Microsoft AZ-120 - Planning and Administering Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads Certification Exam

To meet Litware’s high-availability requirements after migration, you should recommend SAP HANA system replication combined with Azure Availability Sets. SAP HANA system replication provides real-time data replication from a primary HANA database to a secondary instance, ensuring minimal data loss and rapid failover in the event of a failure. Azure Availability Sets further enhance availability by distributing virtual machines across different fault domains and update domains, reducing the risk of downtime caused by hardware failures or planned maintenance.
Option B only provides restart capabilities and does not offer true high availability or protection against infrastructure failures. Option C, Azure Site Recovery, is primarily a disaster recovery solution designed for site-level outages rather than high availability within the production environment. Therefore, SAP HANA system replication with Azure Availability Sets is the most appropriate solution for meeting the technical requirements.

The SAP Database Migration Option (DMO) with System Move option of SUM, used as part of the
migration allows customer the options to perform the migration in a single step, from source system
on-premises, or to the target system residing in Microsoft Azure, minimizing overall downtime.
Reference:
https://blogs.sap.com/2017/10/05/your-sap-on-azure-part-2-dmo-with-system-move/

In a Hybrid-IT scenario, Active Directory from on-premises can be extended to serve as the
authentication mechanism through an Azure deployed domain controller (as well as potentially using
the integrated DNS).
It is important to distinguish between traditional Active Directory Servers and Microsoft Azure Active
Directory that provides only a subset of the traditional on-premises AD offering. This subset include
Identity and Access Management, but does not have the full AD schema or services that many 3rd
party application take advantage of. While Azure Active Directory IS a requirement to establish
authentication for the Azure virtual machines in use, and it can synchronize users with customers’
on-premises AD, the two are explicitly different and customers will likely continue to require full
Active Directory servers deployed in Microsoft Azure.
Reference:
https://www.suse.com/media/guide/sap_hana_on_azure_101.pdf

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To reduce the cost of SAP non-production landscapes after migration, the best recommendation is to deallocate virtual machines when they are not being used. Non-production environments such as development, testing, and quality assurance systems are often needed only during business hours. By deallocating VMs during idle periods, organizations stop paying for compute resources while retaining the virtual machine configuration and storage. This can significantly lower Azure operating costs without affecting the production environment.
The other options are not appropriate for this requirement. Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Data Warehouse changes the database platform rather than reducing non-production SAP infrastructure costs. Azure App Service scaling is unrelated to SAP workloads running on virtual machines. Azure DevTest Labs can help manage development environments, but simply deallocating unused VMs is the most direct and cost-effective way to reduce the ongoing costs of SAP non-production landscapes.