Plan the migration
Size SAP workloads, identify supported scenarios, and design the environment and RISE with SAP integration.
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Overview
Lifting SAP onto Azure is the easy sentence. This exam tests everything inside it.
AZ-120 is a Specialty exam for architects and engineers who design and run SAP on Azure, with deep SAP HANA experience expected. It covers sizing and RISE with SAP, certified VMs, clustering for HANA, disaster recovery, and cost and performance. Microsoft strongly recommends the Azure Administrator Associate certification first, and the credential is valid for 12 months.
12Modules
100Minutes
12Months valid
8Roles
What it tests
Learn all the way down.
Learn all the way down.
Perform when it matters.
Build infrastructure for SAP
Choose SAP-certified VMs, and design networking and storage that meet SAP latency requirements.
Keep SAP available
Design clustering, load balancing and availability zones, and a disaster recovery plan with Site Recovery.
Run it well
Optimize performance and cost, and monitor VMs, storage, networking and high availability with Azure Monitor.
Course outline
From an SAP landscape on paper
From an SAP landscape on paper
to HANA running well on Azure.
We design this course ourselves. Microsoft runs the exam and issues the credential, and LUNARTECH is independent of Microsoft.
SAP systems have a layout of their own, and Azure has to respect it. You review the tiers of an SAP system, the dev, test and production landscape, and the support rules that decide which Azure designs SAP will stand behind.
- HANA, NetWeaver and S/4HANA in one picture
- Database, central services and application servers
- Landscape design: development, quality and production
- SAP support notes and the certification rules
- Who is responsible for what on Azure
You build A landscape diagram that maps each SAP component of a sample estate to an Azure resource.
Undersized systems stall and oversized ones waste money for years. You size from SAPS and memory figures, use SAP’s sizing tools, and compare an existing system’s real load with what Azure offers.
- SAPS and what it measures
- Sizing HANA by memory and by workload
- Quick Sizer and sizing reports
- Using a running system’s load as the baseline
- Growth and headroom
- Matching a size to a certified option
You build A sizing worksheet for a sample production system, with the assumptions and growth margin written out.
Moving SAP is a project with a downtime budget. You compare lift and shift, heterogeneous migration and conversion to S/4HANA, and design how a RISE with SAP environment connects to your own Azure services.
- Lift and shift against re-platforming
- Heterogeneous migration with the database migration option
- Converting to S/4HANA
- Planning downtime and cutover
- Connecting RISE with SAP to your Azure network
- Supported scenarios and what to avoid
You build A migration plan that chooses an approach for a sample system and states its cutover steps.
SAP holds the most sensitive data in many companies. You structure subscriptions and management groups, enforce standards with Azure Policy, and control who can change SAP infrastructure through role-based access.
- Landing zone and subscription design for SAP
- Azure Policy for SAP resources
- Azure RBAC and separating infrastructure from SAP administration
- Tagging and cost allocation
- Protecting administrative access
You build A governance design with policies and roles for an SAP landing zone.
SAP supports only certain virtual machines, and the choice affects performance for years. You pick certified sizes for the database and application tiers, use placement controls, and select operating systems and settings that SAP accepts.
- Reading the SAP-certified VM list
- Memory-optimized VMs for HANA
- Application server sizing and scale-out
- Proximity placement for low latency
- Operating system choice and accelerated networking
You build A compute layout for database and application tiers with each VM size matched to the certified list.
SAP is sensitive to delay between its tiers. You design a hub-and-spoke network, keep traffic between database and application servers on a short path, and connect on-premises and RISE environments.
- Hub-and-spoke topology for SAP
- Subnet layout for each tier
- Why network appliances between tiers cause trouble
- ExpressRoute and VPN to on-premises systems
- Name resolution and routing
- Measuring latency between tiers
You build A network design for an SAP landscape with a latency test plan for the database and application path.
HANA’s speed depends on its disks. You lay out data, log and shared volumes, choose between disk types and NFS options, and use striping and write acceleration where the workload demands them.
