Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 (H61N2S) – Details

Detaillierter Kursinhalt

Module 0: Course Introduction
Module 1: Hardware and Features
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 overview
  • The architecture behind HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 systems
  • PCIe expansion options
  • Power supply unit details
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 series head shelf drive layout
  • RAID options
  • HPE Alletra expansion shelves
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 controller upgrades
Module 2: Management Options
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 manageability
  • HPE GreenLake, Data Ops Manager, and Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform services
  • HPE GreenLake dashboard
  • Data Services Cloud Console overview
  • Provisioning options
  • Data Ops Manager dashboard
  • Block Storage dashboard
  • Intent-based provisioning
  • Data Services Cloud Console REST API
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 web user interface (UI)
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 command line interface (CLI)
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Rest API
Module 3: Initialization and Array Status
  • Installation
  • Documentation and resources
  • End-to-end onboarding
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000—preinstallation and software subscription
  • HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows
  • Setup Manager for HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble arrays
  • Discover the array
  • Connect the array to the HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform
  • Onboarding device to Data Service Cloud Console
  • Data Service Cloud Console setup service
  • Array initialization using the CLI
  • Diagnostics setup and test
Module 4: Provisioning Terminology
  • Industry-leading data protection and efficiency
  • Read and write operations
  • What is an NVDIMM?
  • NVDIMM—how it works
  • Resiliency and data integrity
  • RAID options review
  • Integrated spare: rebuild operation
    • Integrated spare RAID: single drive failure scenario
    • Integrated spare RAID: replacement drive rebuild process
  • Quick RAID rebuild
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 data reduction
  • Thin provisioning overview
  • Space reclamation
  • Inline dedupe in action
  • What to deduplicate and compress
  • Log structured file system design
  • SmartSecure encryption
Module 5: Hosts and Initiator Groups
  • Networking concepts and terminology
  • Understanding Internet Protocol addresses (IPs)
  • Discovery IP addresses
  • Typical subnets
  • Optimizing switch links: IP address zones
  • Fibre channel components
  • Initiator groups and access control
  • Protocol connectivity options
  • Obtaining Host Bus Adapter (HBA) World Wide Names (WWNs)
  • Fibre channel zoning overview
  • HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000
  • Fibre channel configuration using Target Driven Zoning (TDZ)
  • Working with initiators from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
  • Working with initiators from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 user interfaces (UIs)
    • Initiator groups
    • Access control
  • Working with initiators from the command line interface (CLI)
  • HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows and HPE Connection Manager for Windows
Module 6: Volumes, Volume Collections, and QoS
  • Volumes overview
    • Thin provisioning
    • Volume reserves
    • Volume quotas
  • Performance policies
  • Workload-specific requirements
  • Custom performance policies
  • Application-aware storage
  • Protection templates and volume collections
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Monitoring volume limits
  • Volume pinning
  • Provisioning from Data Services Cloud Console
  • Provisioning from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
    • Quick volume creation
    • Create volume wizard
  • Provisioning from the command line interface (CLI)
    • Volumes and QoS—some CLI commands
Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones
  • Snapshots
  • Understanding snapshots
  • Anatomy of a snapshot: backup
  • Understanding clones
  • Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
  • Protection policy examples
  • Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
    • A manual snapshot
    • Scheduled snapshot
    • Schedules
  • Managing from the command line interface (CLI)
    • Protection templates
    • Snapshots and clones
Module 8: Asynchronous Remote Replication
  • Replication Introduction
  • SmartReplicate (asynchronous replication)
  • Replication use cases
  • Replication components
    • How replication works—the basics
    • Volume collection and replication schedules
    • Replication monitoring
    • Replication QOS—bandwidth limit
  • Replication considerations
  • SmartReplicate disaster recovery (DR)
    • General DR operations
    • Replication concepts
      • Promote
      • Handover
      • Demote
  • Recovery scenarios
  • Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
    • Replication using Data Services Cloud Console—Block
    • Creating and protecting volumes in block storage
    • Protection policies available in Data Service Cloud Console
  • Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  • Managing from the command line interface (CLI)
Module 9: Scale-Out
  • Scale-to-fit: flexible and nondisruptive scalability
  • Scale-out introduction
  • Scale-out technology
  • Overview of group/pool operations with new arrays
  • Nondisruptive data migrations
  • Spanned pools
    • Volume creation
    • Node addition
    • Node evacuation
Module 10: Peer Persistence
  • Peer Persistence: sync replication with auto-failover
  • Peer Persistence overview
  • Peer Persistence builds on scale-out group
  • Peer Persistence Quorum Witness
  • Peer Persistence customer benefits
  • Peer Persistence architecture
    • Basic terms
    • Connectivity
    • Performance
    • Peer Persistence volume collection
    • Peer Persistence snapshots
    • Sync operations
  • Automatic switchover (ASO)
  • Peer persistence configuration using Data Ops Manager and Block Storage and Data Services Cloud Console
  • Peer persistence configuration using HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
Module 11: Monitoring, Alerts, and Events
  • HPE InfoSight
  • HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware® environments
  • Options available in Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
  • Options available in HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  • About SNMP
  • SNMP support
  • Syslog support
  • Options available in the command line interface (CLI)
Module 12: Customer Self Update and Repair
  • Data Ops Manager
    • Intelligent upgrade paths
    • Data Ops Manager OS upgrade
  • Automatic software downloads
    • One step software updates
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs OS upgrades
  • Command line interface (CLI) OS upgrades
  • Customer self repair
    • Repair controller
    • Repair USB boot device
    • Repair fan
    • Repair drive
    • Repair power supply
    • Repair Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) module