This course provides information about the basic administration and provisioning tasks using Hitachi Ops Center Administrator. These tasks include storage setup and configuration (onboarding and discovering storage), creating parity groups, pools, volumes and LUNs (provisioning volumes to the host), and managing and creating volume migration. The course also explains how to manage and monitor storage from the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator dashboard.

Additionally, the hands-on lab activities enable you to gain practical experience and knowledge on administering and provisioning using Hitachi Ops Center Administrator.

This course prepares you for the following Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional qualification test:

• Hitachi Vantara Qualified Professional - Ops Center administration (HQT-6741) exam

Course Objectives

When you complete this course, you should be able to:

• Give a brief overview of the Hitachi Storage Systems family products
• Discuss the architecture and features of various models of Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) family
• Describe a Hitachi Ops Center Administrator installation
• Use the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator Dashboard to add storage systems
• Explain how to create parity groups, pools, and volumes
• Describe the workflows for onboarding, configuring, creating, and attaching volumes
• Use the Hitachi Ops Center Administrator dashboard Storage System to add storage systems
• Explain how to discover storage systems, servers, and fabric switches
• Describe the concepts of migration and the use of command line interface (CLI) methods
• Describe multipathing concepts including the Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) feature and Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager (HDLM) and Hitachi Global Link Manager (HGLM) software
• Explain the Virtual Storage Machine (VSM) concept and its applications in Hitachi storage systems
• Describe what is Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) and list its benefits
• Monitor capacity utilization and hardware resources
• Perform backup, restore, and upgrade procedures

Course Availability

• Employees
• Customers
• Partners

Target Audience

• Administration

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Basic knowledge of management software
• Basic understanding of block and file storage
• RAID storage systems and their basic functions
• Volume creation and management
• Parity group creation and management
• Pool creation and management

Course Outline

1. Overview

• Ops Center Administrator Overview
  • Overview of Ops Center Administrator
  • Resources Management
  • Centralized Management
  • Administrator Mechanics
• Ops Center Overview
  • Hitachi Ops Center Introduction
  • Ops Center Common Services
• Login and Dashboard
  • Login Options
  • Administrator Dashboard Sections
  • Analyzing Data in the Dashboard
  • Tier Metrics
  • Protection Metrics
  • Protection Samples Views
  • Saving Metrics
  • Dashboard Settings
  • Dashboard – Jobs view
  • Dashboard – Monitoring

2. Hitachi Storage Systems Family

• Hitachi Ops Center Administrator – Overview
• Expanded Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) Family
• Across the VSP Family – Hitachi Storage Virtualization Operating System (SVOS)
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) 5000 Series
• VSP 5000 Series and Ops Center Suite – The Perfect Pairing
• VSP 5000 Series Features
  • Matching
  • The VSP 5x00 Environment
  • Controller Box (CBX)
  • VSP 5000 Series Scale-Up Offerings
  • Available Configuration
  • System Specifications
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F1500, G1500
  • VSP G1500 Overview
  • VSP G1500 Specifications
  • Dual Cluster Structure of the DKC
  • VSP G1500 System Scaling
  • VSP G1500 Components
• Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Models: VSP G350, VSP G370, VSP G700, VSP G900
  • Overview of Midrange Models: VSP G350, VSP G370, VSP G700, VSP G900
  • Enterprise Capabilities for the Midrange
  • Channel Blade Locations and Port Numbers
  • General Configuration
  • Controller Specifications
  • Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990
• VSP E990 Overview
  • VSP E990 Improves Upon VSP F900
  • The Fine Print
  • VSP E990 Hardware Specifications
  • Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) N Series
  • VSP N Series Overview
  • VSP N400/N600/N800 Rear View
• VSP N Series Specifications
• Appendix
  • VSP 5000 Hardware Specifications
    • Controller Box (CBX) Components
    • Two (2) CBXs VSP 5500 Hardware Layout – Front
    • Two (2) CBXs VSP 5500 Hardware Layout – Rear
    • Internal and Public LAN Cable Routing
    • Rack Configuration Showing Expansion
    • Multi-Node Scale-Out
  • VSP G1500
    • System Specifications
    • VSP G1500 Single Chassis – Architecture View
    • Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Models: VSP G200, VSP G400, VSP G600, VSP G800
    • General View: 4U DKC
    • General View: 2U DKC
    • Midrange Specifications
  • Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, Model: VSP G130
    • VSP G130
    • Configuration Options

