Course Overview
The HPE Superdome Flex Server is a mission critical, inmemory computing solution that delivers an unprecedented combination of scale, modularity, flexibility and reliability. This course provides an overview of system components and practical experience. You will learn to prepare and install supported operation systems, monitor system performance with HPE Foundation Software (HFS) and HPE OneView, use rack management controller (RMC) commands to power on and boot the server, configure autopower, retrieve hardware configuration and monitor log files
Moyens d'évaluation :
- Quiz pré-formation de vérification des connaissances (si applicable)
- Évaluations formatives pendant la formation, à travers les travaux pratiques réalisés sur les labs à l’issue de chaque module, QCM, mises en situation…
- Complétion par chaque participant d’un questionnaire et/ou questionnaire de positionnement en amont et à l’issue de la formation pour validation de l’acquisition des compétences
Who should attend
Experiences system administrators, engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and monitoring HPE Superdome Flex servers.
Prerequisites
Enterprise Linux System Administration (H7091S) or equivalent Linux, VMware® or Windows Server administration experience.
Course Objectives
- Identify HPE Superdome Flex hardware components and their functionality within the system
- Use rack management controller (RMC) or embedded RMC (eRMC) to configure, monitor, manager and access server components and firmware
- Interact with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to configure partition boot parameters and manually boot a partition
- Install Red-Hat, SUSE, Windows Server and ESXi operating systems
- Describe HPE Foundation Software (HFS) components
- Describe HPE OneView and monitor hardware components
- Configure, manage, and control partitions from RMC
- Access the remote system console and console logs
- Review the built-in Error Analysis Engine feature
- Review supported operating systems
Course Content
Module 1: Product Overview
- List HPE Superdome Flex server configurations and architecture
- Describe use case and applications
- Identify HPE Superdome Flex server main components
- Access the rack management controller (RMC) interface
- Use the RMC command line interface (CLI)
- Connect to the system console
- Power off and power on the HPE Superdome Flex server
Module 2: Hardware Management
- Access the rack management controller (RMC) interface
- Describe and configure nPartitions
- Perform RMC management tasks
- Issue power commands
- List FRU information
- Enable SNMP protocol
Module 3: Operating System Installation and Software Management
- Describe Superdome Flex operating system support
- Prepare operating system installation
- Describe installation process for Linux (RedHat and SUSE), Windows Server 2022, and ESXi
- Describe additional HPE tools for Superdome Flex management
- Install additional HPE Tools: HPE Foundation Software, Data Collection Daemon, and HPE Superdome Flex I/O Service Pack
Module 4: Management Tools and Firmware Upgrade
- Describe HPE Superdome Flex monitoring with HPE OneView
- HPE Superdome Flex firmware management
- Describe HPE insight Remote Support
- Explain the Redfish standard
- HPE Superdome Flex
- Configure UEFI BIOS boot options
- Review HFS configuration scripts and logs
- Investigate OneView monitoring options
- Show main memory health information, system topology, CPU and memory activity, and input/ output traffic statistics for each IO device
- Configure CPU frequency scaling
- Monitor per-node HPE Superdome Flex Grid memory statistics
- Review firmware update process
Module 5: Troubleshooting
- Perform management tasks from operation system
- Gather logs from RMC
- Perform indicting and acquitting HPE Superdome Flex components
- Observe how OneView handles hardware errors
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