H40ZSS - Managing HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 (Block Storage)

Overview

This course describes the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 building blocks, theory of operation, and features. You learn how to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, sets, and how to monitor the product. This course also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, and QoS as well as maintenance and data migration. You gain a practical understanding of the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 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, including 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 B10000 hardware and features
List and compare HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 management options, roles, and security
Explain provisioning terminology
Perform on-boarding and initialization
Work with volumes, hosts, and corresponding sets
Protect data with snapshots, clones, and use protection policies
Describe priority optimization and quality of service (QoS)
Explain different types of replication implementations and failure scenarios
Briefly describe data migration, high availability, and disaster tolerance solutions
Describe monitoring and alerting options
Describe the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 OS update procedure and maintenance

Course outline

Module 0: Introduction

Module 1: Hardware and Features

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 built on the HPE Alletra Storage MP
Features of HPE Alletra Storage MP platform
Features of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 series arrays
HPE Alletra Storage MP—the basics
HPE Alletra Storage MP chassis
Switchless configuration
Switched configuration
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 compute IO Module details
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 OCP adapters
Slot population rules for different platform models
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 JBOF IO Module details
HPE Alletra Storage MP drive enclosure/cage (JBOF) connectivity
HPE Alletra Storage MP—the architecture
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
Data-at-rest encryption
Drive configuration best practices
Releases and features
HPE ArcusOS software details
Licensing structure
Software and support subscription
HPE Alletra Block Storage in the cloud
HPE Alletra Block Storage for AWS
HPE Alletra Block Storage for Azure

Module 2: Management Options

HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 manageability
HPE GreenLake cloud and Data Services Cloud Console
HPE GreenLake cloud services
Data Services Cloud Console introduction
Data Services Cloud Console overview
Data Ops Manager
Block storage
Intent-based provisioning
Read-only option for Data Services Cloud Console
Dual authorization option for Data Services Cloud Console
HPE Alletra Storage MP disconnected
Data Services Cloud Console Public REST API
Data Services Cloud Console Rest API
Knowledge training
YouTube demo for the Data Services Cloud Console API
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 local UI overview
Enabling read-only option for Data Services Cloud Console
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 command line interface (CLI)
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 web services API (WSAPI)
REST(ful) API Introduction
Usage basics
REST operations
URI
Usage example

Module 3: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Provisioning Terminology

HPE ArcusOS virtualization
Chunklet concept
System wide sparing
RAID concepts
High availability
Virtual volume overview
HPE ArcusOS—enhanced software vs. legacy architectures comparison
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 data reduction overview
Data reduction technologies overview
Thin provisioning overview
Windows server space reclamation
Linux space reclamation
VMware® space reclamation
Allocation units and alignment
Migrating virtual machines with VMware vCenter Converter
Deduplication and compression
Data packing

Module 4: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Initialization and Array Status

Installation
Documentation and resources
Initialization process
Create an HPE GreenLake user account
Collect information
Device registration and onboarding
Preparing for discovery
HPE Discovery Tool and Cloud Connectivity Wizard
Initializing using the mobile app
Data Services Cloud Console Setup Service

Module 5: Working with Hosts

HPE ArcusOS
Virtualization
Host OS support
Front-end configuration: FC example
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 block I/O connectivity
NVMe-oF host support
WWN format of host ports
Connectivity options with NFS access
Obtaining Host HBA WWNs
Switch
Command and utilities
Creation of host profiles

Module 6: Working with Volumes and Sets

HPE ArcusOSOS Virtualization
Virtual volume review
Host sets and virtual volume sets
Virtual volume sets and hosts
Working with sets
Data Services Cloud Console
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI—on premises
CLI
Alletra Storage MP B10000 Online Virtual Volume Conversion
HPE Virtual Lock
Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from Data Services Cloud Console
Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from the CLI
File/NFS sStorage

Module 7: Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones

Snapshot—Virtual Copy
Virtual Copy for backup use case
Virtual Copy creation
Virtual Copy writes
HPE Virtual Lock review
Customer example: Cyber-attack
Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from Data Services Cloud Console
Creating HPE Virtual Lock snapshots from the CLI
How to show how HPE Virtual Lock snapshots work
Promote or restore a Snapshot
Clone terms and specifics
Protection policies
Data Services Cloud Console
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Plan snapshots when creating app volume sets
Command line interface (CLI)
Snapshot CLI overview
Clone CLI overview

