HPE SimpliVity 380 System Administration (Hyper-V)

This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity 380 (Hyper-V). The course covers a range of administration actions executed on the HPE SimpliVity 380 (Hyper-V) system with the Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager console with the HPE SimpliVity add-in.

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

• Describe the HPE SimpliVity 380 (Hyper-V) product physical characteristics and software architecture
• Use the Virtual Machine Manager with HPE SimpliVity add-in user Interface for management tasks

• Infrastructure Administrators and System Engineers who are looking to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity 380 (Hyper-V)

• Networking technologies
• Microsoft Hyper-V

• HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Introduction
  • HPE SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform overview

 

• HPE SimpliVity 380 (Hyper-V) Overview
  • Components of HPE SimpliVity 380
  • Infrastructure
  • HPE SimpliVity Arbiter
  • Management interfaces
  • Network interfaces
  • Understanding the different players in a Hyper-V virtualized datacenter
  • High Availability, failover clustering and witness
  • Network security

 

• HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Product Family
  • HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 overview
  • Components of HPE SimpliVity 380
  • HPE SimpliVity Cluster
  • HPE OmniStack Federation

 

• HPE SimpliVity 380 for Hyper-V Specifics
  • VMWare vs Hyper-V terminology
  • Feature comparison
  • OmniStack for Hyper-V 2+2
  • Limits
  • Hyper-V Server 2016 & Discrete Device Assignment (DDA)
  • Hyper-V on SimpliVity architecture
  • OmniStack for Hyper-V Management
  • SVT command support
  • Configure users and groups for SimpliVity Administration

 

• OmniStack for Hyper-V Operations
  • Infrastructure components
  • Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
  • HPE OmniStack Add-in for SCVMM
  • Help
  • Views
  • Clusters
    • Clusters pane
    • Cluster space consumption
  • Datastores
    • Datastore capacity chart
    • Datastore Online Resize
    • Create a Datastore
    • Delete a Datastore
  • Virtual Machines
    • Backup VM
    • Set backup policy
    • View VM backups
    • Search VM backups
    • Restore VMs from a backup
    • Replace existing virtual machine
    • Delete backup
    • Clone a Virtual Machine
    • Move virtual machines to another datastore or cluster
    • VM Templates

 

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting
  • Add-in data refresh interval
  • Preferred OVC for the HPE OmniStack Add-in & Authentication Timeout
  • HPE OmniStack host status and hardware component health
  • Monitor virtual machine performance
  • Monitor cluster performance
  • Backup throughput speed
  • Features not yet implemented in the GUI
  • Use the CLI or the REST API through PowerShell
  • Event Manager for Hyper-V
  • Log files and troubleshooting
  • Support and other resources
    • Accessing Hewlett Packard Enterprise support
    • Accessing updates
    • Customer self repair
    • Remote support