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HPE Storage Solutions, Rev. 20.41

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$2,750 USD

Course Code STOR-SOLU

Duration 5 days

Available Formats Classroom

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This course teaches students how to identify, recommend, and explain HPE Enterprise Storage Solutions architectures and technologies, and translate business requirements into storage solution designs that support applications and data across physical, virtual and cloud environments with a common architecture and converged management. The course also covers designing HPE Backup Solutions including the right Backup, Recovery, and Archive (BURA) strategies for various customer scenarios.

Skills Gained

After you successfully complete this course, expect to be able to:

Identify, recommend, and explain HPE Enterprise Storage Solutions architectures and technologies.
Translate business requirements into storage solution designs that support applications and data across physical, virtual and cloud environments with a common architecture and converged management.
Explain the HPE Storage Management tools.
Explain HPE 3PAR and Primera OS and configuration.
Explain Nimble storage features.
Explain the fundamentals of virtualization and virtualization management capabilities.
Describe SAN Fabric Topologies, SAN design principles and considerations.
Describe planning a RAID configuration.
Identify Drive I/O and Performance.
Provide an overview of HPE Reference Architectures.
Describe the goals of HPE presales consultants and storage architects.
Explain how to use HPE sizing, planning and ROI tools.
Explain the HPE Storage Management tools
Explain HPE 3PAR and Primera OS and configuration
Explain Nimble storage features
Explain the fundamentals of virtualization and virtualization management capabilities
Describe SAN Fabric Topologies, SAN design principles and considerations.
Describe planning a RAID configuration
Identify Drive I/O and Performance
Provide an overview of HPE Reference Architectures
Describe the goals of HPE presales consultants and storage architects
Explain how to use HPE sizing, planning and ROI tools

Who Can Benefit

Typical candidates for this course are channel partners, customers, and HPE employees who interpret customer requirements to design, install, configure, and manage HPE storage and backup solutions. The candidate will be able to demonstrate critical-thinking skills required to design, optimize, deploy, manage, and troubleshot storage solutions.

Prerequisites

Suggested:

The HPE ATP - Hybrid IT Solutions V1 or V2 certification.

Course Details

Storage architectures and technologies

Compare different storage technologies

File-based storage
Block-based storage
Object-based storage
Comparison

Describe and evaluate use cases for various disk related technologies

Interfaces
Disk (HDD) types and technologies
Flash-based technologies
Memory types

Describe storage related technologies

Storage virtualization options
Storage scalability options
Thin provisioning
Compression
Deduplication
Data migration
Comparison to traditional approach
Use-cases

HPE storage products review

Identify product and discuss features of

Modular Smart Array (MSA)
Nimble Storage
3PAR StoreServ
Primera
XP (overview only)
SimpliVity (overview only)
Software-defined Storage

Storage networking architectures and technologies

Describe SAN transport technologies and components

Transport technologies
Interconnect devices and adapters
StoreFabric portfolio overview

Describe and characterize the different SAN technologies

Used transport protocols
Available features
Zoning

Describe and characterize the different SAN topologies

HPE supported topologies
Redundancy and high availability
Scalability
Advantages and disadvantages

Describe storage presentation to hosts in SAN context

Basic concepts
Storage based presentation
Multi-pathing options and technologies

Data protection

Describe the data protection terminology

Availability and downtime
RPO and RTO
3-2-1 rule
Disaster Recovery

Describe backup, archiving, and data availability technologies

Malware protection
Archiving concepts
Backup vs archiving
Available technologies and features
Tiering
Security aspects
Data protection aspects

HPE backup solutions – disk

Review the HPE StoreOnce product

Overview
Portfolio and Positioning
Features and functions
Emulation types
Networking

Explain the features of Deduplication technology in backup context

Deduplication: What is it?
Deduplication technology types
Key Benefits of Data Deduplication
How hash based chunking works
Target/server/source-side deduplication
How deduplication integrates into backup software

Explain the features of Catalyst technology

Overview
StoreOnce Catalyst features and benefits
StoreOnce Integrations

HPE backup solutions – tape

Describe HPE StoreEver Tape solutions

HPE StoreEver Tape portfolio
LTO Ultrium
Management
Features
Linear Tape File System
HPE Library and Tape Tools
Enterprise Secure Key Manager

Backup and archiving software solutions – part 1

HPE Recovery Manager Central Software

Overview
Building blocks
Features overview
Basic integration with HPE products

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview
Building blocks
Features overview
Basic integration with HPE products

Backup and archiving software solutions – part 2

Overview
Building blocks
Features overview
Basic integration with HPE products

Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery

Overview
Building blocks
Features overview
Basic integration with HPE products

SimpliVity protection and integration

iTernity Compliant Archive Software (iCAS)

Cloud offerings and integrations

Advanced administering and monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring protocols and standards review

SNMP, SMI-S and REST API

Storage and backup products monitoring options

Modular Smart Array (MSA)
Nimble Storage
3PAR StoreServ / Primera
StoreOnce

SAN Monitoring

B, C and M -Series

Insight Remote Support review

InfoSight

Staging an effective storage consulting engagement

Describe the goals of HPE presales consultants and storage architects
Identify Consultative selling
Explain how to use HPE sizing and planning tools during a consulting engagement
Calculate Payback period and ROI
Use Storage Assessment Foundry
List the available return on investment and total cost of ownership tools
Direct others to HPE resources online
List steps for a Proof of Concept test
List HPE storage services
HPE Partner Ready Delivery Services program

Planning and designing HPE storage solutions

Position the different HPE Storage arrays
Storage planning and sizing tools
Array planning and sizing
Describe SAN design principles and considerations
Talk about licensing

Planning and designing HPE BURA solutions – theory

Identify data tiering and retention

List challenges in Data Protection

Discovering data protection opportunities
Not all data are equal: Classifying information
Solution and categorization
Recovery operations
The effectiveness of recovery
Steps in disaster recovery
Backup strategy planning
Protection and recovery methods
Data protection and retention challenges
Delivering agility and efficiency

Present HPE backup and restore strategy

Backup and recovery strategy planning
Understanding the factors that influence the backup solution
Preparing the backup design
Backup topologies
Zoning for backup

Planning and designing HPE BURA solutions – practice

Perform StoreOnce planning and sizing

PE StoreOnce backup device emulation options
HPE StoreOnce performance and sizing guidelines
Networking
Resource prerequisites for HPE StoreOnce VSA
Sizing considerations
Reference documents and sizing tools
Emulation options
Performance and sizing guidelines
NinjaProtected Tool and Get Protected Guarantee
What is the NinjaProtected Tool?
What does it do? What does it deliver?
Why use the NinjaProtected Tool?

Perform RMC sizing

Sizing considerations
Deployment and integrations
Best Practices

Discuss licensing

Upgrading, optimizing, and tuning HPE storage and BURA solutions

Upgrade HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Primera system
Nimble Timeless Storage program
Upgrade HPE Nimble array
Describe Nimble Scale-to-Fit options
Upgrade HPE StoreOnce system
Tune HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Primera
Optimize HPE Storage systems
Optimize StoreOnceDeduplication ratio
Update HPE 3PAR and Primera OS
Update HPE 3PAR Service processor
Optimize HPE Backup systems and backup jobs

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