The HPE SimpliVity product certification course covers portfolio and product introduction, architecture, management, installation, troubleshooting and support of HPE SimpliVity solutions. In addition to lecture, this course also contains labs for hands-on experience in exploring and using HPE SimpliVity.
Introduction to HPE SimpliVity
• Describe the benefits of HPE SimpliVity and the HyperGuarantee program
• Top use cases (VDI, ROBO, datacenter consolidation, data protection)
• Describe available reference architectures
• Describe HPE Simplivity impact on TCO and sizing rules
HPE SimpliVity Architecture
• Explain HPE SimpliVity architecture and components (OAC, OVC, MVA, cluster, federation, datastores, Arbiter, compute nodes, networking requirements [3 networks, jumbo frames, etc.])
• Explain HPE SimpliVity data efficiency technologies (deduplication, compression and optimization)
• Explain how HPE SimpliVity has a resilient platform and provides peak and predictable performance
• Explain HPE SimpliVity Stretched Cluster implementation
• Explain how HPE SimpliVity differs from other hyperconverged infrastructure technologies
HPE SimpliVity Portfolio Overview
• Describe the HPE SimpliVity portfolio (hardware-accelerated and software-optimized models)
• Describe how to position the product and match to specific customer use cases
• Describe HPE Composable Fabric integration
• Describe HPE StoreOnce integration
• Describe HPE InfoSight integration
Designing HPE SimpliVity Solutions
• Describe SimpliVity sizing and configuration tools
• Analyze reference architectures for HPE SimpliVity
– VMware Horizon®
– Microsoft SQL Server 2017
– SAP HANA 2.0
– Citrix XenDesktop
– Oracle Database
Managing HPE SimpliVity
• Describe HPE SimpliVity functionalities (backups, restore, clone, etc.)
• Describe available user interfaces (GUI, CLI/API)
• Explain how HPE SimpliVity RapidDR works
• Explain how HPE SimpliVity performs backups to secondary storage (HPE StoreOnce today)
• Explain how to use HPE InfoSight to investigate the analytics and get insights from an HPE SimpliVity environment
Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Explain steps required for a successful deployment
• Explain the upgrade procedure
• Describe support and troubleshooting procedures
Join our public courses in our United Kingdom facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.