Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000

Module 0: Course Introduction

Module 1: Hardware and Features

• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 overview
• The architecture behind HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 systems
• PCIe expansion options
• Power supply unit details
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 series head shelf drive layout
• RAID options
• HPE Alletra expansion shelves
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 controller upgrades

Module 2: Management Options

• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 manageability
• HPE GreenLake, Data Ops Manager, and Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform services
• HPE GreenLake dashboard
• Data Services Cloud Console overview
• Provisioning options
• Data Ops Manager dashboard
• Block Storage dashboard
• Intent-based provisioning
• Data Services Cloud Console REST API
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 web user interface (UI)
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Rest API

Module 3: Initialization and Array Status

• Installation
• Documentation and resources
• End-to-end onboarding
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000—preinstallation and software subscription
• HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows
• Setup Manager for HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble arrays
• Discover the array
• Connect the array to the HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform
• Onboarding device to Data Service Cloud Console
• Data Service Cloud Console setup service
• Array initialization using the CLI
• Diagnostics setup and test

Module 4: Provisioning Terminology

• Industry-leading data protection and efficiency
• Read and write operations
• What is an NVDIMM?
• NVDIMM—how it works
• Resiliency and data integrity
• RAID options review
• Integrated spare: rebuild operation
  • Integrated spare RAID: single drive failure scenario
  • Integrated spare RAID: replacement drive rebuild process
• Quick RAID rebuild
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 data reduction
• Thin provisioning overview
• Space reclamation
• Inline dedupe in action
• What to deduplicate and compress
• Log structured file system design
• SmartSecure encryption

Module 5: Hosts and Initiator Groups

• Networking concepts and terminology
• Understanding Internet Protocol addresses (IPs)
• Discovery IP addresses
• Typical subnets
• Optimizing switch links: IP address zones
• Fibre channel components
• Initiator groups and access control
• Protocol connectivity options
• Obtaining Host Bus Adapter (HBA) World Wide Names (WWNs)
• Fibre channel zoning overview
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000
• Fibre channel configuration using Target Driven Zoning (TDZ)
• Working with initiators from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Working with initiators from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 user interfaces (UIs)
  • Initiator groups
  • Access control
• Working with initiators from the command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows and HPE Connection Manager for Windows

Module 6: Volumes, Volume Collections, and QoS

• Volumes overview
  • Thin provisioning
  • Volume reserves
  • Volume quotas
• Performance policies
• Workload-specific requirements
• Custom performance policies
• Application-aware storage
• Protection templates and volume collections
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Monitoring volume limits
• Volume pinning
• Provisioning from Data Services Cloud Console
• Provisioning from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  • Quick volume creation
  • Create volume wizard
• Provisioning from the command line interface (CLI)
  • Volumes and QoS—some CLI commands

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones

• Snapshots
• Understanding snapshots
• Anatomy of a snapshot: backup
• Understanding clones
• Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Protection policy examples
• Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
  • A manual snapshot
  • Scheduled snapshot
  • Schedules
• Managing from the command line interface (CLI)
  • Protection templates
  • Snapshots and clones

Module 8: Asynchronous Remote Replication

• Replication Introduction
• SmartReplicate (asynchronous replication)
• Replication use cases
• Replication components
  • How replication works—the basics
  • Volume collection and replication schedules
  • Replication monitoring
  • Replication QOS—bandwidth limit
• Replication considerations
• SmartReplicate disaster recovery (DR)
  • General DR operations
  • Replication concepts
    • Promote
    • Handover
    • Demote
• Recovery scenarios
• Managing from Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
  • Replication using Data Services Cloud Console—Block
  • Creating and protecting volumes in block storage
  • Protection policies available in Data Service Cloud Console
• Managing from HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
• Managing from the command line interface (CLI)

Module 9: Scale-Out

• Scale-to-fit: flexible and nondisruptive scalability
• Scale-out introduction
• Scale-out technology
• Overview of group/pool operations with new arrays
• Nondisruptive data migrations
• Spanned pools
  • Volume creation
  • Node addition
  • Node evacuation

Module 10: Peer Persistence

• Peer Persistence: sync replication with auto-failover
• Peer Persistence overview
• Peer Persistence builds on scale-out group
• Peer Persistence Quorum Witness
• Peer Persistence customer benefits
• Peer Persistence architecture
  • Basic terms
  • Connectivity
  • Performance
  • Peer Persistence volume collection
  • Peer Persistence snapshots
  • Sync operations
• Automatic switchover (ASO)
• Peer persistence configuration using Data Ops Manager and Block Storage and Data Services Cloud Console
• Peer persistence configuration using HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs

Module 11: Monitoring, Alerts, and Events

• HPE InfoSight
• HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware® environments
• Options available in Data Ops Manager and Data Services Cloud Console
• Options available in HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs
• About SNMP
• SNMP support
• Syslog support
• Options available in the command line interface (CLI)

Module 12: Customer Self Update and Repair

• Data Ops Manager
  • Intelligent upgrade paths
  • Data Ops Manager OS upgrade
• Automatic software downloads
  • One step software updates
• HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 UIs OS upgrades
• Command line interface (CLI) OS upgrades
• Customer self repair
  • Repair controller
  • Repair USB boot device
  • Repair fan
  • Repair drive
  • Repair power supply
  • Repair Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) module