Course Information
Course Overview
This course teaches you how to identify, recommend, and explain HPE Storage solution architectures and technologies. You will learn to 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. This training also covers designing HPE Backup Solutions, including the right Backup, Recovery, and Archive (BURA) strategies for various customer scenarios.
Ideal candidate for this course
Typical candidates for this course are channel partners, customers, and HPE team members who interpret customer requirements to design, install, configure, and manage HPE storage and backup solutions.
What You’ll Learn
HPE Value Proposition
Classify HPE Storage solutions
Recommend HPE GreenLake services with a focus on storage
Describe HPE Complete program offerings
Locate and examine HPE information resources
Storage Architectures and Technologies
Analyze and explain basic storage drive technologies:
- Tiers
- Types
- Interfaces
- Portfolio
Distinguish storage array concepts and technologies
Selective storage presentation
Virtualization
Data reduction
HPE Block Storage
Distinguish and make recommendations from the HPE block storage portfolio, explain ideal use cases, building blocks, features, management and monitoring options, and the capabilities of the following arrays:
- HPE Alletra 5000/6000
- HPE Primera, HPE Alletra 9000, and HPE GreenLake for Block Storage (Alletra MP)
- HPE GreenLake Block Storage
- HPE XP Storage
HPE Hyperconverged Solutions
Recommend and explain HPE Alletra dHCI architecture, deployment paths, and concepts
Recommend and describe the HPE SimpliVity product family, architecture, deployment paths, and concepts
Describe options and benefits of HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition
HPE Storage Solutions Management, Monitoring, and reporting
Explain management and monitoring protocols
Differentiate and give examples of available HPE Storage management, monitoring, and reporting tools and platforms
HPE Data Protection Solutions: Theory and Hardware
Distinguish and describe data protection theory and definitions
Recognize HPE Storage local replication options
Differentiate and recommend HW, features, monitoring and licensing options of HPE StoreOnce
Differentiate and recommend HW, features, monitoring and licensing options of HPE StoreEver
Plan a data protection strategy
HPE and Partner Data Protection Software and Services
Position HPE and partner data protection solutions
Differentiate and describe Veeam Backup and Replication data protection software and how it integrates with HPE solutions
Recommend HPE GreenLake Backup and Recovery integrations and options
Overview how HPE GreenLake for Disaster Recovery can reduce data loss and downtime
Networking Elements of an HPE Storage Solution
Differentiate SAN protocols and discuss the benefits of each
Demonstrate the most important FC services running within FC-based SAN networks
Determine the host role within a SAN
Distinguish products and management options within the HPE StoreFabric portfolio and describe the components that make up a SAN
Upgrading, Optimizing, and Tuning HPE Storage and Backup Solutions
Recommend data reduction optimizations
Plan hardware and software upgrades, and perform post-upgrade procedures
Outline scaling and updating process
Demonstrate tuning, and best practices