H45YBS - Managing HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000

Overview

This course describes the HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 building blocks, theory of operation, and key features. You learn how to perform common day-to-day management tasks—onboarding the solution, creating S3 buckets, defining access policies, managing users and groups, and monitoring system health and performance through the Data Services Cloud Console (DSCC) Data Ops Manager. The curriculum also covers advanced capabilities, including data protection with the optional Accelerator Node, erasure-coded durability, inline data reduction, and external object replication workflows. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

Audience

This course is ideal for customers, administrators, and channel partner sales or technical sales.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, we recommend that you:
Have an understanding of general storage concepts such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI technology, and RAID
Attend either Introduction to SAN (H41BQS/H41BQAAE) or Managing HPE B-series Fibre Channel Switches (H41BPS/H41BPAAE)
Have operator-level functionality in a Windows environment

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:
Describe HPE Alletra Storage MP hardware platform basis
List HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000 building blocks, architecture and networking
Perform solution on-boarding and management
Discuss the Data Protection option
Describe external object replication solution for HPE Alletra Storage X10000

Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview

Course objectives
Agenda

Module 1: HPE Alletra Storage MP Hardware Platform

Key capabilities
Chassis and node highlights
Building block examples

Module 2: HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000

Architectural model
Software-defined, containerized architecture
Shared-everything disaggregated all‑flash design
Native S3 object API
In-line data reduction
Compute and scale
Data protection and efficiency
Networking
Front-end network
Back-end network
Recommended switches
Object data paths

Module 3: Onboarding and Management

Onboarding and welcome
Onboarding fundamentals
Network connectivity requirement
Activate software entitlement
Onboarding HPE Storage to Data Services Cloud Console
System management
DSCC Data Ops Manager
S3 bucket creation, versioning, and locking
Access policies
Groups and users
NVIDIA GPU direct for objects (S3 object over RDMA)
Notifications and monitoring
Hardware management
Hardware and software upgrades and updates

Module 4: Data Protection

Data Protection Accelerator Node (HPE Storage Data Protection Platform 7720) X10000 data protection
Flexible deployment
Advanced features
Source-side deduplication
Capacity that scales
Source to target with best practice
Solution workflow
Manual failover solution
Platform details
First time setup and configuration
DPA security features
External object replication solution for HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000

Lab outline

Lab 0: HPE vLabs Access
Lab 1: Explore the Data Ops Manager Overview
Lab 2: Creating a Bucket
Lab 3: Access Policies
Lab 4: Users/Groups
Lab 5: Adding Data to Your Bucket
Lab 6: Accessing the Bucket Contents using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
Lab 7: Using the Bucket as an Object Storage Backup Target