Kurs HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software, Rev. 26.11 (0001215541)

Seminarinhalte

Module 1: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Introduction

• Evaluate trends and strategies in virtualization markets
• Competitor offerings
• Modern virtualization architecture
• Differentiate and describe VM Essentials features, benefits, and licensing
• Value proposition
• Feature comparisons
• HPE solutions combined with VM Essentials

Module 2: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Architecture

• Examine VM Essentials and its components
• HVM hypervisor and logical architecture
• Components features and operations
• HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software console
• HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software manager appliance
• Analyze different networking deployment options for VM Essentials
• Network types
• Network bonding
• Logical network view
• Network setup examples
• Network traffic flow
• Evaluate different storage deployment options for VM Essentials
• Storage types overview, including pros and cons
• Directory pool datastores
• NFS
• GFS2
• HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 integration
• MPIO and non-MPIO network configurations
• Explain the concept of integration with VMware by Broadcom
• Components
• Cloud sync

Module 3: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Deployment and Initial Configuration

• Describe the prerequisites and steps for VM Essentials installation
• Host requirements
• Installation sequence
• Install and configure VM Essentials using an integrated installer
• HPE Unified ISO Installer
• HVM installation and configuration process
• VM Essentials console installation and configuration process
• VM Essentials manager installation and upgrade steps
• Discuss how to set up a shared datastore
• NFS
• GFS2

Module 4: Using HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Prepare VM Essentials for operations
• Groups
• Clouds
• Clusters
• Explore and use VM Essentials interface, including
• Operations
• Provisioning
• Library
• Infrastructure
• Backup
• Tools
• AdministrationTopic

Module 5: Integrating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software with VMware Infrastructure

• Integrate and manage VMware components with VM Essentials
• VMware Cloud
• VMware resources
• Cloud synchronization
• Provisioning VMware VMs
• Migrate VMware virtual machines to VM Essentials
• Migration overview and prerequisites
• Preparation process
• Creating a migration plan
• Migration

Module 6: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Security and Troubleshooting

• Explain security options in VM Essentials
• Identity sources
• Roles and permissions
• Discuss VM Essentials troubleshooting options and CLI management
• Cluster monitoring
• Logs
• Instance history
• HPE Support Center
• Typical issues with troubleshooting guidance, including with the CLI

Lab Outline

Lab 1: Exploring HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

• Exercise 1: Exploring the VM Essentials interface

Lab 2: Creating a Group, Cloud, and HVM Cluster

• Creating a group using the VM Essentials interface
• Creating a cloud using the VM Essentials interface
• Creating a cluster using the VM Essentials interface
• Expanding an existing HVM cluster

Lab 3: Storage Management for an HVM Cluster

• Creating an NFS data store for an HVM cluster
• Creating a GFS2 data store for an HVM cluster
• Creating a File Share for an HVM cluster
• Creating a Storage Bucket for an HVM cluster
• Migrating VM Essentials manager to the shared storage

Lab 4: Images and Instances Management

• Uploading supported images to VM Essentials
• Exercise 2: Configuring an IP pool VM Essentials
• Deploying instances using available images to VM Essentials
• Adding a node to an existing instance
• Creating and changing the service plan for an existing instance
• Migrating a virtual machine to a different node
• Creating a snapshot for a virtual machine
• Adding a virtual disk to an existing virtual machine
• Testing affinity and anti-affinity rules
• Maintaining hosts
• Testing high availability features of VM Essentials

Lab 5: Integrating with VMware Infrastructure

• Preparing VMware inventory
• Integrating VMware with VM Essentials
• Managing VMware virtual machines with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software interface
• Integrating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software with VMware content library
• Preparing Windows virtual machines for migration
• Migrating multiple Windows virtual machines from VMware to VM Essentials
• Deploying VMware Linux machines
• Migrating VMware Linux machines to VM Essentials

Lab 6: Security and Troubleshooting

• Creating a custom role and user
• Using logs in VM Essentials
• Managing the environment using the CLI
• Creating and restoring a backup
• Testing VM Essentials manager HA
• Removing a node from an HVM cluster