Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to a Hybrid World
- An introduction to reference architectures and reference configurations
- Activity: HPE Synergy and HPE 3PAR reference architectures
- HPE overview • HPE Hybrid IT
- Activity: Navigating the HPE Hybrid IT portfolio on the HPE website
Module 2: Architecting and Designing Hybrid IT Solutions
- Assessing the customer’s requirements and environment
- Selecting the HPE platform
- HPE tools for selecting solution components, including demos of HPE Switch Selector, SSD Storage Selector, HPE Storage Sizer, HPE OneConfig Advanced, HPE 3PAR NinjaSTARS
- Developing the proposal
- Solution installation, configuration, and setup
- Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Monitoring storage with HPE InfoSight
Module 3: Recommending Hybrid IT Compute Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- HPE has it all
- Customer scenario 1: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- Reference architecture
- Exchange 2016 preferred architecture
- Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator
- Ask the Perf Guy—Sizing Exchange 2016 Deployments
- Building blocks of the solution
- Security in HPE servers
- Management tools, including activities, –Activity: HPE ProLiant server management technologies, –Activity: Preboot environment, –Demo: UEFI System Utilities and UEFI Shell, –Activity: Performing basic shell operations in UEFI
- HPE rack and power, including activities, –Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server, –HPE Sizer for Exchange Server 2016
- Alternative servers for smaller environments
- Customer scenario 2: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
- The Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture
- HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 Server QuickSpecs
- Workload-based Performance and Tuning Guide for HPE Gen10 servers and HPE Synergy
- Operating System Support Matrix
- Building blocks of the solution
- Processors in HPE servers
- Memory for HPE servers, including activities, –Activity: HPE Persistent Memory, –Demo: Memory configurator,
- Management tools, including activities, –Activity: Full control over all user interfaces [iLO5], –Demo: Intelligent Provisioning, – Demo: Smart Storage Administrator, –Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
- Alternative servers for smaller environments
- Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring HPE ProLiant Gen10 and HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) 5 security
Module 4: Recommending HPE Data Center Networking Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- Customer scenario 3: Optimize data center networking with Cloud-First approach
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Cloud-First Reference Architecture Guide—2000 servers
- HPE FlexFabric 12900E QuickSpecs
- HPE FlexFabric 5940 QuickSpecs
- Building blocks of the solution
- Networking technologies and architectures
- Management tools, including activities, -Activity: HPE Cloud-First Reference Architecture Guide—2000 Servers
- Alternative components for smaller environments
- Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring HPE networking
- Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Working with HPE Composable Fabric (Plexxi)
Module 5: Recommending HPE Hybrid IT Storage Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- Customer scenario 4: Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
- HPE Deployment Guide for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy with HPE Nimble Storage
- RHEL OpenShift Container Platform: Sizing Considerations
- Building blocks of the solution, HPE Nimble Storage, HPE FlexFabric, Storage technologies.
- Management tools, including activities, -Activity: HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy
Module 6: Recommending HPE Software- Defined and Cloud Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- Customer scenario 6: Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
- HPE Deployment Guide for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy with HPE Nimble Storage
- RHEL OpenShift Container Platform: Sizing Considerations
- Building blocks of the solution - HPE Synergy
- Management tools, including activities, –Activity: HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
- Alternative components for different environments
- Customer scenario 7: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack data protection with Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce, and Cloud Bank Storage
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Architecture on VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Synergy Reference Architecture
- Software-defined infrastructure
- Building blocks of the solution – HPE Synergy
- HPE networking
- Management tools
- HPE RESTful API and PowerShell cmdlets, including activities, -Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation™ on HPE Synergy, -Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring composable infrastructure, -Activity:Lab exercise (emulator)—Managing server, networking, and storage datacenter components with HPE OneView, -Activity:Lab exercise (emulator)—Using HPE OneView Global Dashboard, -Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Using PowerShell cmdlets to manage data center infrastructure, -Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Using REST API for automation and integration
Module 7: Recommending Hybrid IT Hyperconverged Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- Customer scenario 8: VMware Horizon® on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Horizon on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
- HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 QuickSpecs
- HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen10 QuickSpecs)
- Activity: HPE SimpliVity efficiency
- Industry standard architectures and drivers
- Building blocks of the solution
- Management tools, including activities
- Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Horizon on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
- Alternative servers for other environments
- Data virtualization platform
Module 8: Recommending HPE Density and Mission Critical Solutions for Customer Use Cases
- Customer Scenario 9: Artificial Intelligence on HPE Elastic Platform for Analytics
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Architecture for AI on HPE Elastic Platform for Analytics (EPA) with TensorFlow and Spark
- HPE Reference Configuration for Elastic Platform for Analytics (EPA)
- HPE EPA Sizing Tool
- Building blocks of the solution
- High performance computing
- Big data
- HPE services
- Management tools, including activities
- Activity: HPE Sizer for the Elastic Platform for Analytics
- Alternative servers for different environments
- Customer scenario 10: HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 18c OLTP and OLAP workloads on HPE Superdome Flex and HPE 3PAR Storage Reference Architecture
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Information resources
- HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 18c OLTP and OLAP workloads on HPE Superdome Flex and HPE 3PAR Storage
- HPE Superdome Flex Quickspecs,
- HPE Superdome Flex server architecture and RAS
- Building blocks of the solution
- Management tools, including activities
- Activity: Design HPE Superdome Flex solution
- Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Working with HPE Superdome Flex
Module 9: Validating and Presenting the Solution
- Customer scenario: Configuring infrastructure for virtualization
- Introducing the customer and customer requirements
- Activity: Configuring infrastructure for virtualization and presenting recommended solution