HPE Composable Fabric I: Installation and Management

This training covers the steps necessary for installing and managing an HPE Composable Fabric using the HPE Composable Fabric Manager and HPE fabric modules (switches) with version 5.0. Students will learn about administration techniques using hands-on lab activities in a simulated environment. Includes 10 days for lab access starting at the first delivery class date. 

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

• Provide an understanding of the HPE Composable Fabric and its capabilities
• Discuss the elements of an HPE Composable Fabric, the wiring options and necessary steps for building a Composable Fabric
• Describe and demonstrate common and advanced Composable Fabric configurations
• Provide a simulated Composable Fabric environment for configuration Lab activities
• Prepare the student for day-to-day administration of Composable Fabric elements
• Identify available Composable Fabric support services and procedures
• Describe how to use the provided tools px-setup and px-psi to ensure a successful installation
• Discuss and demonstrate integrations with HPE SimpliVity, VMware vSphere, and
• Vware NSX. Users will perform laboratory exercises using simulated visualizations with SimpliVity and VMware data
• Learn about Affinities and the Fitting engine process and use this simulated environment to build and visualize their own Affinities
• Use the Guided Setup wizard to configure a new environment adding several virtual fabric modules.  Once modules are added, students will configure module ports, adjust port speeds, create/edit VLANs
• VLAN Groups, Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs) & MLAGs (multi-LAGs), SNMP, NTP
• DNS, sFlow, administer user accounts and certificates
• Learn about packet forwarding and routing techniques used within and external to the Composable Fabric and perform hands
• on laboratory exercises using both the Composable Fabric Manager UI and the px-shell Command Line Interpreter (CLI) to configure and validate BGP, OSPF
• inter-VLAN and Static Routing to reinforce learning
• Cover the general maintenance and upgrading of fabric modules, and the necessary steps to gather fabric information to provide to HPE support services for fabric diagnostics
• Conclude with a discussion and links for contacting HPE support services

• Network engineers and administrators
• Network architects and consultants

Learners should have networking experience to get the most from this training course
 

Installation - Provide the student with an understanding of: 

• The elements of an HPE Composable Fabric
• How to construct an HPE Composable Fabric solution
• The recommended order of installation 
• Tools demonstration: 
  • px-setup – to provide MGMT IP addresses to all fabric modules
  • px-shell – a command line interpreter (CLI) for the fabric modules
  • px-psi – a tool to test fabric connectivity when using the FM1006

Administration Basics - This module will cover configuring the necessary elements for a new installation using the Composable Fabric Manager:

• Logging into the Composable Fabric Manager
• Performing ‘Guided Setup’ • Basic Port Configurations 
• Adding Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs)
• Configuring Integration Sets
• Administration of User Accounts, Certificates
• Visualizations
• Lab Activity

Advanced Administration Topics - This module will cover Advanced Administration topics using the Composable Fabric Manager:

• Configuring advanced Port options
• Configuring advanced System options 
• Affinities and the Fitting Engine
• Maintenance and Support capabilities
• Lab Activity

Routing Administration - This module will cover routing and forwarding techniques used with the HPE Composable Fabric:

• Layer 2 Packet Forwarding - internal to the fabric
• Inter-VLAN Routing - internal to the fabric
• Layer 3 IP Routing - internal to the fabric 
• Static Routing - internal and external to the fabric
• Layer 3 IP Routing - external to the fabric
• Lab Activity

Support Services 

• This module will cover how to contact HPE´s global support organization and gaining access to software