This course teaches you how to recommend and position HPE solutions based on HPE technologies and industry-standard workloads related to optimizing performance and/or availability. Hands-on activities will guide you through design exercises using skills such as information gathering and analyzing customer business and technical requirements. You will learn to plan and design the software-defined, containers, data protection, private cloud AI, compute, storage, and networking elements of a solution. The training includes approximately 50% lectures and 50% lab activities.
Audience
This course is ideal for HPE partners, customers, and team members in presales architect or consulting roles who plan and design complex HPE solutions. They can interpret customer requirements with a consultative approach, and drive discussions about the business outcomes and financial implications of the solution. Roles that benefit from this course are:
- Solution architects
- Field engineers
- Presales technical consultants
- Systems engineers
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, you should hold the HPE ATP – Hybrid Cloud certification.
Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Describe, differentiate, and apply industry standard infrastructure, cloud architectures, and technologies
- Gather and analyze customer business and technical requirements
- Recommend and position HPE offerings (solutions, products, and services) for customer use cases
- Architect and design an HPE and/or ISV solution to achieve customer business outcomes
- Explain how the solution proposal meets the customer business outcomes
Certifications and related exams
This course prepares you for the HPE Edge-to-Cloud Solutions certification exam (HPE0-V27).
Course Outline
Module 1: HPE Value Proposition
- Classify and position HPE portfolio solutions, based on customer use cases
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4000
- HPE Alletra dHCI
- HPE StoreOnce
- HPE SimpliVity
- HPE MSA Gen7
- HPE Zerto
- HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
- HPE GreenLake Flex Solution built for SAP HANA
- HPE GreenLake for Databases
- HPE Apollo 4000
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
- HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise
- HPE Complete partner solutions (Commvault, Veeam)
- Locate and examine HPE resources, tools, and services
- HPE GreenLake
- HPE GreenLake DSCC and Data Ops Manager
- Summarize architecting methodology
Module 2: Planning and Designing Compute Elements of an HPE Solution
- Position and summarize the components of the HPE Synergy platform and Virtual Connect
- Describe and differentiate the HPE Edgeline portfolio options
- HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen11
- HPE ProLiant Gen11 tower servers
- HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11
- HPE EdgeLine
Module 3: Planning and Designing Networking Elements of an HPE Solution
- Describe how HPE Networking provides connectivity between HPE Storage and HPE Servers
- Position ethernet networking elements of a solution, differentiate their features, and plan and design Ethernet networking elements of a solution
- HPE Aruba CX 4100i
- HPE Aruba CX 6000
- HPE Aruba CX 6100
- HPE Aruba CX 6200
- HPE Aruba CX 5420
- HPE Aruba CX 6300
- HPE Aruba CX 6300L
- HPE Aruba CX 6400
- HPE Aruba CX 8100
- HPE Aruba CX 8325
- HPE Aruba CX 8360
- HPE Aruba CX 8400
- HPE Aruba CX 9300
- HPE Aruba CX 9300S
- HPE Aruba CX 10000
- HPE StoreFabric M-series switches
- Position SAN networking elements of a solution, differentiate their features, and plan and design SAN networking elements of a solution
- HPE StoreFabric B-series switches
- HPE StoreFabric C-series switches
Module 4: Planning and Designing Storage Elements of an HPE Solution
- Position and make recommendations from the HPE Storage portfolio, and explain ideal use cases
- HPE Apollo 4000 family
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4000 family
- HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
- Compare and describe the building blocks and features, the management and monitoring options, and the capabilities of HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000
- Differentiate and explain the HPE SimpliVity product family, building blocks, concepts and technologies, and networking options
- Evaluate and describe HPE GreenLake for Storage offerings, HPE GreenLake data management tools, and customer benefits
- Plan and size an HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, and/or an HPE SimpliVity solution
Module 5: Planning and Designing a Software-Defined Storage Solution
- Describe the current market, and position the HPE software-defined storage portfolio
- Differentiate and recommend the HPE Apollo 4000 and HPE Alletra Storage Server 4000 platforms used for SDS solutions
- HPE Apollo 4000 family
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4110
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4140
- Differentiate and recommend products and features of SDS solutions
- HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen11
- HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen11
- HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen11
- HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen11
- HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120
- HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
- Plan and size SDS solutions
Module 6: Planning and Designing a Containers Solution
- Examine and describe the background of container technology
- Plan and design HPE Storage solutions for containers and Kubernetes
Module 7: Planning and Designing a Data Protection Solution
- Differentiate and recommend HPE data protection portfolio solutions
- Differentiate and describe partner data protection software offerings and how they integrate with HPE solutions
- Explain HPE GreenLake for data protection integrations and options
- HPE Zerto
- Summarize data protection options for containers
Module 8: Planning and Designing a Private Cloud Solution
- Describe the evolution of virtualization
- Compare HPE virtualization solutions
- HPE VM Essentials
- Plan and design the HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise service
- HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise Disconnected
- Plan and design the HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Business Edition solution
- Describe the HPE Private Cloud AI solution
