Advanced HPE Compute Solutions

Understanding Customer Needs and Compute Workloads

• Evaluate typical advanced computing workloads, including their characteristics and requirements
• Compare and classify tools supporting the sizing process and performance management
• Identify typical advanced computing workloads and their characteristics and requirements as related to onpremises and as-a-service infrastructures
• Gather customer needs and analyze existing environments

HPE Compute Solutions Portfolio

• Describe the industry-standard server portfolio
• Distinguish features of the HPE Composable Infrastructure portfolio, including HPE Synergy and HPE OneView
• Recommend the HPE Mission Critical portfolio, including the HPE Superdome Flex Server family, to customers
• Compare the components of the HPE purpose-built portfolio for high-performance computing (HPC), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Differentiate and explain HPE management technologies for advanced computing solutions
• Recommend and describe the HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud model to customers

Designing an HPE Compute Solution for an SAP HANA Workload

• Examine and describe the SAP HANA® portfolio and its requirements
• Differentiate the components of HPE Superdome Flex and explain the management and setup process
• Recommend HPE Serviceguard for Linux® solutions and describe use cases with SAP HANA

Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Virtualization Workload

• Analyze the building blocks of the VMware Cloud Foundation™
• Analyze a solution design based on HPE Synergy used for VCF deployment
• Explain underlying complementary VMware® and HPE technologies

Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Database Workload

• Analyze the building blocks of an SQL Server solution deployed on HPE ProLiant DL380
• Describe typical database workloads
• Analyze and classify the building blocks of SQL Server, including those deployed on HPE ProLiant DL380
• Analyze and recommend components required to deploy an SQL Server failover cluster with Windows Server 2019

Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Container Workload

• Analyze the building blocks of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform on HPE Synergy
• Recommend containerization solutions to customers, including use cases and benefits
• Evaluate and describe HPE Ezmeral Container Platform technologies and components
• Control plane –Data fabric –Storage configuration options –Installation and upgrades
• Management and monitoring –Security and access control
• Application templates

Monitoring, Managing, and Optimizing an HPE Compute Solution

• Explain how to monitor and manage an HPE compute solution using available tools
• Verify interoperability of the solution, optimize performance, and use an appropriate troubleshooting methodology

Presenting a Proposal

• Prepare a proposal based on customer requirements.
• Use appropriate tools to prepare a customer presentation