HPE GreenLake Managed Cloud Controls

HJ0U1AAE

Course ID

HJ0U1AAE

Duration

3 hours

Format

eLearning

Access period

Unlimited access for one year from the date of purchase

Overview

This course is an introduction to the two components of HPE GreenLake Managed Cloud Controls (MCC) —Continuous Compliance and Consumption Analytics. These components are included in the HPE GreenLake solution and are accessible from the HPE GreenLake Central user interface. MCC ensures public clouds comply with legal, industry and internal rule frameworks, while helping to identify opportunities for cost savings.


After an overview of HPE GreenLake and HPE GreenLake Central, this course explores Continuous Compliance tool to make public cloud accounts compliant to the rule frameworks of your choosing. You learn about technical and process rules and their characteristics, setting up automatic assessments using rule frameworks, and using audits and monitors.


The course teaches how to control cost and capacity of your HPE GreenLake installation and analyze your public cloud spending with the HPE GreenLake standalone product, Consumption Analytics. The course explores the details of Consumption Analytics to see high level and detailed monthly spending, as well as resource usage (past, current and projected) to detect over- and under-usage. The course further explores how to control costs and spending with the Insight and Budget tools. The course also introduces the setup of public cloud connections and covers tagging.

Course ID

HJ0U1AAE

Duration

3 hours

Format

eLearning

Access period

Unlimited access for one year from the date of purchase

  • Audience

    Users and tenant administrators of HPE GreenLake

  • Prerequisites

    HPE recommends that students attain the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:

    • Completion of HPE GreenLake Fundamentals (HQ7J7S)
    • Completion of HPE GreenLake Administration (HQ7J8S)

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Explain why compliance and cost visibility are challenging in hybrid clouds
    • Provide an overview of Continuous Compliance rules
    • Describe how Continuous Compliance assesses public cloud accounts using technical and process rules
    • Describe how to create and manage assessment schedules
    • Describe the two tools to keep compliance under control: audits and monitors
    • Explain how audits and their burndown charts help to plan compliance and execute the plan
    • Explain the importance of tagging cloud resources for meaningful categorization of compliance violations
    • Provide an overview of connecting Continuous Compliance to AWS and Azure accounts
    • Describe the three HPE GreenLake Central widgets that provide access to Consumption Analytics data
    • Describe the purpose of the Monthly Charges feature
    • Explain how Monthly Charges are used to identify major contributors to the HPE GreenLake bill
    • Show the Monthly Charges drill-down to single devices and daily costs.
    • Describe the purpose of the Capacity Planning feature.
    • Use Capacity Planning graphs to detect under-usage of HPE GreenLake resources
    • Use Capacity Planning graphs to detect potential future capacity overruns
    • Describe Cost Control features—Insights, Budgets, and Reports
    • Explain how Insights are used to identify major contributors to public cloud cost
    • Explain how Insights help identify cost saving opportunities
    • Use Budgets to control the spending of business units, groups of resources or applications
    • Create spending reports at different levels for various audiences
    • Provide an overview of connecting Consumption Analytics to AWS and Azure accounts
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  • Course outline

Module 0: HPE GreenLake Central Overview

  • Why HPE GreenLake Central? Hybrid cloud challenges
  • An overview of HPE GreenLake Central
  • The Managed Cloud Control widgets in HPE GreenLake Central

Module 1: Continuous Compliance

  • Introduction to Continuous Compliance
  • Concepts and Tools
    • Rules, Frameworks, Assessments and Schedules
    • Tools for managing and reaching compliance - Audits and Monitors
      • Audits
      • Monitors
    • Resource tagging
  • Using Continuous Compliance
    • The dashboards
      • The GreenLake Central user interface
      • The Continuous Compliance dashboard
    • Frameworks and Rules
      • Explore the Framework structure
      • Rule categories
      • Rule details
      • What to do in case of non-compliance
    • Scheduling assessments
    • Audits and monitors
      • What’s the point of an audit
      • Burndown chart and how to use it
      • Monitors as an additional tool for checking important rules or controls
  • Cloud Connection
    • Connecting Continuous Compliance to an AWS account
      • Concepts
      • Steps
    • Connecting Continuous Compliance to an Azure account
      • Concepts
      • Steps
    • Resource tagging
      • Tag mapping overview
      • Tag mapping - how

Module 2: Consumption Analytics

  • Introduction to Consumption Analytics
    • Provide visibility
  • Overview - What does Consumption Analytics Provide?
    • Monthly charges
    • Capacity planning
    • Cloud cost management
  • Monthly Charges
    • The Monthly Charges tile
    • Monthly Charges details
    • Monthly Charges drill-down
  • Capacity Planning
    • The Capacity Planning tile
    • Capacity Planning details
  • Cost Control
    • Cost overview
    • Insights
    • Budgets
    • Reports
    • SmartTags
  • Connecting Public Clouds to Consumption Analytics
    • Setting up your cloud account
    • Creating a collection

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