This is course is an introduction to the HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software platform. It includes instructor-led and hands-on labs that walk you through how to manage the most used HPE Morpheus Enterprise features, such as the foundations of platform management, creating instance types and blueprints, configuring and backing up the appliance, monitoring, and self-service. During the class, you are granted access to a single-node HPE Morpheus Enterprise appliance to follow along with the instructor through multiple labs.

Audience

This course is ideal for IT administrators, platform architects, and solutions architects.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites, but we recommend that you have a general understanding of Linux administration, cloud concepts, and IT concepts before taking this course.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Identify and describe deployable architectures
• Understand the installation process
• Perform initial systems configurations
• Understand automation concepts like inputs, option lists, task, workflows, code repositories, script, and file templates
• Explain RBAC capabilities such as policies, roles, and user management
• Explain infrastructure concepts like groups, clouds, and cypher

Certifications and related exams

This course prepares you for the HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software Certified Administrator exam, a requirement for earning the HPE Advanced Product Certified – HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software Administrator certification.

Course Outline

Module 1: HPE Morpheus Enterprise Introduction

• HPE Morpheus Enterprise overview
• Appliance architecture
• Licensing and versioning

Module 2: Installing, Maintaining, and Configuring

• Installing, configuring, and upgrading
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise services and logs
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise health
• Backing up the appliance
• Integrations
• Security
• Personas

Module 3: Groups and Clouds

• Groups and group access
• Clouds
• Credentials

Module 4: Users and Roles

• Roles and role permissions
• Users
• User settings
• Identity source integration
• RBAC strategies

Module 5: Inputs and Option Lists

• Inputs
• Option lists

Module 6: Policies

• Policies
• Instance name policy
• Tag policy
• Approve delete policy
• Budget policy
• Expiration policy
• Power schedule policy

Module 7: Provisioning Instances

• Provisioning concepts
• Instance, layout, node, and virtual image configuration
• Creating custom instance types
• Provisioning steps
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise agent
• Agent installation and troubleshooting
• Inventory and convert to managed

Module 8: Tenancy

• Tenancy overview
• Muti-tenant models
• Tenant permissions
• Tenant users and identity source integration
• Tenant creation
• White label
• Providing cloud resources to subtenants

Module 9: Automation

• Git integration
• Cypher
• Tasks and workflows
• Script templates
• File templates

Module 10: Blueprints

• App blueprints
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise type blueprint
• IaC type blueprints

Module 11: Monitoring

• Checks and groups
• App monitors
• Logs
• Incidents
• Contacts and alert rules

Module 12: Self Service

• Catalog items
• Service catalog persona

Module 13: Plans, Pricing, and Costs

• Plans, prices, and costing overview
• Service plans, price sets, and prices
• Metered pricing and usage records
• Currency conversion
• Cloud cost setting
• Invoices
• Costing reports and analytics
• Guidance and right-sizing
• Budgets

Lab Outline

Lab 1: HPE Morpheus Enterprise Introduction

• Log in to the HPE Morpheus Enterprise UI
• Log in to the vCenter

Lab 2: Install and Setup of HPE Morpheus Enterprise Appliance

• Perform an HPE Morpheus Enterprise appliance backup
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise health
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise service status and logs
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise setup

Lab 3: Groups and Clouds

• Create infrastructure groups and integrate clouds
• Configure group access
• Configure DNS integration
• Configure PHP IPAM integration
• Provision an instance

Lab 4: Users and Roles

• Create a HPE Morpheus Enterprise system administration user and role
• Create HPE Morpheus Enterprise roles for Mega Corp
• Integrate active directory

Lab 5: Inputs and Option Lists

• Create input for application selection
• Input visibility

Lab 6: Policies

• Create instance name policies
• Create tag policy
• Create approve delete policy
• Create budget policy
• Create expiration policy
• Power schedule policy

Lab 7: Instances

• Create custom instance type
• Provision custom ubuntu instance type and review details
• HPE Morpheus Enterprise agent
• Enable cloud inventory
• Deleting instances and virtual machines

Lab 8: Tenants

• Create a tenant
• White label the NeoDataCloud sub-tenant
• Scope cloud resources to NeoDataCloud subtenant
• Create subtenant user and role and provision custom ubuntu instance

Lab 9: Automation

• Add Git repository integration
• Automate MySQL installation
• Operational workflow

Lab 10: Blueprints

• Create custom Rocket instance type
• Create HPE Morpheus Enterprise blueprint to provision Rocket Parts application
• Provision Rocket Parts application

Lab 11: Monitoring

• Review monitoring status, logs, and apps
• Create checks for Apache, PHP, and MySQL
• Create contacts and alert rules

Lab 12: Self Service

• Catalog instance for operations team
• Catalog instance for development team
• Catalog workflow
• Catalog blueprint