Managing HPE Alletra 9000

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe HPE Alletra 9000 hardware and features
• List and compare HPE Alletra 9000 management options, roles, and security
• Explain provisioning terminology
• Perform HPE Alletra 9000 array on-boarding and initialization
• Work with volumes, hosts, and corresponding sets
• Protect data with snapshots, clones, and use protection policies
• Describe priority optimization and quality of service (QoS)
• Explain different types of Remote Copy implementations and failure scenarios
• Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
• Describe HPE Alletra monitoring and alerting options including HPE InfoSight
• Describe the HPE Alletra 9000 OS update procedure, maintenance, and data migration options

Module 0: Introduction

Module 1: Hardware and Features

• Array architectures
• HPE Alletra 9000 Gen6 ASIC
• Features of the HPE Alletra 9000 series arrays
• HPE Alletra 9000 family
• HPE Alletra 9000 basic specs
• HPE Alletra 9000 hardware building blocks
• HPE Alletra 9000 4U controller enclosure
• HPE Alletra 9000 controller node
• Port number (N:S:P)
• HPE Alletra 9000 PCIe adapters
• HPE Alletra 9000 connectivity maximums
• HPE Alletra 2240 NVMe drive enclosure
• Disk number and chassis position (C:M:0)
• HPE Alletra 9000 drive options
• HPE Alletra 9000 data-at-rest encryption
• HPE Alletra 9000 capacity expansion
• HPE Alletra 2240 NVMe drive enclosure connectivity
• HPE Alletra 9000 software details

Module 2: Management Options

• HPE Alletra 9000 manageability
• HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform
• Data Services Cloud Console
• Provisioning options
• Data Ops Manager
• Block storage
• Intent-based provisioning
• Data Services Cloud Console public REST API
• HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• HPE Alletra 9000 CLI
• HPE Alletra 9000 Web Services API (WSAPI)
• REST(ful) API

Module 3: Provisioning Terminology

• HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—logical view
• HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—concepts
• Chunklet concept
• System wide sparing
• Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership
• RAID concepts
• Common Provisioning Group
• HPE Alletra 9000 high availability
• Virtual volume overview
• HPE Alletra 9000 data reduction technologies overview
• Thin provisioning
• Space reclamation
• Allocation units and alignment
• Thin persistence
• Deduplication and compression
• Data reduction
• Data packing
• What to data reduce?
• Data reduction estimation

Module 4: Initialization and Array Status

• Installation
• Documentation and resources
• HPE Alletra 9000 simplified setup
• System startup
• HPE Alletra 9000 software initialization
• Device onboarding
• Data Services Cloud Console setup service

Module 5: Hosts

• HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization
• HPE Alletra 9000 host support
• Host to HPE Alletra 9000 front-end configuration
• HPE Alletra 9000 block I/O connectivity
• HPE Alletra 9000 persistency features
• HPE Alletra 9000 WWN format of host ports
• Obtaining host HBA WWNs
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 9000
• HPE Alletra 9000 zoning overview
• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Alletra 9000
• HPE Host Explorer
• HPE LunInfo

Module 6: Volumes and Sets

• HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization
• Virtual volume review
• Host sets and virtual volume sets
• Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
• Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Managing from CLI
• HPE Alletra 9000 online virtual volume conversion
• HPE Virtual Lock

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones

• Snapshot—Virtual Copy
• Virtual Copy for backup use case
• Virtual Copy creation
• Virtual Copy writes
• Promote/restore
• Clone terms and specifics
• Protection policies
• Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
• Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Managing from CLI

Module 8: Priority Optimization and Quality of Service (QoS)

• HPE Alletra 9000 OS virtualization—concepts
• HPE Alletra 9000 Priority Optimization—quality of service
• Priority Optimization introduction
• How Priority Optimization works
• Managing from Data Services Cloud Console
• Managing from HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Managing from CLI

Module 9: Remote Replication

• HPE Alletra 9000 data availability and protection
• HPE Alletra Remote Copy overview
• Remote Copy network transport methods
• Remote Copy Groups
• Remote Copy modes
• Remote Copy topologies
• Remote Copy operations
• Failure scenario
• Remote Copy actions
• Setting up and managing from Data Services Cloud Console
• Setting up and managing from CLI

