HPE Performance Cluster Manager Administration Training in South Africa

  • Delivery Method: Online Instructor-Led / Classroom Based / Onsite
  • Participation Model: Public Training / Private / In-House Training
  • Duration: 3 Days
  • Level: Fundamentals
  • Price: From ZAR 50,000 +TAX
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The HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) administration course provides knowledge and practice installing HPCM, managing data networks, provisioning servers, creating and modifying server images, working with software repositories and image version control, automating post installation tasks, configuring services, reviewing security features, and troubleshooting.



Prerequisites

• H8PE8S: HPE Performance Cluster Management Foundations

• The following Linux system administration

skills are prerequisites for this course:

– Edit text with the vi editor

– Recognize regular expression syntax

– Access documentation with man and info file viewers

– Monitor, manage and maintain log files

– Enter common commands at the bash command line; create and interpret basic bash shell scripts

– Install and configure standard software components, services and security features – Configure basic communication protocols that support networked communications

– Create and modify crontabs

– Monitor resources usage; be familiar with basic monitoring tools

– Install and configure a Linux distribution on a server

– Create, modify, and delete user accounts and group accounts

– Partition disks, manage filesystems and logical volumes

– Use RPM package management

– Install and use virtualized systems

– Understand basic hardware and hardware troubleshooting


Training Outline

Module 1: Install Cluster

• Describe HPCM features

• Define operating system slots

• Build cluster from ground up

• Provision node with GUI

• Provision node with command line

• Add nodes to the cluster

• Explore auto installation tools

Module 2: Discover

• Discover nodes

• Interpret cluster configuration files

• Review cluster services

Module 3: Data Networks

• Describe technologies

• Describe InfiniBand configuration

• Describe Intel Omni-Path configuration

• Describe software components

• Use diagnostic commands

Module 4: Manage Images

• Manage software repositories

• List software repositories

• Add software repositories

• Remove software repositories

• Create repository groups

• Customize an image by using RPM lists

• Create a compute node image

• Create an ICE-compute node image

• Manage image version control

• Check in an image into version control

• Compare differences between two versions of an image

• List the versions of an image

• Deploy a specific version of an image

• Push an ICE-compute image to a rack

• Use parallel tools and inbuilt functionality to check differences between nodes

• Enable hyperthreading

• Disable hyperthreading

• Configure array services

• Install batch scheduler server on a compute node

• Install batch scheduler client on a compute node and in ICE compute node

• Configure HPCM connectors to job schedulers

• Capture an image from a node (golden)

• Add RPMs to, remove RPMs from, and version control compute images

• Add and remove RPMs from running compute nodes

• Clone an ICE-compute image

• Clean up old images on the lead node

• Add RPMs to ICE compute image Compare when and when not to use tmpfs root

• Determine which nodes use tmpfs root

• Configure nodes to use tmpfs root

• List tmpfs quota difference (rack leader quotas do not apply when ICE-compute nodes are in tmpfs)

• Set tmpfs mode

• Set disk mode

• Show which mode a node has booted with

• Show which mode a node is scheduled to boot into

• Perform a clone operating system slot operation

Module 5: Automate Post Installation Tasks

• Review conf.d scripts

• Exclude a conf.d script

• Use pre_reconf.sh

• Use reconfig.sh

• Develop post install and per-host customization scripts

Module 6: Configure Shared Filesystem, User Accounts, Applications, and Updates

• NFS Export a filesystem on a compute node

• Mount an NFS filesystem and create a user on an ICE compute node

• Manage user accounts

• Synchronize UIDs and GIDs, LDAP, etc.

• Run an application on compute and ICE compute nodes

• Display BIOS settings

• Upgrade firmware

• Update kernel

• Update distribution

• Update HPCM

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Experience HPE Performance Cluster Manager Administration in South Africa through Bilginç IT Academy's live and interactive virtual classroom environment. Join a Public course as an individual delegate or arrange a dedicated Private / In-house online training program exclusively for your organization.

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  • Participation Model: Public / Private (In-house)
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Experience HPE Performance Cluster Manager Administration through face-to-face Classroom Based training in South Africa. Training can be delivered as a Public course open to individual delegates or as a dedicated Private / In-house class for your organization.

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HPE Performance Cluster Manager Administration Training Course in South Africa Schedule

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

For corporate groups, we can organize this training as an on-site private group.
15 October 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
16 October 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
25 October 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
02 November 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
10 November 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
16 November 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
24 November 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX
15 December 2026 (3 Days)
Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria
ZAR 50,000 +TAX

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