Duration: 4 Days
In this course, you will gain the technical knowledge and skills necessary to prepare you to consult with customers regarding HP commercial and enterprise-class products and solutions. This course is designed for account-aligned presales technical specialists who design and justify HP cross-portfolio solutions to customers. You will learn business requirements, products, concepts, technologies, and solutions within a customer sales engagement.
What You Will Learn
- HP Converged Infrastructure and its benefits as an IT strategy
- Characteristics to consider when choosing an HP server
- Industry-standard
architecture used in the ProLiant and HP Integrity product family
- Range of
partitioning technologies offered by HP
- Categorize ProLiant and Integrity
servers
- Products in the HP BladeSystem portfolio
- HP approach to
virtualization
- ProLiant Blade Workstation Solutions
- BladeSystem
storage and expansion product portfolio
- Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
solutions
- HP CloudSystem Matrix
- Select an HP BladeSystem enclosure
- BladeSystem enclosures
- BladeSystem enclosure management hardware and
software
- Power architecture used in BladeSystem enclosures
- Balance
power and cooling in BladeSystem enclosures
- HP Network switches
- Compare direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and
storage area network (SAN) products
- Tools available from HP for selecting
solution components
Audience
Presales, both internal HP and external
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Solution Planning and Design
- Gathering and
Analyzing Business Requirements and Existing Infrastructure Data
- Performing
a Site Inventory and Audit the Existing IT Infrastructure
- Business
Information Management Requirements
- Designing, Sizing, and Validating the
Solution
- Selecting the Appropriate Hardware
- Physical and
Environmental Requirements Needed
- Using Appropriate Tools to Size a Given
Situation
- Validating that the Solution is Technically Viable
-
Selecting the Appropriate HP Services
- Determining the Management Solution
- Designing Business Information Management Solution
- Creating an
Implementation Plan
- Creating the Scope of Work Document
- Documenting
the Solution and Implementation Tasks and Responsibilities
2.
HP Servers
- Comparing the Features and Models of the ProLiant ML/DL/SL
Offerings
- HP BladeSystem Portfolio
- HP CloudSystem Matrix
3.
ProLiant Storage Options
- Differentiating DAS, SAN, and NAS Technologies
- Drive Enclosures (D2000, MDS600, DS2120)
- Storage Blades
- Tape
Drives and Tape Blades
- HP Storage IO Accelerator
- Installing or
Attaching External Fibre Channel-SAN Shared Storage and Virtual Connect Options
4. I/O Connectivity Options
- Ethernet
Connectivity
- Fibre Channel Connectivity
- InfiniBand Connectivity
- SAS Connectivity
- iSCSI Connectivity
- Converged Connectivity
(Converged Network Adapters)
- Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI)
expansion (HP BladeSystem PCI Expansion Blade, PCI riser)
- USB, SD, and
MicroSD Options (Optical Drives)
5. Insight
Management Software
- HP Insight Control
- HP Matrix Operating
Environment
- Installing Appropriate HP Service Pack for ProLiant
-
Configuring System Management Homepage (SMH)
6.
Insight Control Server Deployment
- Configuring and Using Insight Control
Server Deployment Functionality
- Pre-Configuring and Installing/ Updating
ProLiant/Integrity Support Pack (Service Pack for ProLiant)
- HP Original
Equipment Manufacturer License and Entitlement Activation (Microsoft, VMware,
etc.)
7. High Availability Clusters and
Disaster Recovery Solution
- Installing and Configuring Clustering Software
Solutions (Microsoft, Serviceguard, VMware)
8.
Performance Planning and Bottleneck Detection
- Using the Appropriate Tools
to Determine Whether Performance is Optimal
- Library Tape Tools (LTT)
-
Network Bottlenecks
- Tune Network Subsystem Performance
- Identify and
Resolve:
- Processor Bottlenecks
- System Bus Bottlenecks
- Storage
Bottlenecks
- Memory Bottlenecks
- Operating System Configuration Issues
- Application Bottlenecks
- Virtualization Bottlenecks
- Ensuring Current
Performance State Meets Requirements
- Documenting Steps Taken to Resolve
Bottlenecks
- Setting Performance Thresholds
- Checking for Performance
Issues
- Establishing New Baseline
Course Labs