3. Installation

• Minimum System Requirements
• Ops Center Administrator Installation
  • Installing Ops Center Administrator
  • Installing Administrator With Preconfigured Media
    • Principle Steps for Installing Ops Center Administrator
    • An Alternative Option for IP Settings
    • Login to Administrator
  • Virtual Appliance Manager (VAM)
    • VAM tool
    • Installing Administrator With Application Installer
    • Procedures With Application Installer
  • Preconfigured Media With Ops Center suite
    • Login via Ops Center
  • Appendix
    • Supported Scalability Limits
    • Server and Service Requirements
    • Storage System and FW Requirements
    • Administrator in Product Launcher

4. Resources Discovery

• Storage System – Architecture
• Supported Resources
• Overview of Onboarding Resources
  • Onboarding Resources
  • Add Storage System
    • Add Storage System Procedure
    • Storage System Considerations
    • View Storage Details
    • Update Storage System
  • Add Fabric Switch
    • Fabric Switch Prerequisites
    • Add Fabric Switch
  • Add Server
  • Add and Managing Servers – Overview
  • Add Server – Importing or Manual Operation
  • Add Server – Scan Host Group
  • Update Server
• iSCSI Provisioning
  • iSCSI Provisioning Support
• Appendix
  • Brocade and Cisco switches

5. Configuration Part 1

• Storage Provisioning
  • Storage Provisioning Overview
  • Storage Architecture Overview
  • Provisioning Operations
    • Provisioning Operations Overview
    • Configuring a Storage System Workflow
• Parity Group
  • Create Parity Group
  • Logical Disk Structures
  • RAID Type Configuration and Usage
  • Create Parity Group Overview
    • Create Parity Group
    • Create Parity Group – Job started
    • Parity Groups – Initialization and Compression
    • External Parity Groups
    • Encrypted Parity Group
    • Disk Management: Hot Spare disk
  • Dynamic Provisioning(DP) Volumes
    • Dynamic Provisioning – Overview
    • Comparison of Fat and Thin Provisioning
    • Dynamic Provisioning – Advantages0
    • Dynamic Provisioning – Implementing
    • Dynamic Provisioning Pool – Overview
    • Dynamic Provisioning Volumes – Prerequisites
    • Dynamic Provisioning – Zero Page Reclaim
• Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT)
  • Hitachi Dynamic Tiering Overview
  • Dynamic Tiering Builds On Dynamic Provisioning
  • Dynamic Tiering Specifications
  • Dynamic Tiering Operations
  • Active Flash
    • Dynamic Tiering – Active Flash
• Pool Types
  • Pool Types in Administrator
  • Prerequisites for Pool Types
  • Pool Inventory
  • Create Pool: Basic Method
    • Create Pool – Basic Method
  • Create Pool: Advanced Method
    • Create Pool – Advanced Method
    • Pool Details
  • External Pool
    • Overview of External Pool
  • Tiered Pool Policy Settings0
    • Tiered Pool Policy Settings Overview0
    • Edit and Update Pool

6. Configuration Part 2

• Configuring a Storage System Workflow
• Volumes (Logical Devices)
  • Volumes
  • Volumes Types
    • Volume Types
  • Virtualize Volumes
    • Storage Virtualization Overview
    • Storage Virtualization Prerequisites0
  • Create Internal Volumes
    • Create Internal Volume Overview
    • Create Internal Volumes
    • Pin LDEVs in Tiered Pools
    • Volume Operations
  • Create External Volumes
    • Create External Volume
    • External Parity Groups Inventory
  • Host Operations
    • Host Operations Overview
    • Configuring Storage Ports
    • Host Attachment Configuration Documentation
• Enable Port Security Overview
  • Enable Port Security
• Attach Volumes
  • Attach Existing Volume
    • Attach Existing Volume to Server
  • Create-and-Attach Workflow
    • Create and Attach Volumes to Servers Workflow
  • Attach Like Volumes and Using Existing LUN Path
    • Attach Like Volume
    • Use Existing LUN Path
• Server Group
  • Server Group Overview
  • Manage Resources in a Server Group
• Host Group (HG) and Host Mode/Option (HMO)
  • Host Group
  • Host Modes and Host Mode Option0
• Editing Host Group Names
  • Creating New Host Groups
  • Edit Host Group

