Managing HPE Alletra 6000 (H61N2S)

The Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 course describes the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 portfolio hardware building blocks, theories of operation, and features. Using hands-on labs, students learn to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, and collections, as well as how to monitor the product. 


This course also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, scaling-out, QoS, and maintenance. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.


Audience

Customers, administrators, and channel partner sales or technical sales


Prerequisites

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


Course objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 hardware, architecture, and software features
  • List and compare HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 management options
  • Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array initialization and Data Services Cloud Console onboarding
  • Explain HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 provisioning terminology, features, and read/write operations flow
  • Prepare and create hosts and initiator groups for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage arrays
  • Work with volumes, volume collections, and quality of service (QoS)
  • Describe and manage snapshots, clones, and protection templates
  • Describe the concept, use, and benefits of the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage scale-out architectures
  • Explain asynchronous remote replication concepts, implementation, and failure scenarios
  • Describe peer persistence concepts, architecture, requirements, and the automatic switchover (ASO) process
  • Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 monitoring options and tools
  • Describe the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 OS update procedure
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Detailed Course Outline

Module 0: Course Introduction

Module 1: Hardware and Features 

  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 overview
  • The architecture behind HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 systems
  • PCIe expansion options
  • Power supply unit details
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 series head shelf drive layout
  • RAID options
  • HPE Alletra expansion shelves
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 controller upgrades

Module 2: Management Options 

  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 manageability
  • HPE GreenLake, Data Ops Manager, and Data Services Cloud Console
  • HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform services
  • HPE GreenLake dashboard
  • Data Services Cloud Console overview 
  • Provisioning options
  • Data Ops Manager dashboard
  • Block Storage dashboard
  • Intent-based provisioning
  • Data Services Cloud Console REST API
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 web user interface (UI)
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 command line interface (CLI)
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 Rest API

Module 3: Initialization and Array Status 

  • Installation
  • Documentation and resources
  • End-to-end onboarding 
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000—preinstallation and software subscription
  • HPE Storage Toolkit for Windows
  • Setup Manager for HPE Alletra 6000, HPE Alletra 5000, and HPE Nimble arrays
  • Discover the array
  • Connect the array to the HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform
  • Onboarding device to Data Service Cloud Console
  • Data Service Cloud Console setup service
  • Array initialization using the CLI
  • Diagnostics setup and test

Module 4: Provisioning Terminology 

  • Industry-leading data protection and efficiency
  • Read and write operations
  • What is an NVDIMM?
  • NVDIMM—how it works
  • Resiliency and data integrity
  • RAID options review
  • Integrated spare: rebuild operation
    • Integrated spare RAID: single drive failure scenario
    • Integrated spare RAID: replacement drive rebuild process
  • Quick RAID rebuild
  • HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 data reduction 
  • Thin provisioning overview
  • Space reclamation
  • Inline dedupe in action
  • What to deduplicate and compress
  • Log structured file system design
  • SmartSecure encryption
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