Overview
This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on HPE SimpliVity system with the HPE SimpliVity Plug-in for VMware vSphere® and the RapidDR user interface.
Audience
This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity
Prerequisites
HPE recommends that students attend the following courses or attain the following levels of experience before taking this class:
- Networking technologies
- VMware vSphere 6
- HPE ProLiant Servers
Delegates will learn how to
• Describe the various components that form the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Distinguish between peer-managed and centrally-managed HPE SimpliVity federations
• Identify how VM data is stored across HPE SimpliVity clusters
• Create datastores and perform different tasks associated with HPE SimpliVity datastores
• Explain the various HPE SimpliVity operations like Clone or Move VM
• Create manual and policy-based backups and use them for restore
• Configure external stores for secondary backup
• Perform basic support tasks on the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Use RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery
Outline
Module 1 – Introduction to HPE SimpliVity:
• HPE SimpliVity’s HyperGuarantee
• Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
• Core features built into the SimpliVity solution via the Data Virtualization Platform
• HPE SimpliVity use cases and the shift to Intelligent HCI
Module 2—HPE SimpliVity Architecture
• Deep understanding of the HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform
• Elements within an HPE SimpliVity Federation
• Basic concepts of a datacenter and cluster within the SimpliVity Federation
• Levels of resiliency built into the SimpliVity solution
• VM data locality in the HPE SimpliVity Federation
Module 3 – HPE SimpliVity Portfolio:
• Categorization of the various HPE SimpliVity hardware models and their supported configurations
• Tracing the read/write IO paths for different HPE SimpliVity models
• Explanation of how the tiered storage implementation works
• Different networks that are used in HPE SimpliVity Federation
• Generic sizing guidelines for HPE SimpliVity
Module 4 – Working with HPE SimpliVity:
• HPE SimpliVity management interfaces (GUI, CLI and REST API)
• HPE SimpliVity Datastores and the operations permitted
• Configuration required for access nodes
• Performing HPE SimpliVity backups
• Creating HPE SimpliVity backup policies
• Managing and monitoring virtual machines in a SimpliVity Federation
• Performing restores using HPE SimpliVity backups
• File level restores
• Backups on external stores for restore operations
• Using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
Module 5—HPE SimpliVity Maintenance:
• Maintaining HPE SimpliVity hosts and Virtual Controllers
• HPE SimpliVity alarms and events in VMware vCenter®
• Procedure to create an HPE SimpliVity support capture
• Reports that are available through HPE InfoSight for SimpliVity
• How to contact HPE support and find relevant documentation
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