By the completion of this course, the learner will be able to complete the following tasks using the Nimble operating system:

• Perform initial configuration of a new array with NSM and GUI
• Perform post-installation tests
• Create volumes and zero-copy clones
• Attach and verify volumes/clones to Windows
• Create and modify data protection policies for volumes
• Restore volumes and individual files from a snapshot
• Use the HPE Nimble GUI to monitor array capacity/performance

Module 1: Course Introduction and Overview

• Agenda
• Documentation
• Capacity units

Module 2: AF and HF-Series Hardware

• Portfolio overview
• AF-Series controllers and enclosures
• HF-Series controllers and enclosures
• Memory driven flash (SCM)

Module 3: Array Initialization and Setup

• HPE Welcome Center
• Networking overview
• HPE Nimble Setup Manager
• Initialization
• Setup
• Post-setup test
• Firewall configuration
• Data Services Cloud Console

Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage OS WebUI Introduction

• How to access
• Tour
• User management
• Basic monitoring
• Updating HPE Nimble Storage OS
• Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager OS upgrade

Module 5: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes

• Volume Concepts
• Provisioning and performance policies
• Protection templates overview
• Volume collections
• Volume creation
• Fibre channel zoning
• Access control and initiator groups
• Presentation
• HPE Nimble Storage Windows Toolkit
• HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager

Module 6: HPE Nimble OS Advanced Features Overview

• Deduplication
• Compression
• HF-Series volume pinning
• Quality of service (QOS)
• SmartSecure encryption

Module 7: Snapshots and Clones

• How HPE Nimble Storage snapshots work
• How HPE Nimble zero-copy clones work
• Volume collections and scheduled snapshots
• Manual snapshot creation
• Zero-copy clones

Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence

• Basic replication concepts
• Replication use cases
• How asynchronous replication works
• Peer persistence overview
• To learn more about replication

Module 9: Introduction to Scaling with HPE Nimble Storage

• Scale-to-fit options overview
  • Scale-up
  • Scale-out
  • Scale-deep
• HPE Timeless Storage
• Next training direction

Module 10: Introduction HPE InfoSight

• Concepts
• Architecture
• Benefits

lab outline

Lab 1: HPE vLabs Access

• Objectives
• Accessing HPE vLabs

Lab 2: Installing HPE Nimble Windows Toolkit

• Background
• Task 1: Launch NWT installer

Lab 3: Initialize an Array

• Background
• Lab topology
• Task 1: Launch Nimble Setup Manager
• Task 2: Subnet configuration
• Task 3: Post setup testing

Lab 4: Update HPE Nimble Operating System

Lab 5-1: Basic Volume Creation

• Task 1: Create a volume
• Task 2: Create a volume collection
• Task 3: Create an initiator and an initiator group

Lab 5-2: Windows Host SetUp using the HPE Nimble Connection Manager (NCM) Utility

• Background
• Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
• Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
• Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume

Lab 7: Snapshots and Data Recovery

• Background
• Task 1: Create data
• Task 2: Simulate a data loss event
• Task 3: Create a zero-copy clone
• Task 4: Connect to the clone and recover the data
• Task 5: Disconnect and delete the clone

Lab 10-1: Correlate System Events/SNMP traps with lab activities

Lab 10-2: HPE Infosigh

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