Agenda

• Explore Azure for SAP workloads
• Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
• Explore your options with SAP on Azure
• Evaluate Microsoft components
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines
• Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines
• Recognize architectural components
• Examine a sample functional workflow
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Explore Azure for SAP databases
• Introduction
• 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
• 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 Fiori
• Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP HANA
• Integrate Microsoft Entra ID 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 Microsoft Entra Domain Services (Microsoft Entra Domain Services)
• Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
• 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