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HM9Q4S-Managing HPE Primera

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HM9Q4S-Managing HPE Primera

3 days

Overview

The Managing HPE Primera course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The course reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with handson labs, including creating the right data efficient volumes on an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of HPE InfoSight. This course also provides knowledge of the advanced capabilities of HPE Primera storage arrays, including lower level data reduction features, reporting, monitoring and alerting, QOS, and local and remote replication options. You gain practical understanding of HPE Primera array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises.

This course is the combination of:

  • HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
  • HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication

Audience

  • Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales
  • Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Primera

Prerequisites

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

Course objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

  • Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
  • Discuss the topics addressed in this course
  • Discuss the HPE Primera family
  • Discuss HPE Primera hardware building blocks
  • Discuss the data-in-place upgrade
  • Describe controller enclosures, nodes, and HBA’s
  • Describe controller node architecture and port numbering
  • Describe high availability features of HPE Primera
  • Discuss HPE Primera software and management options
  • Describe data protection and security features
  • Explain provisioning terminology
  • Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
  • Explain the HPE Primera concept of common provisioning groups (CPGs)
  • Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VVs)
  • Overview HPE Primera data reduction technologies
  • State HPE Primera management options
  • Describe Data Services Cloud Console and steps to onboard HPE Primera
  • Describe HPE Primera initial setup, HPE Primera UI, and customer self-update/repair options
  • Describe on-premises administration tools, features and the thirdparty integration portfolio
  • Prepare a host to access an HPE Primera storage array
  • Create hosts in an HPE Primera storage array
  • Explain how to add fibre channel (FC) ports to a host
  • Describe iSCSI configuration
  • Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
  • Export virtual volumes (VVs) to a host as VLUNs
  • Unexport virtual volumes (VVs) from a host
  • Use SSMC and the CLI to work with hosts and storage
  • Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
  • Create and maintain host sets and volume sets using Data Services Cloud Console, SSMC and CLI
  • Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
  • Describe application volume sets
  • Describe advantages of HPE InfoSight
  • Describe the benefits of data reduction technologies
  • Perform space reclamation
  • Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression, and data packing
  • Perform a data reduction estimation
  • Perform an online virtual volume conversion
  • Describe System Reporter capabilities
  • Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
  • Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
  • Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance context
  • Use the SSMC Workload Insights feature for performance reasons to isolate application spikes and trends
  • Understand the SSMC Workload Insights concept of a performance score
  • Understand the advantages of the Topology Insights feature to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
  • Describe basic HPE Primera UI monitoring
  • View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
  • Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
  • Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
  • Monitor and manage the event log
  • Forward events to syslog server
  • Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
  • Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and HPE Primera CIM support
  • Explain REST API use
  • Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization
  • Administer Priority Optimization
  • Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization
  • Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot
  • Export a snapshot
  • Perform a recovery using a snapshot
  • Work with a clone
  • Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy
  • Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations
  • Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous replication modes
  • Discuss different failure scenarios
  • Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group
  • Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions

HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity Detailed course outline

Module 0: Introduction

  • Course introduction
  • Course agenda

Module 1: Solution Overview:

  • Hardware
  • HPE Primera technical specifications
  • HPE Primera hardware building blocks
  • Data-in-place upgrade
  • HPE Primera controller enclosure
  • HPE Primera drives
  • HPE Primera hardware architecture
  • Software and features overview
  • HPE Primera persistency and high availability features
  • HPE Cabling Tool
  • HPE product information
  • Documentation and resources
  • HPE storage interoperability
  • HPE SAN certification and support

Module 2: HPE Primera Management

  • HPE Primera manageability
  • HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC)
  • Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE Primera UI
  • HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
  • HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
  • HPE Primera initial setup
  • Customer self-install

Module 3: Storage Concepts and Terminology

  • HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view
  • HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
  • HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages
  • Chunklet concepts
  • Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership
  • Logical disk concepts
  • HPE Primera high availability
  • Common provisioning group (CPG) concepts
  • Virtual volume overview
  • Thin provisioning overview
  • HPE Primera data reduction overview

Module 4: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

  • Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: fibre channel (FC) example
  • HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
  • Persistent checksum based on T10-DIF
  • HPE Primera persistent ports
  • HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
  • HPE Primera Implementation Guide
  • Obtaining host HBA WWNs
  • Host bus adapters (HBAs) and worldwide names (WWN)s
  • HPE Primera—iSCSI support
  • HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
  • HPE Primera zoning overview
  • HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera overview
  • Adding hosts in SSMC: Smart SAN
  • Making VLUNs visible to hosts
  • HPE Host Explorer
  • HPE LunInfo
  • Host configuration and storage allocation

