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HPE SimpliVity System Administration
This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies...
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$2,000 USD
Duration
2 days
Course Code
H0LP9S
Available Formats
Classroom
Overview
This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on HPE SimpliVity system with the HPE SimpliVity Plug-in for VMware vSphere® and the RapidDR user interface.
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this training, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the various components that form the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Distinguish between peer-managed and centrally-managed HPE SimpliVity federations
- Identify how VM data is stored across HPE SimpliVity clusters
- Create datastores and perform different tasks associated with HPE SimpliVity datastores
- Explain the various HPE SimpliVity operations like Clone or Move VM
- Create manual and policy-based backups and use them for restore
- Configure external stores for secondary backup
- Perform basic support tasks on the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Use RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery
Who Can Benefit
This course is intended for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity.
Prerequisites
HPE recommends that students attend training or attain experience in the following areas before taking this class:
- Networking technologies
- VMware vSphere® 6.5+
- HPE ProLiant servers
Course Details
Course Outline
Module 1 - Introduction to HPE SimpliVity
- Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
- Core features built into the HPE SimpliVity solution
- HPE SimpliVity’s Hyper-Guarantee
- HPE SimpliVity use cases
Module 2 - HPE SimpliVity Architecture
- Deep understanding of the HPE SimpliVity data virtualization platform
- Elements within an HPE SimpliVity Federation
- Datacenter and cluster concepts within the HPE SimpliVity federation
- Levels of resiliency built-in to the HPE SimpliVity solution
- How VM data locality is maintained
Module 3 - HPE SimpliVity Portfolio
- HPE SimpliVity hardware models and supported configurations
- Tiered-storage implementation
- Read/write IO paths for different HPE SimpliVity models
- HPE SimpliVity networking
Module 4a Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-1
- HPE SimpliVity management interfaces (GUI, CLI and REST API)
- HPE SimpliVity backup policies
- HPE SimpliVity datastores and permitted operations
- Configuring external stores for secondary backup
- Sharing HPE SimpliVity datastores with access nodes (nonHPE SimpliVity nodes)
- Virtual machines and templates in an HPE SimpliVity federation
Module 4b Working with HPE SimpliVity Part-2
- HPE SimpliVity backups
- Backup management
- Restores using HPE SimpliVity backups
- File level restore
- HPE SimpliVity Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver
- Failover plan using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
Module 5 - HPE SimpliVity Upgrades, Support and InfoSight
- HPE SimpliVity host and virtual controller related maintenance tasks
- HPE SimpliVity alarms and events
- Create an HPE SimpliVity support capture
- HPE SimpliVity Upgrade Manager for firmware, hypervisor, and OS upgrades
- HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
- How to contact HPE support and resources
Schedule
FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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