HPE 3PAR Solution Overview

• Current product line overviews

• Software suites and licensing overview

• Benefits and advantages of HPE 3PAR virtualized storage architecture

• HPE 3PAR hardware offerings (10000 Series and 7000 Series)

• Basic HPE 3PAR high availability advantages

• Gen4 ASIC chip functionality

• Advantages of cache persistence and persistent ports

• Data flow and communication concepts in an HPE 3PAR controller node

• Self-encrypting drives

• HPE 3PAR component connectivity

• HPE 3PAR remote support

HPE 3PAR Array Management: SSMC, MC, and CLI

• Installing

• Logging In

• Basic features and commands

• Wizards

• Benefits

2000/8000/7000 Series Hardware Overview

• HPE 3PAR controller options

• Drive cage expandability options

• HPE 3PAR hardware components basics

• HPE 3PAR hardware components numbering schemes

• Current drive sizes

Storage Concepts and Terminology

• HPE 3PAR provisioning terminology

• HPE 3PAR concept of a disk chunklet and Logical Disk (LD)

• HPE 3PAR concept of a Common Provisioning Group (CPG)

• HPE 3PAR Virtual Volumes (VVs) types

• Thin Provisioning

Storage Configuration

• CPGs using SSMC, Management Console, and CLI

• Fully provisioned and thin provisioned and thin deduplicated VVs using SSMC, Management Console, and CLI

Host Connectivity and Storage Allocation

• Supported operating systems

• How to prepare a host to access an HPE 3PAR storage array

• Adding hosts in an HPE 3PAR storage array

• Adding FC ports to a host

• Export VVs to a host as VLUNs

• Unexport VVs/VLUNs from a host

• Using Management Console, SSMC, and CLI to work with hosts and storage

• Use Host Explorer to add hosts

• Use HP3PARInfo to gather information

Autonomic Groups and Virtual Lock

• Host and volume sets advantages

• Creating and maintaining host and volume sets

• SSMC, Management Console, and CLI to work with host and volume sets

• Host and volume sets guidelines and rules

• Understand the Virtual Lock feature

Dynamic Optimization

• Dynamic Optimization (DO) benefits

• Changing VV RAID level

• Changing VV setsize and availability level

• Changing VV service level

• Changing VV user data and copy space

• Online VV Conversion

Thin Technologies

• Benefits of the Zero Detection/Thin Persistence feature

• Thin dedup deep-dive

Local Replication: Snapshots and Clones

• Snapshots and Clones benefits

• Creating, exporting, unexporting, and deleting a snapshot

• Rules and relationships regarding snapshots

• Restore from a snapshot

• Resynchronize a clone to a base volume

• Promote a clone to a base volume

• Use the SSMC, MC, and CLI to manage physical and virtual copies

• Scheduling snapshots and clones

Adaptive Flash Cache (Appendix)

• Understanding what and what cannot be moved into AFC

• Explaining the different LRU queues and queue demotion

• Using CLI commands to set up, enable, disable, remove, and monitor AFC

10000 Series Hardware (Appendix)

• 10000 Series controller options

• Drive cage expandability options

• 10000 Series hardware components basics

• 10000 Series hardware components numbering schemes

• Current drive sizes