Plan szkolenia
1. H6LH4AAE Pre Study for Managing HPE 3PAR
StoreServ I • Register here to access to the Pre-Study WBT course
2. HPE 3PAR Solution Introduction and Review
• HPE 3PAR Hardware Current models
• Hardware overview for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models:
controllers,
drive cages, and disks
• Controller port number naming conventions for the 7000,
8000, and 20000
models
• Disk number naming convention for disks in the HPE 3PAR
arrays
• ASIC chip functionality
• HPE 3PAR virtual storage architecture benefits
• Big Picture HPE 3PAR component connectivity
• SSMC GUI introduction and functionality overview
• HPE 3PAR CLI overview and introduction
3. Storage Concepts and Terminology
• HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology
• HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
• HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group
(CPG)
• HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning
and thin provisioning
4. Storage Configuration
• CPGs using SSMC and the CLI
• Working with virtual volume templates
• Working with fully provisioned and thin provisioned
volumes using SSMC
and the CLI
5. Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation
• How to prepare a host to access an HPE 3PAR storage array
• HPE 3PAR Port Persistence
• Adding hosts in an HPE 3PAR storage array
• Adding FC ports to a host
• Export virtual volumes to hosts as VLUNs
• Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host
• Using SSMC and CLI to work with hosts and storage
• Working with Smart SAN
• Use Host Explorer to add hosts and explore host details
• Use HPE 3PARInfo to gather storage information
6. Host Sets and Virtual Volume Sets
• Host and virtual volume sets advantages
• Host and virtual volume sets use cases
• Creating and maintaining host and volume sets using
SSMC and the CLI
• Host and volume sets guidelines and rules
7. Thin Features: A Deep Dive
• Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence
• Zero Detection use cases
• Space reclamation: UNMAP and other utilities
• Compaction ratio explanation and thin overprovisioning
• Thin provisioning: seeing what is allocated vs. used by
a host
• Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes
from full to thin or
thin to full using SSMC and the CLI
• Compacting a CPG to free up space
8. Adaptive Data Reduction for Flash: Dedup and
Compression
• Thin Dedup: saving space using deduplication and dedup
detail
• Thin Dedup: what to dedup: good candidates and bad
candidates
• Compression and how it works
• Compression: what to compress--good candidates and bad
candidates
• Data Packing: packing data for space and cost savings
• DECO: Dedup and Compression together
• Working with Dedup and Compression using the SSMC
GUI and the CLI
• Performing a Dedup Estimate and a Compression
Estimate
• Seeing if Dedup and Compression are working
• Analyzing Adaptive Data Reduction ratios: Dedup ratio,
Compression ratio and overall Data Reduction ratio
• Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes to
thin-dedup, compressed or DECO
9. Snapshots and Clones
• Snapshots and Clones: benefits
• Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a snapshot
• Rules and relationships regarding snapshots
• Restore from a snapshot
• Scheduling the creation of a snapshot
• Using the Virtual Lock feature to delete outdated
snapshots
• Resynchronize a clone to a base volume
• Promote a clone to a base volume
• Use SSMC and the CLI to manage snapshots and clones
10. Reporting: Performance and Capacity
• The on-node database: the .srdata database volume
• Using SSMC reports to analyze capacity needs and trends
• Using SSMC reports to analyze performance
• Using SSMC default reports and creating custom reports
• Scheduling and emailing reports
• Using the Excel client
• Using the CLI stat commands to analyze performance and
capacity
• Using the CLI sr* commands to analyze performance and
capacity
• App volume sets and Topology Insights
• Topology Insights: Analyzing the entire stack
• Topology Insights: Color-coded time slider
11. Introducing HPE InfoSight
• HPE Infosight
• InfoSight customer use case
• Gain visibility with InfoSight
• How do we close the App-Data Gap?
• See once, prevent for all
• Cross-stack analytics for VMware
• HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR - Dashboard
• Where to get more Info on InfoSight
Lab 1 – vLabs Access
Module 2 Lab – Installing and Working with SSMC and the
Command Line (CLI)
Module 4 Lab – Storage Configuration
Module 5 Lab – Host Configuration and Storage Allocation
Module 6 Lab – Host Sets and VV Sets
Module 7 / 8 Lab – Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Dedup
Estimate
Module 9 Lab – Snapshots and Clones
Module 10 Lab – Reporting
Appendix A Lab – Virtual Domains
