Duration
5 days
Overview
This course teaches students how to identify, recommend, and explain HPE enterprise storage solutions architectures and technologies. It also addresses the translation of business requirements into storage solution designs that support applications and data across physical, virtual and cloud environments with a common architecture and converged management. The course also covers designing HPE backup solutions including the right backup, recovery, and archive (BURA) strategies for various customer scenarios. The course uses participant-centered learning and hands-on lab exercises.
Audience
Typical candidates for this course are partners, customers, and HPE employees who interpret customer requirements to design, install, configure, and manage HPE storage and backup solutions. The candidate will demonstrate critical-thinking skills required to design, optimize, deploy, manage, and troubleshot storage solutions.
Suggested prerequisites
- HPE ATP - Hybrid IT Solutions V1 or V2 certification is required.
- Learners should have two to three years (minimum) of experience in architecting and integrating storage technologies.
Course objectives
After you successfully complete this course, you should be able to:
- Identify, recommend, and explain HPE enterprise storage solutions architectures and technologies
- Translate business requirements into storage solution designs that support applications and data across physical, virtual and cloud environments with a common architecture and converged management
- Explain HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera OS and configuration
- Explain HPE Nimble Storage features
- Explain the fundamentals of virtualization and virtualization management capabilities
- Describe SAN fabric topologies, SAN design principles, and considerations
- Plan a RAID configuration
- Identify drive I/O and performance
- Provide an overview of HPE reference architectures
- Understand the goals of HPE presales consultants and storage architects
- Know how to use HPE sizing, planning and ROI tools
Certifications and related examinations
This course prepares the learner for the HPE ASE - Storage Solutions V4 certification and is recommended preparation for the HPE0-J68 exam.
Module 0: Course Overview
- Describe the purpose and content of the HPE storage solutions course
- Understand the psychological principles used in this course
- Discuss the exam preparation checklist
Module 1: Storage Architectures and Technologies
- Compare different storage technologies
- – File-based storage
- – Block-based storage
- – Object-based storage
- – Comparison
- Describe and evaluate use cases for various disk-related technologies
- – Interfaces
- – Disk (HDD) types and technologies
- – Flash-based technologies
- – Memory types
- Describe storage-related technologies
- – Storage virtualization options
- – Storage scalability options
- – Thin provisioning
- – Compression
- – Deduplication
- – Data migration
- – Comparison to traditional approach
- – Use cases
Module 2: HPE Storage Products Review
- Identify product and discuss features of:
- – HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA)
- – HPE Nimble Storage
- – HPE 3PAR StoreServ
- – HPE Primera
- – HPE XP (overview only)
- – HPE SimpliVity (overview only)
- – Software-defined storage
Module 3: Storage Networking Architectures and Technologies
- Describe SAN transport technologies and components
- – Transport technologies
- – Interconnect devices and adapters
- – HPE StoreFabric portfolio overview
- Describe and characterize different SAN technologies
- – Used transport protocols
- – Available features
- – Zoning
- Describe and characterize the different SAN topologies
- – HPE supported topologies
- – Redundancy and high availability
- – Scalability
- – Advantages and disadvantages
- Describe storage presentation to hosts in SAN context
- – Basic concepts
- – Storage-based presentation
- – Multi-pathing options and technologies
Module 4: Data Protection
- Describe data protection terminology
- – Availability and downtime
- – RPO and RTO
- – 3-2-1 rule
- – Disaster recovery
- Describe backup, archiving, and data availability technologies
- – Malware protection
- – Archiving concepts
- – Backup vs archiving
- – Available technologies and features
- – Tiering
- – Security aspects
- – Data protection aspects
Module 5: HPE Backup Solutions – Disk
- Review the HPE StoreOnce product
- – Overview
- – Portfolio and positioning
- – Features and functions
- – Emulation types
- – Networking
- Explain the features of deduplication technology in backup context
- – Deduplication: What is it?