Module 5: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets

  • Host and volume sets
  • Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage
  • Virtual volume set—other use cases
  • Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples
  • Data Services Cloud Console—host group and volumes
  • App volume sets overview
  • App volume sets— SSMC examples
  • SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets
  • App sets vs virtual volume (VV) sets

Module 6: HPE InfoSight Introduction

  • HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene
  • Get the full picture with HPE Primera and HPE InfoSight
  • The artificial intelligence (AI) process for HPE self-healing storage
  • HPE InfoSight—artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)
  • HPE Primera—PDF report
  • HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics for VMware® environments
  • HPE Primera UI—HPE InfoSight software recommendations
  • Managing HPE Primera software updates
  • HPE Primera wellness filters
  • HPE InfoSight unified tenancy

Appendix 1: HPE Primera Virtual Domains

  • HPE Virtual Domains software
  • HPE Virtual Domains for multitenancy security
  • What are the benefits of virtual domains?
  • Priority Optimization
  • Data protection solutions overview
  • HPE Primera leadership—replication
  • Peer Persistence
  • VMware vSphere®s disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager

Detailed lab outline

Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access

  • Task 1: Accessing the HPE vLab

Lab 1: Working with SSMC and CLI

  • Exercise 1: Reviewing the SSMC GUI and online help
  • Exercise 2: Reviewing the dashboard and changing output views
  • Exercise 3: Accessing the SSMC settings screen
  • Exercise 4: Adding a user
  • Exercise 5: Working with the SSMC activity screen
  • Exercise 6: SSMC hardware introduction
  • Exercise 7: Launching the CLI

Lab 2: Storage Configuration

  • Exercise 1: Log in to SSMC
  • Exercise 2: Working with CPGs in SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Working with virtual volumes (VV) in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-1: Creating thin provisioned virtual volumes
  • Exercise 3-2: Creating thin volumes (TPVV) with data reduction enabled
  • Exercise 3-3: Creating multiple virtual volumes using a count
  • Exercise 3-4: Displaying/editing/removing virtual volumes
  • Exercise 4: Working with VVs using the CLI

Lab 3: Host Configuration and Storage Allocation

  • Exercise 1: Identify the HBA type (Windows)
  • Exercise 2: Determining host port WWNs
  • Exercise 3: Adding a host using HBA WWNs in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-A: Adding a host using Host Explorer in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-B: Adding a host manually using HBA WWNs in SSMC
  • Exercise 4: Export/unexport VLUNs in SSMC
  • Exercise 5: Windows host configuration formatting and mounting VLUNs
  • Exercise 6: Online virtual volume increase
  • Exercise 7: Working with default reports
  • Exercise 8: Working with HPE LUNInfo for HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR
  • Exercise 9: Working with hosts and storage using the CLI

Lab 4: Host, Volume and App Volume Sets

  • Exercise 1: Working with host sets and virtual volume sets
  • Exercise 1-1: Working with host sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-2: Working with virtual volume sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-3: Export virtual volume sets to hosts sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-4: Unexport virtual volume sets from hosts sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-5: Delete virtual volume sets and hosts sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 2: Working with app volume sets using SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Working with host sets and volume sets using CLI

Lab 5: Using HPE InfoSight

  • Exercise 1: Logging in and dashboard
  • Exercise 2: Access HPE InfoSight support
  • Exercise 3: Array overview
  • Exercise 4: Physical disk details
  • Exercise 5: Reports
  • Exercise 6: HPE InfoSight scenarios (optional)
  • Exercise 6-1: Health check
  • Exercise 6-2: Planning for growth
  • Exercise 6-3: Using HPE InfoSight to troubleshoot

HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication Detailed course outline

Introduction

  • Course agenda

Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction

  • Data reduction introduction and overview
  • Zero-detect and thin persistence
  • Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
  • Block alignment
  • Thin persistence technology
  • Compaction and overprovisioning
  • Data reduction technologies
  • Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
  • Savings estimation
  • Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic optimization)

Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting

  • System Reporter introduction
  • Data retention
  • SSMC System Reporter options
  • Types of reports
  • Default reports in SSMC
  • Report controls
  • Report templates
  • Creating historical and real time reports
  • Scheduling/emailing reports
  • CLI reporting
  • Performance view
  • Analytics and workload Insights
  • Application volume sets
  • Topology Insights
  • Data Services Cloud Console
  • Data Ops Manager
  • Primera UI monitoring overview
  • On-node monitoring overview
  • Monitoring and reporting

