Correct Answer: HANA native backups to an NFS share on Azure NetApp Files, or using Backint-certified solutions like Azure Backup for SAP HANA (on VMs, not HLI)
For HANA Large Instances (bare-metal dedicated hardware), Azure Backup integration is not available directly. Recommended approaches include: (1) HANA native backups written to an ...
Correct Answer
HANA native backups to an NFS share on Azure NetApp Files, or using Backint-certified solutions like Azure Backup for SAP HANA (on VMs, not HLI)
Why This Answer Is Correct
For HANA Large Instances (bare-metal dedicated hardware), Azure Backup integration is not available directly. Recommended approaches include: (1) HANA native backups written to an NFS share (Azure NetApp Files or an Azure File share via SMB/NFS), (2) Backint-certified backup solutions that write to blob storage, (3) storage snapshots via HLI infrastructure tools. Azure Site Recovery replicates VMs, not bare-metal HLI. On Azure VMs (not HLI), Azure Backup for SAP HANA (Backint API) is the supported method.
This question evaluates your knowledge of Disaster Recovery — a core concept tested in Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads Specialty (AZ-120). Understanding Disaster Recovery is essential for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures. Mastery of this topic will help you answer scenario-based questions confidently on exam day.
Your organization requires a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for an SAP HANA database. The DR site is in a different Azure region with high network latency. Which SAP HANA System Replication (HSR) mode must be used?
You are backing up an SAP HANA database on an Azure VM. Which Azure service provides a certified, agentless streaming backup solution directly via the SAP HANA Backint API?
You are protecting your SAP application servers (NetWeaver) for Disaster Recovery. Which Azure service should you use to replicate the application server VMs to a secondary region?
Which Azure service provides the foundation for automated, orchestrated failover of an entire SAP landscape (including application servers and HANA DB) to a secondary Azure region for disaster recovery?
HANA backups to Azure Blob via Backint are running successfully, but the backup files older than 30 days need to be automatically moved to cheaper storage and deleted after 1 year. Which Azure feature handles this lifecycle without custom scripts?