Duration

3 days

Overview

The Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I course is designed for the new or entry-level HPE 3PAR administrator. The goal of the class is to acquaint the 3PAR administrator with the most common day-to-day tasks and best practices associated with administration of the 3PAR array. The levels of provisioning storage are emphasized. This training reflects the newest release of the HPE 3PAR OS: 3.3.1. The course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HPE 3PAR arrays. NOTE: Hosts used in the lab environment are MS Windows.

Audience

HPE 3PAR administrators who desire training on basic concepts and best practices needed to administer the array.

Prerequisites

An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
Operator level functionality in a Windows environment

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Explain the numbering schemes for the HPE 3PAR hardware components: controllers, ports, and physical disks
Use the StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) GUI and the CLI to perform administrative tasks
Create and work with a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
Administer Virtual Volumes using the SSMC and the CLI
Understand the advantages of Thin Provisioning and create a Thin Provisioned Virtual Volume (TPVV)
Understand the advantages of Dedup and Compression for storage allocated from SSDs
Export and un-export virtual volumes from hosts
Use HPE 3PARinfo to analyze luns presented to hosts
Use Host Explorer to simplify addition of hosts
Use Host Sets and Volume Sets to simplify provisioning storage
Create a Snapshot and promote (restore) from a Snapshot
Create a Clone and promote a Clone
Convert a Virtual Volume (i.e. from fully provisioned to thin provisioned or thin provisioned to thin dedup or vice versa)
Use the SSMC reporting feature to monitor capacity and performance
Use the CLI stat commands to troubleshoot a 3PAR array solution
Manage a private cloud infrastructure by using HPE CloudSystem Operations Console (OpsConsole)
Create provider and tenant networks
Check available resources by using an OpenStack (Horizon) portal
Create, manage, and publish compute, network, and storage services for users to deploy
Explore and manage the HPE Helion CloudSystem Enterprise Marketplace Portal (MPP)

Course Outline

HPE 3PAR Solution Introduction and Review

HPE 3PAR Hardware Current models
Hardware overview for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models: controllers, drive cages, and disks
Controller port number naming conventions for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models
Disk number naming convention for disks in the HPE 3PAR arrays
ASIC chip functionality
HPE 3PAR virtual storage architecture benefits
Big Picture HPE 3PAR component connectivity
SSMC GUI introduction and functionality overview
HPE 3PAR CLI overview and introduction

Storage Concepts and Terminology

HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology
HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning and thin provisioning
HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology
HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning and thin provisioning

Storage Configuration

CPGs using SSMC and the CLI
Working with virtual volume templates
Working with fully provisioned and thin provisioned volumes using SSMC and the CLI

Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

How to prepare a host to access an HPE 3PAR storage array
HPE 3PAR Port Persistence
Adding hosts in an HPE 3PAR storage array
Adding FC ports to a host
Export virtual volumes to hosts as VLUNs
Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host
Using SSMC and CLI to work with hosts and storage
Working with Smart SAN
Use Host Explorer to add hosts and explore host details
Use HPE 3PARInfo to gather storage information

Host Sets and Virtual Volume Sets

Host and virtual volume sets advantages
Host and virtual volume sets use cases
Creating and maintaining host and volume sets using SSMC and the CLI
Host and volume sets guidelines and rules

Thin Features: A Deep Dive

Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence
Zero Detection use cases
Space reclamation: UNMAP and other utilities
Compaction ratio explanation and thin overprovisioning
Thin provisioning: seeing what is allocated vs. used by a host
Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes from full to thin or thin to full using SSMC and the CLI
Compacting a CPG to free up space

Adaptive Data Reduction for Flash: Dedup and Compression

Thin Dedup: saving space using deduplication and dedup detail
Thin Dedup: what to dedup: good candidates and bad candidates
Compression and how it works
Compression: what to compress--good candidates and bad candidates
Data Packing: packing data for space and cost savings
DECO: Dedup and Compression together
Working with Dedup and Compression using the SSMC GUI and the CLI
Performing a Dedup Estimate and a Compression Estimate
Seeing if Dedup and Compression are working
Analyzing Adaptive Data Reduction ratios: Dedup ratio, Compression ratio and overall Data Reduction ratio
Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes to thin-dedup, compressed or DECO

Snapshots and Clones

Snapshots and Clones: benefits
Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a snapshot
Rules and relationships regarding snapshots
Restore from a snapshot
Scheduling the creation of a snapshot
Using the Virtual Lock feature to delete outdated snapshots
Resynchronize a clone to a base volume
Promote a clone to a base volume
Use SSMC and the CLI to manage snapshots and clones

Reporting: Performance and Capacity

The on-node database: the .srdata database volume
Using SSMC reports to analyze capacity needs and trends
Using SSMC reports to analyze performance
Using SSMC default reports and creating custom reports
Scheduling and emailing reports
Using the Excel client
Using the CLI stat commands to analyze performance and capacity
Using the CLI sr* commands to analyze performance and capacity

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