HP CloudSystem Matrix Overview (1 day)

Special notes

This course covers the following tailored topics to help HP CloudSystem administrators/end-users get a jump-start on using and managing their HP CloudSystem Matrix environment .This course is mainly offered as a dedicated training class. Contact your HP Education Representative or your authorized HP reseller for a dedicated onsite class quote.

1. HP CloudSystem Matrix Overview
2. Infrastructure Orchestration
3. Matrix OE Administration
4. Capacity Advisor
5. Operations Orchestration

Course overview

This one day hands-on course covers how to effectively utilize and manage the HP CloudSystem Matrix Solution. The HP CloudSystem Matrix solution topics include:

• Review of building blocks that are part of HP CloudSystem solution including hardware, services and software
• Dynamic infrastructure provisioning - accelerating delivery of shared infrastructure services, while reducing complexity, cutting costs, and improving reliability
• Continuous consolidation and planning - using real-time capacity planning and logical server management to complement long-term consolidation projects with ongoing optimization, and quickly rebalance and repurpose physical and virtual servers to respond to changing business priorities
• Energy aware planning - using real-time capacity planning capabilities to quickly and easily consolidate workloads in an energy-efficient manner
• Improving service delivery - use recovery management features to configure disaster recovery options for an environment
• Extending capabilities for Infrastructure and Cloud Administration and monitoring with HP Cloud Service Automation tools
• Using configuration and management tools to provide advanced server management and troubleshooting tasks

Students will have remote access to HP CloudSystem Matrix solution for performing their hands-on labs.

Software components and/or Version:

• HP CloudSystem Matrix Operating Environment
• VMware ESX
• VMware vSphere
• Hyper-V

Prerequisites

The students MUST have at least one out of four requirements from below:

1. VIP HE646X c-class Blade Administration Training or
2. Standard deliveries of all 3 HE646S, HE643S and HK758S Blades, Insight Control and Virtual Connect courses:
   • http://www.hp.com/education/courses/he646s.html
   • http://www.hp.com/education/courses/he643s.html
   • http://www.hp.com/education/courses/hk758s.html
3. Or attended tailored or Custom Training event through HP Education that covered administration topics from the above courses
4. Or equivalent HP BladeSystem ProLiant administration experience >2 years

Audience

• Experienced c-class Blade Administrators, engineers and consultants who will manage and administer the HP CloudSystem Matrix solution in their environments.
• HP Customers, Partners or HP Internal Employees
• Expectation is students have deep understanding of HP BladeSystem technologies and Insight Management software

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Course objectives

At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand technical details and business value of HP CloudSystem Matrix solution and Converged Infrastructure
• Be able to manage and optimize a HP CloudSystem Matrix environment

Benefits to you

• This course provides HP CloudSystem administrators/end-users an opportunity to jump-start on using and managing their HP CloudSystem Matrix environment

Course outline

Module 0: Course Overview

Module 1 - Introduction to HP CloudSystem Matrix

• HP CloudSystem and Cloud solutions
• CloudSystem Components
  • HP BladeSystem
  • Virtual Connect and Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
  • Insight Software portfolio
    • Insight Control
    • Capacity Advisor
    • HP Matrix OE
  • Storage
    • HP StorageWorks
    • Storage Provisioning Manager
    • Remote replication
  • Network
  • HP Insight Orchestrations
  • HP Operations Orchestration
  • HP Server Automation
  • HP Network Automation
  • HP uCMDB
  • HP CloudService Automation (CSA)
  • HP Cloud Services
    • HP CloudSystem Matrix management functionality
    • Review environment dashboard

A: Infrastructure Orchestration

Module 2 –IO Self Service Portal

• Rethinking Infrastructure Administration
• Self Service portal features
• Service Catalog
• Provisioning from Orchestrated Workflows
• Infrastructure lifecycle: Lease – bill – release

Lab 1

• Using Self-Service Portal
• Cost of Services conveyed via the portal
• Lease Periods
• How IT published a catalog of Services to set standard configurations

Module 3 – IO Designer

• IO Designer
• Creating Orchestrated Workflows
• Import CloudMaps
• Chargeback
• Workflows

