HPE Primera Data Management: Availability and Integration

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HPE Primera Data Management: Availability and Integration

Course Code: HN5B1S

Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisites: 

•    HN5B2S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage (with extended eLearning) or HN5A9S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage

Course Description:

This course provides 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. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Primera array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises which include integrating HPE Primera storage with Linux and VMware®. 

Course Objectives: 

•    Describe HPE Primera family features  
•    Describe the HPE Primera Storage software portfolio  
•    List management options  
•    Explain provisioning terminology  
•    Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks  
•    Explain the HPE Primera concepts of a common provisioning groups (CPG)  
•    Explain Thin Provisioned Virtual Volumes (VV)  
•    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  
•    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  
•    Use SSMC and the CLI to create and manage with host sets and volume sets  
•    Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets  
•    Describe app volume sets 
•    Describe the benefits of the data reduction technologies  
•    Perform space reclamation  
•    Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression, and data packing  
•    Perform a data reduction estimation  
•    Describe System Reporter capabilities  
•    Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports  
•    Use the CLI stat commands to look at real-time statistics  
•    Work with HPE Primera app 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  
•    Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and quality of service (QoS) 
•    Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization  
•    Administer Priority Optimization  
•    Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization  
•    Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot Export a snapshot
•    Perform a recovery using a snapshot  
•    Work with a clone  
•    Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy  
•    Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations  
•    Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous replication modes Discuss different failure scenarios  
•    Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group  
•    Briefly describe data migration and high availability and disaster tolerance solutions

Intended Audience:

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

Course Outlines:

Module 1: Solution Overview

•    HPE Primera Storage solution review  
•    Management and integration  
•    Sources of information

Module 2: Storage Concepts and Terminology

•    HPE Primera OS virtualization  
•    Chunklet concept  
•    Common provisioning group (CPG) 
•    Virtual volume overview 
•    Thin provisioning overview  
•    The levels of capacity allocation summary  
•    HPE Virtual Lock

Module 3: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

•    Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: FC example  
•    HPE Primera block I/O connectivity  
•    Obtaining host HBA WWNs  
•    HPE Smart SAN for Primera  
•    HPE Host Explorer  
•    HPE LunInfo for HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR Initial setup

Module 4: Host, Volume, and App volume sets

•    Host and volume sets  
•    Virtual volume set  
•    App volume sets  
•    Create app volume set

Module 5: Thin Features

•    HPE Primera data reduction 
•    Space reclamation  
•    Allocation units and alignment  
•    Thin persistence  
•    Deduplication and compression  
•    Data packing  
•    Data reduction  
•    Online virtual volume conversion and estimate

Module 6: Monitoring and Reporting

•    HPE Primera System Reporter introduction 
•    System Reporter: SSMC  
•    Creating a report  
•    Looking at performance using SSMC reports  
•    CLI performance and capacity reporting 
•    Workload Insights 
•    Topology Insights

Module 7: Priority Optimization/QoS

•    Quality of service: application performance consistency  
•    Priority Optimization introduction  
•    How Priority Optimization Works  SSMC: QoS configuration  
•    QoS controls rules  
•    Latency goal defined 
•    Priority Optimization using the CLI

Module 8: Snapshots and Clones

•    Primera snapshot concepts  
•    Working with snapshots  
•    Creating/scheduling a snapshot using SSMC  
•    Snapshot using the CLI 
•    HPE Primera clone  
•    Clone using the CLI

Module 9: Remote Copy

•    Remote Copy introduction  
•    Native IP-based Remote Copy (RCIP) 
•    FC-based Remote Copy (RCFC)  
•    Remote Copy group  
•    Remote Copy volume groups  
•    Replication modes  
•    Remote Copy Operations  
•    Data migration 
•    High availability and disaster tolerance solutions