The Managing HPE Primera Storage I course provides an overview of the HPE Primera portfolio. The course reviews how to perform common day-to-day management tasks with hands-on labs, 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 HM9Q6S: Managing HPE Primera II course.

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Describe the objectives and purpose of this course
• Discuss the topics addressed in this course
• Discuss the HPE Primera family
• Discuss HPE Primera hardware building blocks
• Discuss the data-in-place upgrade
• Describe controller enclosures, nodes, and HBA’s
• Describe controller node architecture and port numbering
• Describe high availability features of HPE Primera
• Discuss HPE Primera software and management options
• Describe data protection and security features
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Understand the concepts of chunklets and logical disks
• Explain the HPE Primera concept of common provisioning groups (CPG)
• Explain thin provisioned virtual volumes (VV)
• Overview HPE Primera data reduction technologies
• State HPE Primera management options
• Describe Data Services Cloud Console and steps to onboard HPE Primera
• Describe HPE Primera initial setup, HPE Primera UI, and customer self-update/repair options
• Describe on-premises administration tools, features and the third-party integration portfolio
• 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
• Describe iSCSI configuration
• Explain the advantages of HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
• Export virtual volumes (VV) to a host as VLUNs
• Unexport virtual volumes (VV) from a host
• Use SSMC and the CLI to work with hosts and storage
• Describe the advantages of host sets and volume sets
• Create and maintain host sets and volume sets using Data Services Cloud Console, SSMC and CLI.
• Discuss the guidelines and rules regarding host sets and volume sets
• Describe application volume sets
• Describe advantages of HPE InfoSight

Module 0: Introduction

• Course Introduction
• Course agenda

Module 1: Solution Overview:

• Part 1—Hardware
  • HPE Primera technical specifications
  • HPE Primera hardware building blocks
  • Data-in-place upgrade
  • HPE Primera persistency and high availability features
• Part 2—Software and Features
  • Management options overview
  • HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR SSMC
  • HPE Primera storage management—HPE Primera UI
  • HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
  • Data Services Cloud Console
  • 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

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
• Logical disk concepts
• HPE Primera high availability
• Common provisioning group (CPG) concepts
• Virtual volume overview
• Thin provisioning overview
• HPE Primera data reduction overview

Module 3: HPE Primera Management

• HPE Primera manageability
• Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE Primera initial setup and HPE Primera UI
• Customer self-install
• Customer self-update option
• Customer self-repair option
• HPE Primera application sets
• Host creation
• Filtering and sorting
• Volume actions
• Snapshots
• HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC)
• HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)
• HPE Primera integration portfolio overview

Module 4: Host Connectivity and Storage

• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: fibre channel (FC) example
• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity
• HPE Primera persistent ports
• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support
• Host bus adapters (HBAs) and worldwide names (WWN)s
• HPE Primera—iSCSI support
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera
• HPE Primera zoning overview
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera overview
• Adding hosts in SSMC: Smart SAN
• Making VLUNs visible to hosts
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo
• Host configuration and storage allocation

Module 5: 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
• Data Services Cloud Console—host group and volumes
• App volume sets overview
• App volume sets— SSMC examples
• SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets
• App sets vs virtual volume (VV)sets

Module 6: HPE InfoSight Introduction

• HPE InfoSight sees and predicts behind the scene
• Get the full picture with HPE Primera and HPE InfoSight
• The artificial intelligence (AI) process for HPE self-healing storage
• HPE InfoSight—artificial intelligence operations (AIOps)
• HPE Primera—PDF report
• HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics for VMware environments
• HPE Primera UI—HPE InfoSight software recommendations
• Managing HPE Primera software updates
• HPE Primera wellness filters
• HPE InfoSight unified tenancy

Appendix 1: HPE Primera Virtual Domains

• HPE Virtual Domains software
• HPE Virtual Domains for multitenancy security
• What are the benefits of virtual domains?
• Priority Optimization

Detailed lab outline

Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access

• Task 1: Accessing the HPE vLab

Lab 1: Working with SSMC and CLI

• Exercise 1: Reviewing the SSMC GUI and online help
• Exercise 2: Reviewing the dashboard and changing output views
• Exercise 3: Accessing the SSMC settings screen
• Exercise 4: Adding a user
• Exercise 5: Working with the SSMC activity screen
• Exercise 6: SSMC hardware introduction
• Exercise 7: Launching the CLI

Lab 2: Storage Configuration

• Exercise 1: Log in to SSMC
• Exercise 2: Working with CPGs in SSMC
• Exercise 3: Working with virtual volumes (VV) in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-1: Creating thin provisioned virtual volumes
  • Exercise 3-2: Creating thin volumes (TPVV) with data reduction enabled
  • Exercise 3-3: Creating multiple virtual volumes using a count
  • Exercise 3-4: Displaying/editing/removing virtual volumes
• Exercise 4: Working with VVs using the CLI

Lab 3: Host Configuration and Storage Allocation

• Exercise 1: Identify the HBA type (Windows)
• Exercise 2: Determining host port WWNs
• Exercise 3: Adding a host using HBA WWNs in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-A: Adding a host using Host Explorer in SSMC
  • Exercise 3-B: Adding a host manually using HBA WWNs in SSMC
• Exercise 4: Export/unexport VLUNs in SSMC
• Exercise 5: Windows host configuration formatting and mounting VLUNs
• Exercise 6: Online virtual volume increase
• Exercise 7: Working with default reports
• Exercise 8: Working with HPE LUNInfo for HPE Primera and HPE 3PAR
• Exercise 9: Working with hosts and storage using the CLI

Lab 4: Host, Volume and App Volume Sets

• Exercise 1: Working with host sets and virtual volume sets
  • Exercise 1-1: Working with host sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-2: Working with virtual volume sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-3: Export virtual volume sets to hosts sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-4: Unexport virtual volume sets from hosts sets in SSMC
  • Exercise 1-5: Delete virtual volume sets and hosts sets in SSMC
• Exercise 2: Working with app volume sets using SSMC
• Exercise 3: Working with host sets and volume sets using CLI

Lab 5: Using HPE InfoSight

• Exercise 1: Logging in and dashboard
• Exercise 2: Access HPE InfoSight support
• Exercise 3: Array overview
• Exercise 4: Physical disk details
• Exercise 5: Reports
• Exercise 6: HPE InfoSight scenarios (optional)
  • Exercise 6-1: Health check
  • Exercise 6-2: Planning for growth
  • Exercise 6-3: Using HPE InfoSight to troubleshoot

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