Trainer- Anup Mukherjee

HPE Primera Course Content

Module 0: Introduction

• Course Introduction

• Course agenda

Module 1: Solution Overview:

Ø Hardware

o HPE Primera technical specifications

o HPE Primera hardware building blocks

o Data-in-place upgrade

o HPE Primera controller enclosure

o HPE Primera drives

o HPE Primera hardware architecture

o Software and features overview

o HPE Primera persistency and high availability features

o HPE Cabling Tool

o HPE product information

o Documentation and resources

o HPE storage interoperability

o HPE SAN certification and support

Module 2: HPE Primera Management

• HPE Primera manageability

• HPE StoreServ Management Console (SSMC)

• Data Services Cloud Console

• HPE Primera UI

• HPE Primera command line interface (CLI)

• HPE Primera integration portfolio overview

• HPE Primera initial setup

• Customer self-install

Module 3: Storage Concepts and Terminology

• HPE Primera OS virtualization—logical view

• HPE Primera OS virtualization concepts

• HPE Primera OS virtualization advantages

• Chunklet concepts

• Logical disk (LD) concept and controller node ownership

• Logical disk concepts

• HPE Primera high availability

• Common provisioning group (CPG) concepts

• Virtual volume overview

• Thin provisioning overview

• HPE Primera data reduction overview

Module 4: Host Connectivity and Storage

Allocation

• Host to HPE Primera front-end configuration: fibre channel

· (FC) example

• HPE Primera block I/O connectivity

• Persistent checksum based on T10-DIF

• HPE Primera persistent ports

• HPE Primera OS 4.x host OS support

• HPE Primera Implementation Guide

• Obtaining host HBA WWNs

• Host bus adapters (HBAs) and worldwide names (WWN)s

• HPE Primera—iSCSI support

• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera

• HPE Primera zoning overview

• HPE Smart SAN for HPE Primera overview

• Adding hosts in SSMC: Smart SAN

• Making VLUNs visible to hosts

• HPE Host Explorer

• HPE LunInfo

• Host configuration and storage allocation

· Module 5: Host, Volume, and App Volume Sets • Host and volume sets

• Host sets and virtual volume sets overview and advantage

• Virtual volume set—other use cases

• Host sets and virtual volume sets— SSMC and CLI examples

• Data Services Cloud Console—host group and volumes

• App volume sets overview

• App volume sets— SSMC examples

• SSMC dashboard—top app vol sets

• App sets vs virtual volume (VV) sets

Module 6:

· Replication Concept and Replication Setup

· Virtualization of Primera

· Bi-directional Replication setup for Primera and HP3Par

Module 7:

• Firmware upgrade

• Troubleshooting