At the end of this course, the learner should be able to:

• Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
• Discuss the topics addressed in this course
• Describe the benefits of data reduction technologies
• Perform space reclamation
• Describe data reduction technologies: deduplication, compression, and data packing
• Perform a data reduction estimation
• Perform an online virtual volume conversion
• Describe System Reporter capabilities
• Use SSMC and the CLI to run reports
• Use the CLI stat commands to look at realtime statistics
• Use HPE Primera app volume sets (AppVVset) in performance context
• Use the SSMC Workload Insights feature for performance reasons to isolate application spikes and trends
• Understand the SSMC Workload Insights concept of a performance score
• Understand the advantages of the Topology Insights feature to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
• Describe basic HPE Primera UI monitoring
• View, interpret, and manage system events and alerts
• Use the checkhealth command for troubleshooting
• Work with alert notifications for System Reporter
• Monitor and manage the event log
• Forward events to syslog server
• Explain SNMP settings and capabilities
• Describe the SMI-S standard, WBEM initiative, and HPE Primera CIM support
• Explain REST API use
• Describe the advantages of Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)
• Discuss the performance implications of Priority Optimization
• Administer Priority Optimization
• Monitor the impact of Priority Optimization
• Create a scheduled and immediate snapshot
• Export a snapshot
• Perform a recovery using a snapshot
• Work with a clone
• Describe the key features, benefits, and advantages of Remote Copy
• Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations
• Explain the differences between synchronous and periodic asynchronous replication modes
• Discuss different failure scenarios
• Perform a failover of a Remote Copy group
• Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions

Module 0: Course Introduction

• Introduction
• Course agenda

Module 1: Thin Features and Data Reduction

• Data reduction introduction and overview
• Zero-detect and thin persistence
• Space reclamation on Windows, Linux, VMware®
• Block alignment
• Thin persistence technology
• Compaction and overprovisioning
• Data reduction technologies
• Deduplication, compression, and data packaging
• Savings estimation
• Online virtual volume conversion (dynamic optimization)

Module 2: Monitoring and Reporting

• System Reporter introduction
• Data retention
• SSMC System Reporter options
• Types of reports
• Default reports in SSMC
• Report controls
• Report templates
• Creating historical and real time reports
• Scheduling/emailing reports
• CLI reporting
• Performance view
• Analytics and workload Insights
• Application volume sets
• Topology Insights
• On-node monitoring overview

Module 3: Events and Alerts

• Alerts and events overview
• Managing alerts—SSMC/CLI
• Managing events—SSMC/CLI
• Alerts and events tiering
• Alert spare part notification
• Syslog support
• The checkhealth command overview and use
• Troubleshooting
• System Reporter performance alerts management
• SNMP overview
• SNMP use—MIBs, alert traps
• SNMP management
• CIM API overview
• HPE Primera CIM API
• About SMI-S
• CIM standard
• CIM management
• REST API overview
• REST API usage

Module 4: Priority Optimization/QoS

• Introduction and features
• How does it work
• Examples
• Configurable parameters and their meaning
• Configuring and managing via SSMC
• Configuring and managing via CLI
• Monitoring via SSMC and CLI
• Summary and best practices

Module 5: Snapshots and Clones

• Snapshot introduction
• Snapshot use cases
• How snapshots work
• Working with a snapshot using SSMC
• Working with a snapshot using CLI
• Clone introduction and how it works
• Working with a clone using SSMC
• Working with a clone using CLI

Module 6: Remote Replication

• Remote Copy introduction
• Supported protocols
• Architecture, features and terminology
• Replication modes
• Supported maximums
• Failure scenarios and failover
• Remote Copy operations
• Data migration options overview
• Peer persistence overview
• HPE Cluster Extension overview
• VMware vSphere® Site Recovery Manager overview

Appendix 1: What’s New in HPE Primera

• Remote Copy
• HPE Primera Remote Copy feature set updates with 4.2
• Peer motion and online import
• Online import utility (OIU 2.4 ) .
• VMware vVOLs support with HPE Primera
• SSMC 3.7 enhancements
• InfoSight update

Lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access and Initial Set up

• Task 1: Accessing HPE vLabs
• Task 2: Initial setup
  • Exercise 1: Log in to the HPE StoreServ management console
  • Exercise 2: Configuring hosts
  • Exercise 2a: Adding a host manually using the HBA WWPNs with SSMC
  • Exercise 2b: Adding a host using Host Explorer with SSMC
  • Exercise 3: Install Iometer
  • Exercise 4: Enabling advanced system performance analytics

Lab 1: Online Virtual Volume Conversion and Data Reduction Estimates

• Exercise 1: Lab set up
• Exercise 2: Data reduction savings estimate using CLI
  • Estimation analysis results
• Exercise 3: Online conversion using SSMC

Lab 2: Monitoring and Reporting

• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
• Exercise 2: SSMC default reports
• Exercise 3: Custom reports using SSMC
  • Physical drives – performance statistic report
  • CPGs – capacity report
  • System capacity report
• Exercise 4: Realtime information reports
• Exercise 5: Monitoring app virtual volume sets using dashboard
• Exercise 6: Using CLI to view real-time performance

Lab 3: Events and Alerts

• Exercise 1: Viewing alerts (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 2: Viewing alerts (CLI)
• Exercise 3: Viewing tasks (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 4: Viewing events (CLI)
• Exercise 5: Syslog
• Exercise 6: System Reporter alerts (SSMC GUI)
• Exercise 7: SNMP traps
• Exercise 8: Using REST API
  • Part 1—HPE Primera REST preparation and login
  • Part 2—Using the Postman client to create a resource
  • Part 3—Using the Postman client to delete a resource
  • Part 4—Using cURL to manage resources
• Exercise clean-up

Lab 4: Priority Optimization (QoS)

• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
• Exercise 2: Configuring Priority Optimization using SSMC
• Exercise 3: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using SSMC
• Exercise 4: Monitoring and managing Priority Optimization using CLI
  • QoS analysis results
  • Additional commands to manage QoS rules

Lab 5: Snapshots and Clones

• Exercise 1: Initial lab set up
• Exercise 2: Snapshot file recovery
• Exercise 3: Snapshot full volume data recovery
• Exercise 4: Restore data between two snapshots
• Exercise 5: Schedule snapshots and snapshot expiration policies
  • Create a snapshot policy
  • Create scheduled snapshots using a snapshot policy
  • Exploring scheduled snapshots over time
• Exercise 6: Create a clone
• Exercise 7: Create a clone with resynchronization capability
• Exercise 8: Working with snapshots and clones using CLI

Lab 6: Remote Replication

• Planning and initial set up of Remote Copy
  • Exercise 1: Lab set up
  • Exercise 2: Verify RCIP ports and configuration set up using SSMC
  • Verifying the RCIP port configuration
  • Remote Copy configuration
  • Exercise 3: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups
  • Exercise 4: Add a volume pair to an existing Remote Copy group
• Outage Scenarios: Failover to the remote site and failback
  • Exercise 5: Planned failover to the remote site
  • Exercise 6: Recovery of a Remote Copy group after the source system is back online
  • Exercise 7: Restore a Remote Copy group
• Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
  • Exercise 8: Stop and failover a Remote Copy group
  • Exercise 9: Revert a Remote Copy group and failover again
  • Revert
  • Failover again
  • Exercise 10: Revert the Remote Copy group and replicate in the original direction
  • Exercise 11: Delete a Remote Copy group
  • Exercise 12: Lab clean up
  • Exercise 13: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI

Lab A (Optional): Working with VMware®

• Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
• Exercise 2: Adding the ESXi host and exporting a volume in SSMC
• Exercise 3: Working with storage using VMware vCenter®

Lab B (Optional) Working with Linux

• Exercise 1: Switch between client VMs
• Exercise 2: Adding the RHEL Linux host and export a volume using SSMC
• Exercise 3: Discovering devices and working with multipathing on the Linux host
• Exercise 4: Create a partition, add the filesystem, and mount the volume

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

One of the following courses:

• HM9Q5S: HPE Primera I: Management and Connectivity
• HN5B2S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage (with extended eLearning)
• HN5A9S: Introduction to HPE Primera storage