HK905: HP XP 9500 Storage Administration and Configuration

$4,500.00


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Duration: 5 Days

In this course, you will be introduced to the XP 9500 disk array terminology, function, architecture, and configuration. You will get hands-on practice on our P9500's with logical unit number (LUN) and volume management, data replication, cache partitioning, external storage, thin provisioning, AutoLUN, Performance Advisor, resource partitions, and Command View XP Advanced Edition. You will also cover the concepts of Continuous Access and Snapshot XP.

What You Will Learn

  • Hardware architecture of the HP XP 9500 disk array
  • Use the new Remote Web Console user interface to manage and view P9500 configuration information
  • Use the new Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) Manager command line to manage the array configuration
  • Set the Fibre Port Topology for the P9500 ports
  • Configure LUNs
  • Use the Volume Manager to create logical unit size expansion (LUSE) and custom size volumes
  • Implement LUN Security
  • Handle multiple paths to a LUN
  • P9000 replication products: P9000 Business Copy, P9000 Snapshot, and P9000 Continuous Access
  • External storage
  • Thin provisioning
  • AutoLUN
  • Configure Resource Partitions
  • Use Command View Advanced Edition to manage the P9500 array

Audience

Storage administrators responsible for the configuration and management of HP XP 9500 disk arrays

Prerequistes

  • Knowledge of networks and the storage administration tasks for the 9500 OS

Course Outline

1. P9500 Hardware

  • Architecture
  • Physical Layout
  • Component Details
  • Terminology

2. Software Solutions

  • Storage Essentials
  • P9000 Software Suite
  • HP P9500 Supported Multipathing Solutions
  • Command View Advanced Edition
  • Performance Advisor
  • P9000 Replication Manager
  • High Availability Solutions
  • Metered Licensing of P9000 Software

3. Remote Web Console

  • Management Options
  • Web Console Architecture
  • Web Client Requirements
  • License Key Management
  • Audit Logs
  • User Management
  • Customer Access to Service Processor (SVP)
  • Task Wizards
  • Reporting Tool

4. Command Line Interface (CLI)

  • Setting Up RAID Manager
  • Sending Commands to SVP In-Band and Out-of-Band
  • Authenticating with SVP
  • Array Configuration

5. Volume Management

  • LUSE
  • Custom Volumes
  • Open-V Volumes
  • System Disk
  • Quick Format
  • Command Line for Volume Management
  • DKA Encryption
  • Volume Shredder
  • Data Retention

6. LUN Management

  • Fibre Port Management
  • Host Groups
  • Host Modes
  • Management Tools for LUNs
  • Making Storage Available to Hosts
  • Creating LUNs and Command Devices
  • Using Configuration File Loader
  • Command Line for LUN management

7. Making LUNS Visible to a Host

  • Host Preparation before Presenting LUNs
  • Making LUN Visible to Hosts
  • HP-UX Hardware Path Address for LUNs
  • Use of the P9000Info Tool

8. Multipathing Solutions

  • Automatic Path Failover
  • Dynamic Load Balancing
  • Multipathing Solutions
  • Multipathing I/O (MPIO) for Windows
  • Installing MPIO DSM for P9500
  • Installing DSM MGR (Optional)
  • HPDSM CLI (hpdsm.exe)
  • MPIO DSM Manager
  • MPIO: Setting a Preferred Path
  • HP-UX 11iv3 Native Mutlipathing
  • Making Host See New LUN
  • Host Bus Adapter Issues
  • Making LUNs Visible to HP-UX 11iv1, v2, and v3
  • HP-UX Legacy FC Hardware Addresses
  • Connecting a Windows Host to a P9500
  • Linux Native Multipathing

9. P9000 Thin Provisioning (THP) and SMART Tiers

  • P9000 THP
  • THP Operation Sequence
  • THP Pools
  • THP Usage with Other Program Products
  • THP Business Copy Usage Details
  • THP Usage with Partitioning
  • THP DMT Reads and Writes
  • THP Performance
  • THP Smart Tiers

10. P9000 Cache Partitioning

  • With and Without Cache Partitions
  • Cache Logical Partitions (CLPRs)

11. P9000 External Storage

  • Features
  • External Storage Path Modes
  • Cache Mode
  • Use with Cache Partitions
  • Configuring External Ports
  • Configuring External Volumes
  • Best Practices for P9000 External Storage
  • Power On and Off Order
  • Disaster Recovery Solutions Using P9000
  • External Storage

12. P9000 AutoLUN

  • Tiered Storage Approach
  • AutoLUN Migration
  • Reserving Destination Volumes
  • AutoLUN Tasks
  • AutoLUN Migration Configuration

13. Performance Monitor

  • Data Collection
  • Viewing Collected Data
  • Performance Monitor Export Tool
  • Data Export

14. P9000 Performance Advisor

  • Collecting Array and Host Information
  • Management Station
    • Components
  • Host Agents and Clients
  • Installing and Logging On to Performance Advisor
  • Performance Advisor Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  • PA Licensing
  • P9500 Configuration Data Collection
  • Creating Charts and New Alarms
  • Generating and Scheduling Reports
  • P9000Watch
  • P9000Sketch
  • 15. Replication Overview
  • P9000 Business Copy
  • Full Copy vs. Snapshot Comparison
  • P9000 Business Copy Operations and States
  • P9000 Continuous Access
  • Continuous Access Synchronous
  • Continuous Access Journal
  • 16. Resource Partitions
  • Physical Partitioning vs. Logical Partitioning
  • Resource Groups
  • User Groups
  • Access Roles

17. P9000 Command View Advanced Edition (CVAE)

  • Command View AE Features
  • Architecture
  • Device Manager Host Agent and Web Client
  • Connecting to the P9000 CVAE Device Manager
  • GUI Functions Available with Core License
  • Installing the Device Manager Host Agent
  • Setting Up the Device Manager Agent
  • Agentless Host Data Collection

18. Managing Volumes and LUNs with Command View Advanced Edition

  • Logical Group Concept
  • CVAE Host
  • Adding LUNs to an Existing Host Group
  • Creating LUNs for a New Host Group
  • User Management Concepts
  • Security Settings for User Accounts

Course Labs