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Architecting HP Server Solutions - Rev 12.31

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HP ASE - HP Server Solution Architect V8

HP0-S36 - Architecting HP Server Solutions

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Instructor-led training

32 hrs

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Course description The Planning and Design of HP Server Solutions course delivers the technical presales

knowledge and skills necessary to prepare learners to consult with customers regarding HP

commercial and enterprise-class products and solutions. This course is designed for account-

aligned presales technical specialists who design and justify HP cross-portfolio solutions to

customers. Learners attending this course will gain knowledge of business requirements,

products, concepts, technologies, and solutions within a customer sales engagement. In

addition, they will learn the technical concepts and technologies of HP server solutions. A

series of demonstrations and lab assignments reinforce the learning concepts delivered in this

class.

Who should attend Presales, both internal HP and external

Prerequisites HP0-D13 - Technical Introduction to the HP Enterprise Portfolio

Course objectives Describe the HP Converged Infrastructure and its benefits as an IT strategy

Explain the characteristics to consider when choosing an HP server

Describe industry-standard architecture used in the ProLiant product family

Describe industry-standard architecture used in the HP Integrity product family

Explain how ProLiant and Integrity servers are categorized

Describe the HP approach to virtualization

Describe the range of partitioning technologies offered by HP

Identify the products in the HP BladeSystem portfolio

• ProLiant server blades

• Integrity server blades

• BladeSystem enclosures

Identify ProLiant Blade Workstation Solutions

Describe the BladeSystem storage and expansion product portfolio

Describe and position Integrity NonStop BladeSystem solutions

Describe and position the HP CloudSystem Matrix

Explain how to select an HP BladeSystem enclosure

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Identify and describe the BladeSystem enclosures

Describe the BladeSystem enclosure management hardware and software

• Insight Display

• Onboard Administrator modules

Describe the power architecture used in BladeSystem enclosures, including:

• Power modes

• Power supplies

• Power modules

• PDUs

Explain how to balance power and cooling in BladeSystem enclosures

• Power Regulator

• Dynamic Power Saver

• Dynamic Power Capping

Identify the HP Network switches and differentiate among them

Describe the HP FlexNetwork architecture

Identify the HP BladeSystem networking products and technologies

Explain the functions and benefits of Virtual Connect technology

Explain the functions and benefits of InfiniBand technology

Compare direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage(NAS), and storage area

network (SAN) products and their market positions

Describe the HP disk storage solutions in the HP Storage portfolio

List the hard drives supported in HP servers and compare their technologies

Describe the tape storage and media supported by HP servers

Describe HP Smart Array technology

Describe the tasks required to develop a solution integration plan

• Conducting a needs analysis

• Conducting a site survey

• Applying collected data

Name the tools available from HP for selecting solution components

Identify HP Service options

Explain how to manage HP servers with HP Insight Control

Explain the features and functions of the HP Insight Lifecycle Onboard (iLO) Management

Engine

Describe the uses of HP utilities

Explain how to boot HP ProLiant and Integrity server systems

Define high availability and its levels

Describe the clustering models that are available for a high-availability design

Identify the current HP cluster implementations

State the HP best practices for power and cooling in the data center

Explain how to increase availability through power protection

Describe the components used to provide effective data protection in the clustered

environment

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Course outline

Module 1 — Solution Planning and Design

Gather and analyze customer business requirements and existing infrastructure data

Perform a customer needs analysis

Identify what support options will be required (from HP or from partner)

Identify types of systems that could meet customer needs including

platform/virtualization, operating system, applications, storage, network

Determine desired availability and fault-tolerance levels

Identify existing infrastructure limitations (network protocols, topology, facilities)

Determine physical security requirements

Determine scalability requirements/planned growth

Determine solution management requirements

Determine the implementation timeline

Perform a site inventory and audit the existing IT infrastructure as needed

Use HP/ISV tools to gather and analyze (HP Insight Control, VMware Capacity

Planner)

Perform consolidation and capacity planning assessment if required

Determine Business Information management requirements

Backup / restoration (Fast Recovery, Zero Downtime backup, Backup2Disk2Tape)

