The HPE ATP Hybrid Cloud Solutions course includes lectures and lab activities in the ratio of approximately 30/70 (lectures/activities). This course exposes participants to the HPE portfolio and HPE GreenLake services and focuses on HPE networking, server, and storage solutions for SMB customers. 

Through customer scenarios and extensive hands-on labs, participants learn how to match different types of workloads with HPE products, learn about HPE management tools, and get an introduction to virtual and containerized workloads

Audience

Ideal candidates for this course are those who need to learn how to describe, position, recommend, and demonstrate HPE hybrid IT technologies to meet customer’s technical and business requirements. Typical 

candidates for this course include:

• Consultants
• Field engineers
• Systems engineers
• Solutions integrators

Course objectives

After you successfully complete this course, you should be able to:

• Describe, differentiate, and apply IT industry trends, standard architectures, technologies, and cloud delivery models
• Gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements
• Recommend and position HPE offerings (solutions, products, and services) for customer use cases
• Describe HPE value differentiation/distinction in the marketplace, positioning, and upsell/cross sell opportunities
• Present and demonstrate the solution to the customer and coordinate implementation planning
• Discuss ongoing enhancements (upgrade, migration, optimization, etc.)

Detailed course outline

HPE Value Proposition 

• HPE GreenLake
• Workload with products
• Customer requirements
• High availability requirements and solutions
• Available tools and resources (Power Advisor, One Config Simple (OCS) etc.)

HPE Compute Solutions 

• HPE ProLiant ML/DL servers
• HPE Apollo 2000 servers
• HPE Services
• Virtual and containerized workloads (VMs, Docker containers)

HPE Networking Solutions 

• Aruba CX 6000 and 8000 series
• VLANS, IP addressing, static routing
• Networking security and secure management protocols (ACLs, SNMPv3, Radius/Tacacs+)
• Storage networking technologies
• SAN vs LAN vs NAS

HPE Storage Solutions 

• SMB/NFS
• HPE MSA
• HPE Nimble
• HPE StoreEasy
• HPE StoreOnce VSA
• HPE StoreEver
• Storage networking
• Perform storage configuration

HPE Solution Management 

• HPE OneView with integration
• HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO)
• HPE Infosight/remote support
• HPE GreenLake management tools

Solution Deployment, Update and Maintenance 

• Intelligent provisioning
• Firmware
• HPE OneView
• Maintenance and support procedures

Building a Solution 

• Storage, compute, networking and environmental components 
• Creation of a Bill of Materials (BOM)