I. 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.

II. Duration: 24 hours (3 days)

III. Intended Audience:

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.

IV. Prerequisites:

• Before taking this training, you should complete the Azure Administrator (AZ-104) or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) exam, and SAP HANA or NetWeaver training.

V. Course outlines:

1. Explore Azure for SAP workloads

• Explore Azure for SAP workloads: Explore the expanded partnership between Microsoft and SAP. This partnership allows you to run fully supported SAP applications across development, test, and production scenarios in Azure alongside other Microsoft components.
• Discover common terms and meanings for SAP on Azure: You're introduced to some of the common terms that will be used in working with SAP workloads on Azure.
• Identify SAP-certified configurations: Help identify prerequisites, deployment options, and SAP-certified configurations available to you when deploying SAP products in Azure.
• Examine SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines: Examine the architecture options available when deploying SAP AnyDB workloads on Azure VMs.
• Examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines: Examine the architecture when deploying SAP S/4HANA workloads and in-memory SAP HANA databases, running on Azure VMs.

2. Explore the foundations of IaaS for SAP on Azure

• Explore Azure for SAP compute: This module explores the design of scalable, performant, and resilient compute components for SAP deployments in Azure.
• Explore Azure for SAP networking: This module explores the use of Azure network components to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure.
• Explore Azure for SAP storage: This module explores the use of Azure he storage component to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure.
• Explore Azure for SAP databases: This module explores SAP on Azure database support and best practices for Azure for SAP workloads.
• Explore Azure networking for SAP RISE: This module shows you how to use your Azure networks to connect to your SAP RISE architecture running in SAP's Azure subscription.

3. Explore the foundations of identity and governance for SAP on Azure

• Explore identity services for SAP on Azure: This module explores using identity services to design multiple authentication and authorization scenarios Azure facilitates, that includes support for a range of identity providers.
• Explore remote management for SAP on Azure: This module explores ways to apply Azure remote management components to design remote management of virtual machines and set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management.
• Explore governance and manageability for SAP on Azure: This module explores using the Azure Governance collection of concepts and services that are designed to enable management of Azure resources at scale

4. Deploy SAP on Azure

• Deploy single-instance implementations of SAP on Azure (2-tier and 3-tier): SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for single-instance SAP HANA deployment on Azure.
• Implement high availability in SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines: SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment on Azure.
• Explore Azure Center for SAP solutions: SAP professionals are responsible for managing SAP workloads more efficiently on a secure, scalable, and reliable cloud platform. In this module, we will explore how Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) can help you achieve these goals.

5. Ensure business continuity and implement disaster recovery for SAP solutions on Azure

• Implement high availability for SAP workloads in Azure: This module explores high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads, such as SAP application servers, SAP ASCS-SCS instances, DBMS instances, and SAP HANA.
• Implement disaster recovery for SAP workloads in Azure: This module explores disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads, including deployments within single and multiple Azure regions, multi-tier SAP NetWeaver app deployment in Azure, and Azure services, such as Active Directory and DNS.
• Perform backups and restores for SAP workloads on Azure: This module explores backup and restore of Azure virtual machines and examines the steps and important considerations involved in backing up and restoring SAP workloads on Azure.

6. Migrate SAP workloads to Azure

• Use the planning and deployment checklist for SAP workloads on Azure: This module uses the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist to guide SAP deployment teams through each phase of the SAP on Azure migration process.
• Explore migration options for SAP on Azure: This module explores strategies for migration of SAP workloads to Azure, including migration of on-premises SAP workloads to Azure in conjunction to performing an upgrade.
• Migrate very large databases (VLDB) to Azure for SAP: This module explores migration of databases over 20 TB, considered very large databases. These databases use extra techniques and procedures to achieve migration from on-premises to Azure within acceptable downtime and with low risk.

7. Monitor and troubleshoot Azure for SAP workloads

• Explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads: This module covers monitoring of data from several Azure systems and tools to support SAP on Azure workloads.
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP: This module covers the configuration of the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP.
• Explore licensing, pricing, and support for SAP on Azure virtual machines: This module explores Azure and SAP licensing requirements and licensing costs, and walks through the support request process for Azure virtual machines.