HP-UX virtualization tools boot camp

Special Note

This 5-day intensive boot camp replaces HP’s Capacity Advisor (HB504S) and Global Workload Manager (HC719S) courses.

Course overview

This hands-on course supports the new Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Operating Environment on HP-UX 11i v3. You will gain an overview of the products and see how to use Systems Insight Manager, Virtualization Manager, Capacity Advisor, Global Workload Manager, Instant Capacity, Application Discovery, parmgr, vmmgr, Process Resource Manager, Secure Resource Partitions. See how the tools work together to manage your systems and workloads. The 5-day course is 50% percent lecture and 50% percent hands-on labs using HP servers.

Prerequisites

• HP-UX system and network administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX system and network administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX for experienced UNIX system administrators (H5875S) or
• Equivalent system administration experience

Audience

• Experienced HP-UX system administrators

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Provide an overview description of the VSE components
• Install and configure VSE Use Virtualization manager to view systems and workloads
• Use Capacity Advisor to perform systems capacity planning and VM consolidations
• Use gWLM to manage workloads
• Perform basic troubleshooting of VSE

Next steps

• HP Systems Insight Manager (HB508S)
• HP Partition Management (U5075S)

Benefits to you

• Quickly evaluate different scenarios for consolidating older and underutilized physical servers onto virtual machines
• Gain an appreciation of all HP-UX VSE tools
• See how you can more effectively manage the computing resources in your environment

Course outline

Introduction to VSE & Product Tour

• Virtualization concepts, products, ID-VSE (ProLiant) and VSE-OE (HP-UX), SIM ties it all together
Virtualization Management overview
Virtualization Manager
• Capacity Advisor
• Integrity Server Management (gWLM, AppDisco, VM Mgr, iCAP Mgr)
• Logical Server Management overview

Install, setup, configure VSE

• Selecting a CMS
• Licensing overview
• HP-UX CMS requirements
• Windows CMS requirements
• Preparing the environment
• Install VSE on an HP-UX CMS
• Installing Insight Dynamics – VSE on a Windows CMS
• Post installation steps
• Installing agents
• Adding license keys

Virtualization Manager (Vman 4.0)

• Virtualization Manager (Vman 4.0)
• Feature overview
• Starting Virtualization Manager
• Using VSE views
• Configuring preferences
• Compartment components
• Using the Virtualization Manager toolbar
• Managing with visualization icons

Capacity Advisor (CapAd 4.0)

• Product Tour
• Data Collection
• Scenario planning with the Smart Solver
• Scenario Planning with Power
• Insight Power Manager
• Workloads & Reports
• Command Line Interface
• Troubleshooting capcollect issues

Global Workload Manager (gWLM 4.0)

• Global Workload Manager (gWLM 4.0)
• Product Tour
• Planning a gWLM implementation
• gWLM Controllers
• gWLM Provisioning
• Starting gWLM
• Creating and managing Shared Resource Domains
• Creating and Applying Policies
• Adding Workloads
• Common Administrative Tasks
• iCAP Manager
• GiCAP Integration
• Advanced Topics
• gWLM Best Practices

Troubleshooting

• Common issues
• Using vseassist
• Examining Log Files
• Common HP SIM issues
• Capacity Advisor troubleshooting
• Global Workload Manager troubleshooting

Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (Vmmgr 3.5)

• Overview

Partition Manager (parmgr 4.0)

• Overview

Application Discovery (AD 4.0)

• Features, how to use

Other Topics (Partitioning Continuum)

• Instant Capacity (iCAP) - Features, how to use
• Process Resource Manager (PRM)- Features, how to use
• Workload manager (WLM) - Features, how to use
• Secure Resource Partitions - Features, how to set up