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HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software Administration

H45ZDS

Course ID	H45ZDS
Duration	3 days
Format	ILT, VILT
Schedule, pricing & registration
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Overview

This course is an introduction to the HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software platform. It includes instructor-led training combined with hands-on labs that walk you through managing the most used features in the HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software platform. You learn the foundations of platform management, how to create instance types and blueprints, appliance configuration and back up, monitoring, and self-service. Each student has access to a single-node HPE Morpheus Enterprise appliance to follow along with the instructor as they work through multiple labs.

Course ID	H45ZDS
Duration	3 days
Format	ILT, VILT
Schedule, pricing & registration
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Audience

This course is ideal for IT administrators, platform architects, and solutions architects.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites, but we recommend you have a general understanding of the following before taking this course:

Linux administration
Cloud concepts
General IT concepts

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

Explain the purpose, architecture, deployment approaches, licensing, and versioning of HPE Morpheus Enterprise
Identify installation, configuration, maintenance, backup, restore, health, logging, and upgrade considerations for an HPE Morpheus Enterprise appliance
Configure groups, clouds, credentials, DNS, IP address management, and resource access for an integrated environment
Configure users, roles, personas, identity integration, and effective role-based access control
Create and validate Inputs and option lists for automation and self-service use cases
Apply policy scope, precedence, timing, and enforcement to governance requirements
Create, provision, inspect, manage, discover, and delete Instances and virtual machines
Configure tenant roles, subtenants, shared resources, branding, users, and provisioning access
Configure repository integration, Cypher, tasks, provisioning workflows, and operational workflows
Create and provision a governed multi-tier application with HPE Morpheus Enterprise Blueprints
Create and validate role-governed catalog items for instances, workflows, and blueprints
Explain how plans, prices, price sets, usage, invoices, reports, analytics, guidance, and budgets support cost management
Monitor workload status, logs, applications, checks, contacts, and alert rules in the optional monitoring lab

Certifications and related exams

This course prepares you for the HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software Certified Administrator exam.

Course outline

Module 1: HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software Introduction	HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software platform purpose and core concepts HPE Morpheus Software editions and capability boundaries Appliance service tiers and deployment scenarios Licensing and versioning concepts
Module 2: Install, Maintain, and Configure an HPE Morpheus Enterprise Appliance	Deployment architecture, capacity, sizing, shared services, and installation requirements Installation workflow, reconfigure, service validation, initial setup, and license application Configuration files, directories, integrations, proxies, locales, security, personas, and administration settings Appliance services, health, logs, support bundles, and troubleshooting indicators Backup, restore, maintenance, and upgrade considerations
Module 3: Groups and Clouds	Groups as infrastructure and access boundaries Cloud integrations and credentials Group access for networks, datastores, resource pools, and folders DNS and phpIPAM integrations Instance provisioning through the integrated environment
Module 4: Users and Roles	User roles, feature permissions, group access, personas, and effective permissions Reusable roles for administrator, finance, approver, production, development, and dashboard responsibilities Active directory integration and role mapping Effective access validation for representative users
Module 5: Inputs and Option Lists	Input types, fields, and consuming contexts Manual option lists and their association with inputs Conditional visibility and required behavior
Module 6: Policies	Policy scope, precedence, timing, and enforcement Instance name policies Tag policies and compliance Approval, budget, expiration, and power schedule policies
Module 7: Provisioning Instances	Provisioning hierarchy: instance types, layouts, node types, and virtual images Governed production and development layouts Custom Ubuntu instance provisioning and lifecycle management HPE Morpheus Enterprise Agent communication and workload management Cloud inventory, discovered resources, conversion to managed, and deletion outcomes
Module 8: Tenancy	Tenant hierarchy, isolation, and downward resource sharing Tenant roles and multi-tenant user roles Subtenant branding Shared cloud and library resources Instance provisioning in a subtenant
Module 9: Automation	Tasks, workflows, execution context, and automation sources Git repository integration and key pairs Cypher for protected automation values Repository-backed tasks and provisioning workflows for MySQL Operational workflows and execution against a selected context
Module 10: Blueprints	Blueprint types, sources, and provisioning behavior Custom Rocket instance type and automation prerequisites Two-tier HPE Morpheus Enterprise blueprint Editable, locked, and hidden field controls Rocket parts application provisioning and validation
Module 11: Self-service	Catalog item types, access, personas, and dependent-resource permissions Instance catalog items for operations and development Workflow catalog items Blueprint catalog items
Module 12: Plans, Prices, and Costs	Plans as resource definitions Prices, charging conditions, price sets, and plan associations Usage, synchronized costing, and invoices Reports, analytics, guidance, and budgets

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Lab outline

Lab 1: HPE Morpheus Enterprise Introduction	Log in to the HPE Morpheus Enterprise UI Review the operations dashboard and UI navigation Log in to VMware® vCenter and review the configured environment
Lab 2: Set up an HPE Morpheus Enterprise Appliance	Perform and review an appliance backup Review HPE Morpheus Enterprise health Review service status and logs Review appliance setup, settings, and user and session management
Lab 3: Groups and Clouds	Create infrastructure groups and integrate MegaCloud and SharedCloud Configure group access for networks, datastores, resource pools, and folders Configure DNS integration Configure phpIPAM integration Provision an instance
Lab 4: Roles and Users	Create an HPE Morpheus Enterprise system administrator role and named user Create finance, approver, production, development, and dashboard roles Integrate Active Directory and Map Directory groups to roles Log in as representative users and review effective access
Lab 5: Inputs and Option Lists	Create and test a manual application option list and input Create and test conditional support required and support level inputs and option lists
Lab 6: Policies	Create instance name policies Create and test a tag policy and review tag compliance Create an approve-delete policy Create a budget policy Create an expiration policy Create a power schedule and power schedule policy
Lab 7: Instances	Configure a virtual image and create a custom instance type, layouts, and node type Configure production and development layouts and group access Provision a custom Ubuntu instance and review details and lifecycle actions Review the HPE Morpheus Enterprise agent Enable cloud inventory and convert discovered servers to managed Delete an Instance while retaining the target virtual machine
Lab 8: Tenants	Create a tenant role, subtenant, multi-tenant user role, and tenant user Apply neodatacloud subtenant branding Scope sharedCloud resources to the neodatacloud subtenant Publish the custom Ubuntu instance type Create a subtenant user role and user, and provision a custom Ubuntu instance
Lab 9: Automation	Create an HPE Morpheus Enterprise key pair and add a Git repository integration Create Cypher entries for protected automation values Create tasks and provisioning workflows for MySQL 8.0 and 8.4 Create a Custom MySQL instance type Create and run a LAMP operational workflow
Lab 10: Blueprints	Create the custom Rocket instance type and supporting automation Create a two-tier HPE Morpheus Enterprise blueprint for the Rocket Parts application Configure development and production field controls Provision and validate the Rocket Parts application
Lab 11: Monitoring (optional)	Review monitoring status, workload and HPE Morpheus Enterprise logs, and monitored applications Create checks for Apache, PHP, and MySQL and add them to monitoring groups Create a contact and alert rule, and cause a failure to validate monitoring behavior
Lab 12: Self-service	Create and provision an Instance catalog item for the operations team Create an instance catalog Item for the development team Create a workflow catalog item for the LAMP operational workflow Create and provision a blueprint catalog Item for the Rocket Parts application

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