Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Product Introduction
- D2D StoreOnce backup systems
- New product features and benefits
- HP StoreOnce family comparison
- New features in B6200 StoreOnce backup system
Module 2: Virtual Tape Libraries
- HP StoreOnce (D2D) backup systems
- Choosing VTL vs NAS
- Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)
- iSCSI and fibre channel connections to VTL
- Flexible emulations
Module 3: NAS Shares
- NAS shares and server configuration
- CIFS authentication methods
- StoreOnce NAS limitations
Module 4: HP StoreOnce Deduplication
- Deduplication: what is it and key benefits
- Deduplication: data locality and ratios
- Housekeeping and scheduling
- Limiting housekeeping Windows
Module 5: Installation
- Installing the StoreOnce devices
- Available connections
- iSCSI modes of operation
- Fibre channel topologies
- Discovering the D2D device
- Discovery – troubleshooting
- Networking 'wizard'
- Updating firmware and drivers
- Licensing
- Installation of B6200
Module 6: Web Management Interface
- HP StoreOnce - web management GUI login
- HP B6200 - web management GUI
- HP StoreOnce - web management GUI - VTL, interface, NAS shares and replication
- Managing NAS shares – active directory
Module 7: High Availability with B6200 Cuplets
- Terminology and basic concepts
- High availability with autonomic failover
- Node failover
- Systems network configuration
- Network bonding
- B6200 node failback and CLI commands
Module 8: Replication
- Definition and replication granularity
- Replication fan-out and fan-in
- Bi-directional replication
- Seeding the replication target
- Replication recovery
- Making replication targets visible to host
- NAS replication and 'seeding'
- VTL and NAS replication and configuration
- Replication alerts
Module 9: Replication with Replication Manager (RM)
- Monitoring with RM
- RM administrator and user functions
- HP StoreOnce Replication Manager 2.1
- StoreOnce Catalyst Stores
- Topology viewer
Module 10: Catalyst
- HP StoreOnce Catalyst overview and API
- HP StoreOnce Catalyst - new features
Module 11: Best Practices
- General best practices
- Flexible emulations best practices
- D2D replication best practices
- NAS share best practices
- Physical tape offload methods
Module 12: Troubleshooting
- FAQs
- Power / boot and connection problems
- Disk errors and warnings
- Backup or disk space problems
- Miscellaneous issues
Appendix A
- Legacy D2D 2XXX and 4XXX interface prior to 3.X
Appendix B
- Upgrading legacy D2D models