Administering Hitachi UCP 4000 for VMware with UCP Director

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Overview

** Please Note: This is a Hitachi Vantara course. Merit Career Development is an authorized training provider for Hitachi Vantara. ** This 3-day course provides administration level training on Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP) 4000 for VMware using Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director for administrator and global system integrators. You will also learn to use the features and functions of UCP Director software. 

The course demonstrates how to perform day-to-day administration of UCP. This includes initial activities such as image preparation and host deployment, and also covers the tasks needed to support growth and updates. You will learn the benefits of relying upon UCP automation to deploy and maintain the infrastructure. 

You will complete extensive, hands-on lab activities designed to reinforce the concepts presented during the course to build necessary UCP skills. In some exercises, you will log into the storage and the switches to investigate the configurations that UCP has automated.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of ths course, you should be able to:
  • Deploy a VMware ESXi cluster
  • Perform all the steps to add an ESXi host to an existing cluster
  • Update the ESXi image that the cluster uses and then apply the updated copy to the cluster
  • Perform steps in UCP to add a volume to a cluster and expand a datastore volume used by a cluster
  • Add a VLAN to the virtual distributed switch (VDS) and use UCP to detect the new VLAN and apply it to the connected physical switch ports
  • Decommission an ESXi host from a cluster

Topics & Content

Content Modules
  • Build ESXi Cluster with UCP
  • Add Host to Clusters
  • Update ESXi Image
  • Add a Volume to a Cluster
  • Expand a Volume
  • Add and Remove VLAN
  • Decommission a Clustered Host
  • Redeploy Blade as Bare Metal Windows
  • Supplemental Courrse Material
Learning Activities - Labs
  • Create an ESXi Cluster
  • Add Host to Cluster
  • Update ESXi Image
  • Add Storage to Cluster
  • Expand a Volume
  • Add and Remove VLAN
  • Decommission a Clustered ESXi Host
  • Deploy Windows Host

Course Information

Course Code: TCI2956
Delivery Method: 3 Day Instructor-Led
Target Audience: Administration

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