HPE SimpliVity 380 System Administration (VMware) ...

Module 1: HPE SimpliVity overview
• The data problem
• The evolution of hyperconvergence
• HPE SimpliVity use cases / key business challenges
- Data center consolidation
- Data protection and disaster recovery
- VDI
- ROBO
- Hyperconvergence in a hybrid cloud
- High performance All-Flash Storage
• HPE SimpliVity 380 HyperGuarantee
• What is an HPE SimpliVity 380 system
- HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
- Models
- Components
- Management (including iLO)
- HPE OmniStack Virtual Controller (OVC)
- HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card (OAC)
- Disk Controller (RAID controller)
• HPE SimpliVity system architecture
- Node
- Cluster
- Federation
- Global scale
• Arbiter
• HPE SimpliVity 380 Networks
- Federation network
- Management network
- Storage network
- Network configurations
- Network security

Module 2: SimpliVity Data Virtualization Platform
• HPE SimpliVity 380 Data Virtualization Platform (DVP)
- Guaranteed data efficiency
- Deduplication and compression
- Built-in resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery
- Global VM-Centric management and mobility
- Data storage and VM cloning
- Writing data
- Remote backup
• HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
• Data virtualization platform deep dive
- Data presentation layer
- Data management layer
- File system
- Object Store I/O write path
- Cluster-level data management
- Federation-level data management
- Advantages
  • I/O and capacity reduction
  • Storage network
  • Faster backup, restore, and clone
  • Reduced WAN bandwidth
  • Lower RPO and RTO

Module 3: HPE SimpliVity data management
• HPE SimpliVity data paths
- HPE OmniStack system architecture
- Write I/O path
- Read I/O path
- Stretched clusters
• Data Resiliency - How Is data protected
- Node-level resiliency
- Cluster-level resiliency
- Site-level protection
- RAIN + RAID overview
- Power resiliency
- Hardware RAID
- Preventing silent data corruption
- Enterprise-grade server platform resiliency
- HPE OmniStack Accelerator Card resiliency
  • Effects of a failure (what happens to the data)
  • Failover of the OVC IP
- OVC resiliency 
  • Effects of a failure (what happens to the data)
  • Failover of the OVC IP
  • Recovering a failed OVC
• vCenter resiliency
- Single and linked mode
• Data locality
- Overview of data locality
- Advantages of full data localization
- Intelligent Workload Optimizer
  • Initial data placement
  • Integration with vSphere DRS

Module 4: HPE SimpliVity user interface overview
• Getting started
• Features within the vSphere Web Client
• How to maneuver through the vSphere Web Client
• vCenter inventory list
• The SimpliVity federation actions
• SimpliVity federation home tab
- Topology tab
- Throughput tab
- Backup consumption tab
- About tab
- Inventory lists

Module 5: HPE SimpliVity Clusters and Datastores
• Clustersters
- Exploring clusters
- Customizing SimpliVity table data
- Viewing capacity
- Viewing performance
- Searching backups
• Datastores
- Creating a SimpliVity Datastore
- Modifying a SimpliVity Datastore
• Configuring ESXi access nodes
- Configuration steps
- NFS settings
- Verifying HPE SimpliVity Datastore access

Module 6: HPE SimpliVity backups
• SimpliVity backups
- Overview
- Manual backup
- Application consistent backups
- Managing backups
  • Backups view
  • Rename backup
  • Copy backup
  • Cancel backup
  • Backup retention time
  • Export backups
  • Delete backups
- Backup policies
  • SimpliVity backup policy overview
  • Backup frequency
  • Fixed default backup policy
  • Locking a policy-based backup
  • Creating backup policies and backup policy rules
  • Edit backup policy
  • Rename backup policy
  • Delete backup policy
  • Add backup policy
  • Apply backup policy

Module 7: Other HPE SimpliVity  features
• Hosts
• Virtual machines
• HPE SimpliVity restore
- SimpliVity restore overview
- Finding a backup
- Creating a new virtual machine
- Replacing an existing virtual machine
• SimpliVity file level restore
- Permissions and security
- Limits
- Partitions
- Restoring files steps
• SimpliVity clone
- SimpliVity clone overview
- SimpliVity clone a virtual machine
- VAAI and VMware clone
• SimpliVity move
- SimpliVity move overview
- SimpliVity move a virtual machine
• VM templates
• Moving an HPE SimpliVity node between clusters
• HPE OmniStack Virtual Controller (OVC) shut down
- Safe shut down preparation
- Other safe shut down considerations

Module 8: Extending HPE SimpliVity 380
• REST API
- REST overview
- HPE SimpliVity REST API functions
- HPE SimpliVity REST API examples
• HPE SimpliVity CLI
- Prerequisites for using the CLI
- Access through the Virtual Controller Console
- Access through a Terminal Emulator
- CLI Command privileges
- CLI Command format and examples
• HPE SimpliVity RapidDR
- What is RapidDR and how does it work?
- RapidDR requirements
- RapidDR configuration guidelines

Module 9: HPE SimpliVity 380 services and support
• HPE SimpliVity support plans
- Accessing support
- Accessing updates
- Customer self repair
- Remote support
• HPE SimpliVity 380 hardware services
- Phone home - HPE OmniWatch
- Support capture file
• Alarm and events overview
- SimpliVity Datastores overview

 Lab outline

SimpliVity overview
• Accessing the HPE vLabs environment
• HPE SimpliVity user interface
• HPE SimpliVity federation home page
• Backup policies

Clusters
• Monitor tab
• Top contributors
• Manage tab
• Related Objects tab

Datastores
• Online resize
• Set default backup policy
• Delete Datastore
• Manage standard ESXi hosts
• Additional Datastore information

Virtual machines
• Backup virtual machine
• Search backups
• Restore virtual machine
• Replace existing virtual machine
• Restore files
• Rename backup
• Copy backup
• Lock backup
• Set retention time
• Calculate unique backup size
• Export backups
• Delete backup

Clone and move
• Clone virtual machine
• Move virtual machine

Creating and using HPE SimpliVity VM templates

Using HPE SimpliVity CLI

Using HPE SimpliVity REST API through PowerShell

Using HPE SimpliVity RapidDR