HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity

Course code

HM9Q5S

Duration

1 Days, 8 Acad. Hours

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Course Overview

Objectives

Prerequisites

Course Outline

Course Overview

Course overview

The Managing HPE Primera Storage I course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The course reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs (HOL), including creating the right data efficient volumes on an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of HPE InfoSight.
The course prepares learners for deeper follow-on training from HPE, including the 2-day, HM9Q6S: Managing HPE Primera II course.

Objectives

Course objectives

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

Discuss Primera hardware offerings
Describe HPE Primera family features
List management options
Describe the HPE Primera Storage software portfolio
Explain provisioning terminology
Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
Explain the HPE Primera concepts of a common provisioning group (CPG)
Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VV)
Overview Primera data reduction technologies
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
Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for Primera
Export virtual volumes (VV) to a host as VLUNs
Unexport virtual volumes (VV) from a host
Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
Create and maintain host sets and volume sets
Use SSMC and the CLI to create and manage host sets and volume sets
Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
Describe app volume sets
Describe the use of InfoSight to monitor Primera and its surroundings

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

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
Logical 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

Appendix 2: What’s New in HPE Primera

NVMe Drives
iSCSI
Provisioning in the HPE Primera UI
Customer self-install
HPE Primera customer self-update
Customer self-repair
SSMC 3.7 enhancements
Infosight update
HPE Primera Welcome Center
HPE Primera cabling tool

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

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HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity

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