Lab 2 - Using IO Designer

• Using IO Designer
• Create templates for physical and virtual machine deployment

B: Matrix OE Administration

• Infrastructure Orchestration
• Resource Pools
  • Software, Network, Storage, Server, Users
• Deployment Strategies, physical and virtual
• vSphere, vCenter, Server Automation, Insight Control Virtual machine management (Hyper-V), Insight Control Server Deployment (RDP) and Ignite

Lab 3

• Create a software pool entry
• Impact of network pools on service deployment
• Storage Provisioning Manager
• Server pool wizard – assign users to the pools
• Deployment of virtual machine
• Deployment of physical machine

Module 5 - Energy aware planning with the HP CloudSystem Matrix Operating Environment

• Review HP Thermal Logic capabilities
  • Intelligent Power Discover
  • Data Center Environmental Edge
  • HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure
  • ProLiant Power Regulator
  • Dynamic Power Capping
  • Platinum Power Supply
  • Sea of Sensors
• Perform consolidation review using planning tools
• Data Center Smart Grid
• HP Energy Efficiency Services
• HP Performance Optimized Data Center
   
  

  Lab 4:

  • Power management configurations
  • Reviewing Data Center Power Control

  C: Capacity Advisor

  Module 6 – Utilization and Capacity Advisor

  • Describe capacity planning functionality to optimize infrastructure confidently
  • Using Capacity Advisor
    • Infrastructure capacity and utilization
    • Forecasting Infrastructure utilization
    • Utilization limits
    • Comparison Reports

  Lab 4

  • Using Capacity Advisor for Infrastructure capacity and utilization
  • Infrastructure utilization and reporting
  • Running resource usage reports

  Module 7 - Continuous Consolidation and planning with the HP CloudSystem Matrix Operating Environment

  • HP CloudSystem capacity planning functionality to optimize infrastructure confidently

  Lab 5
  

  • System Consolidation with Power Calculations
  • Create forecast scenarios
  • Workload scenario planning with Smart Solver tools
  • Power comparison reports

  D: Operations Orchestration

  Module 8 – Operations Orchestration Capabilities and Workflows

  • Operations Orchestration (OO) overview
  • OO working with IO and OO Central
  • OO Workflow execution
  • OO Studio Interface
  • Workflow Authoring
  • OO workflow integration with CloudSystem IO Components

  Lab 6: Operations Orchestration Workflow creation

  • OO Studio overview and use
  • Create OO workflow
  • Debug workflow
  • Run and check workflow
  • Integrate OO workflow into IO Orchestrated Workflow
  • Publish to Service Catalog

  Module 9: Cloud Service Automation tools for Administration and Management
  

  • HP Cloud Service Automation and CSA for Matrix
  • HP Server Automation
  • HP Network Automation
  • HP uCMDB
  • HP Site Scope

  Lab 7: HP CSA demos

  Module 10 - Improving service delivery with Infrastructure Protection and Recovery Functionality

  • BladeSystem Matrix Operating Environment and support to enable optional data protection
  • Recovery options from ISVs and HP
  • HP BladeSystem Matrix Operating Environment also offers recovery management capability for certain enterprise environments
  • Differentiate data protection and disaster recovery products
  • Describe HP Insight Management availability and recovery solutions
  • Describe the process for configuring an environment to implement HP CloudSystem Matrix Operating Environment recovery management
  • Demonstration: Setup and failover of logical server failure

  Module 11 – Building out HP Converged Infrastructure to HP CloudSystem
  

  • Practical use case study review
  • Learning check of customer objectives
  • Course wrap-up and practical Approach of bringing your company to CI and how to introduce HP CloudSystem Matrix into your Data Center
    • Next steps
    • Best practices - Matrix planning, conversion, installation, sizing, high availability, setup services, SDR high-level process overview
    • HP CloudSystem and Converged Infrastructure Roadmap
    • Customer Example
    • CIMM (Converged Infrastructure Maturity Model) tool
    • Wrap-up

  Appendices:

  • Case Studies
  • Concept of bursting – additional course offering.