Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ III: Performance and Health Management
Course code
H9P97S
Duration
3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours
Course Overview
Objectives
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Course Overview
Course overview
This 3-day training covers advanced topics that a storage administrator will encounter after performing the tasks covered in the HPE 3PAR basic courses (HK902S and HK904S). Topics included are: Space Explained, Performance, Alerts, Troubleshooting, Upgrading, Adaptive Flash Cache (AFC) and Configuration Rebalancing. The course is 50% lecture with 50% hands-on labs. Additional Scenario Labs compliment the Module Labs. These Lifecycle Labs include Adaptive optimization, Quality of Service and Adaptive Flash.
Objectives
Course objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
- Explain how space is allocated and mapped
- Identify data reduction
- Understand performance
- Discuss best practices
- Explain HPE 3PAR events and alerts and how to get notifications about them
- Use CLI and GUI to troubleshoot your storage system
- Perform rebalancing
- Use Adaptive Flash Cache to increase performance
- Upgrade your hardware and software of your storage system
- Employ tools that can be used to troubleshoot and respond to HPE 3PAR performance issues.
Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Students must have attended HK902S and HK904S
Audience
A storage administrator who has been managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ arrays on a daily basis for at least a year. This training is not for an individual who has no experience managing a HPE 3PAR array
Course Outline
Course Outline
Module 1: Overview
- Course Introduction
- Course Agenda
- Lab roadmap
Module 2: Space Explained
- Understand space utilization
- Volume space
- Large volumes
- Logical disk space
- CPG space
- Overprovisioning
- Distributed sparing
- Adaptive sparing
- Adaptive data reduction
- Thin deduplication
- Space reclamation
- Mapping space
- SR Space forecasting
Module 3: Performance
- Understanding performance bottleneck
- Servicing I/O
- Express layout
- RAID
- Initiators
- Front end vs back end
- CPU
- Cache
- Adaptive Flash Cache
- WriteBack single node
- SSD Performance
- Unbalanced systems
- Express writes
- Benchmarks
- Hardware FC Links
- I/O Queueing
- Interactive response law
- CLI Counters
- Troubleshooting discussion
Module 4: Lifecycle Discussion
- Lifecycle of a System
- Introduction Lab
- Introduction to the Ninja Stars output
- Roadmap
Module 5: Alerts
- View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
- Alert tiering, Internationalization,
- Spare Part Notification
- Single Click Locate
- Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
- Alert notifications for System Reporter
- Alerts threshold criteria editing
- SR Alert space metrics
- SSMC email notifications
- Event log monitoring and management
- SNMP settings and capabilities
- Syslog support
- SMI-S standard, WBEM Initiative, and 3PAR CIM Support
Module 6: Rebalancing
- Balanced HPE 3PAR array definition
- Large volumes rebalancing
- Phases and options of the tunesys command
- Express Layout: Active-Active PDs
- New options
- Limitations
- System tuning and related tasks from the HPE 3PAR SSMC and the CLI
- Tunesys and tunevv options and limitations
- New options
- Tuning operations troubleshooting
- Tuning scenarios
Module 7: Adaptive Flash Cache
- AFC benefits
- What can/cannot be moved into AFC
- Different LRU (Least Recently Used) queues description and the concept of LRU queue demotion
- CLI commands to setup, enable, disable, remove, and monitor AFC
- Guidelines and rules regarding AFC
- Improvements
- Working with AFC using SSMC
- Monitoring AFC using the statcache and srstatcache commands
Module 8: Upgrading HPE 3PAR
- Servicing options for your HPE 3PAR 7000/8000 components
- Repair/replace procedures of CSR components
- Customer Self Repair
- Combo cards
- Hardware Schematics
- Safe to Remove
- Storage system disks upgrade
- Express Layout: Active-Active PDs
- Best practices when upgrading
- Contact Management
- HPE 3PAR OS update operation
- Customer Self-Upgrade
- Remote Support
- SP Upgrade
- HPE 3PAR Service Console
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Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ III: Performance and Health Management
Course code:
H9P97S
Duration:
3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours
