HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Essentials

This course provides an overview of HPE GreenLake Services and common administrative tasks associated with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise operational management. Students learn the roles and responsibilities as an HPE GreenLake administrator, as well as how to operate and manage HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise using HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions.

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

• Identify the advantages of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
• Identify the services provided by HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
• List integrations with HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
• Show how to navigate the Private Cloud Enterprise dashboard
• List units of measure for services
• Provide descriptions of key HPE GreenLake for Bare Metal concepts
• Identify use cases for the Bare Metal instance types
• Identify at least two infrastructure-as-code integrations with HPE GreenLake for Bare Meta
• Describe initial and ongoing customer admin tasks
• Describe the different types of networks used with HPE GreenLake for Bare Metal
• Describe customer and HPE responsibilities for HPE GreenLake for Virtual Machines
• Explain how HPE GreenLake for Virtual Machines is integrated with the existing environment
• Given a set of requirements, configure HPE GreenLake for Virtual Machines
• Describe the provisioning components for provisioning instances and apps
• Describe the features and relationships of provisioning objects: instance types, layouts, node types
• Show how to create instance types, layouts, and node types
• Identify the tasks used to manage instances
• Identify the steps to create and add a custom image
• Describe how to add an instance item to the catalog
• Show how to run life cycle actions on an instance
• Describe the use of file templates and scripts
• Create and run a script-type task
• Describe the features of the two types of workflows
• Describe the parts and features of a multitier app blueprint
• Describe the types of policies and how they are used
• Given a set of requirements, configure HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud networking

Module 1: HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise Overview

• Overview of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
• HPE for Private Cloud Enterprise dashboard
• Networking overview
• Service level agreements
• Overview of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise for regulated environments
• Demo: Creating a cost and consumption report

Module 2: Administering HPE GreenLake Bare Metal Services

• Overview of bare metal services
• Understanding the start state
• Customer admin tasks
• Working with Bare Metal Compute groups
• Instances and instance types
• Bare metal networking
• Lab: Creating a bare metal compute group
• Lab: Creating a compute instance

Module 3: Introduction to Administering HPE GreenLake for Private Clourd Enterprise Virtual Machine Services

• Overview of virtual machine services
• Starting with virtual machine services
• Demo: Configuring virtual machine services settings

Module 4: Administering HPE GreenLake for Virtual Machine Services: Enabling Provisioning

• VM Provisioning concepts
• Getting started with provisioning
• Basic image management
• Creating library provisioning objects
• Lab: Creating library objects
• Defining an Instance catalog item
• Lab: Creating an instance catalog item
• Demo: Creating a script and file template and using them in a blueprint

Module 5: Administerin HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud: Automation and Policies

• VM provisioning review
• Automating instance configuration
• Automation tasks
• Automation workflows
• Lab: Creating and running provisioning workflows
• Lab: Creating and running an operational workflow
• Automating instance scaling
• Lab: Configuring automatic instance scaling
• Apps and blueprints
• Creating policies for fine-grained control
• Lab: Creating and testing policies • Backups

Module 6: Administerin HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud: Configuring Networking

• HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise networking concepts
• Getting started with HPE GreenLake for Private Coud Enterprise networking
• Managing NSX-T segments
• Load balancing
• Demo: Creating and using a network segment

Module 7: HPE GreenLake Cloud Services API and IaC

• HPE GreenLake Cloud Services API
• Using API documentation
• Using API clients
• Infrastructure as a code with Terraform
• Demo: Using Terraform IaC

Module 8: Administering HPE GreenLake for Containers: Introduction

• Overview of HPE GreenLake for Containers
• Overview of HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise
• Options for managing HPE GreenLake for containers
• Demo: Checking health and compliance in the Kubernetes Environment

Module 9: Administering HPE Greenlake for Containers: Getting Started

• Cluster blueprint overview
• Creating a cluster
• Configuring a namespace/tenant
• Lab: Defining a custom cluster blueprint

Module 10: Administering HPE GreenLake for containers - Advanced Configuration

• Managing a cluster configuration
• Managing namespace/tenant quotas
• Using policies to manage resources
• Demo: Setting quotas and policies on a cluster

This course is ideal for IT support and/or technical professionals who perform dayto-day IT operations for HPE GreenLake environments.

Before taking this course, you should have 1-2 years of experience working as an IT or cloud administrator, architect, or engineer, and have general knowledge and experience around IT and cloud architecture, virtualization, containers, operations, and administration.