Overview
The Managing HPE Primera Storage I course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The course reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs (HOL), including creating the right data efficient volumes on an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of HPE InfoSight. The course prepares learners for deeper follow-on training from HPE, including the 2-day, HM9Q6S: Managing HPE Primera II course
Prerequisites
• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment
Outline
Module 1: Solution Overview:
• Part 1—Hardware
– Primera technical specifications
– HPE Primera hardware building blocks
– Data-in-place upgrade
– Primera persistency and high availability features
• Part 2—Software and Features
– Management options overview
– Primera and 3PAR SSMC
– HPE Primera storage management—HPE Primera UI
– HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
– HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
– Selected data protection and security features overview
– HPE Primera leadership—replication
– Peer persistence
– HPE Cluster Extension CLX
– VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery
Manager
– Sources of information
Module 2: Storage Concepts and Terminology
• HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view
• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages
• Chunklet concepts
• System wide sparing
• Logical disk concepts
• HPE Primera high availability
• CPG concepts
• Virtual volume overview
• Thin provisioning overview
• HPE Primera data reduction overview
Module 3: Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation
• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration—FC example
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• HPE Primera Persistent Ports
• HPE Primera WWN format
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• HPE Primera implementation guide
• Host HBAs and WWNs—commands/utilities
• HPE Smart SAN for Primera
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• Adding hosts in SSMC—SMART SAN enabled
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo
Module 4: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets
• Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage
• Virtual volume set—other use cases
• Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples
• App volume sets overview
• App volume sets— SSMC examples
• SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets
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