Detailed Course Outline
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