Managing HPE Alletra 9000

Код курса

H61N3S

Продолжительность

3 Дней, 24 Ак. Часов

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Требования

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Course overview

The Managing HPE Alletra 9000 course describes the HPE Alletra 9000 portfolio hardware building blocks, theory of operation and features. Using hands-on labs (HOL), students learn to perform
common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, and sets, as well as how to monitor the product. This course also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, QoS, as well as maintenance and data migration. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Alletra 9000 array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

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Course objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe HPE Alletra 9000 hardware and features
List and compare HPE Alletra 9000 management options, roles, and security
Explain provisioning terminology
Perform HPE Alletra 9000 array on-boarding and initialization
Work with volumes, hosts, and corresponding sets
Protect data with snapshots, clones, and use protection policies
Describe priority optimization and quality of service (QoS)
Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations and failure scenarios
Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
Describe HPE Alletra monitoring and alerting options including HPE InfoSight
Describe the HPE Alletra 9000 OS update procedure, maintenance, and data migration options

Требования

Prerequisites

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

Audience

Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales

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Course Outline

Module 0: Introduction

Module 1: Hardware and Features

Array architectures
HPE Alletra 9000 Gen6 ASIC
Features of the HPE Alletra 9000 series arrays
HPE Alletra 9000 family
HPE Alletra 9000 basic specs
HPE Alletra 9000 hardware building blocks
HPE Alletra 9000 4U controller enclosure
HPE Alletra 9000 controller node
Port number (N:S:P)
HPE Alletra 9000 PCIe adapters
HPE Alletra 9000 connectivity maximums
HPE Alletra 2240 NVMe drive enclosure
Disk number and chassis position (C:M:0)
HPE Alletra 9000 drive options
HPE Alletra 9000 data-at-rest encryption
HPE Alletra 9000 capacity expansion
HPE Alletra 2240 NVMe drive enclosure connectivity
HPE Alletra 9000 software details

Module 2: Management Options

HPE Alletra 9000 manageability
HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform
Data Services Cloud Console
Provisioning options
Data Ops Manager
Block storage
Intent-based provisioning
Data Services Cloud Console public REST API
HPE Alletra 9000 UI
HPE Alletra 9000 CLI
HPE Alletra 9000 Web Services API (WSAPI)
REST(ful) API

Module 3: Provisioning Terminology

HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—logical view
HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—concepts
Chunklet concept
System wide sparing
Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership
RAID concepts
Common Provisioning Group
HPE Alletra 9000 high availability
Virtual volume overview
HPE Alletra 9000 data reduction technologies overview
Thin provisioning
Space reclamation
Allocation units and alignment
Thin persistence
Deduplication and compression
Data reduction
Data packing
What to data reduce?
Data reduction estimation

Module 4: Initialization and Array Status

Installation
Documentation and resources
HPE Alletra 9000 simplified setup
System startu
HPE Alletra 9000 software initialization
Device onboarding
Data Services Cloud Console setup service

Module 5: Hosts

HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization
HPE Alletra 9000 host support
Host to HPE Alletra 9000 front-end configuration
HPE Alletra 9000 block I/O connectivity
HPE Alletra 9000 persistency features
HPE Alletra 9000 WWN format of host ports
Obtaining host HBA WWNs
HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 9000
HPE Alletra 9000 zoning overview
HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 9000
HPE Host Explorer
HPE LunInfo

Module 6: Volumes and Sets

HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization
Virtual volume review
Host sets and virtual volume sets
Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Managing from CLI
HPE Alletra 9000 online virtual volume conversion
HPE Virtual Lock

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones

Snapshot—Virtual Copy
Virtual Copy for backup use case
Virtual Copy creation
Virtual Copy writes
Promote/restore
Clone terms and specifics
Protection policies
Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Managing from CLI

Module 8: Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)

HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—concepts
HPE Alletra 9000 Priority Optimization—quality of service
Priority Optimization introduction
How Priority Optimization works
Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Managing from CLI

Module 9: Remote Replication

HPE Alletra 9000 data availability and protection
HPE Alletra Remote Copy overview
Remote Copy network transport methods
Remote Copy Groups
Remote Copy modes
Remote Copy topologies
Remote Copy operations
Failure scenario
Remote Copy actions
Setting up and managing from Data Services Cloud Console
Setting up and managing from CLI

Module 10: High Availability and Disaster Tolerance Solutions

HPE Alletra 9000 Data availability and protection
HPE Classic Peer Persistence
Classic Peer Persistence implementation example
Classic Peer Persistence transparent failover options
HPE Alletra 9000 Active Peer Persistence
Active Peer Persistence implementation example
HPE Alletra 9000 Peer Persistence infrastructure view
Quorum Witness software
HPE Peer Persistence deployment matrix
Host access configuration available in Active Peer Persistence
HPE Alletra 9000 Active Peer Persistence host proximity
3DC Peer Persistence
3DC disaster recovery configurations
HPE Cluster Extension CLX for Windows overview
VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager overview

Module 11: Monitoring, Alerts and Events • HPE InfoSight

HPE InfoSight views
HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware® environments
System Reporter introduction
Performance metrics available using API and CLI
CLI: stat commands
CLI: hist* commands
CLI: srstat commands
System Reporter Performance alerts
SNMP
HPE Alletra 9000 MIB
Alerts and events
Sample HPE Alletra 9000 OS message
Managing alerts with the CLI
Setting system alerts
Example alert
Monitoring and managing the event log
Example event
Syslog checkhealth command
Options available in Data Services Cloud Console and Data Ops Manager
Options available in HPE Alletra 9000 UI

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 9000 UI
Exercise 3: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra 9000 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 and host sets in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
Exercise 2b: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Exercise 3: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 6: Volumes Configuration and Management

Exercise 1: Working with volumes and sets in Data Services Cloud Console Block Storage
Exercise 2: Working with volumes and sets in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Exercise 3: Working with volumes and volume sets in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI
Exercise 4: Disks preparation
Exercise 5: Working with HPE LUNInfo

Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones

Exercise 1: Data preparation
Exercise 2: Working with protection policies and snapshots in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
Exercise 3: Working with snapshot schedules and snapshots in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Exercise 4: Working with snapshots and clones using HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 8: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS

Exercise 1: Workloads preparation
Exercise 2: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
Exercise 3: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
Exercise 4: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS using HPE Alletra 9000 CLI