HPE Nimble II: Remote Replication and Integrations

This course provides additional knowledge of the advanced capabilities of HPE Nimble Storage arrays, including multiarray groups and pools, replication, disaster recovery, VMware® vVols, configuration of syslog and SNMP trap forwarding, and audit logs and event logs. Using extensive hands-on lab exercises that comprise over 70% of the course, you gain a practical understanding of HPE Nimble Storage integration with Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware and Veeam. 

At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

• Review HPE Nimble Storage topics
• Discuss and understand disaster terminology
• Describe, configure and perform replication between groups for both planned and unplanned disaster recovery scenarios
• Discuss peer persistence
• Discuss and perform advanced administration features, including volume performance settings, SNMP, deduplication, encryption, and more
• Configure and manage multi-member groups, storage pools and discuss scale-up and scale-out guidelines and requirements
• Configure and perform volume moves between pools, and volume striping in a multi-member pool
• Discuss network considerations, networking best practices and scenarios for HPE Nimble Storage
• Describe integrations with Windows, Linux, VMware and Veeam

Storage administrators who desire additional training on the advanced features of HPE Nimble

• HJ7C5S: HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication
• H6LH8S: HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration 
• H9TH5S: HPE Nimble Storage Introduction and Administration (with extended lab time)
• H9TH6AAE: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage and InfoSight Analytics, Rev. 18.41
• H9TH1S: Designing HPE Nimble Solutions, Rev. 18.21 (01113228)

Course Introduction

• Agenda 
• Topics review

Architecture and Advanced Features

• Read and write operations
• Nimble FS
• Triple+ Parity RAID
• Sparing 
• Deduplication
• Encryption

HPE Nimble Storage Replication

• Disaster recovery terminology (planning, RPO, RTO, etc.)
• SmartReplicate overview
• Async replication
• Sync replication
• Replication capabilities (architecture, topologies incl. fan-out, etc.)
• SmartReplicate operations
• Peer persistence architecture and operations

Scale-out 

• Scale-to-fit review 
• Scale-out groups 
• Scale-out pools 
• Scale-out operations 
• Scale-out limitations and rules

Windows Integration 

• VSS theory 
• VSS in use on Nimble 
• NWT components review 
• Space reclamation

Linux Integration, Oracle and Docker Integration

• HPE Nimble Storage Linux Toolkit (NLT)
• NCM 
• HPE Nimble Storage Oracle Application Data Manager 
• HPE Nimble Host Tuning Utility/Nimbletune
• Space reclamation

VMware Integration 

• VMware integration features 
• NCM 
• VMware vCenter® integration
• SRM integration 
• Synchronized snapshots 
• APIs and space reclamation 
• vVols 
• dHCI introduction

Backup Solution Integration 

• HPE RMC overview and basic architecture 
• Veeam overview and basic architecture 
• Data Protector overview and basic architecture 
• Additional data protection training