Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000

Detailed Course Outline

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

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

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

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

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)

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