HPE Compute Solutions, Rev 25.21 (0001212062)

H61K8S

Course ID

H61K8S

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT, VILT

Overview

This course teaches how to design, propose, and manage HPE Private Cloud AI solutions and other HPE compute solutions for AI. You learn how to monitor, manage, and maintain HPE compute and AI solutions using various services in HPE GreenLake Cloud. This course also includes lectures and lab activities.


Course ID

H61K8S

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT, VILT

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for presales engineers, solution integrators, systems engineers, technical consultants, and anyone who interprets customer requirements to install, configure, and manage HPE compute solutions


  • Prerequisites

    Before taking this course, you should have the HPE ATP – Hybrid IT Solutions certification.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • AI Overview
    • HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA infrastructure
    • HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA software
    • Designing and deploying HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA
    • Managing HPE Private Cloud AI
    • Manage HPE compute solutions
    • Design and deploy edge inferencing solutions
    • Manage HPE compute solutions in HPE GreenLake cloud
    • Design storage for HPE compute solutions
    • HPE VM Essentials
    • Support HPE compute solutions
  • Course outline

Module 1: AI Overview


  • Understand Artificial Intelligence (AI), including concepts and technologies such as:
    • Relationship between AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)
    • Common ML and DL tasks and use cases
    • Artificial neural networks (ANNs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
    • Explore the lifecycle for building ML/DL applications and the ecosystem of tools customers use across this lifecycle
    • Examine some the challenges organization face at each stage of the ML/DL lifecycle
  • Understand customer AI requirements
    • Assess customer requirements
    • Learn characteristics of AI maturity levels: beginner, early AI user, AI pro, and deployers of AI at scale
    • Understand who the stakeholders are in AI projects and the different challenges they face
    • Position HPE and NVIDIA solutions, including
    • HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA
    • HPE ProLiant DL servers
    • HPE HPC solutions

Module 2: HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA Infrastructure



  • Describe the infrastructure components of HPE Private Cloud AI
  • Closely examine NVIDIA AI-optimized GPUs
  • Learn about HVIDIA GPU and GPU memory architecture and terminology
  • Examine Ada Lovelace, Hopper, Thread Block Cluster, and Grace Hopper GPU architectures as well as which NVIDIA GPUs make use of them and how
  • Explore HPE servers optimized for AI, including
  • HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen11
  • HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12
  • HPE ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12
  • Understand why HPE GreenLake for File Storage is the ideal storage foundation for AI workloads
  • Learn about the HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware and HPE GreenLake for File Storage software on which HPE GreenLake for File Storage is built
  • Understand data’s journey to the GPU and to storage
  • Learn more about the functionality and benefits of several HPE and HPE Aruba Networking switches, including these:
  • HPE Aruba Networking CX 8325, which HPE GreenLake for File Storage uses for standard density configurations
  • HPE SN4000M Series switches, which HPE GreenLake for File Storage uses for high density configurations

Module 3: HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA Software



  • Understand the functionality and benefits of HPE AI Essentials software
  • Explore the features and benefits of NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Module 4: Designing and Deploying HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA



  • Understand the differences between the configuration sizes available for HPE Private Cloud AI with NVIDIA
  • Learn how to use HPE Intelligent Configurator to size a workload
  • Learn how to configure and quote HPE Private Cloud AI solutions
  • Understand how HPE deploys HPE Private Cloud AI solutions
  • Learn what aspects of maintaining HPE Private Cloud AI are the responsibility of the customer (or the partner on the customer’s behalf)

Module 5: Managing HPE Private Cloud AI



  • Understand the HPE Private Cloud AI management framework
  • Understand the role of Cloud Administrators in managing HPE Private Cloud AI hardware and software
  • Learn about some of the tasks that HPE Private Cloud AI Administrators can perform
  • Look at what AI users can do on HPE Private Cloud AI
  • Learn about the options available for demonstrating HPE Private Cloud AI’s functionality

Module 6: Manage HPE Compute Solutions


  • Review the management options for HPE servers
  • Examine the capabilities of HPE iLO
  • Learn some basics about HPE Synergy

Module 7: Design and Deploy Edge Inferencing Solutions


  • Learn about the compute solutions that HPE offers for edge inferencing and the use cases for which each is well-suited
  • Learn about the networking solutions that HPE offers for edge inferencing, including HPE InfiniBand switches and HPE Aruba Networking CX switches

Module 8: Manage HPE Compute Solutions in HPE GreenLake Cloud


  • Explore the capabilities of HPE Compute Ops Management
  • Learn how to monitor servers (and receive insights into their health, security, and sustainability) using HPE Compute Ops Management
  • Learn how to use HPE Compute Ops Management to deploy images to managed servers
  • Learn how to manage HPE servers’ firmware with HPE Compute Ops Management
  • Learn how HPE Compute Ops Management integrates with other HPE management solutions as well as with third-party management solutions

Module 9: Design Storage for HPE Compute Solutions


  • Review shared storage options for HPE servers, including block, file, and object storage options
  • Overview the HPE block storage portfolio
  • Overview the HPE file storage portfolio
  • Overview the HPE object storage portfolio
  • Learn about connecting HPE servers to block storage and how to use HPE Compute Ops Management (integrated with HPE Data Ops Manager) to manage external storage on HPE servers

Module 10: HPE VM Essentials



  • Overview HPE VM Essentials, HPE’s virtualization platform
  • Understand the storage requirements for HPE VM Essentials
  • Understand the basic networking recommendations for HPE VM Essentials
  • Learn about designing VM clusters with HPE VM Essentials
  • Overview VMware integration with HPE VM Essentials

Module 11: Support HPE Compute Solutions


  • Review HPE support services
  • Learn about using HPE GreenLake cloud to monitor and troubleshoot customer environments
  • Learn about the benefits of leveraging OpsRamp in HPE GreenLake cloud
  • Look at some of the options available in HPE Private Cloud AI for monitoring and troubleshooting this solution

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