Course Details
Kursziele
- Explain how space is allocated and mapped
- Understand performance bottlenecks and best practices to overcome them
- Size an array for adaptive optimization
- Explain 3PAR events and alerts
- Use best practices to troubleshoot your storage system
- Upgrade your hardware and software of your storage system
- Employ tools that can be used to troubleshoot and respond to 3PAR performance issues
Non-Objectives
The following topics are not included in this course: •Hands-on hardware installation •Hands on with hardware •Array installation •Hands-on Peer Motion •On-line Import •VMware labs
Benefits to you •Gain the knowledge necessary to understand advanced features of managing a 3PAR StoreServ array
Kursinhalt
Module 1: Overview
Module 2: Space Explained
- Physical disks
- Chunklets
- Raid
- Logical disks
- Virtual Volumes
- CPG
- Space
- Reclaimation
- Initialization
- Mapping Space
- Deduplication
Module 3: Performance
- Understanding Performance
- Best practices
- Chunklet speed
- Step Size
- RAID
- Initiators
- Front end vs back end
- Back end writes
- CPU
- Cache
- Adaptive Flash Cache
- General PD Performance
- General VLUN Performance
- Flash Cache
- Component Benchmarks
- Hardware FC Links
- Benchmarks
- Performance Alerts
- CLI Counters
- Benefits
- Troubleshooting
- Considerations
- 3PAR Performance check
Module 4: Adaptive Optimization
- Purpose of Adaptive Optimization
- Adaptive Optimization tiers
- Reading I/O density Reports
- ClI Output
- Sizing a Storeserv
- Supported A.O configurations
Module 5: Alerts
- Working with alert information
- Collect logs
- Using the SNMP Infrastructure
- Using on-node CIM provider to monitor array
Module 6: Troubleshooting
- Steps customers can take for different situations
- Identifying problems
- What do I do when I add new disks?
- What should I do if 1 disk fails?
- What should I do before I call support?
- Interpreting log files
Module 7: Upgrading How to expand (connect 4 or more nodes)
- Steps to perform when upgrading
- Best practices
- 3PAR OS Upgrade Instructions
- Servicing the Storage System
- Upgrading the Storage System
Module 8: Configuration Rebalancing
- Performance tuning
- System Tuning
- Use of Tunesys after upgrading
- CPGs and RAID levels
- Host I/O (and impact of tuning)
- Node balancing
Zielgruppe
- Storage administrators with experience managing 3PAR StoreServ arrays on a daily basis for at least a year.
A storage administrator who has been managing 3PAR StoreServ arrays on a daily basis for at least a year. This training is not for an individual who has no experience managing a 3PAR array
Voraussetzungen
Students must have attended Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ I (HK902) and Managing HPE 3PAR StoreServ II (HK904)