Module 8: Replication

Replication overview
Replication network transport methods
Volume set replication
Replication modes
Replication operations
Failure scenario
Replication actions
Replication setup and management
Data Services Cloud Console
CLI
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI

Module 9: Peer Persistence

Active Peer Persistence
HPE Peer Persistence infrastructure view
HPE Peer Persistence deployment matrix
Quorum Witness software
Automatic transparent failover
Failure scenarios
HPE 3DC Peer Persistence
3DC Active Peer Persistence details
HPE 3DC disaster recovery configurations
Working with the Quorum Witness
Review the Quorum Witness
Configuration via HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI

Module 10: Monitoring, Alerts and Events

Performance reporting introduction
Data Services Cloud Console—Data Ops Manager
Enhanced reporting
Extended reporting
Available options
system capacity views
Ransomware in-line detection, mitigation, and recovery
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 on-array management UI
Overview, alerts, and tasks
Performance
Capacity
Performance metrics available using API and CLI
CLI: stat commands
CLI: hist* commands
CLI: srstat commands
Performance alerts
SNMP
Alerts and events
Alerts overview
Alert message codes
Sample message
Managing alerts with the CLI
Setting system alerts
Example alert
Monitoring and managing the event log
Example event
Syslog support
Checkhealth procedure
Options available in Data Services Cloud Console
Options available in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Sustainability for HPE Alletra Storage MP
FinOps for HPE Alletra Storage MP

Module 11: Maintenance, OS Update, and Data Migration

Software updates and recommendations
Operations performed via Data Ops Manager
Running readiness checks and installing updates
User notified of update requirements
On-array management/local UI
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 maintenance
On-array management UI
Customer self-repair option
Part replacement
HPE Call Home
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI
Data migration
Storage migration methodologies
Peer motion
Online import
Appendix: Sustainability overview
Appendix: FinOps overview

Lab outline

Lab 1: Getting Started with UIs

Exercise 1: Accessing and browsing hardware information in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
Exercise 2: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Exercise 3: Accessing and browsing hardware information in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI

Lab 4: Array Preparation Tools

Exercise 1: Working with Welcome Center

Lab 5: Hosts Configuration and Management

Exercise 1: Initial preparation of host
Exercise 2: Working with hosts and host sets in Data Services Cloud Console Data Ops Manager
Exercise 3: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Exercise 4: Working with hosts and host sets in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI

Lab 6: Volumes Configuration and Management

Exercise 1: Working with volumes and sets in Data Services Cloud Console - Block Storage
Exercise 2: Working with volumes and sets in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Exercise 3: Working with volumes and volume sets in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI
Exercise 4: Disks preparation

Lab 7: Working with Protection Policies, Snapshots, and Clones

Exercise 1: Data preparation
Exercise 2: Working with protection policies and snapshots in Data Services Cloud Block Storage
Exercise 3: Working with snapshot schedules and snapshots in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Exercise 4: Working with snapshots and clones using HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI

Lab 8: Working with Replication

Exercise 1: Initial setup
Exercise 2: Creating and managing replicated sets in Data Services Cloud Console
Exercise 3: Outage Scenarios: failover to the remote site
Exercise 4: Outage scenario recovery: Recovery after the source system is back online
Exercise 5: Clean-up
Exercise 6: Configuring Remote Copy (replication) using the CLI

Lab 9: Working with Peer Persistence

Exercise 1: Initial setup
Exercise 2: Creating and managing Peer Persistence-enabled replicated sets
Exercise 3: Clean-up
Exercise 4: Configuring Peer Persistence using the CLI
Exercise 5: Final clean-up

Lab 10: Performing Monitoring, Alerting, and Events

Exercise 1: Working with monitoring, alerting, and events in Data Services Cloud
Exercise 2: Working with monitoring, alerting, and events in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 UI
Exercise 3: Working with monitoring, alerting, and events in HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 CLI

Lab 11: HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 Maintenance

Exercise 1: Browsing maintenance options
Exercise 2: Performing firmware update preparation