Course Overview
This course provides knowledge of the advanced capabilities of the HPE Primera storage arrays, including lower level data reduction features, reporting, monitoring and alerting, QOS, and local and remote replication options. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Primera array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises.
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Primera
Prerequisites
One of the following courses:
- HPE Primera I : Management and Connectivity (HM9Q5)
- HN5B2S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage (with extended eLearning)
- HN5A9S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the learner should be able to:
- 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
- Perform an online virtual volume conversion
- Describe System Reporter capabilities
- Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
- Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
- Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance context
- 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 basic Primera UI monitoring
- View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
- Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
- Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
- Monitor and manage the event log
- Forward events to syslog server
- Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
- Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and Primera CIM support
- Explain REST API use
- 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
Course Content
- Module 0: Course Introduction
- Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction
- Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting
- Module 3: Events and Alerts
- Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS
- Module 5: Snapshots and Clones
- Module 6: Remote Replication
- Appendix 1: What’s New in HPE Primera
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