HPE Synergy Image Streamer

Prerequisites

HPE recommends that students attain the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:

• HPE Synergy Technical Overview WBTs (H0LN2AAE, H0LN5AAE, H0LN6AAE)
• HPE Synergy Administration (H0LN3S)
• Any basic networking course
• HPE OneView Administration (H4C04S), or equivalent experience, is considered beneficial

Audience

• System administrators, engineers and consultants who install, manage, and monitor the HPE Synergy systems with Image Streamer
• New HPE Synergy customers or past customers who purchased HPE BladeSystem c-Class equipment

Course Outline

Module 1: HPE Synergy Image Streamer Overview

• What is HPE Synergy Image Streamer?
• HPE Composer drives HPE Image Streamer via a server profile
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer 5.2 support matrix
• Image Streamer user roles
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer architecture
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer system architecture
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer artifacts overview
• Image Streamer artifact bundle
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer best practices

Module 2: HPE Synergy Image Streamer Cabling and Configuration

• HPE Synergy Image Streamer deployment workflow
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer cabling
• Image Streamer connectivity overview
• HPE Image Streamer single-frame proof of concept
• HPE Image Streamer pairs in one management ring
• HPE Image Streamer pairs with multiple management rings
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer configuration flow
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer discovery and import
• HPE Image Streamer configurations in mixed environments
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer OS deployment server
• Image Streamer—ID pools for management and deployment networks
• Image Streamer—create a management network
• Image Streamer—create a deployment network
• Image Streamer—OS deployment server creation
• Image Streamer appliances—create a LIG
• Image Streamer—create an enclosure group
• Image Streamer appliances—create a logical enclosure

Module 3: HPE Image Streamer Activities

• Working with artifacts
• Add an artifact bundle
• Add a Golden Image
• Create a Plan Script—general
• Create an OS Build Plan—deploy
• Create a Deployment Plan
• Sample Plan Script—capture generalization
• Image Streamer—create an artifact bundle
• Image Streamer—add an artifact bundle
• Image Streamer—extract an artifact bundle
• What is a custom attribute?
• Editing custom attributes
• Advanced management VM
• Deploying using server profiles
• Deployment iSCSI connections
• Compute module boot
• HPE Image Streamer maintenance

Module 4: HPE Image Streamer Maintenance

• HPE Synergy Image Streamer user roles
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer maintenance console
• Reimaging HPE Synergy Image Streamer
• Replacing HPE Synergy Image Streamer
• Updating HPE Synergy Image Streamer
• Creating, downloading, and restoring from a backup bundle
• HPE Synergy Image Streamer best practices

Lab 1: HPE Synergy Initial Setup

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Examining the HPE Synergy system
• Summary

Lab 2: Configuring Connectivity and LIGs

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Uploading the firmware bundle
• Exercise 2—Creating subnet ID pools
• Exercise 3—Creating an Image Streamer management network
• Exercise 4—Creating a deployment network
• Exercise 5—Creating an OS deployment server
• Exercise 6—Creating a production Ethernet network
• Exercise 7—Creating logical interconnect groups
• Exercise 8—Creating an enclosure group
• Exercise 9—Creating a logical enclosure
• Summary

Lab 3: Using Artifacts in Server Profiles

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Accessing the HPE Synergy Image Streamer UI environment
• Exercise 2—Creating the server profiles
• Exercise 3—Deploying a RHEL production OS
• Summary

Lab 4: Creating HPE Synergy Image Streamer Artifacts

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Creating an empty OS volume Deployment Plan and installing a production OS
• Exercise 2—Capturing an OS volume to the Golden Image
• Exercise 3—Creating a custom artifact bundle
• Summary

Lab 5: Working with Windows Artifacts

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Adding a Windows artifact bundle
• Exercise 2—Preparing for a golden image capture
• Installing the OS
• Summary

Lab 6: Maintaining and Troubleshooting HPE Synergy Image Streamer

• Requirements
• Introduction
• Exercise 1—Administering users and privileges
• Exercise 2—Downloading an audit log file
• Exercise 3—Creating the HPE Synergy Image Streamer backups
• Exercise 4—Creating and downloading an HPE Synergy Image Streamer support dump file
• Exercise 5—Other options in the HPE Synergy Image Streamer GUI
• Exercise 6—Accessing the HPE Synergy Image Streamer Maintenance menu from the HPE Synergy console
• Summary