure with monitoring, backups, and optimization using Azure Center for SAP Solutions and Azure Monitor for SAP
Who Is This Course For?
SAP Basis administrators, Azure architects and engineers, cloud and infrastructure admins, and migration consultants. SAP-only professionals get Azure on-ramp content, and Azure-only professionals get an SAP landscape primer. Experienced architects can focus on design, HA/DR, and operations.
Course Curriculum
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Learners test into the track that fits them
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SAP landscape basics (HANA, S/4HANA, NetWeaver, BW/4HANA)
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Azure essentials (subscriptions, VMs, networking, storage)
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Linux basics
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SAP architecture on Azure
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supported products and scenarios
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SAP-certified VMs
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shared responsibility
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Assessing readiness
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sizing compute
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storage
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network
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choosing a migration approach
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RISE with SAP on Azure
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cutover planning
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Authentication and authorization for SAP
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Microsoft Entra ID integration
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RBAC
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SAP landing zone design
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Choosing SAP-certified VMs
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availability sets and zones
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storage architecture for HANA (Premium SSD, Ultra Disk, Azure NetApp Files)
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performance requirements
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Virtual networks
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subnets
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hybrid connectivity (ExpressRoute and VPN
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load balancers
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name resolution
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security
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Azure Center for SAP Solutions
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automated deployment
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infrastructure as code (Bicep, Terraform, Ansible), validation checks
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Clustering for HANA and ASCS/ERS
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fencing
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availability zones
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Azure Site Recovery
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HANA system replication
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DR testing
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Snapshots
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Azure Backup for SAP HANA
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backup validation
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restore testing
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Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
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Log Analytics
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alerts
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start/stop of SAP systems
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patching
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Azure Advisor optimization
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cost control
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Design and deploy a resilient SAP S/4HANA environment with identity
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networking
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HA/DR
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backup
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monitoring
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then present the architecture
Course Eligibility
Audience profile
The audience should have extensive experience and knowledge of the following applications: SAP high
performance analytic appliance (HANA), suite for (S/4) HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP business warehouse
for (BW/4) HANA, OS servers for SAP applications and databases, Azure portal, Azure Marketplace, and
Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates). You should also have experience with virtualization,
cloud infrastructure, storage structures, high availability design, disaster recovery design, data protection
concepts, and networking.
We strongly recommend that candidates have an Azure Administrator Associate certification.
Audience prerequisites
• Understanding of on-premises and cloud virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual
networking, and virtual hard 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.
• Understanding of SAP HANA deployment and configuration.
• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA administration
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