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Managing HPE Primera

HM9Q4S

HPE course number HM9Q4S

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The Managing HPE Primera 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, including creating the right data efficient volumes on
an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of
HPE InfoSight. This course also provides knowledge of the
advanced capabilities of HPE Primera storage arrays, including
lower level data reduction features, reporting, monitoring and
alerting, QOS, and local and remote replication options. You
gain practical understanding of HPE Primera array capabilities
using extensive hands-on lab exercises.
This course is the combination of:
• HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
• HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication
Audience Course objectives
• Customers, administrators and channel After completing this course, the student
partner sales or technical sales should be able to:
• Storage administrators who desire
additional training on the advanced features • Describe the objectives and purpose of this
of HPE Primera course
• Discuss the topics addressed in this course
Prerequisites
• Discuss the HPE Primera family
• An understanding of general storage • Discuss HPE Primera hardware building
concepts including fibre channel technology blocks
and RAID
• Discuss the data-in-place upgrade
• Operator level functionality in a Windows
environment • Describe controller enclosures, nodes, and
HBA’s
• Describe controller node architecture and
port numbering
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• Describe high availability features of HPE Primera • Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
• Discuss HPE Primera software and management options • Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
• Describe data protection and security features • Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance
context
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Use the SSMC Workload Insights feature for performance reasons
• Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
to isolate application spikes and trends
• Explain the HPE Primera concept of common provisioning groups
• Understand the SSMC Workload Insights concept of a performance
(CPGs)
score
• Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VVs)
• Understand the advantages of the Topology Insights feature to
• Overview HPE Primera data reduction technologies pinpoint performance bottlenecks
• State HPE Primera management options • Describe basic HPE Primera UI monitoring
• Describe Data Services Cloud Console and steps to onboard HPE • View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
Primera
• Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
• Describe HPE Primera initial setup, HPE Primera UI, and customer
• Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
self-update/repair options
• Monitor and manage the event log
• Describe on-premises administration tools, features and the third-
party integration portfolio • Forward events to syslog server
• Prepare a host to access an HPE Primera storage array • Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
• Create hosts in an HPE Primera storage array • Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and HPE Primera
CIM support
• Explain how to add fibre channel (FC) ports to a host
• Explain REST API use
• Describe iSCSI configuration
• Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and Quality of
• Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
Service (QoS)
• Export virtual volumes (VVs) to a host as VLUNs
• Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization
• Unexport virtual volumes (VVs) from a host
• Administer Priority Optimization
• Use SSMC and the CLI to work with hosts and storage
• Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization
• Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
• Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot
• Create and maintain host sets and volume sets using Data Services
• Export a snapshot
Cloud Console, SSMC and CLI
• Perform a recovery using a snapshot
• Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume
sets • Work with a clone
• Describe application volume sets • Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote
Copy
• Describe advantages of HPE InfoSight
• Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations
• Describe the benefits of data reduction technologies
• Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic
• Perform space reclamation
asynchronous replication modes
• Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression,
• Discuss different failure scenarios
and data packing
• Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group
• Perform a data reduction estimation
• Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster
• Perform an online virtual volume conversion
tolerance solutions
• Describe System Reporter capabilities
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HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
Detailed course outline
Module 0: Introduction
Module 1: Solution Overview:
Module 2: HPE Primera Management
Module 3: Storage Concepts and
Terminology
Module 4: Host Connectivity and Storage
Allocation
Module 5: Host, Volume, and App Volume
Sets
Module 6: HPE InfoSight Introduction
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• Course introduction • Course agenda
• Hardware – Software and features overview
– HPE Primera technical specifications – HPE Primera persistency and high availability features
– HPE Primera hardware building blocks – HPE Cabling Tool
– Data-in-place upgrade – HPE product information
– HPE Primera controller enclosure – Documentation and resources
– HPE Primera drives – HPE storage interoperability
– HPE Primera hardware architecture – HPE SAN certification and support
• HPE Primera manageability • HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
• HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) • HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
• Data Services Cloud Console • HPE Primera initial setup
• HPE Primera UI • Customer self-install
• HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view • HPE Primera high availability
• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts • Common provisioning group (CPG) concepts
• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages • Virtual volume overview
• Chunklet concepts • Thin provisioning overview
• Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership • HPE Primera data reduction overview
• Logical disk concepts
• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: fibre channel (FC) • HPE Primera—iSCSI support
example
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• Persistent checksum based on T10-DIF
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera overview
• HPE Primera persistent ports
• Adding hosts in SSMC: Smart SAN
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts
