This three-day course focuses on the full lifecycle of the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software environment from initial requirements and installation of the solution to operation, management, security, and troubleshooting of the infrastructure.

Ideal candidate for this course

Typical candidates for this course are anyone willing to learn how to describe, position, recommend, demonstrate, set up, and configure virtualized environments using HPE solutions to meet an SMB customer’s business and technology requirements.

Roles that will benefit from this course are:

• Presales Architects
• Presales Engineers
• Enterprise Architects
• Solutions Engineers
• Technology Architects

Suggested prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have fundamental knowledge of IT concepts, including compute, storage, networking, and cloud computing.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Provide an overview of VM Essentials by evaluating trends in virtualization markets, and differentiate and describe VM Essentials features
• Examine, analyze, and evaluate VM Essentials architecture and networking requirements
• Describe VM Essentials deployment and configuration
• Prepare VM Essentials for operations and examine its interfaces
• Integrate VM Essentials with VMware infrastructure
• Summarize and discuss security and troubleshooting options

Course Outline

Module 1: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Introduction

• Evaluate trends and strategies in virtualization markets
  • Competitor offerings
  • Modern virtualization architecture
• Differentiate and describe VM Essentials features, benefits, and licensing
  • Value proposition
  • Feature comparisons
  • HPE solutions combined with VM Essentials

Module 2: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Architecture

• Examine VM Essentials and its components
  • HVM hypervisor and logical architecture
  • Components features and operations
  • HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console
  • HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software manager appliance
• Analyze different networking deployment options for VM Essentials
  • Network types
  • Network bonding
  • Logical network view
  • Network setup examples
  • Network traffic flow
• Evaluate different storage deployment options for VM Essentials
  • Storage types overview, including pros and cons
  • Directory pool datastores
  • NFS
  • GFS2
  • HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 integration
  • MPIO and non-MPIO network configurations
• Explain the concept of integration with VMware by Broadcom
  • Components
  • Cloud sync

Module 3: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Deployment and Initial Configuration

• Describe the prerequisites and steps for VM Essentials installation
  • Host requirements
  • Installation sequence
• Install and configure VM Essentials using an integrated installer
  • HPE Unified ISO Installer
  • HVM installation and configuration process
  • VM Essentials console installation and configuration process
  • VM Essentials manager installation and upgrade steps
• Discuss how to set up a shared datastore
  • NFS
  • GFS2

Module 4: Using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Prepare VM Essentials for operations
  • Groups
  • Clouds
  • Clusters
• Explore and use VM Essentials interface, including
  • Operations
  • Provisioning
  • Library
  • Infrastructure
  • Backup
  • Tools
  • AdministrationTopic

Module 5: Integrating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software with VMware Infrastructure

• Integrate and manage VMware components with VM Essentials
  • VMware Cloud
  • VMware resources
  • Cloud synchronization
  • Provisioning VMware VMs
• Migrate VMware virtual machines to VM Essentials
  • Migration overview and prerequisites
  • Preparation process
  • Creating a migration plan
  • Migration

Module 6: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Security and Troubleshooting

• Explain security options in VM Essentials
  • Identity sources
  • Roles and permissions
• Discuss VM Essentials troubleshooting options and CLI management
  • Cluster monitoring
  • Logs
  • Instance history
  • HPE Support Center
  • Typical issues with troubleshooting guidance, including with the CLI

Lab Outline

Lab 1: Exploring HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Exercise 1: Exploring the VM Essentials interface

Lab 2: Creating a Group, Cloud, and HVM Cluster

• Creating a group using the VM Essentials interface
• Creating a cloud using the VM Essentials interface
• Creating a cluster using the VM Essentials interface
• Expanding an existing HVM cluster

Lab 3: Storage Management for an HVM Cluster

• Creating an NFS data store for an HVM cluster
• Creating a GFS2 data store for an HVM cluster
• Creating a File Share for an HVM cluster
• Creating a Storage Bucket for an HVM cluster
• Migrating VM Essentials manager to the shared storage

Lab 4: Images and Instances Management

• Uploading supported images to VM Essentials
• Exercise 2: Configuring an IP pool VM Essentials
• Deploying instances using available images to VM Essentials
• Adding a node to an existing instance
• Creating and changing the service plan for an existing instance
• Migrating a virtual machine to a different node
• Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine
• Adding a virtual disk to an existing virtual machine
• Testing affinity and anti-affinity rules
• Maintaining hosts
• Testing high availability features of VM Essentials

Lab 5: Integrating with VMware Infrastructure

• Preparing VMware inventory
• Integrating VMware with VM Essentials
• Managing VMware virtual machines with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface
• Integrating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software with VMware content library
• Preparing Windows virtual machines for migration
• Migrating multiple Windows virtual machines from VMware to VM Essentials
• Deploying VMware Linux machines
• Migrating VMware Linux machines to VM Essentials

Lab 6: Security and Troubleshooting

• Creating a custom role and user
• Using logs in VM Essentials
• Managing the environment using the CLI
• Creating and restoring a backup
• Testing VM Essentials manager HA
• Removing a node from an HVM cluster