COURSE OVERVIEW

The course provides a deep-dive into the lesser-known tools and methods available to help you manage your Synergy environment. The course focuses on six areas that are essential to the long-term stability of a Synergy ecosystem:

• Resolve Synergy alerts
• Optimize the Synergy architecture
• Maintain Synergy firmware baselines
• Upgrade Synergy infrastructure
• Integrate Synergy with other technologies
• Configure Image Streamer

AUDIENCE

System Administrators and Architects with       a minimum of 6 months Synergy experience using HPE OneView to manage their Composable data center.

PREREQUISITES

HPE Education strongly recommends students to attend one of the courses listed below in addition to at least 6 months Synergy experience

• H0LN3S Synergy Administration
• H4C04S OneView Administration

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course will assist customers in resolving issues that are not addressed in the user guides and basic training. The format is scenario-based and interactive, with the intention of exposing the participant to experiences and real-world resolutions.:

Course Outline

Scenario #1 — Synergy Alerts

• Explore and resolve alert scenarios
  • Investigative steps
  • Attempted solutions
  • Resolution and root cause
• What are OneView alerts
• Identify the alert source
• Resolve the underlying issue
• Clearing alerts

Scenario #2 — Optimize the Synergy Architecture

• Explore an HPE Synergy Grow scenario
• Software defined network architecture
• Synergy network architecture
• s-Channels and VPLAG on the Virtual Connect module downlinks
• sFlow, NETOP, and Smartlink
• Synergy module cabling
• Grow HPE Synergy
• Advanced topics

Scenario #3 — Maintain Synergy Firmware Baselines

• Maintain Synergy firmware baselines
• Explore an HPE Synergy upgrade scenario
  • Upgrade to ESX 6.7 U2 and 3820C
• Tools to support Synergy upgrades
• HPE Synergy compliance checking

Scenario #4 — Upgrade the Synergy Infrastructure

• Scenario
  • Upgrade Synergy enclosure groups
• Access the Synergy software
• Upgrade the Synergy firmware
• Appendix: Detailed firmware update steps

Scenario #5 — Integrate Synergy with Other Technologies

• Storage scenarios
• HPE Synergy with storage
• HPE Synergy with VMware® vSAN
• HPE Synergy with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
• Introduction
• HPE Synergy with Cisco ACI
• Advanced topics
• Appendix
  • Non-Virtual Connect based Synergy hardware
  • HPE OneView Global Dashboard
  • OneView remote support

Scenario #6 — HPE Synergy Image Streamer

• Explore and resolve Image Streamer scenarios
• Investigate HPE Synergy Image Streamer
• Set up HPE Image Streamer
• Cable HPE Synergy Image Streamer
• Update HPE Image Streamer
• Maintain HPE Image Streamer