During this 3-days class students will learn how to position HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and what are the benefits provided by this product. Students will learn what the installation requirements and prerequisites are. During the class, students will learn how to use HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and how to integrate it with an existing VMware infrastructure. Students will also perform a bulk migration of Windows and Linux virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Audience

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

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend that you have a general understanding of virtualization technologies in order to understand the difference between VM Essentials and VMware.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Identify and describe the product uses, licensing models, and benefits
• Understand the deployment steps
• Understand the primary features and functionality of VM Essentials
• Understand VM Essentials management
• Understand how to import VMware cloud to VM Essentials and how to manage an existing component

Course Outline

Module 1: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software introduction

• Explain the features and benefits of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Identify different deployment models:
  • Onsite installation
  • HPE SimpliVity with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
  • HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE SimpliVity
  • HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Alletra dHCI
• Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software licensing

Module 2: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials building blocks

• Explain architecture of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software building blocks:
  • Ubuntu
  • HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console
  • HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software management appliance
  • Networking subsystem
  • Storage subsystem

Module 3: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Iinstallation

• Discuss HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software network and storage considerations
• Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Installation requirements and installation process
• Discuss HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software post-installation and basic configuration steps

Module 4: Using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Interface

• Effectively use different sections of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface:
  • Infrastructure section
  • Library section
  • Provisioning section
  • Backup section
  • Operations section
  • Tools section
  • Administration section
• Explain how integration with an existing VMware infrastructure does work

Module 5: Update, Security, API, and Troubleshooting

• Describe HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software update process
• Describe available security options including roles and integration with identity sources
• Explain API access and basic automation methods
• Explain basic troubleshooting steps of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and underlying hardware

Lab Outline

Lab 0: Accessing HPE vLabs Environment

• After completing this lab, participants should be able to access HPE vLabs Environment.

Lab 1: Exploring HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Explore HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface
• Access HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console

Lab 2: Basic HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software configuration

• Create group, cloud and cluster
• Expand an existing cluster
• Explore cluster settings and resources

Lab 3: Storage management for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Configure NFS datastore
• Configure GFS2 datastore
• Configure SMB File Share
• Configure S3 based Storage Bucket

Lab 4: Image Management and Instances Deployment

• Upload different type of images to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software library
• Set up IP address management in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Deploy instances using available images
• Extend an existing instance by adding additional nodes
• Create and apply new service plan for an instance
• Manage an instance placement
• Protect and instance with snapshot
• Add a virtual disk to the virtual machine
• Move a virtual machine to a different datastore

Lab 5: Managing VMware infrastructure using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Prepare objects in VMware inventory (datacenter, cluster, resource pool, folders)
• Integrate VMware infrastructure with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Deploy VMware instance using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Configure VMware Content Library and use template from this library to deploy and instance

Lab 6: Migrating VMware virtual machine to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Prepare Windows virtual machines for migration
• Migrate Windows virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
• Migrate Ubuntu virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Lab 7: Demonstrating failover capabilities of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• After completing this lab, participants should be able to demonstrate HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software failover capabilities

Lab 8: Users, Roles and logs management

• Create user and custom role
• Collect basic logs from HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software