Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ III: Performance and Health Management

Course code

H9P97S

Duration

3 Days, 24 Acad. Hours

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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

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

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

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