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HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

H45ZKAAE

Course ID

H45ZKAAE

Duration

2 hours

Format

eLearning

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Overview

This training course provides a comprehensive introduction to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software. You learn how to install and configure the VM Essentials manager, provision HVM clusters, and set up shared storage options such as NFS and GFS2. The course also includes steps for migrating the VM Essentials manager to shared storage and creating custom virtual images for provisioning.

Course ID

H45ZKAAE

Duration

2 hours

Format

eLearning

Pricing & registration

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  • Audience

    This course is ideal for IT admins, platform architects, and solution architects.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Understand VM Essentials and its features
    • Identify network considerations and configurations for deploying VM Essentials
    • Install and configure the VM Essentials console and VM Essentials manager
    • Provision and manage HVM clusters effectively
    • Configure shared storage options like NFS and GFS2 for HVM clusters
    • Migrate VM Essentials manager to shared storage
    • Create and deploy custom virtual images for provisioning

  • Course outline

Module 1: Getting Started
  • Introduction and overview of VM Essentials
  • VM Essentials features
  • Network considerations when deploying VM Essentials
  • Network bonding with an overview of common network bonding configurations
  • Different networking configurations that can be implemented for the solution with regards to the compute, management, and storage interfaces
  • System requirements for HVM hosts
  • Overview of the installation process
  • How to install the VM Essentials console and how this can be utilized to configure the HVM hosts

Module 2: Installing the VM Essentials Manager
  • Overview of VM Essentials Manager
  • Requirements and how to install VM Essentials Manager
  • Initial setup steps and configuration for VM Essentials Manager

Module 3: Deploying an HPE-VM Cluster
  • Requirements for provisioning HVM cluster
  • Explains the provisioning steps for HVM cluster
  • Provides a demo of provisioning an HVM cluster

Module 4: Configuring Shared Storage for HPE-VM Clusters
  • The pros and cons of MPIO vs. non-MPIO shared storage network configurations
  • Shared storage options GFS2 and NFS
  • Setting up NFS and GFS2 and configuring them as a datastores in VM Essentials Manager

Module 5: Migrating HPE-VM Manager to Shared Storage
  • How to convert the VM Essentials Manager to a managed VM and then migrate to share storage
  • How to prepare the VM Essentials Manager for migration to shared storage
  • How to reconfigure the VM Essentials Manager and migrate from local storage to share storage

Module 6: Creating Custom Virtual Images
  • How to create custom virtual images that can be used for provisioning
  • Virtual image deployment architecture and how this relates to the VM Essentials Manager, HVM cluster, and shared storage
  • Virtual image deployment process
  • How to create custom virtual images via a demo

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