7. Virtual Storage Machine (VSM)

• Virtual Storage Machine
  • VSM Overview
  • VSM Benefits
  • VSM Benefits – Nondisruptive Migration (NDM)
  • VSM Benefits – Global-Active Device
• Manage VSM
  • Managing a Virtual Storage Machine: Overview
  • Manage VSM With Administrator

8. Migration and Protection

• Volume Migration
  • Administrator – Migration
  • Administrator – Internal Migration Workflow
  • Administrator – External Migration Workflow
• Internal Migration
  • Internal Migration Prerequisites
  • Internal Migration
  • Migration Tasks Page
  • Scheduling Migration
  • Interrupting an In-progress Volume Migration
• External Migration
  • External Migration Prerequisites
  • External Migration Workflow
  • External Migration (Prep-step)
  • External Migration (Virtualization)
  • External Migration (Migration)0
  • External Migration (Unvirtualization)0
  • External Migration (Post-Step)
  • Shred Volume (Optional)
  • Over 4TB Volume Migration
• Data Protection
  • Data Protection With Administrator
• Local Replication
  • Local Replication Method: Clone Now
  • Clone Now Overview
  • Local Replication Method: Snap
  • Administrator Snap
  • Administrator Snapshot Protection
• Remote Replication
  • High Availability Protection
  • Administrator With High Availability Protection
  • Protection Operations

9. Multipathing I/O Management

• Multipathing I/O: State of the Art
  • What Is Multipathing I/O?
  • Multipathing I/O Management Software
  • ALUA, An Evolution of SCSI
• Defining ALUA
  • Asymmetric Logical Unit Access Definition
• ALUA Setup
  • ALUA Setup – Volume Setup
  • ALUA Setup – Host Group Setup
• Dynamic Link Manager Overview
  • HDLM Overview
• HDLM Features
  • Load Balancing
  • Path Failover and Failback
  • Load Balancing Algorithms
  • HDLM With Virtual Storage Machine (VSM)
• Multipathing Recommendations
  • Hitachi Multipathing Recommendations
• Hitachi Global Link Manager (HGLM) Overview
  • HDLM and HGLM Combined Overview
  • Host Management
• Appendix
  • HDLM – Graphical User Interface
    • HDLM GUI
    • HDLM Path status
    • HDLM Status Display
    • HDLM GUI Options
    • HDLM Optional Parameters
  • HDLM – CLI
    • HDLM – Command Line Interface
    • HDLM – CLI: Path View Operation
    • HDLM – CLI View System Parameters and Help
  • HGLM Architecture and GUI
    • Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Advanced0
    • Global Link Manager – Login
    • Global Link Manager GUI
    • Global Link Manager Features
  • HGLM Alert Management and Reporting
    • Alert Management
    • Alert Notification via Email
    • Reports

10. Capacity Savings With Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR)

• What Is Effective Capacity?
  • Raw Versus Effective Capacity
  • How to Achieve Capacity Savings
• Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR) and Its Functions
  • What Is ADR?
  • ADR Supported Platforms
  • ADR Metrics
  • Compression
    • What Is Compression?
    • FMD DC2 Accelerated Compression
    • FMD DC2 Features
    • Software Compression
  • Deduplication
    • What Is Deduplication?
  • ADR Terminology
    • Volume Related Terms
    • Industry Data Reduction Terms
    • Expansion Rate
    • Matching
  • ADR Inline vs. Post Process
    • Inline Process
    • Post Process
  • ADR Monitoring
    • Monitoring Pool Window: Controller-Based ADR
    • Monitoring Pool Window: Hardware Compression
    • Monitoring Pool Window Metrics

