AZ-120T00: Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure

Prepare to pass the AZ-120: Planning and Administering Azure for SAP Workloads Certification Exam

AZ-120T00: Planning and Deploying SAP on Azure
Instructor-led Training

Course Description

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.

Audience Profile

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.

 

About this Course

Skills at a glance

  • Migrate SAP workloads to Azure (25–30%)

  • Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure (35–40%)

  • Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) (15–20%)

  • Maintain SAP workloads on Azure (10–15%)

Migrate SAP workloads to Azure (25–30%)

Identify requirements for target infrastructure

  • Estimate target sizing for SAP workloads

  • Identify supported scenarios for SAP deployments on Azure

  • Identify compute, storage, and network requirements for SAP workloads

  • Assess constraints imposed by subscription models and quota limits

  • Identify software licensing requirements for target workloads

  • Identify cost implications for target workloads

  • Specify an Azure support plan for the target infrastructure

  • Choose between lift and shift, lift-shift-migrate, and lift-shift-migrate to HANA

  • Choose an appropriate SAP workload migration strategy and tools

Design and implement an Azure environment to support SAP workloads

  • Design and implement authorization and access control for SAP workloads

  • Design and implement governance and compliance by using Azure Policy

  • Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads

  • Design and implement authentication for SAP software as a service (SaaS) applications

  • Design and implement a management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups

  • Design Azure landing zones for SAP

Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure (35–40%)

Design and implement a compute solution for SAP workloads

  • Choose an SAP-certified Azure virtual machine for a given SAP workload

  • Configure the Azure VM extension for SAP solutions

  • Deploy an operating system by using an Azure Marketplace image

  • Create a custom image and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine

  • Automate a deployment of Azure virtual machines by using IaC, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

  • Automate a deployment by using the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework

  • Automate a deployment by using Azure Center for SAP solutions

Design and implement networking for SAP on Azure virtual machines

  • Design and implement virtual networks and subnets

  • Implement Accelerated Networking for Azure virtual machines

  • Design and configure proximity placement groups

  • Design networking to meet SAP workload latency requirements

  • Design and implement network flow control

  • Design and implement network security

  • Design and implement service endpoints and private endpoints for Azure Storage

  • Design name resolution for integration with Azure DNS

  • Design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity

  • Design and configure load balancing for a reverse proxy

Design and implement a storage solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines

  • Choose a storage type

  • Specify when to use disk striping and simple volumes

  • Design for storage security considerations

  • Design and implement data protection

  • Design and implement caching for disks

  • Configure Write Accelerator

  • Configure encryption for storage, disks, and data

  • Design and implement volumes by using Azure NetApp Files

  • Design and implement volumes by using Azure Files

Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) (15–20%)

Design and implement a high availability solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines

  • Design for service-level agreement (SLA) considerations

  • Design and deploy SAP workloads into availability sets and availability zones

  • Design and implement load balancing for high availability

  • Configure clustering for HANA and SAP Central Services (SCS)

  • Configure clustering for SQL

  • Configure Pacemaker and STONITH

  • Configure an Azure fence agent or STONITH Block Device (SBD)

  • Design and configure storage-level replication for SAP workloads

  • Configure restart of SAP systems, instances, and HANA databases

Design and implement a disaster recovery solution for SAP on Azure virtual machines

  • Design and implement an Azure Site Recovery strategy for an SAP infrastructure

  • Design a disaster recovery solution with regional considerations

  • Specify network configurations for disaster recovery

  • Design a backup strategy to meet SLA requirements

  • Implement policies for backups and snapshots

  • Configure and validate snapshots and backups for SAP workloads

  • Perform backup and restore

  • Test disaster recovery

Maintain SAP workloads on Azure (10–15%)

Optimize performance and costs

  • Optimize performance and costs for an SAP workload by using Azure Advisor recommendations

  • Analyze and optimize network performance

  • Optimize costs by configuring snoozing and deploying reserved instances

  • Optimize performance and costs by resizing Azure virtual machines

  • Optimize storage costs

  • Optimize performance and costs of SAP application servers and databases

Monitor and maintain SAP on Azure

  • Monitor Azure virtual machines by using Azure Monitor

  • Monitor high availability by using Azure Monitor

  • Monitor storage by using Azure Monitor

  • Monitor networking by using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher

  • Configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions

  • Manage backups by using Azure Backup

  • Start and stop SAP systems by using Azure Center for SAP solutions

  • Manage virtual instances by using Azure Center for SAP solutions

  • Implement the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector for Azure

3 Days

Advanced

Azure

Solution Architect

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