HJ7C5S: HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication

Module 1: Course Introduction and Overview

• Agenda
• Documentation
• Capacity units

Module 2: AF and HF-Series Hardware

• Portfolio overview
• AF-Series controllers and enclosures
• HF-Series controllers and enclosures
• Memory driven flash (SCM)

Module 3: Array Initialization and Setup

• HPE Welcome Center
• Networking overview
• HPE Nimble Setup Manager
• Initialization
• Setup
• Post-setup test
• Firewall configuration
• Data Services Cloud Console

Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage OS WebUI Introduction

• How to access
• WebUI tour
• User management
• Basic monitoring
• Updating HPE Nimble Storage OS
• Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager OS upgrade

Module 5: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes

• Volume Concepts
• Provisioning and performance policies
• Protection templates overview
• Volume collections
• Create volumes using the WebUI
• HPE Smart SAN
• HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows
• Connection Manager for Windows

Module 6: HPE Nimble OS Advanced Features Overview

• Deduplication
• Compression
• HF-Series volume pinning
• Quality of service (QOS)
• SmartSecure encryption

Module 7: Snapshots and Clones

• Understanding Snapshots
• Taking Snapshots
• Volume collections and scheduled snapshots
• Manual snapshot creation
• Zero-copy clones

Module 8: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence

• Basic replication concepts
• Replication use cases
• How asynchronous replication works
• Peer persistence overview

Module 9: Introduction to Scaling with HPE Nimble Storage

• Scale-to-fit options overview

  • Scale-up
  • Scale-out

Module 10: Introduction HPE InfoSight

• Concepts
• Architecture
• Benefits

HJ7C6S: HPE Nimble II: Remote Replication and Integrations

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Agenda
• Course topics review
• Access to array documentation

Module 2: Architecture and Advanced Features

• AF-Series read and write operations
• HF-Series read and write operations
• Triple+Parity RAID
• Integrated spare rebuild operations
• Quick Raid Rebuild
• Data reduction
• Quality of service (QOS)
• Volume pinning
• Encryption
• Data Services Cloud Console

Module 3: Scale-out, Multi-Array Groups and Pools

• Scale-to-fit review
• Scale-out introduction
• Scale-out technology
• Overview of group/pool operations
• Nondisruptive data migrations
• Host operation in pools
• Scale-out – managing hosts & paths

Module 4: HPE Nimble Storage Replication and Peer Persistence

• Replication introduction
• Replication components
• Replication considerations
• SmartReplicate disaster recovery
• Replication in WebUI
• Peer persistence architecture and operations
• Automatic switchover scenarios

Module 5: Windows Integration

• HPE Storage Toolkit and HPE Storage Connection Manager review
• Microsoft Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS) overview
• VSS components
• VSS in use on HPE Nimble
• Powershell CMDlets
• Diagnostics utility
• Space reclamation

Module 6: Linux Integration, Oracle, and Docker Integration

• HPE Nimble Storage Linux Toolkit (NLT)
• HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager (NCM) for Linux
• HPE Nimble Storage Oracle Application Data Manager
• HPE Nimble Host Tuning Utility (Nimbletune)
• Linux space reclamation

Module 7: VMware Integration

• VMware integration features
• HPE Nimble Storage Connection Manager (NCM) for VMware
• VMware vCenter® integration
• vStorage APIs and space reclamation
• Synchronized snapshots
• vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
• SRM integration
• HPE Nimble Storage dHCI introduction

Module 8: Backup Solution Integration

• HPE Recovery Manager Central (RMC) overview and basic architecture
• Veeam Backup and Replication overview and basic architecture

HJ7C5S: HPE Nimble I: Management and Local Replication

Lab 1: HPE vLabs Access

• Agenda
• Course topics review

Lab 2: Installing HPE Nimble Windows Toolkit|

• Background
• Task 1: Launch NWT installer

Lab 3: Initialize an Array

• Background
• Lab topology
• Task 1: Launch HPE Nimble Setup Manager
• Task 2: Finishing configuration

Lab 5-1: Basic Volume Creation

• Task 1: Create a volume
• Task 2: Create a volume collection
• Task 3: Create an initiator and an initiator group

Lab 5-2: Windows Host SetUp using the HPE Nimble Connection Manager (NCM) Utility

• Background
• Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
• Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
• Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume

Lab 7: Snapshots and Data Recovery

• Background
• Task 1: Create data
• Task 2: Simulate a data loss event and a recovery
• Task 3: Disconnect and delete the volume and the clone

Lab 10: HPE InfoSight

HJ7C6S: HPE Nimble II: Remote Replication and Integrations

Lab 0: vLabs Access

• Objectives
• Accessing the vLabs

Lab 1: Environment Preparation

• Task 1: launch NWT installer
• Task 2: Create an initiator and an initiator group
• Task 3: Launch NCM and connect to the production HPE Nimble Storage array

Lab 2: Using and Understanding Advanced Volume Features

• Task 1: Initial preparation for recovery array data access
• Task 2: Working with Volume Pinning – volume performance attribute
• Task 3: Create volumes using volume performance attribute
• Task 4: Connect the server to the FSserver10 and FSserver11 volume
• Task 5: Working with deduplication
• Task 6: Working with encryption

Lab 3: Replication and Disaster Recovery

• Task 1: Configure the upstream array
• Task 2: Configure the downstream array
• Task 3: Creating and managing replication collections
• Task 4: Failover to the remote site
• Task 5: Recovery after the source system is back online
• Task 6: Clean-up

Lab 4: Multi-Array Groups and Pools

• Task 1: Review current pool status
• Task 2: Adding an array to the default pool
• Task 3: Observing capacity and volume behavior
• Task 4: Connect the server to the HPE Nimble Storage volume
• Task 5: Understanding how new volumes and data placement is managed

Lab 6: Working with Linux Integrations

• Task 1: Configure Linux iSCSI initiator
• Task 2: Create an initiator group for the Linux host
• Task 3: Create a volume for the Linux host
• Task 4: Perform iSCSI discovery, work with multipathing, and configure the disk device

Lab 7: Working with VMware Integrations

• Task 1: HPE Storage Connection Manager for VMware
• Task 2: Setting up vVols on HPE Nimble
• Task 3: Using the HPE Storage vCenter plugin
• Task 4: Creating a vVol container on an HPE Nimble array and vVol datastore
• Task 5: Working with policy-based storage provisioning
• Task 6: Deploying and working with a vVol-based VM

Lab 8: Working with Veeam Integrations

• Task 1: Initial Veeam and Nimble Preparation
• Task 2: Creating Backups Using Veeam and Nimble
• Task 3: Instant Virtual Machine Recovery with Nimble