11. Administer and Monitor

• Online Help
  • Administrator – Online Help
• Administer
  • Register Active Directory
  • Add an Account Domain – Security Settings
  • Add an Account Domain – VAM
  • Ops Center Protector Settings
• Backup, Restore, Logs and Upgrade Procedures
  • Administrator VAM – Backup
  • Administrator VAM – Restore
  • Administrator VAM – Download Log
  • Administrator – Upgrade SW Version
• Administrator Monitoring
  • Administrator Monitoring Overview
  • Monitor Capacity
  • Capacity Alerts
  • Hardware Alerts
  • Data Protection Alerts
  • Job Alerts
  • SNMP V3 Support
• Basic Maintenance
  • Maintenance Utility With VSP F/Gxxx

12. Command Line Interface (CLI)

• CLI Overview
• REST API Overview
  • What Is REST API?
  • Language of REST
• Administrator REST API
  • Administrator REST Operations Overview
  • System Configuration of Administrator REST API
  • Token Sequence Between Client and Server
  • Administrator REST API Operations
    • Installation of Interpreter
    • Terms for Administrator Resources
    • Types of Server Replies
    • Get Token From the Server
    • Get All Storage Systems Information
• Hitachi Ops Center API Configuration Manager
  • Ops Center API Configuration Manager
  • Integration With Automator or Orchestration
  • Working With Storage Systems
    • System Configuration of REST API
• Command Control Interface (CCI) Overview
  • About CCI Software
  • In-band and Out-of-band Operation
• REST API documentation
  • Bookmark
• Secure Shell Access to the Controller
  • Secure Shell to the Controller

L A B S

Lab 1: Overview

• Activity 1: Navigate and Familiarize With Administrator GUI
• Activity 2: Review the Administrator Settings and Execute the Tasks

Lab 2: Administrator Installation (Optional)

• Activity 1: Perform Ops Center Administration Installation With Preconfigured Media standalone Deployment
• Activity 2: Hitachi Ops Center Administrator’s Network Setup

Lab 3: Resources Discovery

• Activity 1: Add a Storage System
• Activity 2: Add a Fabric switch
• Activity 3: Add a Server

Lab 4: Configuration Part 1

• Activity 1: Create Parity Group
• Activity 2: Create Hot Spare Disk
• Activity 3: Create Pool
• Activity 4: Expand Pool and Change Pool Type

Lab 5: Configuration Part 2

• Activity 1: Create Volumes
• Activity 2: Update and Expand Volume
• Activity 3: Verify and Change Port Settings
• Activity 4: Attach a Volume
• Activity 5: Change Host Group’s name
• Activity 6: Provisioning Workflow
• Activity 7: Create a Server Group
• Activity 8: Use an Existing LUN Path
• Activity 9: Change LUN Path
• Activity 10: Attach Like Volume
• Activity 11: Detach and Delete Volume
• Activity 12: Present LUNs

Lab 6: Migration and Protection

• Activity 1: Protection With Local Replication – Clone Now
• Activity 2: Protection With Local Replication – Snap
• Activity 3: Internal Volume Migration
• Activity 4: External Volume Migration

Lab 7: Multipathing Management

• Activity 1: Attach an ALUA Enabled Volume to a Host
• Activity 2: Observe ALUA Behavior on a Windows Host (optional)

Lab 8: Adaptive Data Reduction (ADR)

• Activity 1:ADR Using Software Compression
• Activity 2:ADR Using Software Compression and Deduplication
• Activity 3:ADR Using Hardware Compression (Optional)

Lab 9: Administer and Monitor

• Activity 1: Monitoring Using Ops Center Administrator
• Activity 2: Ops Center Administrator System Tools
• Activity 3: Gathering Ops Center Administrator Log Files

Lab 10: Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Activity 1: Getting Started With Token Operations Using Administrator REST
• Activity 2: Perform Basic REST Activities:
  • Token Operations
  • Storage Operations
• Activity 3: Lab Project
  • Check the solution to the Lab Project