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Managing HPE StoreOnce Backup Solutions

HK766S

Course ID

HK766S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

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Overview

This course covers the HPE StoreOnce backup products, including hardware appliances, and the Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA). In this course, you learn about the range of products in the product line, and understand their concepts, installation, and use. The course also includes hands-on labs using HPE StoreOnce appliances.


Course ID

HK766S

Duration

2 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Schedule, pricing & registration

Browse related courses

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for HPE StoreOnce customers, HPE services field engineers, call center staff, presales and channel partners, and other field personnel who provide installation and/or operational support assistance.


  • Prerequisites

    Before attending this course, you must have:

    • Basic Windows administration experience
    • A basic understanding of SCSI, iSCSI, RAID, fibre channel, backup, and SAN technologies

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Provide an overview HPE StoreOnce offerings and product basics
    • Perform HPE StoreOnce installation
    • Manage HPE StoreOnce
    • List HPE StoreOnce backup targets and discuss HPE StoreOnce deduplication
    • Perform HPE StoreOnce Replication and Catalyst Copy plus list HPE StoreOnce Cloud Integrations
    • List HPE StoreOnce monitoring and reporting options as well as HPE StoreOnce security and HA Manager features
    • Discuss HPE StoreOnce best practices
    • Perform HPE StoreOnce troubleshooting and maintenance

  • Certifications and related exams

    This course prepares you for and satisfies the prerequisite for the Administrator – HPE StoreOnce digital badge.


  • Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview
  • Course introduction
  • Agenda

Module 1: Product Introduction
  • HPE StoreOnce backup systems
  • Family overview
  • Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)
  • VSA HA Manager
  • Licensing
  • Product features and benefits
  • Appendix 1: hardware details

Module 2: Installation
  • Installing
  • Available connections
  • Network/iSCSI modes of operation
  • Network modes
  • Fibre channel support
  • Initial configuration process
  • Management options

Module 3: StoreOnce Management
  • Web GUI
    • Login
    • System dashboard
    • Left-hand menu
    • Settings
    • User preferences
    • Hardware
    • Security
  • Federation
  • Multiple federations

Module 4: HPE StoreOnce Backup Targets, HPE StoreOnce Deduplication
  • Available options comparison
  • Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)
  • iSCSI and FC connections to VTL
  • Flexible emulations
  • NAS shares and server configuration
  • NAS share authentication
  • HPE StoreOnce NAS limitations
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst overview and API
  • Backup applications support
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 integration with HPE StoreOnce
  • Deduplication
    • What it is and key benefits
    • Data locality and ratios
  • Housekeeping
  • Deduplication options for low and high bandwidth transfers

Module 5: HPE StoreOnce Replication and Catalyst Copy, HPE StoreOnce Cloud Integrations
  • Definition and replication granularity
  • Replication fan-out and fan-in
  • Bi-directional replication
  • Seeding the replication target
  • Replication recovery
  • Making replication targets visible to host
  • Replication and “seeding”
  • VTL and NAS replication and configuration
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Copy
  • Low-bandwidth—multi-hop
  • CloudBank Storage
    • Introduction
    • Use cases
    • Configuration
    • Disaster recovery

Module 6: HPE StoreOnce Monitoring and Reporting, HPE StoreOnce Security and HA Manager
  • Reporting
  • Event log
  • HPE StoreOnce SMTP/email notifications
  • HPE StoreOnce REST API SDK
  • HPE StoreOnce SNMP
  • Security
    • Data and rest and in-flight encryption
    • Immutability
    • Dual authorization and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
    • HPE Ransomware protection
  • High Availability Manager

Module 7: Best Practices
  • Deployment planning
  • Configuration best practices
  • Housekeeping
  • Data locality
  • Catalyst integration
  • HPE StoreOnce best practices for resilience

Module 8: Troubleshooting and Maintenance
  • Troubleshooting scenarios
  • Remote support
  • HPE StoreOnce software upgrades and more
    • Upgrade paths
    • Configuration backup and restore
    • Item 2
  • Additional information sources

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  • Lab outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access
  • Exercise 1: Accessing the vLabs
  • Exercise 2: Lab overview
    • Terminology
    • HPE StoreOnce logins and tools
    • Lab setup
    • HPE StoreOnce information

Lab 1: Initial Appliance Preparation
  • License the HPE StoreOnce appliance

Lab 2: VTL and NAS Targets Configuration
  • Create a virtual tape library (VTL)
  • Create a NAS share

Lab 3: Backup to VTL and NAS Targets
  • Virtual tape library backup in Veeam
  • Configure a virtual tape library in Veeam
  • Back up to a VTL on the StoreOnce using Veeam
  • Back up the files in Veeam
  • More file backups in Veeam
  • Use a NAS share with Windows Backup

Lab 4: Data Deduplication
  • View deduplication report

Lab 5: Catalyst Store Creation and Backup
  • Hands-on lab sequence
  • HPE StoreOnce Catalyst creation
  • Add the Catalyst store to Veeam and perform backups
  • Create a backup job to back up data to an HPE StoreOnce Catalyst store

Lab 6: Data Replication
  • Creating VTL and NAS shares on the target replication appliance
  • Configure replication from your local HPE StoreOnce appliance
  • Virtual tape library mapping
  • Configure replication of all the files on the NAS share
  • Testing the replication of NAS and VTL

Lab 7: Catalyst Copy and Cloud Bank Storage
  • Create a Catalyst store
  • Create a backup copy
  • Create a Cloud Bank store
  • Create a Cloud Bank backup copy

Lab 8: Reports and Federation
  • Review reports
  • Custom and scheduled reports
  • Federation

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