GreenLake Cloud Services Essentials

H61P1S

Course ID

H61P1S

Duration

3 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Overview

This course provides an overview of GreenLake cloud services and common administrative tasks associated with GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise operational management. You learn the roles and responsibilities of an GreenLake administrator, as well as how to operate and manage GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise using GreenLake Flex Solutions.

Course ID

H61P1S

Duration

3 days

Format

ILT/VILT

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for IT support and/or technical professionals who perform day-to-day IT operations for GreenLake environments.

  • Prerequisites

    Before taking this course, you should have 1 to 2 years of experience working as an IT or cloud administrator, architect, or engineer, and have general knowledge and experience around IT and cloud architecture, virtualization, containers, operations, and administration.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Identify the advantages of GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
    • Identify the services provided by GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
    • List integrations with GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
    • Show how to navigate the Private Cloud Enterprise dashboard
    • List units of measure for services
    • Provide descriptions of key GreenLake for bare metal concepts
    • Identify use cases for the bare metal instance types
    • Identify at least two infrastructure-as-code integrations with GreenLake for bare metal
    • Describe initial and ongoing customer admin tasks
    • Describe the different types of networks used with GreenLake for bare metal
    • Describe customer and HPE responsibilities for GreenLake for virtual machines
    • Explain how GreenLake for virtual machines is integrated with the existing environment
    • Given a set of requirements, configure GreenLake for virtual machines
    • Describe the provisioning components for provisioning instances and apps
    • Describe the features and relationships of provisioning objects: instance types, layouts, and node types
    • Show how to create instance types, layouts, and node types
    • Identify the tasks used to manage instances
    • Identify the steps to create and add a custom image
    • Describe how to add an instance item to the catalog
    • Show how to run life cycle actions on an instance
    • Describe the use of file templates and scripts
    • Create and run a script-type task
    • Describe the features of the two types of workflows
    • Describe the parts and features of a multitier app blueprint
    • Describe the types of policies and how they are used
    • Given a set of requirements, configure GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise networking
    • Integrate GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise with the data center
    • Given a set of requirements, configure GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise using the GreenLake API
    • Given a set of requirements, configure IaC and provision a server using Terraform
    • Describe GreenLake for containers features
    • Discuss customer responsibilities for GreenLake for containers
    • Identify the components of a cluster blueprint
    • List the high-level steps to create a Kubernetes cluster
    • Describe the procedure to create a Kubernetes namespace
    • Describe the procedure to set resource quotas on a namespace
    • Identify the operations an administrator can perform on an existing Kubernetes cluster
    • List the high-level steps to manage namespace quotas
    • Identify features of the Open Policy Agent Gatekeeper
    • Configure resource quotas and policies
  • Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview and Introduction


Module 1: GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise Overview


  • Overview of GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise
  • GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise dashboard
  • Networking overview
  • Service level agreements
  • Overview of GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise for regulated environments
  • Demo: Creating a cost and consumption report

Module 2: Administering GreenLake Bare Metal Services

  • Overview of bare metal services
  • Understanding the start state
  • Customer admin tasks
  • Working with bare metal compute groups
  • Instances and instance types
  • Bare metal networking
  • Lab: Creating a bare metal compute group
  • Lab: Creating a compute instance

Module 3: Introduction to Administering GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise Virtual Machine Services


  • Overview of virtual machine services
  • Starting with virtual machine services
  • Demo: Configuring virtual machine services settings

Module 4: Administering GreenLake for Virtual Machine Services: Enabling Provisioning


  • VM Provisioning concepts
  • Getting started with provisioning
  • Basic image management
  • Creating library provisioning objects
  • Lab: Creating library objects
  • Defining an Instance catalog item
  • Lab: Creating an instance catalog item
  • Demo: Creating a script and file template and using them in a blueprint

Module 5: Administering GreenLake for Private Cloud: Automation and Policies


  • Automating instance configuration
  • Automation tasks
  • Automation workflows
  • Lab: Creating and running provisioning workflows
  • Lab: Creating and running an operational workflow
  • Automating instance scaling
  • Lab: Configuring automatic instance scaling
  • Apps and blueprints
  • Creating policies for fine-grained control
  • Lab: Creating and testing policies
  • Backups

Module 6: Administering GreenLake for Private Cloud: Configuring Networking


  • GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise networking concepts
  • Getting started with GreenLake for Private Coud Enterprise networking
  • Managing NSX-T segments
  • Load balancing
  • Demo: Creating and using a network segment

Module 7: GreenLake Cloud Services API and IaC


  • GreenLake cloud services API
  • Using API documentation
  • Using API clients
  • Infrastructure as a code with Terraform
  • Demo: Using Terraform IaC

Module 8: Administering GreenLake for Containers: Introduction


  • Overview of GreenLake for containers
  • Overview of HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise
  • Options for managing GreenLake for containers
  • Demo: Checking health and compliance in the Kubernetes environment

Module 9: Administering GreenLake for Containers: Getting Started

  • Cluster blueprint overview
  • Creating a cluster
  • Configuring a namespace/tenant
  • Lab: Defining a custom cluster blueprint

Module 10: Administering GreenLake for containers—Advanced Configuration


  • Managing a cluster configuration
  • Managing namespace/tenant quotas
  • Using policies to manage resources
  • Demo: Setting quotas and policies on a cluster

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