Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I Management and local replication Training in New Zealand

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel
  technologies, and RAID.

• Operator level functionality in a Windows environment. (Labs are
  performed on a Windows host.)

Who Should Attend?

HP 3PAR administrators who desire training on basic concepts and
best practices needed to administer the array.

• Explain the HP 3PAR current hardware offerings: including the 7000 series, 7000c series, and the V-Series (10000)
• Know the numbering schemes for the HP 3PAR hardware components (controllers, physical disks, ports)
• Understand data flow and communication concepts in an HP 3PAR controller node
• Use Management Console and CLI and SSMC to perform administrative tasks
• Set-up a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
• Create a Thin Provisioned Virtual Volume (TPVV) and a Thin Dedup Virtual Volume (TDVV)
• Use Autonomic Groups (Host Sets and Volume Sets) to simplify provisioning storage
• Change volume RAID, availability, and service levels using DynamicOptimization
• Work with Virtual Lock for Virtual Volumes and Snapshots
• Administer Virtual Volumes using the CLI, SSMC, and Management Console to manage space
• Create a Virtual Copy Volume (Snapshot)
• Convert a Virtual Volume from fully-provisioned to thin-provisioned
• Use HP 3PAR info to analyze luns presented to hosts

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.