Managing HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 (Block Storage)

This course describes the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 building blocks, theory of operation, and features. You learn how to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, sets, and how to monitor the product. This course also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, and QoS as well as maintenance and data migration. You gain a practical understanding of the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

Course objectives 
After completing this course, you should be able to: 

• Describe HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 hardware and features
• List and compare HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 management options, roles, and security
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Perform on-boarding and initialization
• Work with volumes, hosts, and corresponding sets
• Protect data with snapshots, clones, and use protection policies
• Describe priority optimization and quality of service (QoS)
• Explain different types of replication implementations and failure scenarios
• Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
• Describe monitoring and alerting options
• Describe the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 OS update procedure and maintenanc

Module 1: Hardware and Features

• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 built on the HPE Alletra Storage MP
• Features of HPE Alletra Storage MP platform
• Features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 series arrays
• HPE Alletra Storage MP—the basics
• HPE Alletra Storage MP chassis
  • Switchless configuration
  • Switched configuration
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 compute IO Module details
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 OCP adapters
  • Slot population rules for different platform models
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 JBOF IO Module details
• HPE Alletra Storage MP drive enclosure/cage (JBOF) connectivity
• HPE Alletra Storage MP—the architecture
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
  • Data-at-rest encryption
  • Drive configuration best practices
  • Releases and features
  • HPE ArcusOS software details
  • Licensing structure
  • Software and support subscription
• HPE Alletra Block Storage in the cloud
  • HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS
  • HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure

Module 2: Management Options

• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 manageability
• HPE GreenLake cloud and Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE GreenLake cloud services
  • Data Services Cloud Console introduction
  • Data Services Cloud Console overview
  • Data Ops Manager
  • Block storage
  • Intent-based provisioning
  • Read-only option for Data Services Cloud Console
  • Dual authorization option for Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP disconnected
• Data Services Cloud Console Public REST API
  • Data Services Cloud Console Rest API
  • Knowledge training
  • YouTube demo for the Data Services Cloud Console API
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 local UI overview
  • Enabling read-only option for Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 web services API (WSAPI)
  • REST(ful) API Introduction
  • Usage basics
  • REST operations
  • URI
  • Usage example

Module 3: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Provisioning Terminology

• HPE ArcusOS virtualization
• Chunklet concept
• System wide sparing
• RAID concepts
• High availability
• Virtual volume overview
• HPE ArcusOS—enhanced software vs. legacy architectures comparison
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 data reduction overview
• Data reduction technologies overview
• Thin provisioning overview
  • Windows server space reclamation
  • Linux space reclamation
  • VMware® space reclamation
  • Allocation units and alignment
  • Migrating virtual machines with VMware vCenter Converter
• Deduplication and compression
• Data packing

Module 4: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Initialization and Array Status

• Installation
• Documentation and resources
• Initialization process
  • Create an HPE GreenLake user account
  • Collect information
  • Device registration and onboarding
  • Preparing for discovery
  • HPE Discovery Tool and Cloud Connectivity Wizard
  • Initializing using the mobile app
  • Data Services Cloud Console Setup Service

Module 5: Working with Hosts

• HPE ArcusOS
  • Virtualization
  • Host OS support
• Front-end configuration: FC example
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 block I/O connectivity
• NVMe-oF host support
• WWN format of host ports
• Connectivity options with NFS access
• Obtaining Host HBA WWNs
  • Switch
  • Command and utilities
• Creation of host profiles

Module 6: Working with Volumes and Sets

• HPE ArcusOSOS Virtualization
• Virtual volume review
• Host sets and virtual volume sets
• Virtual volume sets and hosts
• Working with sets
  • Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI—on premises
  • CLI
• Alletra Storage MP B10000 Online Virtual Volume Conversion
• HPE Virtual Lock
  • Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from Data Services Cloud Console
  • Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from the CLI
• File/NFS sStorage

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones

• Snapshot—Virtual Copy
• Virtual Copy for backup use case
  • Virtual Copy creation
  • Virtual Copy writes
• HPE Virtual Lock review
  • Customer example: Cyber-attack
  • Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from Data Services Cloud Console
  • Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from the CLI
  • How to show how HPE Virtual Lock snapshots work
• Promote or restore a Snapshot
• Clone terms and specifics
• Protection policies
  • Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
  • Plan snapshots when creating app volume sets
• Command line interface (CLI)
  • Snapshot CLI overview
  • Clone CLI overview

Module 8: Replication

• Replication overview
• Replication network transport methods
• Volume set replication
• Replication modes
• Replication operations
  • Failure scenario
  • Replication actions
• Replication setup and management
  • Data Services Cloud Console
  • CLI
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI

Module 9: Peer Persistence

• Active Peer Persistence
• HPE Peer Persistence infrastructure view
• HPE Peer Persistence deployment matrix
• Quorum Witness software
• Automatic transparent failover
  • Failure scenarios
• HPE 3DC Peer Persistence
  • 3DC Active Peer Persistence details
  • HPE 3DC disaster recovery configurations
• Working with the Quorum Witness
• Review the Quorum Witness
• Configuration via HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI

Module 10: Monitoring, Alerts and Events

• Performance reporting introduction
• Data Services Cloud Console—Data Ops Manager
  • Enhanced reporting
  • Extended reporting
  • Available options
  • system capacity views
• Ransomware in-line detection, mitigation, and recovery
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 on-array management UI
  • Overview, alerts, and tasks
  • Performance
  • Capacity
• Performance metrics available using API and CLI
• CLI: stat commands
• CLI: hist* commands
• CLI: srstat commands
• Performance alerts
• SNMP
• Alerts and events
  • Alerts overview
  • Alert message codes
  • Sample message
• Managing alerts with the CLI
• Setting system alerts
• Example alert
• Monitoring and managing the event log
• Example event
• Syslog support
• Checkhealth procedure
• Options available in Data Services Cloud Console
• Options available in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
• Sustainability for HPE Alletra Storage MP
• FinOps for HPE Alletra Storage MP

Module 11: Maintenance, OS Update, and Data Migration

• Software updates and recommendations
• Operations performed via Data Ops Manager
  • Running readiness checks and installing updates
  • User notified of update requirements
• On-array management/local UI
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 maintenance
  • On-array management UI
  • Customer self-repair option
  • Part replacement
  • HPE Call Home
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI
• Data migration
  • Storage migration methodologies
  • Peer motion
  • Online import
• Appendix: Sustainability overview
• Appendix: FinOps overview

This course is ideal for customers, administrators, and channel partner sales or technical sales.

Before attending this course, you should have: 

• An understanding of general storage concepts including Fibre Channel, iSCSI technology, and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment