Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I: Management and Local Replication

The Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I course is designed for the new or entry-level HPE 3PAR administrator. The goal of the class is to acquaint the 3PAR administrator with the most common day-to-day tasks and best practices associated with administration of the 3PAR array. The levels of provisioning storage are emphasized.
This training reflects the newest release of the HPE 3PAR OS: 3.3.1. The course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HPE 3PAR arrays. NOTE: Hosts used in the lab environment are MS Windows.

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

• Explain the numbering schemes for the HPE 3PAR hardware components: controllers, ports, and physical disks
• Use the StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) GUI and the CLI to perform administrative tasks
• Create and work with a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)

• HPE 3PAR administrators who desire training on basic concepts and best practices needed to administer the array

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment

• HPE 3PAR Solution Introduction and Review
  • HPE 3PAR Hardware Current models
  • Hardware overview for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models: controllers, drive cages, and disks
  • Controller port number naming conventions for the 7000, 8000, and 20000 models
  • Disk number naming convention for disks in the HPE 3PAR arrays
  • ASIC chip functionality
  • HPE 3PAR virtual storage architecture benefits
  • Big Picture HPE 3PAR component connectivity
  • SSMC GUI introduction and functionality overview
  • HPE 3PAR CLI overview and introduction

 

• Storage Concepts and Terminology
  • HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology
  • HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
  • HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
  • HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning and thin provisioning
  • HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology
  • HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
  • HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
  • HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types: full provisioning and thin provisioning

 

• Storage Configuration
  • CPGs using SSMC and the CLI
  • Working with virtual volume templates
  • Working with fully provisioned and thin provisioned volumes using SSMC and the CLI

 

• Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation
  • How to prepare a host to access an HPE 3PAR storage array
  • HPE 3PAR Port Persistence
  • Adding hosts in an HPE 3PAR storage array
  • Adding FC ports to a host
  • Export virtual volumes to hosts as VLUNs
  • Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host
  • Using SSMC and CLI to work with hosts and storage
  • Working with Smart SAN
  • Use Host Explorer to add hosts and explore host details
  • Use HPE 3PARInfo to gather storage information

 

• Host Sets and Virtual Volume Sets
  • Host and virtual volume sets advantages
  • Host and virtual volume sets use cases
  • Creating and maintaining host and volume sets using SSMC and the CLI
  • Host and volume sets guidelines and rules

 

• Thin Features: A Deep Dive
  • Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence
  • Zero Detection use cases
  • Space reclamation: UNMAP and other utilities
  • Compaction ratio explanation and thin overprovisioning
  • Thin provisioning: seeing what is allocated vs. used by a host
  • Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes from full to thin or thin to full using SSMC and the CLI
  • Compacting a CPG to free up space

 

• Adaptive Data Reduction for Flash: Dedup and Compression
  • Thin Dedup: saving space using deduplication and dedup detail
  • Thin Dedup: what to dedup: good candidates and bad candidates
  • Compression and how it works
  • Compression: what to compress--good candidates and bad candidates
  • Data Packing: packing data for space and cost savings
  • DECO: Dedup and Compression together
  • Working with Dedup and Compression using the SSMC GUI and the CLI
  • Performing a Dedup Estimate and a Compression Estimate
  • Seeing if Dedup and Compression are working
  • Analyzing Adaptive Data Reduction ratios: Dedup ratio, Compression ratio and overall Data Reduction ratio
  • Online Virtual Volume conversion: converting volumes to thin-dedup, compressed or DECO

 

• Snapshots and Clones
  • Snapshots and Clones: benefits
  • Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a snapshot
  • Rules and relationships regarding snapshots
  • Restore from a snapshot
  • Scheduling the creation of a snapshot
  • Using the Virtual Lock feature to delete outdated snapshots
  • Resynchronize a clone to a base volume
  • Promote a clone to a base volume
  • Use SSMC and the CLI to manage snapshots and clones

 

• Reporting: Performance and Capacity
  • The on-node database: the .srdata database volume
  • Using SSMC reports to analyze capacity needs and trends
  • Using SSMC reports to analyze performance
  • Using SSMC default reports and creating custom reports
  • Scheduling and emailing reports
  • Using the Excel client
  • Using the CLI stat commands to analyze performance and capacity
  • Using the CLI sr* commands to analyze performance and capacity