- HANA volume layout: data, log, shared and backup
- Premium SSD v2, Ultra Disk and Azure NetApp Files compared
- Write Accelerator for log volumes
- Striping and sizing for throughput
- NFS for shared SAP directories
- Checking storage against HANA performance requirements
You build A storage layout for a HANA system, with a table of disk choices and the throughput each volume needs.
A stopped ERP system stops the business. You design availability with zones and sets, cluster the central services and HANA, balance traffic across nodes, and test that failover works as drawn.
- Availability zones and availability sets
- Clustering central services on Linux and Windows
- HANA System Replication and automated takeover
- Fencing and why a cluster needs it
- Azure Load Balancer for clustered services
- Testing failover
You build A high-availability design for a production HANA system with a written failover test.
High availability survives a failed node, not a lost region. You design recovery with replication and Azure Site Recovery, back up HANA and application servers, and set recovery objectives that a business owner has agreed to.
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives
- Azure Site Recovery for application servers
- HANA replication to a second region
- Backing up HANA and file systems
- Runbooks and disaster recovery drills
You build A disaster recovery plan with objectives, replication design and a drill checklist.
A running SAP system keeps drifting from its first design. You resize against real use, use reservations and savings plans, scale down what is idle, and measure the effect of each change.
- Reading performance against the original sizing
- Resizing and scaling application servers
- Reservations and savings plans
- Stopping and scaling non-production systems
- Spotting storage and network bottlenecks
You build A cost and performance review for a running SAP system, with changes ranked by saving and risk.
SAP teams and Azure teams often watch different things. You bring both views together with Azure Monitor and Network Watcher, track VMs, storage, network and cluster health, and alert on conditions that precede an outage.
- Azure Monitor for virtual machines and storage
- Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
- Network Watcher for connection and latency problems
- Monitoring high availability and cluster state
- Alerts and escalation to SAP Basis teams
You build A monitoring design with dashboards and alerts that serve both Azure and SAP administrators.
One scenario spans the whole job. You size and design a production landscape, add availability and recovery, set governance and monitoring, and defend the decisions to a skeptical SAP team.
- Reading the SAP requirements and constraints
- Sizing and designing compute, network and storage
- Designing availability, recovery and backup
- Governance, cost and monitoring
- Presenting and defending the design
You build A complete SAP on Azure design: sizing, infrastructure, availability, recovery, governance and monitoring.
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Microsoft expects extensive experience with SAP HANA, Business Suite and NetWeaver, plus cloud infrastructure, and strongly recommends the Azure Administrator Associate certification.
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In practice
Eight roles.
Eight roles.
One credential across them all.
No single job owns it. Here’s where each role leans hardest, and where its work ends up.
- 01Migration
- 02Infrastructure
- 03HA and DR
- 04Maintain
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Basis knowledge meets cloud sizing here. The right VM and disk decide how HANA performs.
Infrastructure, Maintain
Manufacturing, Enterprise IT
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An SAP move is a design problem before it is a project. Sizing, network and HA belong in the first diagram.
Migration, Infrastructure, HA and DR
Consulting and integrators, Enterprise IT
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Latency between app and database is a design limit. Placement and networking choices set that limit.
Infrastructure, HA and DR
Energy and utilities, Enterprise IT
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Cutover day goes well when the target is sized right. Monitoring afterward shows what you missed.
Migration, Maintain
Retail and consumer goods, Consulting and integrators
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SAP runs on sized, certified VMs and tuned storage. Getting that base right keeps the landscape stable.
Infrastructure, Maintain
Enterprise IT, Manufacturing
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SAP traffic needs low latency between its tiers. Network placement is part of the design.
Infrastructure, HA and DR
Manufacturing, Energy and utilities
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HANA is memory-hungry and unforgiving of poor tuning. Clustering and backup keep it available.
HA and DR, Maintain
Manufacturing, Retail and consumer goods
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Moving SAP is a business risk as well as a technical one. Recovery planning is what keeps it manageable.
Migration, HA and DR
Energy and utilities, Enterprise IT
- Manufacturing
- Retail and consumer goods
- Energy and utilities
- Consulting and integrators
- Enterprise IT
SAP Basis Engineer
Basis knowledge meets cloud sizing here. The right VM and disk decide how HANA performs.
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