HPE SimpliVity System Administration
Course code
H0LP9S
Duration
2 Days, 18 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Course overview
This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on HPE SimpliVity system with the HPE SimpliVity Plug-in for VMware vSphere® and the RapidDR user interface.
Objectives
Course objectives
Upon completion of this training, theparticipant will be able to:
- Describe the various components that form the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Distinguish between peer-managed and centrally-managed HPE SimpliVity federations
- Identify how VM data is stored across HPE SimpliVity clusters
- Create datastores and perform different tasks associated with HPE SimpliVity datastores
- Explain the various HPE SimpliVity operations like Clone or Move VM
- Create manual and policy-based backups and use them for restore
- Configure external stores for secondary backup
- Perform basic support tasks on the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Use RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
HPE recommends that students attend training or attain experience in the following areas before taking this class:
- Networking technologies
- VMware vSphere® 6.5
- HPE ProLiant servers
Audience
- This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity.
Course Outline
Course Outline
Module 1 Introduction to HPE SimpliVity
- Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
- Core features built into the HPE SimpliVity solution
- HPE SimpliVity’s Hyper-Guarantee
- HPE SimpliVity use cases
Module 2 HPE SimpliVity Architecture
- Deep understanding of the HPE SimpliVity data virtualization platform
- Elements within an HPE SimpliVity Federation
- Datacenter and cluster concepts within the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Levels of resiliency built-in to the HPE SimpliVity solution
- How VM data locality is maintained
Module 3 HPE SimpliVity Portfolio
- HPE SimpliVity hardware models and supported configurations
- Tiered-storage implementation
- Read/write IO paths for different HPE SimpliVity models
- HPE SimpliVity networking
Module 4a Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-1
- HPE SimpliVity management interfaces (GUI, CLI and REST API)
- HPE SimpliVity backup policies
- HPE SimpliVity datastores and permitted operations
- Configuring external stores for secondary backup
- Sharing HPE SimpliVity datastores with access nodes (nonHPE SimpliVity nodes)
- Virtual machines and templates in an HPE SimpliVity federation
Module 4b Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-2
- HPE SimpliVity backups
- Backup management
- Restores using HPE SimpliVity backups
- File level restore
- HPE SimpliVity Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
- Failover plan using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
Module 5 HPE SimpliVity Upgrades, Support and InfoSight
- HPE SimpliVity host and virtual controller related maintenance tasks
- HPE SimpliVity alarms and events
- Create an HPE SimpliVity support capture
- HPE SimpliVity Upgrade Manager for firmware, hypervisor, and OS upgrades
- HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
- How to contact HPE support and resources
Lab 1 HPE SimpliVity Overview
- Accessing the HPE Virtual Labs environment
- HPE SimpliVity user interface
- HPE SimpliVity federation views
- Accessing clusters and virtual machines
- Accessing the external storage (HPE StoreOnce)
- Accessing the HPE SimpliVity CLI
- Accessing the HPE SimpliVity REST API
Lab 2 HPE SimpliVity Backup Policies
- Accessing and creating backup policies
- Editing backup policies
- Managing backup policies using the CLI
Lab 3 HPE SimpliVity Clusters and Datastores
- Using and monitoring HPE SimpliVity clusters
- Creating and managing datastores
- Manage standard ESXi hosts
- Register an external store
Lab 4 HPE SimpliVity Virtual Machines and Templates
- Create virtual machines
- Clone virtual machines
- Move virtual machines
- Delete virtual machines
- HPE SimpliVity virtual machine templates
Lab 5 HPE SimpliVity Backups
- Manual backups, search, and filter
- Policy backups
- Manage backups
Lab 6 Restore HPE SimpliVity Backups
- Restore a virtual machine or template from a backup
- Restore files from a backup
- Restore a deleted VM from backup
Lab 7 HPE SimpliVity Troubleshooting
- View HPE SimpliVity-specific alarms
- Create a support capture
Lab 8 – HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
- Creating a HPE SimpliVity RapidDR recovery configuration
- Testing a plan
Request the training
HPE SimpliVity System Administration
Course code:
H0LP9S
Duration:
2 Days, 18 Acad. Hours
