HPE SimpliVity System Administration (vSphere)

HPE SimpliVity System Administration (vSphere)

Course Code: H0LP9S

Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisites: 

•    HPE recommends that students have attended the following courses or attained the following levels of experience before taking this class:  
•    Networking technologies  
•    VMware vSphere 6  
•    HPE ProLiant Servers

Course Description:

This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity 380 and 2600. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates off-site disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on HPE SimpliVity system with the SimpliVity VMware vSphere® and RapidDR user interface.

Course Objectives: 

•    Describe the HPE SimpliVity 380 and 2600 products’ physical characteristics and software architecture  
•    Use the HPE SimpliVity vSphere user interface for management tasks  
•    Use RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery

Intended Audience:

This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who are looking to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity 380 and 2600.

Course Outlines:

Module 1: HPE SimpliVity Overview 

•    The data problem 

•    The evolution of hyperconvergence 

o    HPE SimpliVity use cases / key business challenges  
o    Data center consolidation  
o    Data protection and disaster recovery 
o    VDI  
o    ROBO  
o    Hyperconvergence in a hybrid cloud  
o    High performance All-Flash Storage 
o    HPE SimpliVity 380 Hyper Guarantee 

•    What Is an HPE SimpliVity 380 system 

o    HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 ? Models ? Components ? Management (including iLO)

o    HPE OmniStack Virtual Controller (OVC)  
o    HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card (OAC)  
o    Disk Controller (RAID controller) 

•    HPE SimpliVity system architecture 
o    Node  
o    Cluster  
o    Federation  
o    Global scale 

•    Arbiter 

•    HPE SimpliVity networks 

o    Federation network  
o    Management network  
o    Storage network  
o    Network configurations  
o    Network security

Module 2: HPE SimpliVity 2600 

•    HPE SimpliVity 2600 solution overview  
•    Hardware components of HPE SimpliVity 2600 
•    HPE SimpliVity 2600 configuration details 
•    HPE SimpliVity 2600 data paths

Module 3: SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform 

•    HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform (DVP) 
o    Guaranteed data efficiency  
o    Deduplication and compression Built-in resiliency, backup and disaster recovery  
o    Global VM-centric management and mobility  
o    Data storage and VM cloning  
o    Writing data  
o    Remote backup 

•    HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 
o    Data virtualization platform deep dive  
o    Data presentation layer 

•    Data management layer 
o    File system  
o    Object store I/O write path 
o    Cluster-level data management 
o    Federation-level data management  
Advantages ? I/O and capacity reduction ? Storage network ? Faster backup, restore and clone ? Reduced WAN bandwidth ? Lower RPO and RTO

Module 4: HPE SimpliVity Data Management

•    HPE SimpliVity data paths 

o    HPE OmniStack system architecture  
o    Write I/O path  
o    Read I/O path  
o    Stretched clusters 

•    Data resiliency 

o    How Is data protected  
o    Node-level resiliency  
o    Cluster-level resiliency  
o    Site-level protection  
o    RAIN + RAID overview  
o    Power resiliency  
o    Hardware RAID  
o    Preventing silent data corruption 
o    Enterprise-grade server platform resiliency  
o    HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card resiliency 

•    Effects of a failure (what happens to the data) 

o    Failover of the OVC IP  
o    OVC resiliency ? Effects of a failure (what happens to the data) ? Failover of the OVC IP ? Recovering a failed OVC 

•    vCenter resiliency 

•    Single and linked mode 

•    Data locality 

o    Overview of data locality  
o    Advantages of full data localization  
o    Intelligent Workload Optimizer Initial data placement Integration with vSphere DRS

Module 5: HPE SimpliVity User Interface Overview 

•    Getting started  

•    Features within the vSphere Web Client  

•    How to maneuver through the vSphere Web Client  

•    vCenter inventory list  

•    The SimpliVity Federation actions  

•    SimpliVity Federation home tab 

o    Topology tab  
o    Throughput tab  
o    Backup consumption tab 
o    About tab 

•    Inventory lists 

•    SimpliVity Federation home tab

Module 6: HPE SimpliVity Clusters and Datastores 

•    Clusters 

o    Exploring clusters  
o    Customizing SimpliVity table data  
o    Viewing capacity  
o    Viewing performance  
o    Searching backups 

•    Datastores 

o    SimpliVity datastores overview  
o    Creating a SimpliVity datastore 
o    Modifying a SimpliVity datastore 

•    Configuring ESXi access nodes 

o    Configuration steps  
o    NFS settings  
o    Verifying HPE SimpliVity datastore access

Module 7: HPE SimpliVity Backups

•    SimpliVity backups 

o    Overview 
o    Manual backup 
o    Application consistent backups  
o    Managing backups ? Backups view ? Rename backup ? Copy backup ? Cancel backup ? Backup retention time ? Export backups ? Delete backups 

•    Backup policies 

o    ? SimpliVity backup policy overview  
o    Backup frequency  
o    Fixed default backup policy 
o    Locking a policy-based backup  
o    Creating backup policies and backup policy rules 

•    Edit backup policy  

•    Rename backup policy  

•    Delete backup policy  

•    Add backup policy  

•    Apply backup policy

Module 8: Other HPE SimpliVity Features 

•    Hosts  
•    Virtual machines  
•    HPE SimpliVity restore
o    SimpliVity restore overview  
o    Finding a backup  
o    Creating a new virtual machine 
o    Replacing an existing virtual machine 
•    SimpliVity File Level Restore 
o    Permissions and security  
o    Limi  
o    Partitions  
o    Restoring files steps 

•    SimpliVity clone 
o    SimpliVity clone overview  
o    SimpliVity clone a virtual machine 
o    VAAI and VMware clone 

•    SimpliVity move
o    SimpliVity move overview  
o    SimpliVity move a virtual machine 

•    VM templates  
•    Moving an HPE SimpliVity node between clusters  
•    HPE OmniStack Virtual Controller (OVC) shut down 
o    Safe shut down preparation  
o    Other safe shut down considerations
 

Module 9: Extending HPE SimpliVity 

•    REST API 
o    REST overview  
o    HPE SimpliVity REST API functions  
o    HPE SimpliVity REST API examples 

•    HPE SimpliVity CLI 
o    Prerequisites for using the CLI  
o    Access through the Virtual Controller Console 
o    Access through a terminal emulator  
o    CLI command privileges  
o    CLI command format and examples 

•    HPE SimpliVity RapidDR 
o    What is RapidDR and how does it work?  
o    RapidDR requirements  
o    RapidDR configuration guidelines

Module 10: HPE SimpliVity Services and Support 

•    HPE SimpliVity support plans 
o    Accessing support  
o    Accessing updates  
o    Customer self-repair  
o    Remote support 

•    HPE SimpliVity support plans 
o    Accessing support  
o    Accessing updates  
o    Customer self-repair  
o    Remote support