| Module 1: Modernize and 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.
Lessons: |
- Introduction
- Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
- Explore your options with SAP on Azure
- Discover common terms and meanings: SAP
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Discover the SAP and Microsoft partnership
- Explore your options with SAP on Azure
- Discover common terms and meanings
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| Module 2: Modernize and identify SAP-certified configurations |
| Learn to identify prerequisites, deployment options, and SAP-certified configurations that are available to you when deploying SAP products in Microsoft Azure.
Lessons: |
- Introduction
- Identify deployment options for SAP solutions on Azure
- Discover supported Azure Virtual Machines for SAP products on Windows and Linux
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments
- Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure
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| Module 3: Modernize and examine SAP S/4HANA on Azure Virtual Machines |
| Examine the Microsoft Azure architecture, and components used, when deploying SAP S/4HANA workloads and in-memory SAP HANA databases, running on Azure Virtual Machines infrastructure.
Lessons: |
- Introduction
- Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure Virtual Machines
- Recognize architectural components
- Examine a sample functional workflow
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture’s components
- Examine a sample functional workflow
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| Module 4: Modernize and explore Azure for SAP compute |
| This module explores the planning and design of scalable, performant, and resilient compute components for SAP certified deployments in Microsoft Azure.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Plan for implementing SAP solutions
- Explore Azure virtual machines (VMs)
- Examine constrained vCPU capable virtual machine sizes
- Examine Azure virtual machine scaling considerations
- Explore data flows
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Plan for implementing SAP solutions
- Explore Azure virtual machines
- Examine constrained vCPU capable virtual machine sizes
- Examine Azure virtual machine scaling considerations
- Explore data flows
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| Module 5: Modernize and explore Azure for SAP storage |
| This module covers how to provision an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster and validate the effect of Azure Policy.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Explore Azure virtual networks
- Consider IP addressing
- Explore name resolution
- Explore Azure load balancer
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| Module 6: Modernize and 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- 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 HANA
- Integrate Active Directory with SAP single sign-on (Kerberos-SPNEGO)
- Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services
- Explore Azure Bastion
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Explore Azure Virtual Machine authentication, authorization, and access control
- Explore Microsoft Entra ID
- Explore SAP Cloud Platform Identity authentication
- Add SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication from the gallery
- Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with SAP HANA
- Integrate Active Directory with SAP single sign-on (Kerberos-SPNEGO)
- Integrate Linux with Active Directory Domain Services
- Discover Microsoft Entra Domain Services
- Explore Azure Bastion
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| Module 7: Modernize and explore identity services 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Explore Azure Resource Manager
- Examine Azure Resource Manager templates
- Examine role-based access control (RBAC)
- Explore Azure Policy
- Explore security and compliance services
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Explore Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager templates
- Examine role-based access control
- Explore Azure Policy
- Explore security and compliance services
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| Module 8: Modernize and 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Explore deployment methodologies
- 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 SAP HANA Database Lifecycle Management (HLM)
- Implement SAP HANA scale-out
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Consider IP addressing
- Explore name resolution
- Explore Azure load balancer
- Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations
- Explore Azure Traffic Manager
- Explore Azure Front Door
- Explore virtual network conectivity
- Explore SAProuter
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| Module 9: Modernize and 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Examine single SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment
- Lab – Implement SAP architecture on Azure Linux Virtual Machines
- Lab – Implement SAP architecture on Windows Azure Virtual Machines
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Examine single-SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment
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| Module 10: Modernize and explore Azure Center for SAP solutions |
| Explore how Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) offers secure, scalable, and reliable deployment and management of SAP workloads on Azure.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Discover Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Examine prerequisites for Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Choose deployment options with Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Exercise – Deploy S/4HANA infrastructure with Azure Center for SAP solutions
- Exercise – Install the SAP software
- Register an existing SAP system
- Exercise – Use Azure Center for SAP services features
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Discover Azure Center for SAP Solutions (ACSS) and its services
- Learn how to deploy SAP workloads on Azure or register existing SAP workloads with ACSS
- Use ACSS to manage new and existing SAP workloads on Azure
- Monitor and troubleshoot SAP workloads on Azure
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| Module 11: Modernize and 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Plan for FSLogix
- FSLogix profile containers and Azure files
- Install FSLogix
- Storage options for FSLogix profile containers
- Profile Container vs Office Container
- Configure Office Containers
- Installing Microsoft Office using FSLogix application containers
- Configure Cloud Cache
- Configure Profile Containers
- Create a profile container with Azure NetApp Files and capacity pool
- Manage Rule Sets and application masking
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Plan for FSLogix
- Recommend best practices for FSLogix profile containers and Azure files
- Install FXLogix
- Recommend storage options for FSLogix profile containers
- Configure Cloud Cache
- Configure Profile Containers
- Manage Rule Sets and application masking
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| Module 12: Configure user experience settings |
| Persistent virtual desktops save the operating system state in between reboots. Virtual desktop provides users easy and seamless access to their assigned VMs, often with a single sign-on solution.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- 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
- 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
- Explore Availability Zones
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| Module 13: Modernize and 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.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- 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 Active Directory and DNS
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- 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 site recovery for virtual machines in proximity placement groups – Azure to Azure
- Set up disaster recovery for Active Directory and DNS
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| Module 14: Modernize, 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. It also includes a brief introduction to very large database (VLDB) migration.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist
- Explore the project preparation and planning phase
- Explore the production preparation phase
- Explore very large database migration
- Knowledge check
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist
- Explore the project preparation and planning phase
- Explore the production preparation phase
- Explore very large database migration
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| Module 15: Modernize and explore monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads |
| This module covers monitoring of data from several Azure systems and to support SAP on Azure workloads with logging, analysis and reporting using the Azure Extension for SAP.
Lesson: |
- Introduction
- Explore the monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
- Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services
- Explore Azure Virtual Machine monitoring considerations
- Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP
- Troubleshoot Azure Enhanced Monitoring for SAP
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| By the end of this module, you’ll be able to: |
- Explore the monitoring requirements of Azure for SAP workloads
- Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services
- Explore Azure VM monitoring considerations
- Troubleshoot the Azure Extension for SAP
- Explore the Azure Extension for SAP
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