Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Provisioning Options
- Provisioning options at a glance
- HPE XP8 Intelligent Management Suite, portal, and architecture
- HPE XP8 Intelligent Storage Manager
- HPE XP8 Data Protection Manager
- HPE XP8 Automation Director
- Demonstration: Lab 1 preparation
- HPE XP8 RAID Manager[/h5]
Module 2: Data Protection Options
- HPE XP8 Data Protection
- HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous
- HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journal
- HPE XP8 High Availability
- Continuous Access Synchronous vs high availability positioning
- Advanced topologies—3 Data Center
Module 3: Introduction to High Availability
- High level overview
- High availability requirements
- Remote path overview
- Configure remote connection
- Quorum device
- High availability requirements and configuration
- Creating an external storage LUN on a third site
- Virtual storage machine
- Register HPE XP8 storage in HPE XP8 Data Protection Manager
- Create HA (High Availability) pairs from HPE XP8 Intelligent Storage Manager
Module 4: HPE XP8 Data Protection Manager
- HPE XP8 Data Protection Manager total protection
- HPE XP8 Data Protection Manager/HPE XP8 Intelligent Storage Manager architecture
- Building blocks
- Nodes
- Policy
- Dataflow
- Manage replication
- Schedules
- Logs
- Monitoring
- Notifications
- Jobs
- Restoring data
- Storage inventory
- Reports
- Role based access control (RBAC)
- Authentication services
- Licensing
- Repositories
- Deduplicated repositories
Module 5: HPE XP8 High Availability
- High availability - overview
- HPE XP8 High Availability Read function and ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access)
- HPE XP8 High Availability Write function and ALUA
- HA components - data volumes
- HA components - quorum disk
- HA components - remote copy connections
- HA components - virtual DKC
- VDKC configuration types
- HA components—cross site paths
- VDKC configuration—LDEV IDs
- Failure scenario
- HPE XP8 High Availability —when failure occurs
- HPE XP8 High Availability—modes
- HA failure scenarios—array failure
- HA failure scenarios—array failure (with cross site paths)
- HA failure scenarios—link failure Site A to Site B (Site A I/O)
- HA failure scenarios—link failure Site B to Site A (Site A I/O)
- HA failure scenarios—link failure Site A to Site B (Site B I/O)
- HA failure scenarios—link failure Site B to Site A (Site B I/O)
- HA failure scenarios—link failure both links (same time)
- HA failure scenarios—quorum failure to Site A
- HA failure scenarios—quorum failure to Site B
- HA failure scenarios—quorum failure to Site A and Site B
- HA failure scenarios—quorum located on PVOL site
- Double failure scenario
- Post quorum failure –remote copy failure
- Operations
- Create a pair
- Suspend a pair
- Resynchronize a pair
- Delete a pair
- Enable ALUA mode
- Reversing the PVOL and SVOL
- Disaster recovery
- Forcibly changing I/O mode of HA pairs for recovery
Module 6: HPE XP8 Continuous Access Journaling
- Continuous Access Journal overview
- Journal Volume
- Journal Groups
- Consistency Group
- CA (Continuous Access) Journal—sizing the link for average I/O rate
- CA Journal—link failures
- Journal performance
- Operations
- Journaling status
- Continuous Access Journaling operations
Module 7: HPE XP8 Continuous Access Synchronous
- Continuous Access Synchronous overview and I/O operations
- Data path
- Continuous Access Synchronous fence levels
- Continuous Access Synchronous operations