Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Describe, differentiate and apply industry standard architectures and technologies
• Gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements
• Recommend and position HPE Hybrid IT products, solutions, tools, and appropriate services for customer use cases
• Architect and design an HPE solution based on customer needs
• Present and demonstrate the solution to the customer and coordinate implementation planning

Module 1: Introduction to a Hybrid World

• An introduction to reference architectures and reference configurations
• Activity: Synergy and 3PAR Reference Architectures
• HPE overview
• HPE Hybrid IT
• Activity: Navigating the Hybrid IT portfolio at the HPE website

Module 2: Architecting and Designing Hybrid IT Solutions

• Assessing the customer’s requirements and environment
• Selecting the HPE platform
• HPE tools for selecting solution components, including demos of
  • HPE Switch Selector
  • SSD Storage Selector
  • HPE Storage Sizer
  • HPE OneConfig Advanced
  • HPE 3PAR NinjaSTARS
• Developing the proposal
• Solution installation, configuration, and setup
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Monitoring storage with HPE InfoSight

Module 3: Recommending Hybrid IT Compute Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• HPE has it all
• Customer scenario 1: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • Reference Architecture
  • Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture
  • Exchange Server Role Requirements Calculator
  • Ask the Perf Guy—Sizing Exchange 2016 Deployments
• Building blocks of the solution
• Security in HPE servers
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: ProLiant server management technologies
  • Activity: Preboot environment
  • Demo: UEFI System Utilities and UEFI Shell
  • Activity: Performing basic shell operations in UEFI
• HPE rack and power, including activities
  • Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Server
  • HPE Sizer for Exchange Server 2016
• Alternative servers for smaller environments
• Customer scenario 2: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
  • The Exchange 2016 Preferred Architecture
  • ProLiant DL560 Gen10 Server QuickSpecs
  • Workload-based Performance and Tuning Guide for Gen10 servers and HPE Synergy
  • Operating System Support Matrix
• Building blocks of the solution
• Processors in HPE servers
• Memory for HPE servers, including activities
  • Activity: HPE Persistent Memory
  • Demo: Memory configurator
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: Full control over all user interfaces [iLO5]
  • Demo: Intelligent Provisioning
  • Demo: Smart Storage Administrator
  • Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10
• Alternative servers for smaller environments
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring ProLiant Gen10 and iLO 5 security

Module 4: Recommending HPE Data Center Networking Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• Customer scenario 3: Optimize data center networking with Cloud-First approach
• Introducing the customer and customer requirements
• Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Cloud-First Reference Architecture Guide—2000 servers
  • HPE FlexFabric 12900E QuickSpecs
  • HPE FlexFabric 5940 QuickSpecs
• Building blocks of the solution
• Networking technologies and architectures
• Management tools, including activities
• Alternative components for smaller environments
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring HPE networking
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Working with HPE Composable Fabric (Plexxi)

Module 5: Recommending Hybrid IT Storage Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• Customer scenario 4: Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
• Introducing the customer and customer requirements
• Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
  • HPE Deployment Guide for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy with HPE Nimble Storage
  • RHEL OpenShift Container Platform: Sizing Considerations
• Building blocks of the solution
• Management tools, including activities

Module 6: Recommending HPE Software-Defined and Cloud Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• Customer scenario 6: Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
  • HPE Deployment Guide for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on HPE Synergy with HPE Nimble Storage
  • RHEL OpenShift Container Platform: Sizing Considerations
• Building blocks of the solution
  • HPE Synergy
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: HPE Reference Configuration for Red Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy and HPE Nimble Storage
• Alternative components for different environments
• Customer scenario 7: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack data protection with Veritas NetBackup, HPE StoreOnce, and Cloud Bank Storage
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
• HPE Reference Architecture on VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Synergy Reference Architecture
• Software-defined infrastructure
• Building blocks of the solution
  • HPE Synergy
• HPE networking
• Management tools
• HPE RESTful API and PowerShell cmdlets, including activities
• Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Synergy
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Configuring composable infrastructure
• Activity:Lab exercise (emulator)—Managing server, networking, and storage datacenter components with HPE OneView
• Activity:Lab exercise (emulator)—Using HPE OneView Global Dashboard
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Using PowerShell cmdlets to manage data center infrastructure
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Using REST API for automation and integration
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Nimble Storage
  • HPE FlexFabric
  • Storage technologies
  • Activity: HPE Reference Configuration for Red
  • Activity: HPE Cloud-First Reference Architecture Guide—2000 Servers Hat OpenShift on HPE Synergy

Module 7: Recommending Hybrid IT Hyperconverged Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• Customer scenario 8: VMware Horizon on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Horizon on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
  • HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 QuickSpecs
  • HPE SimpliVity 2600 Gen10 QuickSpecs)
  • Activity: HPE SimpliVity efficiency
  • Industry standard architectures and drivers
• Building blocks of the solution
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: HPE Reference Architecture for VMware Horizon on HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10
• Alternative servers for other environments
• Data virtualization platform

Module 8: Recommending HPE Density and Mission Critical Solutions for Customer Use Cases

• Customer Scenario 9: Artificial Intelligence on HPE Elastic Platform for Analytics
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Architecture for AI on HPE Elastic Platform for Analytics (EPA) with TensorFlow and Spark
  • HPE Reference Configuration for Elastic Platform for Analytics (EPA)
  • HPE EPA Sizing Tool
• Building blocks of the solution
• High performance computing
• Big data
• HPE services
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: HPE Sizer for the Elastic Platform for Analytics
• Alternative servers for different environments
• Customer scenario 10: HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 18c OLTP and OLAP workloads on HPE Superdome Flex and HPE 3PAR Storage Reference Architecture
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Information resources
  • HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 18c OLTP and OLAP workloads on HPE Superdome Flex and HPE 3PAR Storage
  • HPE Superdome Flex Quickspecs,
  • HPE Superdome Flex server architecture and RAS
• Building blocks of the solution
• Management tools, including activities
  • Activity: Design Superdome Flex solution
• Activity: Lab exercise (emulator)—Working with HPE Superdome Flex

Module 9: Validating and Presenting the Solution

• Customer scenario: Configuring infrastructure for virtualization
  • Introducing the customer and customer requirements
  • Activity: Configuring infrastructure for virtualization and presenting recommended solution

The ideal candidate typically has a minimum of three years of design and/or operational experience or the equivalent in at least one of the core HPE areas (server, storage, networking), and six months design and/or operational experience in other HPE solutions and technologies.

HPE ATP—Hybrid IT Solutions V1, or the Building HPE Hybrid IT Solutions , Rev. 18.41 (01120590) course