Detailed Course Outline
Understanding Customer Needs and Compute Workloads
- Evaluate typical advanced computing workloads, including their characteristics and requirements
- Compare and classify tools supporting the sizing process and performance management
- Identify typical advanced computing workloads and their characteristics and requirements as related to onpremises and as-a-service infrastructures
- Gather customer needs and analyze existing environments
HPE Compute Solutions Portfolio
- Describe the industry-standard server portfolio
- Distinguish features of the HPE Composable Infrastructure portfolio, including HPE Synergy and HPE OneView
- Recommend the HPE Mission Critical portfolio, including the HPE Superdome Flex Server family, to customers
- Compare the components of the HPE purpose-built portfolio for high-performance computing (HPC), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Differentiate and explain HPE management technologies for advanced computing solutions
- Recommend and describe the HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud model to customers
Designing an HPE Compute Solution for an SAP HANA Workload
- Examine and describe the SAP HANA® portfolio and its requirements
- Differentiate the components of HPE Superdome Flex and explain the management and setup process
- Recommend HPE Serviceguard for Linux® solutions and describe use cases with SAP HANA
Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Virtualization Workload
- Analyze the building blocks of the VMware Cloud Foundation™
- Analyze a solution design based on HPE Synergy used for VCF deployment
- Explain underlying complementary VMware® and HPE technologies
Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Database Workload
- Analyze the building blocks of an SQL Server solution deployed on HPE ProLiant DL380
- Describe typical database workloads
- Analyze and classify the building blocks of SQL Server, including those deployed on HPE ProLiant DL380
- Analyze and recommend components required to deploy an SQL Server failover cluster with Windows Server 2019
Designing an HPE Compute Solution for a Container Workload
- Analyze the building blocks of the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform on HPE Synergy
- Recommend containerization solutions to customers, including use cases and benefits
- Evaluate and describe HPE Ezmeral Container Platform technologies and components
- Control plane –Data fabric –Storage configuration options –Installation and upgrades
- Management and monitoring –Security and access control
- Application templates
Monitoring, Managing, and Optimizing an HPE Compute Solution
- Explain how to monitor and manage an HPE compute solution using available tools
- Verify interoperability of the solution, optimize performance, and use an appropriate troubleshooting methodology
Presenting a Proposal
- Prepare a proposal based on customer requirements.
- Use appropriate tools to prepare a customer presentation