HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication

Audience

Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales

Course Outline

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 StorageOS 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: HPE Nimble Storage SmartSnap

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

Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication

• 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 Support and HPE InfoSight

• Concepts
• Architecture
• Benefits

Lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access

• Objectives
• Accessing HPE vLabs

Lab 1: Initialize an Array

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

Lab 2: Basic Volume Creation

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

Lab 3: 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 4: Working with Syslog and Event Logs

• Task 1: Configuring and starting a syslog server and SNMP trap receiver
• Task 2: Testing the syslog and SNMP trap receiver
• Task 3: Event logs and audit logs

Lab 5: 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 6: Using InfoSight

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