• HPE Primera Implementation Guide
• HPE Host Explorer
• Obtaining host HBA WWNs
• HPE LunInfo
• Host bus adapters (HBAs) and worldwide names (WWN)s
• Host configuration and storage allocation
• Host and volume sets • App volume sets overview
• Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage • App volume sets— SSMC examples
• Virtual volume set—other use cases • SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets
• Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples • App sets vs virtual volume (VV) sets
• Data Services Cloud Console—host group and volumes
• HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene • HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics for VMware®
environments
• Get the full picture with HPE Primera and HPE InfoSight
• HPE Primera UI—HPE InfoSight software recommendations
• The artificial intelligence (AI) process for HPE self-healing storage
• Managing HPE Primera software updates
• HPE InfoSight—artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)
• HPE Primera wellness filters
• HPE Primera—PDF report
• HPE InfoSight unified tenancy
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Appendix 1: HPE Primera Virtual
Domains
Detailed lab outline
Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access
Lab 1: Working with SSMC and CLI
Lab 2: Storage Configuration
Lab 3: Host Configuration and Storage
Allocation
Lab 4: Host, Volume and App Volume
Sets
Lab 5: Using HPE InfoSight
• HPE Virtual Domains software
• HPE Virtual Domains for multitenancy security
• What are the benefits of virtual domains?
• Priority Optimization
• Task 1: Accessing the HPE vLab
• Exercise 1: Reviewing the SSMC GUI and online help
• Exercise 2: Reviewing the dashboard and changing output views
• Exercise 3: Accessing the SSMC settings screen
• Exercise 4: Adding a user
• Exercise 1: Log in to SSMC
• Exercise 2: Working with CPGs in SSMC
• Exercise 1: Identify the HBA type (Windows)
• Exercise 2: Determining host port WWNs
• Exercise 3: Adding a host using HBA WWNs in SSMC
– Exercise 3-A: Adding a host using Host Explorer in SSMC
– Exercise 3-B: Adding a host manually using HBA WWNs in
SSMC
• Exercise 4: Export/unexport VLUNs in SSMC
• Exercise 1: Working with host sets and virtual volume sets
– Exercise 1-1: Working with host sets in SSMC
– Exercise 1-2: Working with virtual volume sets in SSMC
– Exercise 1-3: Export virtual volume sets to hosts sets in SSMC
– Exercise 1-4: Unexport virtual volume sets from hosts sets in
SSMC
– Exercise 1-5: Delete virtual volume sets and hosts sets in
SSMC
• Exercise 1: Logging in and dashboard
• Exercise 2: Access HPE InfoSight support
• Exercise 3: Array overview
• Exercise 4: Physical disk details
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• Data protection solutions overview
• HPE Primera leadership—replication
• Peer Persistence
• VMware vSphere®s disaster recovery with Site Recovery
Manager
• Exercise 5: Working with the SSMC activity screen
• Exercise 6: SSMC hardware introduction
• Exercise 7: Launching the CLI
• Exercise 3: Working with virtual volumes (VV) in SSMC
– Exercise 3-1: Creating thin provisioned virtual volumes
– Exercise 3-2: Creating thin volumes (TPVV) with data
reduction enabled
– Exercise 3-3: Creating multiple virtual volumes using a
count
– Exercise 3-4: Displaying/editing/removing virtual volumes
• Exercise 4: Working with VVs using the CLI
• Exercise 4: Export/unexport VLUNs in SSMC
• Exercise 5: Windows host configuration formatting and
mounting VLUNs
• Exercise 6: Online virtual volume increase
• Exercise 7: Working with default reports
• Exercise 8: Working with HPE LUNInfo for HPE Primera and
HPE 3PAR
• Exercise 9: Working with hosts and storage using the CLI
• Exercise 2: Working with app volume sets using SSMC
• Exercise 3: Working with host sets and volume sets using CLI
• Exercise 5: Reports
• Exercise 6: HPE InfoSight scenarios (optional)
– Exercise 6-1: Health check
– Exercise 6-2: Planning for growth
– Exercise 6-3: Using HPE InfoSight to troubleshoot
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HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication
Detailed course outline
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
• Introduction
• Data reduction introduction and overview
• Zero-detect and thin persistence
• Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
• Block alignment
• Thin persistence technology
• System Reporter introduction
• Data retention
• SSMC System Reporter options
• Types of reports
• Default reports in SSMC
• Report controls
• Report templates
• Creating historical and real time reports
• Scheduling/emailing reports
• CLI reporting
• Alerts and events overview
• Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
• Alerts in Data Services Cloud Console
• Managing events—SSMC/CLI
• Alerts and events tiering
• Alert spare part notification
• Syslog support
• The checkhealth command overview and use
• Troubleshooting
• System Reporter performance alerts management
• Introduction and features
• How does it work
• Examples
• Configurable parameters and their meaning
• Configuring and managing via SSMC
• HPE Primera snapshot concepts
• HPE Recovery Manager Central
• Snapshot use cases
• How snapshots work
• Working with a snapshot using SSMC
• Snapshot and Virtual Lock
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• Course agenda
• Compaction and overprovisioning
• Data reduction technologies
• Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
• Savings estimation
• Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic optimization)
• Performance view
• Analytics and workload Insights
• Application volume sets
• Topology Insights
• Data Services Cloud Console
• Data Ops Manager
• Primera UI monitoring overview
• On-node monitoring overview
• Monitoring and reporting
• SNMP overview
• SNMP use—MIBs, alert traps
• SNMP management
• CIM API overview
• HPE Primera CIM API
• About SMI-S
• CIM standard
• CIM management
• REST API overview
• REST API usage
• Configuring and managing via CLI
• Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
• HPE Primera Priority Optimization
• Priority Optimization using the Data Services Cloud Console
and Primera UI
• Summary and best practices
• Working with a snapshot using CLI
• Primera UI snapshots and snapshot schedules
• Data Services Cloud Console protection policies and
schedules
• Clone introduction and how it works
• Working with a clone using SSMC
• Working with a clone using CLI
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Module 6: Remote Replication
• Remote Copy introduction • Post failover actions overview
• Remote Copy network transport methods • Recover/restore after a failover
• Remote Copy group • Peer persistence overview
• Replication modes • HPE Cluster Extension overview
• Replication topologies • VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview
• Remote Copy operations • Data migration options overview
• Failure scenarios and failover • HPE Primera Peer Motion

