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. 

After completing this module, you’ll be able to: 

• Discover common terms and meanings for SAP, Azure and SAP deployments on Azure

You’ll be introduced to some of the common terms used in working with SAP workloads on Azure. 

After completing this module, you’ll be able to: 

• Discover common terms and meanings for SAP, Azure and SAP deployments on Azure. 

Help identify prerequisites, deployment options, and SAP-certified configurations available to you when deploying SAP products in Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore general prerequisites for SAP support in public cloud environments. 
• Discover SAP certifications and configurations running on Microsoft Azure. 

Examine the architecture options available when deploying SAP AnyDB workloads on Azure VMs. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore SAP NetWeaver with AnyDB on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture’s components. 
• Examine a sample functional workflow. 

Examine the architecture when deploying SAP S/4HANA workloads and in-memory SAP HANA databases running on Azure VMs. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore SAP S/4HANA on Azure virtual machines and learn to recognize the architecture’s components. 
• Examine a sample functional workflow. 

This module explores the design of scalable, performant, and resilient compute components for SAP deployments in Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Plan for implementing SAP solutions. 
• Explore Azure virtual machines. 
• Examine Azure virtual machine compute considerations. 
• Implement and verify high-availability SAP HANA on Azure virtual machines. 

This module explores using Azure network components to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore Azure virtual networks. 
• Examine Azure virtual machine networking considerations. 
• Examine load balancing considerations. 
• Explore virtual network connectivity. 
• Explore cross-premises connectivity. 

This module explores the use of Azure the storage component to design scalable, performant, and resilient SAP deployments in Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore Azure Storage types. 
• Examine general database sizing. 
• Examine SAP HANA Azure virtual machine storage configurations. 
• Explore solutions with Premium Storage and Azure Write Accelerator for Azure M-Series virtual machines. 
• Examine sizing for HANA databases on Azure NetApp Files. 

This module explores SAP on Azure database support and best practices for Azure for SAP workloads. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore database support of Azure for SAP workloads. 
• Explore storing database files directly on Azure Blob Storage. 
• Explore Azure virtual machine and blob storage security. 
• Examine SQL Server and Oracle recommendations. 

This module explores using identity services to design multiple authentication and authorization scenarios Azure facilitates, including support for various identity providers. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Define Microsoft Entra Domain Services 
• Define Microsoft Entra 
• Discuss Microsoft Entra Domain Services

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. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Consider remote management of Azure virtual machines. 
• Set up the Azure connector for SAP Landscape Management. 
• Explore access management. 

This module explores using the Azure Governance collection of concepts and services that are designed to enable the management of Azure resources at scale.

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore Azure Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager templates. 
• Examine role-based access control and Azure Policy. 
• Explore security and compliance services. 

SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for single-instance SAP HANA deployment on Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore deployment methodologies. 
• Deploy via Azure Resource Manager templates. 
• Prepare Azure virtual machines for a manual installation of SAP HANA. 
• Implement SAP HANA scale-out. 

SAP professionals need to evaluate deploying SAP solutions on Azure. This module explores the preparation for SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment on Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Examine single SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment. 
• Examine multi-SID 3-tier SAP NetWeaver high availability AnyDB deployment. 
• Set up a Windows Server failover cluster for an SAP ASCS-SCS instance.
• Examine the SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition installation for the SAP ASCS-SCS cluster shared disk. 

This module explores Azure’s high availability and disaster recovery support for SAP workloads, such as SAP application servers, SAP ASCS-SCS instances, DBMS instances, and SAP HANA. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore high availability and disaster recovery support of Azure for SAP workloads. 
• Examine principal architectures. 
• Determine latency between Azure virtual machines across Availability Zones. 

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 Microsoft Entra and DNS. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore disaster recovery of SAP workloads. 
• Combine availability within one region and across regions. 
• Explore site recovery. 
• Implement disaster recovery for SAP deployments across Azure regions with Azure Site Recovery. 

This module explores the backup and restore of Azure virtual machines and examines the steps and important considerations involved in backing up and restoring SAP workloads on Azure. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore backup and restore of Azure virtual machines. 
• Explore application backup. 
• Explore SAP HANA backup. 
• Explore Oracle backup. 
• Explore SQL Server backups. 

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. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Examine the SAP workload planning and deployment checklist. 
• Explore the phases from project preparation and planning and through the Go Live and post-production phases. 

This module explores strategies for migrating SAP workloads to Azure, including migrating on-premises SAP workloads to Azure in conjunction with performing an upgrade. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Analyze strategies for migrating SAP systems to Microsoft Azure. 
• Compare classical migration options. 
• Explore downtime-optimized migration. 

This module explores the migration of databases over 20 TB, considered extensive databases. These databases use extra techniques and procedures to achieve migration from on-premises to Azure within acceptable downtime and with low risk. 

After completing this module, you’ll be able to: 

• Explore very large database migration. 
• Learn best practices for optimizing the source, network upload, and target systems. 
• Examine very large database migration best practices. 

This module covers monitoring of data from several Azure systems and tools to support SAP on Azure workloads. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Examine monitoring, logging, and alerting services. 
• Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. 
• Explore operating system and workload updates for Azure virtual machines. 

This module covers the configuration of the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Explore the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP. 
• Configure the Azure Enhanced Monitoring Extension for SAP. 

This module explores Azure and SAP licensing requirements and licensing costs and walks through the support request process for Azure virtual machines. 

After completing this module, you will be able to: 

• Learn how to price Azure virtual machine-based solutions. 
• Explore licensing, pricing, and support of Azure for SAP workloads.