Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000

Audience

• Customers, administrators, and channel partner sales or technical sales

Prerequisites

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fiber channel, iSCSItechnology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment

Detailed course outline

Module 1: Hardware and Features

• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 overview
• The architecture behind HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 systems
• PCIe expansion options
• Power supply unit details
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 series head shelf drive layout
• RAID options
• HPE Alletra 2140 4u all flash expansion shelves
• HPE Alletra 2120 expansion shelves
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 controller upgrades
• Leading enterprise features

Module 2: Management Options

• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 manageability
• HPE GreenLake, Data Ops Manager, and Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform services
• HPE GreenLake dashboard
• Data Services Cloud Console overview
• Provisioning options
• Data Ops Manager dashboard
• Block Storage dashboard
• Intent-based provisioning
• Data Services Cloud Console REST API
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 web user interface (UI)
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Rest API
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 WSAPI

Module 3: Provisioning Terminology

• Industry-leading data protection and efficiency
• Read and write operations
• What is an NVDIMM?
• NVDIMM—how it works
• Resiliency and data integrity
• RAID options review
• Intra-drive parity (aka chunk parity)
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Checksums and self-ids
• Integrated spare: rebuild operation
  – Integrated spare RAID: single drive failure scenario
  – Integrated spare RAID: replacement drive rebuild process
• Quick RAID rebuild
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 data reduction
• Thin provisioning overview
• Space reclamation
• Inline dedupe in action
• What to deduplicate and compress
• Log structured file system design
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage file system—CASL
• SmartSecure encryption

Module 4: Initialization and Array Status

• Installation
• Documentation and resources
• End-to-end onboarding
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000—preinstallation and software subscription
• HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows
• Setup Manager for HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble arrays
• Discover the array
• Connect the array to the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform
• Onboarding device to Data Service Cloud Console
• Data Service Cloud Console setup service
• Array initialization using the CLI
• Diagnostics setup and test

Module 5: Hosts and Initiator Groups

• Networking concepts and terminology
• Understanding Internet Protocol addresses (IPs)
• Discovery IP addresses
• Typical subnets
• Optimizing switch links: IP address zones
• Fibre channel components
• Initiator groups and access control
• Protocol connectivity options
• Obtaining host Host Bus Adapter (HBA) World Wide Names (WWNs)
• Fibre channel zoning overview
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000
• Fibre channel configuration using Target Driven Zoning (TDZ)
• Working with initiators from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Working with initiators from Data Services Cloud Console
• Working with initiators from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 user interfaces (UIs)
  – Initiator groups
  – Access control
• Working with initiators from the command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows and HPE Connection Manager for Windows

Module 6: Volumes, Volume Collections, and QoS

• Volumes overview
  – Thin provisioning
  – Volume reserves
  – Volume quotas
• Performance policies
• Workload-specific requirements
• Custom performance policies
• Application-aware storage
• Protection templates and volume collections
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Monitoring volume limits
• Provisioning options review
• Intent-based provisioning
• Basic provisioning
• Provisioning from Data Services Cloud Console
• Provisioning from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
• Provisioning from the command line interface (CLI)
• Volumes and QoS—some CLI commands

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones

• Snapshots
• Understanding snapshots
• Anatomy of a snapshot: backup
• Understanding clones
• Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Protection policy examples
• Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  – A manual snapshot
  – Scheduled snapshot
  – Schedules
• Managing from the command line interface (CLI)
  – Protection templates
  – Snapshots and clones

Module 8: Asynchronous Remote Replication

• Replication Introduction
• SmartReplicate (asynchronous replication)
• Replication use cases
• Replication components
• How replication works—the basics
• Volume collection and replication schedules
• Replication monitoring
• Replication QOS—bandwidth limit
• Replication considerations
• SmartReplicate disaster recovery (DR)
• General DR operations
• Replication concepts
  – Promote
  – Handover
  – Demote
• Recovery scenarios
• Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Replication using Data Services Cloud Console—Block
• Creating and protecting volumes in block storage
• Protection policies available in Data Service Cloud Console
• Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
• Managing from the command line interface (CLI)

Module 9: Scale-Out

• Scale-to-fit: flexible and nondisruptive scalability
• Scale-out introduction
• Overview of group/pool operations with new arrays
• Scale-out technology
• Nondisruptive data migrations
• Spanned pools
  – Volume creation
  – Node addition
  – Node evacuation

Module 10: Peer Persistence

• Peer Persistence: sync replication with auto-failover
• Peer Persistence overview
• Peer Persistence builds on scale-out group
• Peer Persistence Quorum Witness
• Peer Persistence customer benefits
• Peer Persistence architecture
• Basic terms
• Connectivity
• Performance
• Peer Persistence volume collection
• Peer Persistence snapshots
• Sync operations
• Automatic switchover (ASO)
• Peer Persistence scenarios

Module 11: Monitoring, Alerts, and Events

• HPE InfoSight
• HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware® environments
• Options available in Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Options available in HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
• About SNMP
• SNMP support
• Syslog support
• Options available in the command line interface (CLI)

Module 12: HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 OS Update

• Data Ops Manager OS upgrade
  – Downloading updates, running readiness checks, and installing updates
  – After readiness check completes
  – Installing update
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  – HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 OS upgrades
• Command line interface (CLI)

Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access

Lab 1: Getting Started with UIs

• Exercise 1: Accessing and browsing hardware information in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
• Exercise 2: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 3: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra 6000 CLI

Lab 4: Initialization and Array Status

• Exercise 1: Welcome Center
• Exercise 2: Cabling tools

Lab 5: Hosts Configuration and Management

• Exercise 1: Initial preparation of host
• Exercise 2a: Working with hosts in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
• Exercise 2b: Working with hosts in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 3: Working with hosts in HPE Alletra 6000 CLI

Lab 6 – 1 : Volumes Configuration and Management

• Exercise 1: Working with volumes and collections in Data Services Cloud Console Block Storage
• Exercise 2: Working with volumes and collections in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 3: Working with volumes and collections in HPE Alletra 6000 CLI
• Exercise 4: Disks preparation

Lab 6 – 2 : Working with Quality of Service (QoS)

• Exercise 1: Workloads preparation
• Exercise 2: Working with QoS in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 4: Working with QoS using HPE Alletra 6000 CLI

Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones

• Exercise 1: Data preparation
• Exercise 2: Working with protection policies andsnapshots in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
• Exercise 3: Working with snapshot schedules and snapshots in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 4: Working with snapshots and clones using HPE Alletra 6000 CLI

Lab 8: Working with Remote Replication • Exercise 1: Initial setup

• Exercise 2a: Creating and managing replication collections
• Exercise 3a: Outage scenario: Failover to the remote site
• Exercise 4a: Outage scenario recovery: Recovery after thesource system is back online
• Exercise 5b: Clean-up
• Exercise 6: Configuring Remote replication using CLI

Lab 9: Working with Scale-Out technolog

• Exercise 1: Creating a multi-array group
• Exercise 2: Moving a volume between pools

Lab 10: Working with Peer Persistence

• Exercise 1: Initial setup
• Exercise 2: Creating and managing Peer Persistent-enabled volume collection

Lab 11: Monitoring, Alerts and Events

• Exercise 1: Working with monitoring, alerting and events in Data Services Cloud Console
• Exercise 2: Working with monitoring, alerting and events in HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 3: Working with monitoring, alerting and events in HPE Alletra 6000 CLI

Lab 12: HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Maintenance

• Exercise 1: Browsing maintenance options
• HPE Alletra 6000 UI
• Exercise 2: Firmware update preparation