Duration
3 days
Overview
This course teaches you how to consult, architect, design and propose solutions from the latest HPE Storage portfolio products. Course content focuses on storage solutions for customers in small to midddle sized businesses (SMB) and explains the fundamental technologies in storage solutions design.
The course includes case study scenarios and labs. You use the HPE Partner Ready Certification and Learning Labs to complete a small set of hands on exercises with HPE Storage equipment.
This course provides a deep understanding of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a market leader in Storage Solutions and shares how HPE leverages today's storage technology to address the needs and challenges of SMB customers.
Target Audience
Typical candidates for this course are:
- HPE Channel partners who are interested in learning how to identify opportunities and defining technical requirements for SMB Storage Solutions.
- Presales architects or integrators who want to increase their knowledge and confidence to design the right commercial storage solutions for SMB customers
Recommended: a minimum of six (6) months of experience in storage technologies.
Topics
The Storage Market and HPE’s Transformation Area market strategy
- What is driving the storage change
- HPE Storage vision and strategy
- Converged Infrastructure
- Software Defined Storage / HyperConverge
SAN Basics – technical background
- SCSI/SAS basics, RAID basics, SNIA, SAN Types, Topologies, FC-Multiprotocol Routing
- Fibre Channel
- iSCSI
- Virtual Connect
Direct Attached Storage
- “The Big Picture” basic theory of operation
- Portfolio – Products Overview
- Unique features of each product family
- Target Customers for each product family
- Specifications and Performance Limits
- Factors influencing performance / Sizing guidelines
- Best Practices for designing and sizing
- Reference Documents
- Sizing Tools
NAS StoreEasy
- “The Big Picture” basic theory of operation
- Portfolio – Products Overview (1000 and 3000 series only)
- Unique features of each product family
- Target Customers for each product family
- Specifications and Performance Limits
- Factors influencing performance / Sizing guidelines
- Best Practices for designing and sizing
- Reference Documents
- Sizing Tools
SAN Storage
- “The Big Picture” basic theory of operation
- Portfolio – Products Overview
- MSA (20%)
- StoreVirtual (25%)
- StoreServ 8000 series (50%)
- StoreServ File Controller / File Persona (5%) )
- Unique features of each product family (incl. licensing)
- Target Customers for each product family
- Specifications and Performance Limits
- Factors influencing performance / Sizing guidelines
- Best Practices for designing and sizing
- Reference Documents
- Sizing Tools
SAN Infrastructure
- “The Big Picture” basic theory of operation
- Portfolio – FC Switch Products Overview
- Unique features of each product family
- Target Customers for each product family
- Specifications and Performance Limits
- Factors influencing performance / Sizing guidelines
- Best Practices for designing and sizing
- Reference Documents
- Sizing Tools
StoreOnce & Entry Level Tape Libraries
- “The Big Picture” basic theory of operation (Backup Challenges, Methods: Snap / Replication / D2D / Tape, Deduplication, Catalyst,)
- Portfolio –Products Overview (up to but excluding StoreOnce 6000 series)
- Unique features of each product family (incl. Licensing)
- Target Customers for each product family
- Specifications and Performance Limits
- Factors influencing performance / Sizing guidelines
- Data Protector Software (incl. licensing)
- Best Practices for designing and sizing
- Reference Documents
- Sizing Tools
Objectives
This course prepares you to:
- Explain the fundamental architectures and technologies of storage solutions
- Describe HPE products and solutions for storage solutions
- Identify customer storage requirements
- Design, validate and propose HPE storage solution
- Expand and extend business opportunities for current and future SMB customers
- Understand the HPE Backup and Recovery vision, strategy, products and solutions
- Plan and design HPE SMB backup solutions
- Describe HPE Service offerings related to HPE Storage Solutions
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.