Module 3: Events and Alerts

  • Alerts and events overview
  • Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
  • Alerts in Data Services Cloud Console
  • Managing events—SSMC/CLI
  • Alerts and events tiering
  • Alert spare part notification
  • Syslog support
  • The checkhealth command overview and use
  • Troubleshooting
  • System Reporter performance alerts management
  • SNMP overview
  • SNMP use—MIBs, alert traps
  • SNMP management
  • CIM API overview
  • HPE Primera CIM API
  • About SMI-S
  • CIM standard
  • CIM management
  • REST API overview
  • REST API usage

Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS

  • Introduction and features
  • How does it work
  • Examples
  • Configurable parameters and their meaning
  • Configuring and managing via SSMC
  • Configuring and managing via CLI
  • Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
  • HPE Primera Priority Optimization
  • Priority Optimization using the Data Services Cloud Console and Primera UI
  • Summary and best practices

Module 5: Snapshots and Clones

  • HPE Primera snapshot concepts
  • HPE Recovery Manager Central
  • Snapshot use cases
  • How snapshots work
  • Working with a snapshot using SSMC
  • Snapshot and Virtual Lock
  • Working with a snapshot using CLI
  • Primera UI snapshots and snapshot schedules
  • Data Services Cloud Console protection policies and schedules
  • Clone introduction and how it works
  • Working with a clone using SSMC
  • Working with a clone using CLI

Module 6: Remote Replication

  • Remote Copy introduction
  • Remote Copy network transport methods
  • Remote Copy group
  • Replication modes
  • Replication topologies
  • Remote Copy operations
  • Failure scenarios and failover
  • Post failover actions overview
  • Recover/restore after a failover
  • Peer persistence overview
  • HPE Cluster Extension overview
  • VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview
  • Data migration options overview
  • HPE Primera Peer Motion

Detailed lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up

  • Task 1: Accessing HPE vLabs
  • Task 2: Initial setup
  • Exercise 1: Log in to the HPE StoreServ management console
  • Exercise 2: Configuring hosts
  • Exercise 2a: Adding a host manually using the HBA WWPNs with SSMC
  • Exercise 2b: Adding a host using Host Explorer with SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Install Iometer
  • Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system performance analytics

Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Data Reduction Estimates

  • Exercise 1: Lab set up
  • Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
  • Estimation analysis results
  • Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC

Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting

  • Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
  • Exercise 2: SSMC default reports
  • Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
  • Physical drives—performance statistic report
  • CPGs—capacity report
  • System capacity report
  • Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
  • Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets using dashboard
  • Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time performance

Lab 3: Events and Alerts

  • Exercise 1: Viewing alerts (SSMC GUI)
  • Exercise 2: Viewing alerts (CLI)
  • Exercise 3: Viewing tasks (SSMC GUI)
  • Exercise 4: Viewing events (CLI)
  • Exercise 5: Syslog
  • Exercise 6: System Reporter alerts (SSMC GUI)
  • Exercise 7: SNMP traps
  • Exercise 8: Using REST API

Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources

  • Exercise clean-up

Lab 4: Priority Optimization (QoS)

  • Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
  • Exercise 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using SSMC
  • Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using CLI
  • QoS analysis results
  • Additional commands to manage QoS rules

Lab 5: Snapshots and Clones

  • Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
  • Exercise 2: Snapshot file recovery
  • Exercise 3: Snapshot full volume data recovery
  • Exercise 4: Restore data between two snapshots
  • Exercise 5: Schedule snapshots and snapshot expiration policies
  • Create a snapshot policy
  • Create scheduled snapshots using a snapshot policy
  • Exploring scheduled snapshots over time
  • Exercise 6: Create a clone
  • Exercise 7: Create a clone with resynchronization capability
  • Exercise 8: Working with snapshots and clones using CLI

Lab 6: Remote Replication

  • Planning and initial set up of Remote Copy
  • Exercise 1: Lab set up
  • Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set up using SSMC
  • Verifying the RCIP port configuration
  • Remote Copy configuration
  • Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups
  • Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote Copy group
  • Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and failback
  • Exercise 5: Planned failover to the remote site
  • Exercise 6: Recovery of a Remote Copy group after the source system is back online
  • Exercise 7: Restore a Remote Copy group
  • Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
  • Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy group
  • Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and failover again
  • Revert
  • Failover again
  • Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group and replicate in the original direction
  • Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
  • Exercise 12: Lab clean up
  • Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI

Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware®

  • Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
  • Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a volume in SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware vCenter®

Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux

  • Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
  • Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a volume using SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with multipathing on the Linux host
  • Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem, and mount the volume

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