Data replication and retention (Business Copy, Continuous Access, extended clusters)

Disaster tolerance and disaster recovery

Information Management Lifecycle / compliance

Design, size, and validate the solution

Choose appropriate operating system and operating environments

Virtualization level of solution (including consolidation)

Clustering/HA/FT solution

Operating system version/build/updates

Licensing requirements

Size operating system requirements

Size file shares, disk space, memory/swap space, VM host/guest resource

Select the appropriate hardware

Hardware virtualization level of solution (including consolidation)

Platform / server / enclosure / connectivity

Storage components (direct, iSCSI, Fibre Channel)

Network components (in support of speed, iSCSI, teaming, VLANs, Virtual Connect)

Power/cooling (UPS, rack, console and PDU/iPDU/PDM, Modular Cooling System)

Clustering and high availability (redundant interconnects [NICs, HBAs, switches]

storage bus/cabling, memory protection, RAID levels for boot and data, power

redundancy)

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Determine the physical and environmental requirements needed

Power source and power type requirements

Example: Sufficient amps, voltage, phase, receptacles

Power continuity requirements

Thermal requirements, airflow requirements

Physical facility requirements

Facility security

Use appropriate tools to size a given situation

HP BladeSystem Sizer, HP Power Advisor, DDR3 Memory Configurator

SalesBuilder for Windows, HP Enterprise Configurator

Validate that the solution is technically viable

Application specific requirements (Database, ERP, CRM, Web, HPC, 3-D Modeling,

Application Virtualization, Server Consolidation)

Application specific tier architecture (2 tier or 3 tier)

Compatibility matrix, best practices, and sandbox

Solution sizing

Required HP software licensing

Select the appropriate HP Services

Implementation/Startup Services

Maintenance Services

Consulting Services

Migration/Integration Services

Educational Services

Determine the management solution

Hardware management

Operating system management

Application / Workload / Operations management

Design Business Information Management solution

Backup / Restoration (Fast Recovery, Zero Downtime backup, Backup2Disk2Tape)

Data Replication and Retention (Business Copy, Continuous Access, extended

clusters)

Disaster Tolerance and Disaster Recovery

Information Management Lifecycle / Compliance

Create an implementation plan

Create a proposal covering:

o Security

o Disaster recovery

o Scalabitity/growth

o Migration

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o Failure recovery

o Pricing/budget

o Site preparation

o Services

o Performance

o Project schedule

o Management/ management strategy

o Third-party integration

Create the scope of work document

Document the solution and implementation tasks and responsibilities

o Gather additional information for implementation (IP addresses, terminal

emulator, firmware, security information, SSL certificates, operating system

security settings, patches, raid/storage configuration, FCA setting)

Module 2 — HP Servers

Objectives

Compare the features and models of the ProLiant ML/DL/SL offerings

Differentiate server models (200, 400, 600, and 800 series)

HP BladeSystem portfolio

BladeSystem messaging

Differentiate server blade models (200, 400, 600, and 800 series)

o ProLiant BL460c Gen8

o Integrity BL860c i2

o Integrity BL870c i2

o Integrity BL890c i2

Differentiate between the c3000 and c7000 enclosure options

Describe available power options (single-phase, three-phase, DC power)

HP CloudSystem Matrix

HP CloudSystem Matrix components

Learning check

Module 3 — ProLiant Storage Options

Differentiate among DAS, SAN, and NAS technologies

Drive enclosures (D2000, MDS600, DS2120)

Storage blades

D2200sb

X1800sb G2 Network Storage Blade

X3800sb G2 Network Storage Blade

Tape drives and tape blades

SB1760c

SB3000c

HP Storage IO Accelerator

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Install or attach external Fibre Channel-SAN shared storage and Virtual Connect options

Module 4 — I/O Connectivity Options

Ethernet connectivity

Interconnect modules

LOM

Mezzanine adapters and PCIe cards

FlexNet adapters

Fibre Channel connectivity

Interconnect modules

Mezzanine adapters and PCIe cards

InfiniBand connectivity

Interconnect modules

Mezzanine adapters and PCIe cards

FlexNet adapters

SAS connectivity

Interconnect modules

SmartArray technology

PCIe cards, SAS expanders, and mezzanine adapters

iSCSI connectivity

Mezzanine adapters and PCIe cards

FlexNet adapters

Converged connectivity (CNAs)

