Duration
2 days
Overview
This course will provide a practical understanding of advance administration techniques and a deeper practical understanding of Disaster Recovery using SmartCopy, Zero Copy Cloning and SmartReplica. The course will also provide hands-on exercises working with HPE Nimble Storage integration solution features and how they integrate into VMware®, Microsoft® Windows, Linux and Veeam®. This course provides 3 consecutive days of extended lab time starting immediately after the class finishes.
Audience
Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Nimble.
Prerequisites
- H6LH8S: HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration
or
- H9TH5S: HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration (with extended lab time)
or
- H9TH1S: Designing HPE Nimble Solutions, Rev. 18.11 (01113228)
Course objectives
- Review HPE Nimble Storage platforms and associated features
- Discuss and understand disaster Recovery RPO and RTO
- Describe, configure and perform replication between groups for both planned and unplanned disaster recovery scenarios
- Discuss and perform advance administration features including volume performance settings, SNMP, deduplication, encryption, etc
- Working with clones and Zero copy clones
- Create a volume snapshot and perform a file recovery, as well as a volume recovery from a snapshot
- Configure and manage multi-member groups, storage pools and discuss scale up and scale out guidelines and requirements
- Configure and perform volume moves between pools and volume striping in a multi-member pool
- Discuss network considerations and networking best practices and scenarios for
HPE Nimble Storage
- Discuss Nimble QOS features
- Describe VSS and how it can be used in your storage environment, and how it integrates with Nimble Storage
- Perform Application integration with VMware, Linux and Veeam
- Evaluate design considerations and best practices
Module 1: Nimble Storage Solution and Product Overview - Review
- Review platforms and features
- Key characteristics of the Adaptive Flash platform
- Adaptive Flash platform product family.
- Overview of software components
- Key features and benefits
- Identify key configuration parameters
- Review basic configuration
- Initial configuration
- Command line setup utility
- Nimble Setup Manager
- Initial creation and connection from server
- Access Control and Multi-host access
- iSCSI initiator connection
- Templates
- Initiator groups
- Create volumes
- Connect and access a volume from a Windows Host
- Using volume level encryption
- Working with Users, SYSLOG, SNMP and Event Logs
- Discuss Volume attributes: Volume Pinning , QOS, Deduplication, etc
Module 2: Understanding Disaster Recovery RPO and RTO
- Understanding disaster recovery
- Understanding disaster recovery RPO
- Understating disaster recovery RTO
Module 3: Advance snapshots usage
- Understanding how space is used with snapshots for sizing
- Creating a snapshot both unscheduled and using a schedule to identify space
- Connecting to a snapshot
- Using a snapshot to recover a file or a full volume
- Discuss VSS usage and Windows integration
- Describe Zero Copy cloning
- Describe and demonstrate Zero Copy clones
- Create a Zero Copy clone
- Observe and understand space usage as a volume changes and what happens to snapshots during that time
Module 4: Administration and Using Replication
- Nimble Storage Replication and replication features
- Understanding how space is used with replication for sizing
- Configure replication between groups
- Replication space
- Replication considerations
- Perform handover for a non-disaster event
- Perform disaster recovery replication
Module 5: Administration of a scale out - Multi-Array Group and Pools
- Storage scaling
- Creating pools and managing pools
- Adding an array to a group
- Creating a pool
- Volume movement within a group, within a pool and between pools
- Removing arrays from a pool
- AF to AF grouping
- Volume moves
- Related compression, dedupe and encryption guidelines
- AF to CS grouping
- Volume moves
- Related compression, dedupe and encryption guidelines
- No scale-out
- CS to CS Grouping
- Volume moves
- Related compression, dedupe and encryption guidelines
- Group-leader evacuations
- CS to AF migration fork-lift data migration using grouping
Module 6: Network Considerations for Nimble Storage
- Discuss network requirements and common network scenarios
- Identify network best practice guidelines
- Group level
- Between groups
- WAN
- MGMT
- MGMT+DATA
- MGMT+GROUP
- NCM – iSCSI session management
- VLANs for Data, when/why?
- VLANS for Mgmt, when/why?
- Initiator-Group Subnet Segregation, why?
- Sub-netting for multiple Data Subnets
- WAN link Routing for Replication + Mgmt for Replication
- Fibre channel need and requirements
- Network Failure Production, NCM/MPIO, Management Port, best practice for full redundancy
Module 7: Application Integration – Veeam, VMWare and Linux
- VMware integration
- Veeam integration
- Linux integration
Lab Outline
- Lab Exercise # 1 Initial configuration and working with advanced Admin features
- Lab Exercise # 2 Snapshots – File and Volume recover
- Lab Exercise # 3 Replication
- Lab Exercise # 4 Multi-Array Groups, Pools
- Lab Exercise # 5 Advance Volume features
- Lab Exercise # 6 Linux integration
- Lab Exercise # 7 Veeam integration
- Lab Exercise # 8 VMware integration
- Lab Exercise # 9 Vvols
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.