Course Overview
This course teaches students how to perform common management tasks, including: array installation, creating volumes, and protecting/recovering data with snapshots and replication. This course also covers system monitoring using Nimble Storage’s InfoSight.
Course Objectives
By the completion of this course, the learner will be able to complete the following tasks using Nimble Operating System:
• Perform initial configuration of a new array with NSM & GUI
• Perform post-installation tests
• Create volumes and zero-copy clones Attach and verify volumes/clones to Windows
• Create and modify data protection polices for volumes
• Restore volumes and individual files from a snapshots
• Set up replication and perform basic DR operations
• Use the Nimble GUI to monitor array capacity/performance
• Navigate Nimble’s InfoSight to identify long term trends
• Manage multi-array (scale-out) groups
Pre-Requisite
N/A
Who Should Attend
Customers, Administrators and Channel Partner Sales or Technical Sales
Related Certification Exam
N/A
Course Modules
Module 1: AF-Series and HF Hardware
Module 2: Scaling with HPE Nimble Storage
Module 3: NimbleOS Introduction
Module 4: Nimble WebUI Introduction
Module 5: Introduction to Support and HPE InfoSight
Module 6: Pre-Installation, Racking, and Cabling
Module 7: Initial Configuration of the Unified Flash Fabric Overview
Module 8: Working with HPE Nimble Storage Volumes
Module 9: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Snapshots
Module 10: Introduction to HPE Nimble Storage Replication
Appendix 1: AF-Series Introduction
Appendix 2: CS and AFA Series Pre-installation, Racking and Cabling
Lab 0: vLabs Access
• Objectives
• Accessing the vLabs
Lab 1: Initialize an Array
• Lab Topology
• Task 1: Launch Nimble Setup Manager
• Task 2: Subnet Configuration
• Task 3: Post Setup Testing
• Lab 1b: Initialize an Array using CLI (optional)
Lab 2: Basic Volume Creation
• Task 1: Create a volume
• Task 2: Create a Volume Collection
• Task 3: Create an Initiator and an Initiator Group
Lab 3: Windows Host SetUp (NCM) Background
• Task 1: Launch NCM and connect to a volume
• Task 2: Examine the newly connected volume
• Task 3: Return to the Windows host to prepare and mount the volume
Lab 4: Snapshots and Data Recovery Background
• Task 1: Create Data
• Task 2: Simulate a data loss event
• Task 3: Create a Zero-Copy Clone
• Task 4: Connect to the clone and recover the data
• Task 5: Disconnect and delete the clone
Lab 5: Replication Partner Configuration Background
• Lab Topology
• Task 1: Configure the Upstream Array
• Task 2: Configuring the Downstream Array