PCI expansion (HP BladeSystem PCI Expansion Blade, PCI riser)

USB, SD, and microSD options (e.g. optical drives)

Module 5 — Insight Management Software

HP Insight Control

SmartStart and Intelligent Provisioning (SmartSetup)

Install and configure HP Insight Management Agents or Agentless Management

Service (AMS)

Install deployment infrastructure (HP Insight Control, Software Distributor)

Install and configure HP Insight Remote Support

Management software license and entitlement activation (iLO, Insight Control)

HP Matrix Operating Environment

HP Infrastructure Orchestration

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

HP Recovery Management

Install appropriate HP Service Pack for ProLiant

Configure System Management Homepage (SMH)

SMH security (IP binding etc)

SMH Trusted Management Server (Relationship/Login)

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Data source (SNMP or WBEM)

SSL Encryption Keys

HP Version Control

Module 6 — Insight Control Server Deployment

Configure and use Insight Control server deployment functionality

Establish rip-and-replace configuration settings

Pre-configure and install or update ProLiant/Integrity Support Pack (Service Pack for ProLiant)

HP OEM license and entitlement activation (Microsoft, VMware etc.)

Module 7 — High-Availability Clusters and Disaster Recovery Solution

Objectives

Install and configure clustering software solutions (Microsoft, Serviceguard, VMware)

Shared storage

Private cluster network

Cluster applications

VMware HA and DRS clusters

o Distributed Resource Scheduler cluster

o VMware High Availability cluster

Learning check

Module 8 — Performance Planning and Bottleneck Detection

Objectives

Use the appropriate tools to determine whether performance is optimal

HP SIM (Insight Control performance management)

Insight Diagnostic Online Edition / IML logs

Network configuration utility and HPNETSVY

Array configuration utilities

Array diagnostic utilities

HP sizing tools (application and solution sizers, white papers) to identify potential

resizing recommendations

Operating system performance monitoring tools

o Windows performance tools — System Monitor, Performance Monitor

o Linux performance tools — Linux System Monitor, Command line tools

Library Tape Tools (LTT)

Identify network bottlenecks

Bandwidth - utilization, segmentation, saturation

External Hardware - switches, routers, cables

Tune network subsystem performance

Teaming / Load balancing configuration

Upgrade network infrastructure

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Upgrade NIC drivers / firmware

Network segmentation

Switch configuration

TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)

Identify and resolve processor bottlenecks

Identify processor performance indicators

Tune processor performance - Hardware

Identify and resolve system bus bottlenecks

Bus Architecture (PCI-X, PCI Express, USB)

Recommended mezzanine placement (Type I, II, FlexNet)

Identify and resolve storage bottlenecks

Recommended slot placement (hdd)

Optimize disk subsystem architecture (ie. SAS, SATA, SSD, etc.)

Identify storage configuration issues

Tune storage performance

Identify and resolve memory bottlenecks

Identify memory configuration issues

Identify memory performance issues

Tune memory performance

Identify and resolve operating system configuration issues

Identify operating system performance issues

Tune operating system ( HP supported operating system types)

Identify and resolve application bottlenecks

Identify tools and resources: Reference white papers, software product descriptions,

Best Practice Guides

Identify application performance problems

Ensure current performance state meets requirements

Save configuration

Benchmark system: Record baseline measurements

o Collect system performance data

o Collect application performance data

o Document base configuration

o Compare initial baseline with current benchmarked performance

Identify and resolve virtualization bottlenecks

VM configuration, Virtual Connect configuration, Hypervisor, etc

Document steps taken to resolve bottlenecks

Set performance thresholds

Use System Management Home Page or other tools to set performance thresholds

Check for known performance issues

Check for known HP hardware and software performance issues

Subscribers Choice, HP Support Center, etc

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Re-establish new baseline

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Last update: 05/12

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