HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity

The HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The course reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs, 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 HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication course.

Course objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
• Discuss the topics addressed in this course
• Discuss the HPE Primera family
• Discuss HPE Primera hardware building blocks
• Discuss the data-in-place upgrade
• Describe controller enclosures, nodes, and HBA’s
• Describe controller node architecture and port numbering
• Describe high availability features of HPE Primera
• Discuss HPE Primera software and management options
• Describe data protection and security features
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
• Explain the HPE Primera concept of common provisioning groups (CPGs)
• Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VVs)
• Overview HPE Primera data reduction technologies
• State HPE Primera management options
• Describe Data Services Cloud Console and steps to onboard HPE Primera
• Describe HPE Primera initial setup, HPE Primera UI, and customer self-update/repair options
• Describe on-premises administration tools, features and the third-party integration portfolio
• 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
• Describe iSCSI configuration
• Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
• Export virtual volumes (VVs) to a host as VLUNs
• Unexport virtual volumes (VVs) from a host
• Use SSMC and the CLI to work with hosts and storage
• Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
• Create and maintain host sets and volume sets using Data Services Cloud Console, SSMC and CLI.
• Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
• Describe application volume sets
• Describe advantages of HPE InfoSight 

Module 1: Solution Overview: Hardware

• HPE Primera technical specifications
• HPE Primera hardware building blocks
• Data-in-place upgrade
• HPE Primera controller enclosure
• HPE Primera drives
• HPE Primera hardware architecture
• Software and features overview
• HPE Primera persistency and high availability features
• HPE Cabling Tool
• HPE product information
• Documentation and resources
• HPE storage interoperability
• HPE SAN certification and support

Module 2: HPE Primera Management

• HPE Primera manageability
• HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC)
• Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE Primera UI
• HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
• HPE Primera initial setup
• Customer self-instal

Module 3: Storage Concepts and Terminology

• HPE Primera OS virtualization - logical view
• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages
• Chunklet concepts
• Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership
• Logical disk concepts
• HPE Primera high availability
• Common provisioning group (CPG) concepts
• Virtual volume overview
• Thin provisioning overview
• HPE Primera data reduction overview

Allocation

• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: fibre channel (FC) example
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• Persistent checksum based on T10-DIF
• HPE Primera persistent ports
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• HPE Primera Implementation Guide
• Obtaining host HBA WWNs
• Host bus adapters (HBAs) and worldwide names (WWN)s
• HPE Primera - iSCSI support
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera overview
• Adding hosts in SSMC: Smart SAN
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo
• Host configuration and storage allocation

Module 5: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets

• Host and 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
• Data Services Cloud Console -host group and volumes
• App volume sets overview
• App volume sets -SSMC examples
• SSMC dashboardds
• top app vol sets
• App sets vs virtual volume (VV) sets

Module 6: HPE InfoSight Introduction

• HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene
• Get the full picture with HPE Primera and HPE InfoSight
• The artificial intelligence (AI) process for HPE self-healing storage
• HPE InfoSight - artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)
• HPE Primera - PDF report
• HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics for VMware® environments
• HPE Primera UI - HPE InfoSight software recommendations
• Managing HPE Primera software updates
• HPE Primera wellness filters
• HPE InfoSight unified tenancy

• Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales

 

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment