HPE Superdome Flex Server Administration [HPE_H8PE4S]

OVERVIEW

The HPE Superdome Flex Server is the mission critical, in memory 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 operating 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.

OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this course, you should

be able to::

• Identify HPE Superdome Flex hardware

components and their functionality within

the system

• Use rack management controller (RMC)

or embedded RMC (eRMC) to configure,

monitor, manage, 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 RedHat, 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 the RMC

AUDIENCE

Experienced system administrators, engineers, and consultants responsible for managing and monitoring HPE Superdome Flex servers

CONTENT

Module 1: Product Overview • List HPE Superdome Flex serverconfigurations 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 managementcontroller (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 2019, 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 • DescribeHPE Superdome Flex monitoring with HPE

OneView

• Describe HPE Insight Remote Support

• Explain the Redfish standard

• HPE Superdome Flex firmware management

• Configure UEFI BIOS booting options

• Access OneView and discover RMC

• Investigate OneView monitoring options

• Review HFS configuration scripts and logs

• 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 fromoperating system

• Gather logs from RMC

• Perform indicting and acquitting HPE Superdome

Flex components

• Observe how OneView handles hardware errors