- – Deduplication technology types
- – Key benefits of data deduplication
- – How hash-based chunking works
- – Target/server/source-side deduplication
- – How deduplication integrates into backup software
- Explain the features of Catalyst technology
- – Overview
- – HPE StoreOnce Catalyst features and benefits
- – StoreOnce integrations
Module 6: HPE Backup Solutions – Tape
- Describe HPE StoreEver Tape solutions
- – HPE StoreEver Tape portfolio
- – LTO Ultrium
- – Management
- – Features
- – Linear tape file system
- – HPE library and tape tools
- – Enterprise Secure Key Manager
Module 7: Backup and Archiving Software Solutions – Part 1
- HPE Recovery Manager Central software
- – Overview
- – Building blocks
- – Features overview
- – Basic integration with HPE products
- Veeam backup and replication
- – Overview
- – Building blocks
- – Features overview
- – Basic integration with HPE products
Module 8: Backup and Archiving Software Solutions – Part 2
- Micro Focus Data Protector
- – Overview
- – Building blocks
- – Features overview
- – Basic integration with HPE products
- Commvault complete backup and recovery
- – Overview
- – Building blocks
- – Features overview
- – Basic integration with HPE products
- HPE SimpliVity protection and integration
- iTernity Compliant Archive Software (iCAS)
- Cloud offerings and integrations
Module 9: Advanced Administering and Monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring protocols and standards review
- – SNMP
- – SMI-S
- – REST API
- Storage and backup products monitoring options
- – HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA)
- – HPE Nimble Storage
- – HPE 3PAR StoreServ/HPE Primera
- – HPE StoreOnce
- SAN Monitoring
- – B-Series
- – C-Series
- – M-Series
- HPE Insight Remote Support review
- HPE InfoSight
Module 10: Staging an Effective Storage Consulting Engagement
- Describe the goals of HPE presales consultants and storage architects
- Identify consultative selling
- Explain how to use HPE sizing and planning tools during a consulting engagement
- Calculate payback period and ROI
- Use HPE Storage Assessment Foundry
- List the available return on investment and total cost of ownership tools
- Direct others to HPE resources online
- List steps for a proof of concept test
- List HPE storage services
- – HPE Partner Ready Delivery Services program
- – HPE PointNext Services
▫ Packaged service levels, including HPE Foundation Care, HPE Proactive Care, HPE Proactive Care Advanced, and HPE Datacenter Care
- – HPE Solution Consulting Services
- – HPE Financial Services
Module 11: Planning and Designing HPE Storage Solutions
- Discuss considerations when configuring a storage array
- – Position the different HPE storage arrays
- – Storage planning and sizing tools
- – Array planning and sizing
- Describe SAN design principles and considerations
- Talk about licensing
Module 12: Planning and Designing HPE BURA Solutions – Theory
- Identify data tiering and retention
- List challenges in data protection
- – Discovering data protection opportunities
- – Not all data are equal: Classifying information
- – Solution and categorization
- – Recovery operations
- – The effectiveness of recovery
- – Steps in disaster recovery
- – Backup strategy planning
- – Protection and recovery methods
- – Data protection and retention challenges
- – Delivering agility and efficiency
- Present HPE backup and restore strategy
- – Backup and recovery strategy planning
- – Understanding the factors that influence the backup solution
- – Preparing the backup design
- – Backup topologies
- – Zoning for backup
Module 13: Planning and Designing HPE BURA Solutions – Practice
- Perform StoreOnce planning and sizing
- – HPE StoreOnce backup device emulation options
- – HPE StoreOnce performance and sizing guidelines
- – Networking
- – Resource prerequisites for HPE StoreOnce VSA
- – Sizing considerations
- – Reference documents and sizing tools
- – Emulation options
- – Performance and sizing guidelines
- – NinjaProtected Tool and Get Protected Guarantee
- – What is the NinjaProtected Tool?
- – What does it do? What does it deliver?
- – Why use the NinjaProtected Tool?
- Perform RMC sizing
- – Sizing considerations
- – Deployment and integrations
- – Best practices
- Discuss licensing
Module 14: Upgrading, Optimizing, and Tuning HPE Storage and BURA Solutions
- Upgrade HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Primera systems
- HPE Nimble Timeless Storage program
- Upgrade HPE Nimble array
- Describe Nimble scale-to-fit options
- Upgrade HPE StoreOnce system
- Tune HPE 3PAR StoreServ and HPE Primera
- Optimize HPE storage systems
- – Black alignment
- – Application considerations
- Optimize HPE StoreOnce
- – Deduplication ratio
- – Capacity scalability
- Update HPE 3PAR and HPE Primera OS
- Update HPE 3PAR service processor
- Optimize HPE backup systems and backup jobs
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.