HP 3PAR Solution Overview
- Current product line overviews
- Software suites and licensing overview
- Benefits and advantages of HP 3PAR virtualized storage architecture
- HP 3PAR hardware offerings (10000 Series and 7000 Series)
- Basic HP 3PAR high availability advantages
- Gen4 ASIC chip functionality
- Advantages of cache persistence and persistent ports
- Data flow and communication concepts in an HP 3PAR controller node
- Self-encrypting drives
- HP 3PAR component connectivity
- HP 3PAR remote support
HP 3PAR Array Management: MC, SSMC and CLI
- Installing
- Logging In
- Basic features and commands
- Wizards
- Benefits
7000 Series Hardware Overview
- HP 3PAR controller options basics
- Drive cage expandability options
- HP 3PAR hardware components basics
- HP 3PAR hardware components numbering schemes
10000 Series Hardware Overview
- HP 3PAR controller options basics
- Drive cage expandability options
- HP 3PAR hardware components basics
- HP 3PAR hardware components numbering schemes
Storage Concepts and Terminology
- HP 3PAR provisioning terminology
- HP 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)
- HP 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
- HP 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VV) types
- Thin Provisioning
Storage Configuration
- CPGs using Management Console, SSMC, and CLI
- Fully provisioned and thin provisioned VVs using Management Console, SSMC, and CLI
Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation
- Supported operating systems
- How to prepare a host to access an HP 3PAR storage array
- Adding hosts in an HP 3PAR storage array
- Adding FC ports to a host
- Export VVs to a host as VLUNs
- Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host
- Using Management Console, SSMC, and CLI to work with hosts and storage
- Use Host Explorer to add hosts
- Use HP3PARInfo to gather information
Autonomic Groups and Virtual Lock
- Host and volume sets advantages
- Creating and maintaining host and volume sets
- Management Console, SSMC, and CLI to work with host and volume sets
- Host and volume sets guidelines and rules
- Understand the Virtual Lock feature
Dynamic Optimization
- Dynamic Optimization (DO) benefits
- Changing VV RAID level
- Changing VV setsize and availability level
- Changing VV service level
- Changing VV user data and copy space
- Online VV Conversion
Thin Technologies
- Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence feature
- Administering Virtual Volumes using the MC, SSMC, and CLI to manage space
Local Replication: Virtual and Physical Copy
- Virtual and Physical Copy benefits
- Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a virtual copy volume
- Rules of virtual copy relationships
- Restore from a virtual copy
- Resynchronize a PC to a base volume
- Promote a PC to a base volume
- Use the MC and CLI to manage physical and virtual copies
SSMC 2.0 Overview
- Installing SSMC
- Reviewing the dashboard within SSMC
- Managing hardware components within SSMC
- Reporting capabilities
Deduplication
- Deduplication Process
- Interpreting dedup output from CLI commands
- Purpose of the Garbage Collector
- How dedup works with virtual, physical, and remote Copies
Adaptive Flash Cache
- Understanding what and what cannot be moved into AFC
- Explaining the different LRU queues and queue demotion
- Using CLI commands to setup, enable, disable, remove, and monitor AFC
File Persona
- Installing and configuring File Persona
- Working with File Persona authorization and authentication
- Understanding the logical layers of File Persona
- Explaining how snapshots work with File Persona
- Configuring and using Antivirus capabilities
- Working with File Services Quota Management
Benefits to You
- Gain the knowledge necessary to perform day-to-day administration functions on an HP 3PAR array.
