Managing HPE Primera

Prerequisites

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

Audience

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

Course Outline

Module 1: Solution Overview:

• Part 1—Hardware
  • Primera technical specifications
  • HPE Primera hardware building blocks
  • Data-in-place upgrade
  • Primera persistency and high availability features
• Part 2—Software and Features
  • Management options overview
  • Primera and 3PAR SSMC
  • HPE Primera storage management—HPE Primera UI
  • HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
  • HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
  • Selected data protection and security features overview
  • HPE Primera leadership—replication
  • Peer Persistence
  • HPE Cluster Extension CLX
  • VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager
  • Sources of information

Module 2: Storage Concepts and Terminology

• HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view
• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages
• Chunklet concepts
• System wide sparing
• Loigical disk concepts
• HPE Primera high availability
• CPG concepts
• Virtual volume overview
• Thin provisioning overview
• HPE Primera data reduction overview

Module 3: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration—FC example
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• HPE Primera Persistent Ports
• HPE Primera WWN format
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• HPE Primera implementation guide
• Host HBAs and WWNs—commands/utilities
• HPE Smart SAN for Primera
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• Adding hosts in SSMC—SMART SAN enabled
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo

Module 4: Host, Volume, and App 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
• App volume sets overview
• App volume sets— SSMC examples
• SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets

Module 5: HPE InfoSight Introduction

• HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene
• Get the full picture with HPE Primera and InfoSight
• The AI process for HPE self-healing storage
• HPE Primera—dashboard
• HPE Primera—systems view
• HPE Primera—detailed systems view
• HPE Primera—system performance view
• HPE Primera—performance insights view
• HPE Primera—PDF report
• HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware environments

Appendix 1: HPE Primera On-Node Management

• Discovering the HPE Primera array
• HPE Primera initial setup
• Checking hardware
• Creating user on the array and configuring the network
• Initializing the array
• Configuring date/time, Infosight and system support contact
• InfoSight
• Enabling remote support data scrubbing
• First time login
• Primera UI dashboard—overview, alerts, and tasks
• On-node management performance dashboard
• Customer self-update option
• Customer self-repair option

Module 6: 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 7: 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 insightsApp volume sets
• Topology Insights
• On-node monitoring overview

Module 8: Events and Alerts

• Alerts and events overview
• Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
• Managing events—SSMC/CLI
• Alerts & events tiering
• Alert Spare Part Notification
• Syslog support
• The checkhealth command overview and use
• Troubleshooting
• System Reporter performance alerts managementI
• 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 9: 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
• Summary and best practices

Module 10: Snapshots and Clones

• Snapshot introduction
• Snapshot use cases
• How snapshots work
• Working with a snapshot using SSMC
• Working with a snapshot using CLI
• Clone introduction and how it works
• Working with a clone using SSMC
• Working with a clone using CLI

Module 11: Remote Replication

• Remote Copy introduction
• Supported protocols
• Architecture, features and terminology
• Replication modes
• Supported maximums
• Failure scenarios and failover
• Remote Copy operations
• Data migration options overview
• Peer Persistence overview
• HPE Cluster Extension overview
• VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview

Lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access

• Task 1: Accessing the 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 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

Lab 6: vLabs Access and Initial Set up

• Task 1: Accessing the vLabs
• Task 2: Initial setup
  • Exercise 1: Log in to the 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 1—Primera REST preparation and login
  • Part 2—Using the Postman client to create a resource
  • Part 3—Using the Postman client to delete a resource
  • Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources
• Exercise clean-up

Lab 10: 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 11: 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 12: 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