HPE SimpliVity System Administration

This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on HPE SimpliVity system with the HPE SimpliVity Plug-in for VMware vSphere® and the RapidDR user interface.

Course objectives
Upon completion of this training, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the various components that form the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Distinguish between peer-managed and centrally-managed HPE SimpliVity federations
• Identify how VM data is stored across HPE SimpliVity clusters
• Create datastores and perform different tasks associated with HPE SimpliVity datastores
• Explain the various HPE SimpliVity operations like Clone or Move VM
• Create manual and policy-based backups and use them for restore
• Configure external stores for secondary backup
• Perform basic support tasks on the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Use RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery

Module 1 Introduction to HPE SimpliVity

• Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
• Core features built into the HPE SimpliVity solution
• HPE SimpliVity’s Hyper-Guarantee
• HPE SimpliVity use cases

Module 2 HPE SimpliVity Architecture

• Deep understanding of the HPE SimpliVity data virtualization platform
• Elements within an HPE SimpliVity Federation
• Datacenter and cluster concepts within the HPE SimpliVity federation
• Levels of resiliency built-in to the HPE SimpliVity solution
• How VM data locality is maintaine

Module 3 HPE SimpliVity Portfolio

• HPE SimpliVity hardware models and supported configurations
• Tiered-storage implementation
• Read/write IO paths for different HPE SimpliVity models
• HPE SimpliVity networking

Module 4a Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-1

• HPE SimpliVity management interfaces (GUI, CLI and REST API)
• HPE SimpliVity backup policies
• HPE SimpliVity datastores and permitted operations
• Configuring external stores for secondary backup
• Sharing HPE SimpliVity datastores with access nodes (nonHPE SimpliVity nodes)
• Virtual machines and templates in an HPE SimpliVity federation

Module 4b Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-2

• HPE SimpliVity backups
• Backup management
• Restores using HPE SimpliVity backups
• File level restore
• HPE SimpliVity Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
• Failover plan using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR

Module 5 HPE SimpliVity Upgrades, Support and InfoSight

• HPE SimpliVity host and virtual controller related maintenance tasks
• HPE SimpliVity alarms and events
• Create an HPE SimpliVity support capture
• HPE SimpliVity Upgrade Manager for firmware, hypervisor, and OS upgrades
• HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
• How to contact HPE support and resources

This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity

HPE recommends that students attend training or attain experience in the following areas before taking this class:

• Networking technologies
• VMware vSphere® 6.5+
• HPE ProLiant servers