Detailed lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up
• Task 1: Accessing HPE vLabs – Exercise 3: Install Iometer
• Task 2: Initial setup – Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system performance
analytics
– Exercise 1: Log in to the HPE StoreServ management console
– Exercise 2: Configuring hosts
▫ Exercise 2a: Adding a host manually using the HBA WWPNs
with SSMC
▫ Exercise 2b: Adding a host using Host Explorer with SSMC

Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion • Exercise 1: Lab set up • Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC
and Data Reduction Estimates
• Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
– Estimation analysis results

Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting
• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up • Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
• Exercise 2: SSMC default reports • Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets using
dashboard
• Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
• Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time performance
– Physical drives—performance statistic report
– CPGs—capacity report
– System capacity report

Lab 3: Events and Alerts
• Exercise 1: Viewing alerts (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 2: Viewing alerts (CLI)
• Exercise 3: Viewing tasks (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 4: Viewing events (CLI)
• Exercise 5: Syslog
• Exercise 6: System Reporter alerts (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 7: SNMP traps
• Exercise 8: Using REST API
– Part 1—HPE Primera REST preparation and login
– Part 2—Using the Postman client to create a resource
– Part 3—Using the Postman client to delete a resource
– Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources
• Exercise clean-up

Lab 4: Priority Optimization (QoS)
• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up • Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization
using CLI
• Exercise 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using SSMC
– QoS analysis results
• Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using – Additional commands to manage QoS rules
SSMC
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Lab 5: Snapshots and Clones
• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
• Exercise 2: Snapshot file recovery
• Exercise 3: Snapshot full volume data recovery
• Exercise 4: Restore data between two snapshots
• Exercise 5: Schedule snapshots and snapshot expiration
policies
– Create a snapshot policy
– Create scheduled snapshots using a snapshot policy
– Exploring scheduled snapshots over time
• Exercise 6: Create a clone
• Exercise 7: Create a clone with resynchronization capability
• Exercise 8: Working with snapshots and clones using CLI

Lab 6: Remote Replication
• Planning and initial set up of Remote Copy • Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
– Exercise 1: Lab set up – Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy group
– Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set up using – Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and failover again
SSMC
▫ Revert
▫ Verifying the RCIP port configuration
▫ Failover again
▫ Remote Copy configuration
– Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group and replicate
– Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups in the original direction
– Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote Copy – Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
group
– Exercise 12: Lab clean up
• Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and failback
– Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI
– Exercise 5: Planned failover to the remote site
– Exercise 6: Recovery of a Remote Copy group after the source
system is back online
– Exercise 7: Restore a Remote Copy group

Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware® • Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs • Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware vCenter®
• Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a volume in SSMC

Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux
• Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs • Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with
multipathing on the Linux host
• Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a volume
using SSMC • Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem, and mount
the volume

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