Using hands-on labs, this course teaches students how to perform common management tasks, including array installation, volume creation, and data protection/recovery using snapshots. This course also covers system monitoring basics using HPE InfoSight.
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Duration
1 Day
1 Day
Delivery
(Online and onsite)
(Online and onsite)
Price
Price Upon Request
Price Upon Request
By the completion of this course, the learner will be able to complete the following tasks using the Nimble operating system:
- Perform initial configuration of a new array with NSM and GUI
- Perform post-installation tests
- Create volumes and zero-copy clones
- Attach and verify volumes/clones to Windows
- Create and modify data protection policies for volumes
- Restore volumes and individual files from a snapshot
- Use the HPE Nimble GUI to monitor array capacity/performance
Module 1: Course Introduction and Overview
- Agenda
- Documentation
- Capacity units
Module 2: AF and HF-Series Hardware
- Portfolio overview
- AF-Series controllers and enclosures
- HF-Series controllers and enclosures
- Memory driven flash (SCM)
Module 3: Array Initialization and Setup
- HPE Welcome Center
- Networking overview
- HPE Nimble Setup Manager
- Initialization
- Setup
- Post-setup test
- Firewall configuration
- Data Services Cloud Console
Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage OS WebUI Introduction
- How to access
- Tour
- User management
- Basic monitoring
- Updating HPE Nimble Storage OS
- Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager OS upgrade
Module 5: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes
- Volume Concepts
- Provisioning and performance policies
- Protection templates overview
- Volume collections
- Volume creation
- Fibre channel zoning
- Access control and initiator groups
- Presentation
- HPE Nimble Storage Windows Toolkit
- HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager
Module 6: HPE Nimble OS Advanced Features Overview
- Deduplication
- Compression
- HF-Series volume pinning
- Quality of service (QOS)
- SmartSecure encryption
Module 7: Snapshots and Clones
- How HPE Nimble Storage snapshots work
- How HPE Nimble zero-copy clones work
- Volume collections and scheduled snapshots
- Manual snapshot creation
- Zero-copy clones
Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence
- Basic replication concepts
- Replication use cases
- How asynchronous replication works
- Peer persistence overview
- To learn more about replication
Module 9: Introduction to Scaling with HPE Nimble Storage
- Scale-to-fit options overview
- Scale-up
- Scale-out
- Scale-deep
- HPE Timeless Storage
- Next training direction
Module 10: Introduction HPE InfoSight
- Concepts
- Architecture
- Benefits
lab outline
Lab 1: HPE vLabs Access
- Objectives
- Accessing HPE vLabs
Lab 2: Installing HPE Nimble Windows Toolkit
- Background
- Task 1: Launch NWT installer
Lab 3: Initialize an Array
- Background
- Lab topology
- Task 1: Launch Nimble Setup Manager
- Task 2: Subnet configuration
- Task 3: Post setup testing
Lab 4: Update HPE Nimble Operating System
Lab 5-1: Basic Volume Creation
- Task 1: Create a volume
- Task 2: Create a volume collection
- Task 3: Create an initiator and an initiator group
Lab 5-2: Windows Host SetUp using the HPE Nimble Connection Manager (NCM) Utility
- Background
- Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
- Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
- Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume
Lab 7: Snapshots and Data Recovery
- Background
- Task 1: Create data
- Task 2: Simulate a data loss event
- Task 3: Create a zero-copy clone
- Task 4: Connect to the clone and recover the data
- Task 5: Disconnect and delete the clone
Lab 10-1: Correlate System Events/SNMP traps with lab activities
Lab 10-2: HPE Infosigh
Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales
Using hands-on labs, this course teaches students how to perform common management tasks, including array installation, volume creation, and data protection/recovery using snapshots. This course also covers system monitoring basics using HPE InfoSight.
By the completion of this course, the learner will be able to complete the following tasks using the Nimble operating system:
- Perform initial configuration of a new array with NSM and GUI
- Perform post-installation tests
- Create volumes and zero-copy clones
- Attach and verify volumes/clones to Windows
- Create and modify data protection policies for volumes
- Restore volumes and individual files from a snapshot
- Use the HPE Nimble GUI to monitor array capacity/performance
Module 1: Course Introduction and Overview
- Agenda
- Documentation
- Capacity units
Module 2: AF and HF-Series Hardware
- Portfolio overview
- AF-Series controllers and enclosures
- HF-Series controllers and enclosures
- Memory driven flash (SCM)
Module 3: Array Initialization and Setup
- HPE Welcome Center
- Networking overview
- HPE Nimble Setup Manager
- Initialization
- Setup
- Post-setup test
- Firewall configuration
- Data Services Cloud Console
Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage OS WebUI Introduction
- How to access
- Tour
- User management
- Basic monitoring
- Updating HPE Nimble Storage OS
- Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager OS upgrade
Module 5: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes
- Volume Concepts
- Provisioning and performance policies
- Protection templates overview
- Volume collections
- Volume creation
- Fibre channel zoning
- Access control and initiator groups
- Presentation
- HPE Nimble Storage Windows Toolkit
- HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager
Module 6: HPE Nimble OS Advanced Features Overview
- Deduplication
- Compression
- HF-Series volume pinning
- Quality of service (QOS)
- SmartSecure encryption
Module 7: Snapshots and Clones
- How HPE Nimble Storage snapshots work
- How HPE Nimble zero-copy clones work
- Volume collections and scheduled snapshots
- Manual snapshot creation
- Zero-copy clones
Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence
- Basic replication concepts
- Replication use cases
- How asynchronous replication works
- Peer persistence overview
- To learn more about replication
Module 9: Introduction to Scaling with HPE Nimble Storage
- Scale-to-fit options overview
- Scale-up
- Scale-out
- Scale-deep
- HPE Timeless Storage
- Next training direction
Module 10: Introduction HPE InfoSight
- Concepts
- Architecture
- Benefits
lab outline
Lab 1: HPE vLabs Access
- Objectives
- Accessing HPE vLabs
Lab 2: Installing HPE Nimble Windows Toolkit
- Background
- Task 1: Launch NWT installer
Lab 3: Initialize an Array
- Background
- Lab topology
- Task 1: Launch Nimble Setup Manager
- Task 2: Subnet configuration
- Task 3: Post setup testing
Lab 4: Update HPE Nimble Operating System
Lab 5-1: Basic Volume Creation
- Task 1: Create a volume
- Task 2: Create a volume collection
- Task 3: Create an initiator and an initiator group
Lab 5-2: Windows Host SetUp using the HPE Nimble Connection Manager (NCM) Utility
- Background
- Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
- Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
- Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume
Lab 7: Snapshots and Data Recovery
- Background
- Task 1: Create data
- Task 2: Simulate a data loss event
- Task 3: Create a zero-copy clone
- Task 4: Connect to the clone and recover the data
- Task 5: Disconnect and delete the clone
Lab 10-1: Correlate System Events/SNMP traps with lab activities
Lab 10-2: HPE Infosigh
Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales
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