Omschrijving
The HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The session reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs (HOL), including creating the right data efficient volumes on an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of HPE InfoSight. The course prepares learners for deeper follow-on training from HPE, including the 2-day, HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication course
Audience
Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales
Prerequisites
- An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
- Operator level functionality in a Windows environment
Course objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Discuss Primera hardware offerings
- Describe HPE Primera family features
- List management options
- Describe the HPE Primera Storage software portfolio
- Explain provisioning terminology
- Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
- Explain the HPE Primera concepts of a common provisioning group (CPG)
- Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VV)
- Overview Primera data reduction technologies
- Prepare a host to access an HPE Primera storage array
- Create hosts in an HPE Primera storage array
- Explain how to add fibre channel (FC) ports to a host
- Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for Primera
- Export virtual volumes (VV) to a host as VLUNs
- Unexport virtual volumes (VV) from a host
- Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
- Create and maintain host sets and volume sets
- Use SSMC and the CLI to create and manage host sets and volume sets
- Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
- Describe app volume sets
- Describe the use of InfoSight to monitor Primera and its surroundings
Course Outline
Module 1: Solution Overview:
- Part 1—Hardware
- Primera technical specifications
- HPE Primera hardware building blocks
- Data-in-place upgrade
- Primera persistency and high availability features
- Part 2—Software and Features
- Management options overview
- Primera and 3PAR SSMC
- HPE Primera storage management—HPE Primera UI
- HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
- HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
- Selected data protection and security features overview
- HPE Primera leadership—replication
- Peer Persistence
- HPE Cluster Extension CLX
- VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager
- Sources of information
Module 2: Storage Concepts and Terminology
- HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view
- HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
- HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages
- Chunklet concepts
- System wide sparing
- Logical disk concepts
- HPE Primera high availability
- CPG concepts
- Virtual volume overview
- Thin provisioning overview
- HPE Primera data reduction overview
Module 3: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation
- Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration—FC example
- HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
- HPE Primera Persistent Ports
- HPE Primera WWN format
- HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
- HPE Primera implementation guide
- Host HBAs and WWNs—commands/utilities
- HPE Smart SAN for Primera
- HPE Primera zoning overview
- Adding hosts in SSMC—SMART SAN enabled
- Making VLUNs visible to hosts
- HPE Host Explorer
- HPE LunInfo
Module 4: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets
- Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage
- Virtual volume set—other use cases
- Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples
- App volume sets overview
- App volume sets— SSMC examples
- SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets
Module 5: HPE InfoSight Introduction
- HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene
- Get the full picture with HPE Primera and InfoSight
- The AI process for HPE self-healing storage
- HPE Primera—dashboard
- HPE Primera—systems view
- HPE Primera—detailed systems view
- HPE Primera—system performance view
- HPE Primera—performance insights view
- HPE Primera—PDF report
- HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware environments
Appendix 1: HPE Primera On-Node Management
- Discovering the HPE Primera array
- HPE Primera initial setup
- Checking hardware
- Creating user on the array and configuring the network
- Initializing the array
- Configuring date/time, Infosight and system support contact
- InfoSight
- Enabling remote support data scrubbing
- First time login
- Primera UI dashboard—overview, alerts, and tasks
- On-node management performance dashboard
- Customer self-update option
- Customer self-repair option
Detailed Lab Outline
Lab 0: vLabs Access
- Task 1: Accessing the vLab
Lab 1: Working with SSMC and CLI
- Exercise 1: Reviewing the SSMC GUI and online help
- Exercise 2: Reviewing the dashboard and changing output views
- Exercise 3: Accessing the SSMC settings screen
- Exercise 4: Adding a user
- Exercise 5: Working with the SSMC activity screen
- Exercise 6: SSMC hardware introduction
- Exercise 7: Launching the CLI
Lab 2: Storage Configuration
- Exercise 1: Log in to SSMC
- Exercise 2: Working with CPGs in SSMC
- Exercise 3: Working with virtual volumes (VV) in SSMC
- Exercise 3-1: Creating thin provisioned virtual volumes
- Exercise 3-2: Creating thin volumes (TPVV) with data reduction enabled
- Exercise 3-3: Creating multiple virtual volumes using a count
- Exercise 3-4: Displaying/editing/removing virtual volumes
- Exercise 4: Working with VVs using the CLI
Lab 3: Host Configuration and Storage Allocation
- Exercise 1: Identify the HBA type (Windows)
- Exercise 2: Determining host port WWNs
- Exercise 3: Adding a host using HBA WWNs in SSMC
- Exercise 3-A: Adding a host using Host Explorer in SSMC
- Exercise 3-B: Adding a host manually using HBA WWNs in SSMC
- Exercise 4: Export/unexport VLUNs in SSMC
- Exercise 5: Windows host configuration formatting and mounting VLUNs
- Exercise 6: Online virtual volume increase
- Exercise 7: Working with default reports
- Exercise 8: Working with HPE LUNInfo for HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR
- Exercise 9: Working with hosts and storage using the CLI
Lab 4: Host, Volume and App Volume Sets
- Exercise 1: Working with host sets and virtual volume sets
- Exercise 1-1: Working with host sets in SSMC
- Exercise 1-2: Working with virtual volume sets in SSMC
- Exercise 1-3: Export virtual volume sets to hosts sets in SSMC
- Exercise 1-4: Unexport virtual volume sets from hosts sets in SSMC
- Exercise 1-5: Delete virtual volume sets and hosts sets in SSMC
- Exercise 2: Working with app volume sets using SSMC
- Exercise 3: Working with host sets and volume sets using CLI
Lab 5: Using InfoSight
- Exercise 1: Logging in and dashboard
- Exercise 2: Access InfoSight support
- Exercise 3: Array overview
- Exercise 4: Physical disk details
- Exercise 5: Reports
- Exercise 6: InfoSight scenarios (optional)
- Exercise 6-1: Health check
- Exercise 6-2: Planning for growth
- Exercise 6-3: Using InfoSight to troubleshoot
