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HJ7C4S -Managing HPE Nimble Storage

Course outline

3 days
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Duration

3 days

Overview

Using hands-on labs, this course teaches students how to perform common management tasks, including array installation, volume creation, and data protection/recovery using snapshots. This course also covers system monitoring basics using HPE Nimble Storage’s InfoSight. This course provides additional knowledge of the advanced capabilities of HPE Nimble Storage arrays, including multi-array groups and pools, replication, disaster recovery, VMware® vVols, configuration of syslog and SNMP trap forwarding, and audit logs and event logs. Using extensive hands-on lab exercises you gain a practical understanding of HPE Nimble Storage integration with Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware and Veeam.

This course is the combination of:

  • HJ7C5S: HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication (1 day)
  • HJ7C6S: HPE Nimble II: Remote Replication and Integrations (2 days)

Audience

This course is for customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales. Also, storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Nimble storage benefit from this course.

Course objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Perform initial configuration of a new array with NSM and GUI
  • Perform post-installation tests
  • Create volumes and zero-copy clones
  • Attach and verify volumes/clones to Windows
  • Create and modify data protection policies for volumes
  • Restore volumes and individual files from a snapshot
  • Use the Nimble GUI to monitor array capacity/performance
  • Review HPE Nimble Storage topics
  • Discuss and understand disaster terminology
  • Describe, configure and perform replication between groups for both planned and unplanned disaster recovery scenarios
  • Discuss peer persistence
  • Discuss and perform advanced administration features, including volume performance settings, SNMP, deduplication, encryption, and more
  • 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, networking best practices and scenarios for HPE Nimble Storage
  • Describe integrations with Windows, Linux, VMware and Veeam

Outline

HJ7C5S: HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication

Module 1: Course Introduction and Overview

  • Agenda
  • Documentation
  • Capacity units

Module 2: AF and HF-Series Hardware

  • Portfolio overview
  • AF-Series controllers and enclosures
  • HF-Series controllers and enclosures

Module 3: Array Initialization and Setup

  • Networking overview
  • Nimble Setup Manager
  • Initialization
  • Setup
  • Post-setup test
  • Basic events monitoring

Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage WebUI Introduction

  • How to access
  • Tour
  • User management
  • Basic monitoring

Module 5: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes

  • Concepts
  • Provisioning and performance policies
  • Access control and initiator groups
  • Volume collections
  • Space reclamation theory introduction
  • Protection templates overview
  • Presentation
  • QoS and volume pinning
  • HPE Nimble Storage Windows Toolkit
  • HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager

Module 6: Architecture and Advanced Features Overview

  • Read and write operations
  • Nimble FS
  • Triple+ Parity RAID
  • Sparing
  • Deduplication
  • Encryption

Module 7: Snapshots and Clones

  • Concepts
  • Protection templates
  • App synchronization
  • Schedules
  • Manual snapshots
  • Clone
  • Data recovery

Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence

  • Remote replication options overview
  • Supported replication topologies
  • Peer persistence overview
  • Next training direction

Module 9: Introduction to HPE Nimble Scaling

  • Scale-to-fit options overview
  • Next training direction

Module 10: Introduction to HPE InfoSight

  • Concepts
  • Architecture

Lab outline

Lab 1: vLabs Access

Objectives

  • Accessing HPE vLabs

Lab 2: Installing Nimble Windows Toolkit

  • Background
  • Task 1: launch NWT installer

Lab 3: Initialize an Array

  • Background
  • Lab topology
  • Task 1: Launch Nimble Setup Manager
  • Task 2: Subnet configuration
  • Task 3: Post setup testing
  • OS upgrade

Lab 4: Update Nimble Operation System

Lab 5-1: Basic Volume Creation

  • Task 1: Create a volume
  • Task 2: Create a volume collection
  • Task 3: Create an initiator and an initiator group

Lab 5-2: Windows Host SetUp (NCM)

  • Background
  • Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
  • Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
  • Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume

Lab 7: Snapshots and Data Recovery

  • Background
  • Task 1: Create data
  • Task 2: Simulate a data loss event
  • Task 3: Create a zero-copy clone
  • Task 4: Connect to the clone and recover the data
  • Task 5: Disconnect and delete the clone

Lab 10-1: Correlate System Events / SNMP traps with lab activities

Lab 10-2: HPE Infosight

HJ7C6S: HPE Nimble II: Remote Replication and Integrations

Module 1: Course Overview

  • Agenda
  • Topics review

Module 2: Architecture and Advanced Features

  • Read and write operations
  • Nimble FS
  • Triple+ Parity RAID
  • Sparing
  • Deduplication
  • Encryption

Module 3: HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence

  • Disaster recovery terminology (planning, RPO, RTO, etc.)
  • SmartReplicate overview
  • Async replication
  • Sync replication
  • Replication capabilities (architecture, topologies, including fan-out, etc.)
  • SmartReplicate operations
  • Peer persistence architecture and operations

Module 4: Scale-out, Multi-Array Groups and Pools

  • Scale-to-fit review
  • Scale-out groups
  • Scale-out pools
  • Scale-out operations
  • Scale-out limitations and rules

Module 5: Windows Integration

  • VSS theory
  • VSS in use on Nimble
  • NWT components review
  • Space reclamation

Module 6: Linux Integration, Oracle and Docker Integration

  • HPE Nimble Storage Linux Toolkit (NLT)
  • NCM
  • HPE Nimble Storage Oracle Application Data Manager
  • HPE Nimble Host Tuning Utility/Nimbletune
  • Space reclamation

Module 7: VMware Integration

  • VMware integration features
  • NCM
  • VMware vCenter® integration
  • SRM integration
  • Synchronized snapshots
  • APIs and space reclamation
  • vVols
  • dHCI introduction

Module 8: Backup Solution Integration

  • HPE RMC overview and basic architecture
  • Veeam overview and basic architecture
  • Additional data protection training

Lab Outline

Lab 1-1: HPE vLabs Access

Objectives

  • Accessing the vLabs

Lab 1-2: Environment Preparation

  • Task 1: Launch HPE Nimble graphical user interface (GUI)
  • Task 2: HPE Nimble Array administration
  • Task 3: Creating and connecting to a volume
  • Task 4: Connect the server to the HPE Nimble Storage volume

Lab 2: Using and Understanding Advanced Volume Features

  • Task 1: Create a volume
  • Task 2: Working with volume pinning—volume performance attribute
  • Task 3: Create volumes using volume performance attribute
  • Task 4: Connect the server to the FSserver10 and FSserver11 volume
  • Task 5: Working with deduplication
  • Task 6: Working with volume limits—QoS
  • Task 7: Working with encryption

Lab 3: Replication and Disaster Recovery

  • Task 1: Configure the upstream array
  • Task 2: Configure the downstream array
  • Task 3: Create Volume Collection and Replicate
  • Task 4: Planned outage scenario—temporary transition to the remote DR site.
  • Task 5: Unplanned outage scenario—disaster recovery

Lab 4: Multi-Array Groups and Pools

  • Task 1: Review current pool status
  • Task 2: Adding an array to the default pool
  • Task 3: Observing capacity and volume behavior
  • Task 4: Connect the server to the HPE Nimble Storage volume
  • Task 5: Understanding how new volumes and data placement is managed
  • Task 6: Removing an array from a pool and assigning the array to a new pool
  • Task 7: Moving a volume between pools
  • Task 8: Merging two pools in a group
  • Task 9: Removing or evacuating an array from a pool and group

Lab 6: Working with Linux Integration

  • Task 1: Logging into the Linux server
  • Task 2: Installing the HPE Nimble Storage Linux Toolkit (NLT)
  • Task 3: Working with Nimble Connection Manager for Linux
  • Task 4: Working with settings

Lab 7-1: VMware Integration

  • Task 1: Register the Nimble plug-in
  • Task 2: Nimble Connection Manager
  • Task 3: Create a Nimble-backed datastore
  • Task 4: Clone a Nimble backed datastore
  • Task 5: Grow a Nimble-backed datastore
  • Task 6: Create a virtual machine on a Nimble-backed datastore

Lab 7-2: Working with vVols

  • Task 1: Register the Nimble Storage Protocol Endpoint with vCenter
  • Task 2: Create a vVol container on a HPE Nimble Storage array
  • Task 3: Create a Nimble-backed vVol datastore
  • Task 4: Create a VM storage policy
  • Task 5: Create a VM based on a storage policy
  • Task 6: Delete and restore a vVol backed VM

Lab 8: Working with Veeam - HPE Nimble Integration

  • Task 1: Connect to the Veeam backup system
  • Task 2: Configure VMware vSphere as a managed server
  • Task 3: Add the HPE Nimble Storage array
  • Task 4: Create a backup job
  • Task 5: Remove a disk on a virtual machine
  • Task 6: Validate the recovery of the lost disk

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.