HPE SimpliVity System Administration

Prerequisites

HPE recommends that students attend training or attain experience in the following areas before taking this class:

• Networking technologies
• VMware vSphere® 6.5
• HPE ProLiant servers

Audience

• This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity.

Course Outline

Module 1 Introduction to HPE SimpliVity

• Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
• Core features built into the HPE SimpliVity solution
• HPE SimpliVity’s Hyper-Guarantee
• HPE SimpliVity use cases

Module 2 HPE SimpliVity Architecture

• Deep understanding of the HPE SimpliVity data virtualization platform
• Elements within an HPE SimpliVity Federation
• Datacenter and cluster concepts within the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Levels of resiliency built-in to the HPE SimpliVity solution
• How VM data locality is maintained

Module 3 HPE SimpliVity Portfolio

• HPE SimpliVity hardware models and supported configurations
• Tiered-storage implementation
• Read/write IO paths for different HPE SimpliVity models
• HPE SimpliVity networking

Module 4a Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-1

• HPE SimpliVity management interfaces (GUI, CLI and REST API)
• HPE SimpliVity backup policies
• HPE SimpliVity datastores and permitted operations
• Configuring external stores for secondary backup
• Sharing HPE SimpliVity datastores with access nodes (nonHPE SimpliVity nodes)
• Virtual machines and templates in an HPE SimpliVity federation

Module 4b Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-2

• HPE SimpliVity backups
• Backup management
• Restores using HPE SimpliVity backups
• File level restore
• HPE SimpliVity Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
• Failover plan using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR

Module 5 HPE SimpliVity Upgrades, Support and InfoSight

• HPE SimpliVity host and virtual controller related maintenance tasks
• HPE SimpliVity alarms and events
• Create an HPE SimpliVity support capture
• HPE SimpliVity Upgrade Manager for firmware, hypervisor, and OS upgrades
• HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
• How to contact HPE support and resources

Lab 1 HPE SimpliVity Overview

• Accessing the HPE Virtual Labs environment
• HPE SimpliVity user interface
• HPE SimpliVity federation views
• Accessing clusters and virtual machines
• Accessing the external storage (HPE StoreOnce)
• Accessing the HPE SimpliVity CLI
• Accessing the HPE SimpliVity REST API

Lab 2 HPE SimpliVity Backup Policies

• Accessing and creating backup policies
• Editing backup policies
• Managing backup policies using the CLI

Lab 3 HPE SimpliVity Clusters and Datastores

• Using and monitoring HPE SimpliVity clusters
• Creating and managing datastores
• Manage standard ESXi hosts
• Register an external store

Lab 4 HPE SimpliVity Virtual Machines and Templates

• Create virtual machines
• Clone virtual machines
• Move virtual machines
• Delete virtual machines
• HPE SimpliVity virtual machine templates

Lab 5 HPE SimpliVity Backups

• Manual backups, search, and filter
• Policy backups
• Manage backups

Lab 6 Restore HPE SimpliVity Backups

• Restore a virtual machine or template from a backup
• Restore files from a backup
• Restore a deleted VM from backup

Lab 7 HPE SimpliVity Troubleshooting

• View HPE SimpliVity-specific alarms
• Create a support capture

Lab 8 – HPE SimpliVity RapidDR

• Creating a HPE SimpliVity RapidDR recovery configuration
• Testing a plan