Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I: Management and Local Replication

Prerequisites

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment

Audience

This course is intended for StoreEasy customers, HPE Services field engineers, call center personnel, Presales and Channel Partners and other field personnel who provide installation and/or operational support assistance for HPE StoreEasy and 3PAR StoreServ File Controller Serverst

Course Outline

Module 1: H6LH4AAE Pre Study for Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I

• Register here to access to the Pre-Study WBT course

Module 2: HPE 3PAR Solution Introduction and Review

• HPE 3PAR Hardware Current models
• Hardware overview for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models: controllers, drive cages, and disks
• Controller port number naming conventions for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models
• Disk number naming convention for disks in the HPE 3PAR arrays
• ASIC chip functionality
• HPE 3PAR virtual storage architecture benefits
• Big Picture HPE 3PAR component connectivity
• SSMC GUI introduction and functionality overview
• HPE 3PAR CLI overview and introduction

Module 3: Storage Concepts and Terminology HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology

• HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
• HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
• HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning and thin provisioning

Module 4: Storage Configuration

• CPGs using SSMC and the CLI
• Working with virtual volume templates
• Working with fully provisioned and thin provisioned volumes using SSMC and the CLI

Module 5: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

• How to prepare a host to access an HPE 3PAR storage array
• HPE 3PAR Port Persistence
• Adding hosts in an HPE 3PAR storage array
• Adding FC ports to a host
• Export virtual volumes to hosts as VLUNs
• Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host
• Using SSMC and CLI to work with hosts and storage
• Working with Smart SAN
• Use Host Explorer to add hosts and explore host details
• Use HPE 3PARInfo to gather storage information

Module 6: Host Sets and Virtual Volume Sets

• Host and virtual volume sets advantages
• Host and virtual volume sets use cases
• Creating and maintaining host and volume sets using SSMC and the CLI
• Host and volume sets guidelines and rules

Module 7: Thin Features: A Deep Dive

• Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence
• Zero Detection use cases
• Space reclamation: UNMAP and other utilities
• Compaction ratio explanation and thin overprovisioning
• Thin provisioning: seeing what is allocated vs. used by a host
• Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes from full to thin or thin to full using SSMC and the CLI
• Compacting a CPG to free up space

Module 8: Adaptive Data Reduction for Flash: Dedup and Compression

• Thin Dedup: saving space using deduplication and dedup detail
• Thin Dedup: what to dedup: good candidates and bad candidates
• Compression and how it works
• Compression: what to compress—good candidates and bad candidates
• Data Packing: packing data for space and cost savings
• DECO: Dedup and Compression together
• Working with Dedup and Compression using the SSMC GUI and the CLI
• Performing a Dedup Estimate and a Compression Estimate
• Seeing if Dedup and Compression are working
• Analyzing Adaptive Data Reduction ratios: Dedup ratio, Compression ratio and overall Data Reduction ratio
• Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes to thin-dedup, compressed or DECO

Module 9: Snapshots and Clones

• Snapshots and Clones: benefits
• Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a snapshot
• Rules and relationships regarding snapshots
• Restore from a snapshot
• Scheduling the creation of a snapshot
• Using the Virtual Lock feature to delete outdated snapshots
• Resynchronize a clone to a base volume
• Promote a clone to a base volume
• Use SSMC and the CLI to manage snapshots and clones

Module 10: Reporting: Performance and Capacity

• The on-node database: the .srdata database volume
• Using SSMC reports to analyze capacity needs and trends
• Using SSMC reports to analyze performance
• Using SSMC default reports and creating custom reports
• Scheduling and emailing reports
• Using the Excel client
• Using the CLI stat commands to analyze performance and capacity
• Using the CLI sr* commands to analyze performance and capacity
• App volume sets and Topology Insights
• Topology Insights: Analyzing the entire stack
• Topology Insights: Color-coded time slider

Module 11: Introducing HPE InfoSight

• HPE Infosight
• InfoSight customer use case
• Gain visibility with InfoSight
• How do we close the App-Data Gap?
• See once, prevent for all
• Cross-stack analytics for VMware
• HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR—Dashboard
• Where to get more Info on InfoSight

Lab outline

Lab 1 – vLabs Access
Module 2 Lab – Installing and Working with SSMC and the Command Line (CLI)
Module 4 Lab – Storage Configuration
Module 5 Lab – Host Configuration and Storage Allocation
Module 6 Lab – Host Sets and VV Sets
Module 7 / 8 Lab – Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Dedup Estimate
Module 9 Lab – Snapshots and Clones
Module 10 Lab – Reporting
Appendix A Lab – Virtual Domains