Morpheus VM Essentials

Overview

During this 3-days class students will learn how to position HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and what are the benefits provided by this product. Students will learn what the installation requirements and prerequisites are. During the class, students will learn how to use HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and how to integrate it with an existing VMware infrastructure. Students will also perform a bulk migration of Windows and Linux virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Audience

This course is ideal for IT administrators, platform architects, and solutions architects.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course, but we recommend that you have a general understanding of virtualization technologies in order to understand the difference between VM Essentials and VMware.

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:
Identify and describe the product uses, licensing models, and benefits
Understand the deployment steps
Understand the primary features and functionality of VM Essentials
Understand VM Essentials management
Understand how to import VMware cloud to VM Essentials and how to manage an existing component

Course outline

Module 1: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software introduction

Explain the features and benefits of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Identify different deployment models:
Onsite installation
HPE SimpliVity with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE SimpliVity
HPE Private Cloud Business Edition with HPE Alletra dHCI
Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software licensing

Module 2: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials building blocks

Explain architecture of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software building blocks:
Ubuntu
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software management appliance
Networking subsystem
Storage subsystem

Module 3: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Iinstallation

Discuss HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software network and storage considerations
Explain HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Installation requirements and installation process
Discuss HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software post-installation and basic configuration steps

Module 4: Using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Interface

Effectively use different sections of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface:
Infrastructure section
Library section
Provisioning section
Backup section
Operations section
Tools section
Administration section
Explain how integration with an existing VMware infrastructure does work

Module 5: Update, Security, API, and Troubleshooting

Describe HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software update process
Describe available security options including roles and integration with identity sources
Explain API access and basic automation methods
Explain basic troubleshooting steps of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software and underlying hardware

Lab outline

Lab 0: Accessing HPE vLabs Environment

After completing this lab, participants should be able to access HPE vLabs Environment.

Lab 1: Exploring HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Explore HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface
Access HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console

Lab 2: Basic HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software configuration

Create group, cloud and cluster
Expand an existing cluster
Explore cluster settings and resources

Lab 3: Storage management for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Configure NFS datastore
Configure GFS2 datastore
Configure SMB File Share
Configure S3 based Storage Bucket

Lab 4: Image Management and Instances Deployment

Upload different type of images to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software library
Set up IP address management in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Deploy instances using available images
Extend an existing instance by adding additional nodes
Create and apply new service plan for an instance
Manage an instance placement
Protect and instance with snapshot
Add a virtual disk to the virtual machine
Move a virtual machine to a different datastore

Lab 5: Managing VMware infrastructure using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Prepare objects in VMware inventory (datacenter, cluster, resource pool, folders)
Integrate VMware infrastructure with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Deploy VMware instance using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Configure VMware Content Library and use template from this library to deploy and instance

Lab 6: Migrating VMware virtual machine to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Prepare Windows virtual machines for migration
Migrate Windows virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software
Migrate Ubuntu virtual machines from VMware to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

Lab 7: Demonstrating failover capabilities of HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

After completing this lab, participants should be able to demonstrate HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software failover capabilities

Lab 8: Users, Roles and logs management

Create user and custom role
Collect basic logs from HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software