Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty AZ-120

• Plan and migrate SAP workloads to Azure.
• Design Azure infrastructure for SAP workloads.
• Configure compute, networking, and storage for SAP on Azure.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery for SAP workloads.
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize SAP workloads on Azure.
• Work with Azure services and tools used to deploy and manage SAP environments.

Module 1: Migrate SAP workloads to Azure

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 subscription models and quota limitations.
• Identify software licensing requirements.
• Identify cost implications.
• Specify an Azure support plan.
• 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.
• Design and implement governance and compliance using Azure Policy.
• Design and implement authentication for SAP workloads.
• Design and implement authentication for SAP SaaS applications.
• Design and implement management hierarchy, including management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups.
• Design Azure landing zones for SAP.

Module 2: Design and implement an infrastructure to support SAP workloads on Azure

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 using an Azure Marketplace image.
• Create a custom image and deploy it to an Azure virtual machine.
• Automate Azure VM deployment using infrastructure as code, including Bicep and Azure Resource Manager templates.
• Automate deployment using the SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework.
• Automate deployment 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.
• 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 using Azure DNS.
• Design and configure ExpressRoute for hybrid connectivity.

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 storage security.
• Design and implement data protection.
• Design and implement disk caching.
• Configure Write Accelerator.
• Configure encryption for storage, disks, and data.
• Design and implement volumes using Azure NetApp Files.
• Design and implement volumes using Azure Files.

Module 3: Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)

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

• Design for service-level agreement 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.
• 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.
• Design disaster recovery 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.
• Perform backup and restore.
• Test disaster recovery.

Module 4: Maintain SAP workloads on Azure

Optimize performance and costs

• Optimize performance and costs 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 using Azure Monitor.
• Monitor high availability using Azure Monitor.
• Monitor storage using Azure Monitor.
• Monitor networking using Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher.
• Configure Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
• Manage backups using Azure Backup.
• Start and stop SAP systems using Azure Center for SAP solutions.
• Manage virtual instances using Azure Center for SAP solutions.
• Implement the SAP Landscape Management (LaMa) connector for Azure.

3 Days

Certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty

Exam: AZ-120: Planning and Administering Azure for SAP Workloads

Duration: 100 minutes

• Implementing SAP architecture on Azure virtual machines running Linux.
• Implementing SAP architecture on Azure virtual machines running Windows.
• Deploying SAP HANA infrastructure.
• Working with Azure Center for SAP solutions.
• Implementing high availability and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Working with Azure monitoring and SAP-specific monitoring capabilities.

• Azure Administrators who migrate and manage SAP solutions on Azure.
• IT professionals experienced in SAP solutions.
• Solution Architects working with SAP and Azure.
• SAP professionals involved in Azure migration and operations.
• Professionals responsible for Azure infrastructure supporting SAP workloads.

• Experience with SAP solutions.
• Knowledge of SAP HANA, SAP Business Suite, or SAP NetWeaver.
• Experience with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, data protection, and networking.
• Microsoft recommends Azure Administrator Associate certification.