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HPE SimpliVity System Administration

H0LP9S

Course ID

H0LP9S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

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Overview

This course provides information and hands-on exercises for management of HPE SimpliVity with VMware vSphere®. It also includes information and hands-on exercises for using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR software that simplifies and accelerates offsite disaster recovery through automation. The course covers a range of administration actions executed on the HPE SimpliVity system with the HPE SimpliVity plug-in for VMware vSphere and the HPE SimpliVity RapidDR user interface.

Course ID

H0LP9S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Schedule, pricing & registration

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  • Audience

    This course is ideal for infrastructure administrators and system engineers who need to learn how to administer HPE SimpliVity.

  • Prerequisites

    There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend you have the following before attending:

    • An understanding of networking technologies
    • An understanding of VMware vSphere 8.0 or higher
    • Knowledge of HPE ProLiant Compute servers

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Describe the various components that form the HPE SimpliVity federation
    • Distinguish between peer-managed and centrally managed HPE SimpliVity federations
    • Identify how VM data is stored across HPE SimpliVity clusters
    • Create datastores and perform different tasks associated with HPE SimpliVity datastores
    • Explain the various HPE SimpliVity operations like clone or move VM
    • Create manual and policy-based backups and use them for restore
    • Configure external stores for secondary backup
    • Perform basic support tasks on the HPE SimpliVity federation
    • Use HPE SimpliVity RapidDR to reduce service disruptions by automating remote site recovery
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  • Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to HPE SimpliVity
  • Business reasons for using HPE SimpliVity
  • Core features built into the HPE SimpliVity solution
  • HPE SimpliVity's HyperGuarantee
  • HPE SimpliVity use cases

Module 2: HPE SimpliVity Architecture
  • HPE SimpliVity data efficiency technologies
  • HPE SimpliVity components
  • Data resiliency options in HPE SimpliVity

Module 3: HPE SimpliVity Portfolio
  • HPE SimpliVity portfolio overview
  • New features in the HPE SimpliVity portfolio

Module 4: Working with HPE SimpliVity
  • VMware vSphere client user interface
  • HPE SimpliVity CLI and REST API
  • Datastore and external storage concepts in HPE SimpliVity
  • HPE SimpliVity backup policies
  • Compute node management
  • Virtual machine management
  • HPE SimpliVity backup and restore management
  • HPE SimpliVity RapidDR functionality

Module 5: HPE SimpliVity Upgrades, Support, and HPE InfoSight
  • How to shut down virtual controller and remove host from a federation
  • HPE SimpliVity alerts
  • HPE InfoSight for HPE SimpliVity
  • Update and deployment processes

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  • Lab outline

Lab 1: HPE SimpliVity Overview
  • The HPE vLabs environment
  • Navigate around the HPE SimpliVity interface
  • HPE SimpliVity objects management options
  • HPE StoreOnce interface
  • HPE SimpliVity CLI

Lab 2: HPE SimpliVity Backup Policies
  • Access and create backup policies
  • Edit backup policies
  • Manage backup policies using the CLI

Lab 3: HPE SimpliVity Clusters and Datastores
  • How to use and monitor HPE SimpliVity clusters
  • Create and manage datastores
  • Manage standard ESXi hosts
  • Register an external store

Lab 4: HPE SimpliVity Virtual Machines and Templates
  • Create virtual machines
  • Clone virtual machines
  • Move virtual machines
  • Delete virtual machines
  • HPE SimpliVity virtual machine templates

Lab 5: HPE SimpliVity Backups
  • Create an HPE SimpliVity backup manually
  • Search and filter backups
  • How to use HPE SimpliVity backup policies
  • Managing HPE SimpliVity backups

Lab 6: Restore HPE SimpliVity Backups
  • Restore a virtual machine or template from a backup
  • Restore files from a backup
  • Restore a deleted VM from backup

Lab 7: HPE SimpliVity Troubleshooting
  • View HPE SimpliVity-specific alarms
  • Create a support capture

Lab 8: HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
  • Create an HPE SimpliVity RapidDR recovery configuration
  • Test a plan

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