Module 10: High Availability and Disaster Tolerance Solutions

• HPE Alletra 9000 Data availability and protection
• HPE Classic Peer Persistence
• Classic Peer Persistence implementation example
• Classic Peer Persistence transparent failover options
• HPE Alletra 9000 Active Peer Persistence
• Active Peer Persistence implementation example
• HPE Alletra 9000 Peer Persistence infrastructure view
• Quorum Witness software
• HPE Peer Persistence deployment matrix
• Host access configuration available in Active Peer Persistence
• HPE Alletra 9000 Active Peer Persistence host proximity
• 3DC Peer Persistence
• 3DC disaster recovery configurations
• HPE Cluster Extension CLX for Windows overview
• VMware vSphere® disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager overview

Module 11: Monitoring, Alerts and Events

• HPE InfoSight
• HPE InfoSight views
• HPE InfoSight Cross-Stack Analytics for VMware® environments
• System Reporter introduction
• Performance metrics available using API and CLI
• CLI: stat commands
• CLI: hist* commands
• CLI: srstat commands
• System Reporter Performance alerts
• SNMP
• HPE Alletra 9000 MIB
• Alerts and events
• Sample HPE Alletra 9000 OS message
• Managing alerts with the CLI
• Setting system alerts
• Example alert
• Monitoring and managing the event log
• Example event
• Syslog
• checkhealth command
• Options available in Data Services Cloud Console and Data Ops Manager
• Options available in HPE Alletra 9000 UI

Module 12: HPE Alletra 9000 Maintenance, OS Update and Data Migration

• Data Services Cloud Console software updates and recommendations
• Readiness checks and installing updates
• OS update support in Data Services Cloud Console
• HPE Alletra 9000 maintenance
• Maintenance activities in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Customer self-repair option
• Maintenance activities in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI
• Data migration overview
• Storage migration methodologies
• HPE Peer Motion
• HPE Peer Motion and third-party online import
• HPE Alletra 9000 Primary Direct Migration Methodology

Detailed Lab Outline

Lab 0: vLabs Access

Lab 1: Getting Started with UIs

• Exercise 1: Accessing and browsing hardware information in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
• Exercise 2: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Exercise 3: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 4: Initialization and Array Status

• Exercise 1: Welcome Center
• Exercise 2: Cabling tools

Lab 5: Hosts Configuration and Management

• Exercise 1: Initial preparation of host
• Exercise 2a: Working with hosts and host sets in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
• Exercise 2b: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Exercise 3: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 6: Volumes Configuration and Management

• Exercise 1: Working with volumes and sets in Data Services Cloud Console Block Storage
• Exercise 2: Working with volumes and sets in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Exercise 3: Working with volumes and volume sets in HPE Alletra 9000 CLI
• Exercise 4: Disks preparation
• Exercise 5: Working with HPE LUNInfo

Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots and Clones

• Exercise 1: Data preparation
• Exercise 2: Working with protection policies and snapshots in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
• Exercise 3: Working with snapshot schedules and snapshots in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Exercise 4: Working with snapshots and clones using HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 8: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS

• Exercise 1: Workloads preparation
• Exercise 2: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
• Exercise 3: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS in HPE Alletra 9000 UI
• Exercise 4: Working with Priority Optimization/QoS using HPE Alletra 9000 CLI

Lab 9: Working with Remote Copy

• Exercise 1: Initial setup
• Exercise 2: Creating and managing Remote Copy groups
• Exercise 3: Outage Scenarios: failover to the remote site and failback
• Exercise 4: Failover to the remote site for testing or off-site backup
• Exercise 5: Clean-up
• Exercise 6: Configuring Remote Copy using CLI
• Exercise 7: Final clean-up

Lab 10: Working with Peer Persistence

• Exercise 1: Initial setup
• Exercise 2: Configuring HPE Remote Copy and engaging Active Peer Persistence
• Exercise 3: Working with the Quorum Witness
• Exercise 4: Performing failover and failback

Lab 11: Performing Monitoring, Managing, Alerts and Events

• Exercise 1: Initial setup
• Exercise 2: Monitoring performance
• Exercise 3: Managing alerts and events
• Exercise 4: Working with reporting

Lab 12: Working with HPE Alletra 9000 Maintenance, OS Update and Data Migration

• Exercise 1: Browsing maintenance options
• Exercise 2: Firmware update preparation
• Exercise 3: Performing data migration

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fiber channel, iSCSI technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment