Course 1: Managing HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP (HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000)

Description: This course describes the HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware platform building blocks, theory of operation, and HPE GreenLake for Block Storage features. Using hands-on labs, you learn how to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, sets, and how to monitor the product. It also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, and QoS, as well as maintenance and data migration. You gain a practical understanding of HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

Objectives: After completing this training, you should be able to:

• Describe HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware and features
• List and compare HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP management options, roles, and security
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Perform onboarding and initialization
• Work with volumes, hosts, and corresponding sets
• Protect data with snapshots, clones, and use protection policies
• Describe priority optimization and quality of service (QoS)
• Explain different types of replication implementations and failure scenarios
• Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
• Describe monitoring and alerting options
• Describe the HPE GreenLake for Block Storage MP OS update procedure and maintenance

Lab outline

• Lab 1: Getting Started with UIs
• Lab 4: Array Preparation Tools
• Lab 5: Hosts Configuration and Management
• Lab 6: Volumes Configuration and Management
• Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones
• Lab 8: Working with Replication
• Lab 9: Working with Peer Persistence
• Lab 10: Performing Monitoring, Managing, Alerts, and Events
• Lab 11: HPE GreenLake for Block Storage Maintenance

Course 2: Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000

Description: This course describes the hardware building blocks, theories of operation, and features of HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000. Using hands-on labs, you learn how to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, and collections, as well as how to monitor the product. It also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, scaling-out, QoS, and maintenance. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

Objectives: After completing this training, you should be able to:

• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 hardware, architecture, and software features
• List and compare HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 management options
• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array initialization and Data Services Cloud Console onboarding
• Explain HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 provisioning terminology, features, and read/write operations flow
• Prepare and create hosts and initiator groups for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage arrays
• Work with volumes, volume collections, and quality of service (QoS)
• Describe and manage snapshots, clones, and protection templates
• Describe the concept, use, and benefits of the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage scale-out architectures
• Explain asynchronous remote replication concepts, implementation, and failure scenarios
• Describe peer persistence concepts, architecture, requirements, and the automatic switchover (ASO) process
• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 monitoring options and tools
• Describe the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 OS update procedure

Lab outline

• Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access
• Lab 2: Getting Started with UIs
• Lab 3: Array Preparation Tools
• Lab 5: Hosts Configuration and Management
• Lab 6 - 1: Volumes Configuration and Management
• Lab 6 - 2: Working with Quality of Service (QoS)
• Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones
• Lab 8: Working with Remote Replication
• Lab 9: Working with Scale-Out technology
• Lab 10: Working with Peer Persistence
• Lab 11: Monitoring, Alerts and Events
• Lab 12: HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Maintenance

Course 3: HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Integration

Description: This course provides additional knowledge of Windows, Linux®, and VMware® connectivity to HPE Alletra 5000 and 6000 storage arrays, as well as various integration capabilities of those families with listed operating systems. This includes Windows and Linux toolkits, VMware integration plug-in, and VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™ (vVols) support. It also discusses containers support based on Kubernetes® and Veeam® Backup & Replication™ integration with HPE Alletra 5000 and HPE Alletra 6000 replication features. Hands-on lab exercises comprise over 70% of the course.

Objectives: After completing this training, you should be able to:

• Integrate HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage with:

  • Windows environments
  • Linux environments
  • VMware environments
  • Veeam Backup & Replication backup software
• Describe integrations with Kubernetes containers

Lab outline

• Lab 1: Working with Windows Integrations
• Lab 2: Working with Linux Integrations
• Lab 3: Working with VMware Integrations
• Lab 4: Working with Veeam Integrations
• Lab 5: Using the REST API

Course 4: HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 6000 Storage dHCI Installation

Description: This course helps you successfully deploy the HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 6000 Storage dHCI Greenfield solution. It explains the differences and requirements of both the Greenfield and Brownfield solutions. It also identifies the benefits of deploying the solution in HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 6000 iSCSI VMware® environments.

Objectives: After completing this training, you should be able to:

• Describe the two different offerings for HPE Nimble and HPE Alletra 6000 Storage dHCI solutions

  • Greenfield
  • Brownfield
• Understand the basic tasks involved with the HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Alletra 6000 dHCI Greenfield solution delivery
• Understand and perform the solution installation using the HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Alletra 6000 dHCI software