HPE Primera Data Management: Availability and Integration

This course will provide knowledge of the advanced capabilities of the HPE Primera storage arrays, including QOS, replication, disaster recovery, volume snapshots and clones, as well Workload Insights
and Topology Insights. Using extensive hands-on lab exercises that comprise over 70% of the course, you will gain a practical understanding of integrating HPE Primera storage with Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware®.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Review HPE Primera storage platforms and associated features
• Discuss and understand disaster recovery RPO and RTO
• Describe, configure and perform replication between groups for both planned and unplanned disaster recovery scenarios
• Discuss and perform advanced administration features including volume performance settings, SNMP, deduplication, encryption, etc.
• Create a volume snapshot and perform a file recovery, as well as a volume recovery from a snapshot
• Discuss Primera QOS features
• Describe VSS and how it can be used in your storage environment, and how it integrates with Primera Storage
• Perform application integration with VMware, and Linux
• Evaluate design considerations and best practices

• Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Primera.

• Introductory 1 day system admin training or WBT.

HPE Primera Storage Administration and Integration

• Describe features available with the HPE Primera storage platform
• Review concepts and terminology

Introduction to HPE Primera Storage Advanced Features

• Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for Primera
• Work with HPE Primera Host Sets
• Work with HPE Primera Virtual Volume Sets (VVSet)
• Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization (PO) and Quality of Service (QoS)
• Discuss the performance implications of PO
• Administer PO/QoS
• Monitor the impact of PO/QoS

Understanding Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

• Describe the objectives of a disaster recovery plan
• Describe recovery timeline objectives disaster recovery RPO and RTO

Data Protection – Advanced Snapshot Usage

• Understanding how space is used with snapshots
• Creating a scheduled and unscheduled snapshot
• Connecting to a snapshot
• Using a snapshot to recover a file or a full volume
• Describe and demonstrate clones
• Create a clone

Data Protection – Replication Usage

• Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy (RC)
• Explain different types of RC implementations
• Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous modes
• Discuss different failure scenarios
• Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group (RCG)
• Use remote replication features for remote site testing and backup

Windows Integration

• Review HPE Primera storage application and system integration products
• Perform integration tasks between HPE Primera storage and Windows

Linux Integration

• Review HPE Primera storage application and system integration products
• Perform integration tasks between HPE Primera storage and Linux

VMware Integration

• Review HPE Primera storage application and system integration products
• Perform integration tasks between HPE Primera storage and VMware

Performance Analytics: Workload Insights and Topology Insights

• Work with HPE Primera Application Volume Sets (AppVVset)
• Understand the difference between an Application Volume Set and a standard Virtual Volume Set
• 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