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At the end of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
- Discuss the topics addressed in this course
- Describe the benefits of data reduction technologies
- Perform space reclamation
- Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression, and data packing
- Perform a data reduction estimation
- Perform an online virtual volume conversion
- Describe System Reporter capabilities
- Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
- Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
- Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance context
- Use the SSMC Workload Insights feature for performance reasons to isolate application spikes and trends
- Understand the SSMC Workload Insights concept of a performance score
- Understand the advantages of the Topology Insights feature to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
- Describe basic HPE Primera UI monitoring
- View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
- Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
- Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
- Monitor and manage the event log
- Forward events to syslog server
- Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
- Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and HPE Primera CIM support
- Explain REST API use
- Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization
- Administer Priority Optimization
- Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization
- Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot
- Export a snapshot
- Perform a recovery using a snapshot
- Work with a clone
- Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy
- Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations
- Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous replication modes
- Discuss different failure scenarios
- Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group
- Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
Module 0: Course Introduction
- Introduction
- Course agenda
Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction
- Data reduction introduction and overview
- Zero-detect and thin persistence
- Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
- Block alignment
- Thin persistence technology
- Compaction and overprovisioning
- Data reduction technologies
- Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
- Savings estimation
- Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic optimization)
Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting
- System Reporter introduction
- Data retention
- SSMC System Reporter options
- Types of reports
- Default reports in SSMC
- Report controls
- Report templates
- Creating historical and real time reports
- Scheduling/emailing reports
- CLI reporting
- Performance view
- Analytics and workload Insights
- Application volume sets
- Topology Insights
- On-node monitoring overview
Module 3: Events and Alerts
- Alerts and events overview
- Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
- Managing events—SSMC/CLI
- Alerts and events tiering
- Alert spare part notification
- Syslog support
- The checkhealth command overview and use
- Troubleshooting
- System Reporter performance alerts management
- SNMP overview
- SNMP use—MIBs, alert traps
- SNMP management
- CIM API overview
- HPE Primera CIM API
- About SMI-S
- CIM standard
- CIM management
- REST API overview
- REST API usage
Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS
- Introduction and features
- How does it work
- Examples
- Configurable parameters and their meaning
- Configuring and managing via SSMC
- Configuring and managing via CLI
- Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
- Summary and best practices
Module 5: Snapshots and Clones
- Snapshot introduction
- Snapshot use cases
- How snapshots work
- Working with a snapshot using SSMC
- Working with a snapshot using CLI
- Clone introduction and how it works
- Working with a clone using SSMC
- Working with a clone using CLI
Module 6: Remote Replication
- Remote Copy introduction
- Supported protocols
- Architecture, features and terminology
- Replication modes
- Supported maximums
- Failure scenarios and failover
- Remote Copy operations
- Data migration options overview
- Peer persistence overview
- HPE Cluster Extension overview
- VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview
Appendix 1: What’s New in HPE Primera
- Remote Copy
- HPE Primera Remote Copy feature set updates with 4.2
- Peer motion and online import
- Online import utility (OIU 2.4 ) .
- VMware vVOLs support with HPE Primera
- SSMC 3.7 enhancements
- InfoSight update
Lab outline
Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up
- Task 1: Accessing HPE vLabs
- Task 2: Initial setup
- Exercise 1: Log in to the HPE StoreServ management console
- Exercise 2: Configuring hosts
- Exercise 2a: Adding a host manually using the HBA WWPNs with SSMC
- Exercise 2b: Adding a host using Host Explorer with SSMC
- Exercise 3: Install Iometer
- Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system performance analytics
Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Data Reduction Estimates
- Exercise 1: Lab set up
- Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
- Estimation analysis results
- Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC
Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: SSMC default reports
- Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
- Physical drives – performance statistic report
- CPGs – capacity report
- System capacity report
- Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
- Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets using dashboard
- Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time performance
Lab 3: Events and Alerts
- Exercise 1: Viewing alerts (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 2: Viewing alerts (CLI)
- Exercise 3: Viewing tasks (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 4: Viewing events (CLI)
- Exercise 5: Syslog
- Exercise 6: System Reporter alerts (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 7: SNMP traps
- Exercise 8: Using REST API
- Part 1—HPE Primera REST preparation and login
- Part 2—Using the Postman client to create a resource
- Part 3—Using the Postman client to delete a resource
- Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources
- Exercise clean-up
Lab 4: Priority Optimization (QoS)
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using SSMC
- Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using SSMC
- Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using CLI
- QoS analysis results
- Additional commands to manage QoS rules
Lab 5: Snapshots and Clones
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: Snapshot file recovery
- Exercise 3: Snapshot full volume data recovery
- Exercise 4: Restore data between two snapshots
- Exercise 5: Schedule snapshots and snapshot expiration policies
- Create a snapshot policy
- Create scheduled snapshots using a snapshot policy
- Exploring scheduled snapshots over time
- Exercise 6: Create a clone
- Exercise 7: Create a clone with resynchronization capability
- Exercise 8: Working with snapshots and clones using CLI
Lab 6: Remote Replication
- Planning and initial set up of Remote Copy
- Exercise 1: Lab set up
- Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set up using SSMC
- Verifying the RCIP port configuration
- Remote Copy configuration
- Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups
- Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote Copy group
- Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and failback
- Exercise 5: Planned failover to the remote site
- Exercise 6: Recovery of a Remote Copy group after the source system is back online
- Exercise 7: Restore a Remote Copy group
- Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
- Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy group
- Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and failover again
- Revert
- Failover again
- Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group and replicate in the original direction
- Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
- Exercise 12: Lab clean up
- Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI
Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware®
- Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
- Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a volume in SSMC
- Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware vCenter®
Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux
- Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
- Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a volume using SSMC
- Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with multipathing on the Linux host
- Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem, and mount the volume
Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Primera
One of the following courses:
- HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
- HN5B2S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage (with extended eLearning)
- HN5A9S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage
At the end of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
- Discuss the topics addressed in this course
- Describe the benefits of data reduction technologies
- Perform space reclamation
- Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression, and data packing
- Perform a data reduction estimation
- Perform an online virtual volume conversion
- Describe System Reporter capabilities
- Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
- Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
- Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance context
- Use the SSMC Workload Insights feature for performance reasons to isolate application spikes and trends
- Understand the SSMC Workload Insights concept of a performance score
- Understand the advantages of the Topology Insights feature to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
- Describe basic HPE Primera UI monitoring
- View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
- Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
- Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
- Monitor and manage the event log
- Forward events to syslog server
- Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
- Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and HPE Primera CIM support
- Explain REST API use
- Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)
- Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization
- Administer Priority Optimization
- Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization
- Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot
- Export a snapshot
- Perform a recovery using a snapshot
- Work with a clone
- Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy
- Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations
- Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous replication modes
- Discuss different failure scenarios
- Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group
- Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
Module 0: Course Introduction
- Introduction
- Course agenda
Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction
- Data reduction introduction and overview
- Zero-detect and thin persistence
- Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
- Block alignment
- Thin persistence technology
- Compaction and overprovisioning
- Data reduction technologies
- Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
- Savings estimation
- Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic optimization)
Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting
- System Reporter introduction
- Data retention
- SSMC System Reporter options
- Types of reports
- Default reports in SSMC
- Report controls
- Report templates
- Creating historical and real time reports
- Scheduling/emailing reports
- CLI reporting
- Performance view
- Analytics and workload Insights
- Application volume sets
- Topology Insights
- On-node monitoring overview
Module 3: Events and Alerts
- Alerts and events overview
- Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
- Managing events—SSMC/CLI
- Alerts and events tiering
- Alert spare part notification
- Syslog support
- The checkhealth command overview and use
- Troubleshooting
- System Reporter performance alerts management
- SNMP overview
- SNMP use—MIBs, alert traps
- SNMP management
- CIM API overview
- HPE Primera CIM API
- About SMI-S
- CIM standard
- CIM management
- REST API overview
- REST API usage
Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS
- Introduction and features
- How does it work
- Examples
- Configurable parameters and their meaning
- Configuring and managing via SSMC
- Configuring and managing via CLI
- Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
- Summary and best practices
Module 5: Snapshots and Clones
- Snapshot introduction
- Snapshot use cases
- How snapshots work
- Working with a snapshot using SSMC
- Working with a snapshot using CLI
- Clone introduction and how it works
- Working with a clone using SSMC
- Working with a clone using CLI
Module 6: Remote Replication
- Remote Copy introduction
- Supported protocols
- Architecture, features and terminology
- Replication modes
- Supported maximums
- Failure scenarios and failover
- Remote Copy operations
- Data migration options overview
- Peer persistence overview
- HPE Cluster Extension overview
- VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview
Appendix 1: What’s New in HPE Primera
- Remote Copy
- HPE Primera Remote Copy feature set updates with 4.2
- Peer motion and online import
- Online import utility (OIU 2.4 ) .
- VMware vVOLs support with HPE Primera
- SSMC 3.7 enhancements
- InfoSight update
Lab outline
Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up
- Task 1: Accessing HPE vLabs
- Task 2: Initial setup
- Exercise 1: Log in to the HPE StoreServ management console
- Exercise 2: Configuring hosts
- Exercise 2a: Adding a host manually using the HBA WWPNs with SSMC
- Exercise 2b: Adding a host using Host Explorer with SSMC
- Exercise 3: Install Iometer
- Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system performance analytics
Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Data Reduction Estimates
- Exercise 1: Lab set up
- Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
- Estimation analysis results
- Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC
Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: SSMC default reports
- Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
- Physical drives – performance statistic report
- CPGs – capacity report
- System capacity report
- Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
- Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets using dashboard
- Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time performance
Lab 3: Events and Alerts
- Exercise 1: Viewing alerts (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 2: Viewing alerts (CLI)
- Exercise 3: Viewing tasks (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 4: Viewing events (CLI)
- Exercise 5: Syslog
- Exercise 6: System Reporter alerts (SSMC GUI)
- Exercise 7: SNMP traps
- Exercise 8: Using REST API
- Part 1—HPE Primera REST preparation and login
- Part 2—Using the Postman client to create a resource
- Part 3—Using the Postman client to delete a resource
- Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources
- Exercise clean-up
Lab 4: Priority Optimization (QoS)
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using SSMC
- Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using SSMC
- Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using CLI
- QoS analysis results
- Additional commands to manage QoS rules
Lab 5: Snapshots and Clones
- Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
- Exercise 2: Snapshot file recovery
- Exercise 3: Snapshot full volume data recovery
- Exercise 4: Restore data between two snapshots
- Exercise 5: Schedule snapshots and snapshot expiration policies
- Create a snapshot policy
- Create scheduled snapshots using a snapshot policy
- Exploring scheduled snapshots over time
- Exercise 6: Create a clone
- Exercise 7: Create a clone with resynchronization capability
- Exercise 8: Working with snapshots and clones using CLI
Lab 6: Remote Replication
- Planning and initial set up of Remote Copy
- Exercise 1: Lab set up
- Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set up using SSMC
- Verifying the RCIP port configuration
- Remote Copy configuration
- Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups
- Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote Copy group
- Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and failback
- Exercise 5: Planned failover to the remote site
- Exercise 6: Recovery of a Remote Copy group after the source system is back online
- Exercise 7: Restore a Remote Copy group
- Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
- Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy group
- Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and failover again
- Revert
- Failover again
- Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group and replicate in the original direction
- Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
- Exercise 12: Lab clean up
- Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI
Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware®
- Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
- Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a volume in SSMC
- Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware vCenter®
Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux
- Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
- Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a volume using SSMC
- Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with multipathing on the Linux host
- Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem, and mount the volume
Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Primera
One of the following courses:
- HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
- HN5B2S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage (with extended eLearning)
- HN5A9S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage