Managing HPE Alletra 6000 (H61N2S)

The Managing HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 course describes the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 portfolio hardware building blocks, theories of operation, and features. Using hands-on labs, students learn to perform common day-to-day management tasks, including how to create hosts, volumes, and collections, as well as how to monitor the product. 

This course also provides knowledge of more advanced features, including local and remote replication, disaster recovery, scaling-out, QoS, and maintenance. You gain a practical understanding of HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array capabilities using extensive hands-on lab exercises, performed on all applicable user interfaces.

Audience

Customers, administrators, and channel partner sales or technical sales

Prerequisites

• An understanding of general storage concepts including fiber channel, iSCSI technology and RAID
• Operator level functionality in a Windows Environment

Course objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 hardware, architecture, and software features
• List and compare HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 management options
• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 array initialization and Data Services Cloud Console onboarding
• Explain HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 provisioning terminology, features, and read/write operations flow
• Prepare and create hosts and initiator groups for HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage arrays
• Work with volumes, volume collections, and quality of service (QoS)
• Describe and manage snapshots, clones, and protection templates
• Describe the concept, use, and benefits of the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 storage scale-out architectures
• Explain asynchronous remote replication concepts, implementation, and failure scenarios
• Describe peer persistence concepts, architecture, requirements, and the automatic switchover (ASO) process
• Describe HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 monitoring options and tools
• Describe the HPE Alletra 6000 and HPE Alletra 5000 OS update procedure