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Module 0: Course Introduction • Introduction
• Course agenda
Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction
• Data reduction introduction and overview
• Zero-detect and thin persistence
• Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
• Block alignment
• Thin persistence technology
• Compaction and overprovisioning
• Data reduction technologies
• Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
• Savings estimation
• Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic
optimization)
Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting
• 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
• Performance view
• Analytics and workload Insights
• Application volume sets
• Topology Insights
• On-node monitoring overview
Module 3: Events and Alerts
• Alerts and events overview
• Managing alerts - SSMC/CLI
• 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
• 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
Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS
• Introduction and features
• How does it work
• Examples
• Configurable parameters and their meaning
• Configuring and managing via SSMC
• Configuring and managing via CLI
• Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
• Summary and best practices
Module 5: Snapshots and Clones
• Snapshot introduction
• Snapshot use cases
• How snapshots work
• Working with a snapshot using SSMC
• Working with a snapshot using CLI
• Clone introduction and how it works
• Working with a clone using SSMC
• Working with a clone using CLI
Module 6: Remote Replication
• Remote Copy introduction
• Supported protocols
• Architecture, features and terminology
• Replication modes
• Supported maximums
• Failure scenarios and failover
• Remote Copy operations
• Data migration options overview
• Peer persistence overview
• HPE Cluster Extension overview
• VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager
overview
Appendix 1: What’s New in HPE Primera
• Remote Copy
• HPE Primera Remote Copy feature set updates with
4.2
• Peer motion and online import
• Online import utility (OIU 2.4 )
• VMware vVOLs support with HPE Primera
• SSMC 3.7 enhancements
• InfoSight update
Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up
• Task 1: Accessing the vLabs
• Task 2: Initial setup
– Exercise 1: Log in to the 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
– Exercise 3: Install Iometer
– Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system
performance analytics
Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Data Reduction
Estimates
• Exercise 1: Lab set up
• Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
– Estimation analysis results
• Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC
Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting
• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
• Exercise 2: SSMC default reports
• Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
– Physical drives - performance statistic report
– CPGs - capacity report
– System capacity report
• Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
• Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets
using dashboard
• Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time
performance
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 - 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 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using
SSMC
• Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority
Optimization using SSMC
• Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority
Optimization using CLI
– QoS analysis results
– Additional commands to manage QoS rules
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
– Exercise 1: Lab set up
– Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set
up using SSMC
▫ Verifying the RCIP port configuration
▫ Remote Copy configuration
– Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy
groups
– Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote
Copy group
• Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and
failback
– 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
• Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site
backup
– Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy
group
– Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and
failover again
▫ Revert
▫ Failover again
– Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group
and replicate in the original direction
– Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
– Exercise 12: Lab clean up
– Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using
CLI
Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware
• Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
• Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a
volume in SSMC
• Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware
vCenter®
Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux
• Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
• Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a
volume using SSMC
• Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with
multipathing on the Linux host
• Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem,
and mount the volume
