HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity

The HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The session reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs (HOL), including creating the right data efficient volumes on an all-flash HPE Primera array, and leveraging the power of HPE InfoSight.

The course prepares learners for deeper follow-on training from HPE, including the 2-day, HM9Q6S: HPE Primera II: Monitoring and Replication course.

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

• Discuss Primera hardware offerings
• Describe HPE Primera family features
• List management options
• Describe the HPE Primera Storage software portfolio
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
• Explain the HPE Primera concepts of a common provisioning group (CPG)
• Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VV)
• Overview Primera data reduction technologies
• Prepare a host to access an HPE Primera storage array
• Create hosts in an HPE Primera storage array
• Explain how to add fibre channel (FC) ports to a host
• Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for Primera
• Export virtual volumes (VV) to a host as VLUNs
• Unexport virtual volumes (VV) from a host
• Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
• Create and maintain host sets and volume sets
• Use SSMC and the CLI to create and manage host sets and volume sets
• Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
• Describe app volume sets
• Describe the use of InfoSight to monitor Primera and its surroundings

Customers, administrators and channel partner sales or technical sales
 

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

Module 1: Solution Overview
Part 1 Hardware 

• Primera technical specifications
• HPE Primera hardware building blocks
• Data-in-place upgrade
• Primera persistency and high availability features

Part 2 Software and Features 

• Management options overview
• Primera and 3PAR SSMC
• HPE Primera storage management HPE Primera UI
• HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Primera integration portfolio overview
• Selected data protection and security features overview
• HPE Primera leadership replication
• Peer Persistence–
• HPE Cluster Extension CLX
•  VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager
• Sources of information

Module 2:  Storage Concepts and Terminology

• HPE Primera OS virtualization logical view
• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts
• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages 
• Chunklet concepts
• System wide sparing
• Loigical disk concepts
•  HPE Primera high availability
• CPG concepts
• Virtual volume overview
• Thin provisioning overview
• HPE Primera data reduction overview

Module 3:  Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration—FC example
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• HPE Primera Persistent Ports
• HPE Primera WWN format
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• HPE Primera implementation guide 
• Host HBAs and WWNs—commands/utilities
• HPE Smart SAN for Primera
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• Adding hosts in SSMC—SMART SAN enabled
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts 
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo

Module 4: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets

• Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage
• Virtual volume set—other use cases
• Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples
• App volume sets overview App volume sets— SSMC examples
• SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets