Duration: 5 Days
In this course, you will focus on advanced topics such as scripting, performance planning and tuning, advanced troubleshooting, virtualization, and clustered environments. You will cover HP Server Solutions in the Enterprise and how these solutions address real problems that customers are facing today. You will learn to use customized scripts to automate infrastructure deployments and practices used to migrate from one server platform to another. You will also cover high-level technologies, including Infiniband, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, and HP Matrix Operating Environment.
What You Will Learn
- HP ProLiant Gen8 product features
- BladeSystem portfolio and supported operating systems
- Management and deployment tools
- HP
services portfolio
- Products in the HP
storage portfolio
- Current InfiniBand
products offered by HP
- HP Virtual
Connect portfolio and the basic Virtual Connect technology
- HP deployment solutions
- Advanced
imaging techniques
- HP approach to
virtualization
- Insight Control
extensions
- Types of HP ProLiant
clustering solutions
- Tasks required to
develop a solution integration plan
- Increase application performance with HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) servers
- Use performance measurement tools
Audience
- HP solution architects
- HP authorized reseller partners
- HP technical client consultants
- HP field presales and competency center solution architects
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. HP Proliant Portfolio Introduction
- HP ProLiant Gen8 product features
- ProLiant Gen8 rack- and
tower-mounted server portfolio
- Components of the HP
BladeSystem portfolio
- BladeSystem portfolio and supported
operating systems
- Tools used to manage
and deploy ProLiant Gen8 servers
- HP
CloudSystem Matrix
2. HP Storage Solutions
- HP 3PAR storage systems
- HP
EVA products and technology
- HP SAN solutions
- HP disk
storage solution
- HP Smart Storage
3.
InfiniBand Connectivity
- InfiniBand
technology
- Current InfiniBand products
offered by HP
- InfiniBand subnet
managers
4. Virtual Connect Technology
- Features and functions of HP FlexNetwork and FlexFabric
- HP Virtual Connect portfolio and the basic Virtual Connect technology
- Planning and implementing a Virtual Connect environment
- Configuring a Virtual Connect module
- Managing a Virtual Connect domain
5. Virtual
Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)
- Installing and configuring HP VCEM
- Implementing the advanced settings of Virtual Connect domains and networks
- Using the VCEM CLI
6. Deployment Techniques and
Solutions
- Matrix OE
- HP Intelligent Provisioning
- HP
Scripting Toolkit
7. Advanced
Virtualization Options
- HP approach to
virtualization
- Insight Control
extensions
- Microsoft
- VMware
- Citrix XenServer
8. High Availability Clusters
and Disaster Recovery Solution
- High
availability and its different levels
- Advantages and goals of basic high availability cluster planning
- Types of ProLiant clustering solutions
- Technologies used in Windows Clustering Services
- VMware high availaility and DRS clusters
- Configure clustering with storage virtualization
9.
Integrating the Solution
- Tasks required
to develop a solution integration plan
- Conducting a needs
analysis
- Conducting a site survey
- Applying collected data
- Tools available
from HP for selecting solution components
- HP Service options
10. Performance Planning and Bottleneck
Detection
- ProLiant Gen8 servers
increase application performance
- Detecting and removing a bottleneck
- Bottlenecks in system components
- Processors
- Memory
- Disk subsystem
- Network
performance
- Using performance
measurement tools
Course Labs
