Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I: Management and local replication

Description

The Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I course is designed for the new or entry-level HPE 3PAR administrator. The goal of the class is to acquaint the 3PAR administrator with the most common day-to-day tasks and best practices associated with administration of the 3PAR array. The levels of provisioning storage are emphasized. This training reflects the newest release of the HPE StoreServ Management Console. The course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HPE 3PAR arrays. NOTE: Hosts used in the lab environment are MS Windows

The Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I course is designed for the new or entry-level HPE 3PAR administrator. The goal of the class is to acquaint the 3PAR administrator with the most common day-to-day tasks and best practices associated with administration of the 3PAR array. The levels of provisioning storage are emphasized. This training reflects the newest release of the HPE StoreServ Management Console. The course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HPE 3PAR arrays. NOTE: Hosts used in the lab environment are MS Windows

Target

This course is intended for StoreEasy customers, HPE Services field engineers, call center personnel, Presales and Channel Partners and other field personnel who provide installation and/or operational support assistance for HPE StoreEasy and 3PAR StoreServ File Controller Serverst.

Contents

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Explain the 3PAR current hardware offerings: 20000 series, 8000 series, and 7000 series
• Explain the numbering schemes for the HPE 3PAR hardware components: controllers, ports, and physical disks
• Use the StoreServ Management Console (SSMC) GUI and the CLI to perform administrative tasks
• Create and work with a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)
• Administer Virtual Volumes using the SSMC and the CLI
• Understand the advantages of Thin Provisioning and create a Thin Provisioned Virtual Volume (TPVV)
• Understand the advantages of Dedup and Compression for storage allocated from SSDs
• Export and un-export virtual volumes from hosts
• Use HPE 3PAR info to analyze luns presented to hosts
• Use Host Explorer to simplify addition of hosts
• Use Host Sets and Volume Sets to simplify provisioning storage
• Create a Snapshot and promote (restore) from a Snapshot
• Create a Clone and promote a Clone
• Convert a Virtual Volume (i.e. from fully provisioned to thin provisioned or thin provisioned to thin dedup or vice versa)
• Use the SSMC reporting feature to monitor capacity and performance

Prerequisites

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fibre channel technology and RAID • Operator level functionality in a Windows environment

Study Materials