course name: AIS Converged Infrastructure [2011] FastTrack (AISCI2011ff)
code: AISCI2011ff
description: This course is a FastTrack consisting of two courses that are offered in a compressed manner. These courses are:

HP Converged Infrastructure Solutions Administration (297597) and HP Converged Infrastructure Solutions Software (294445).

This course is a combination of lectures and hands-on case study exercises that teach students how to administer, design and implement HP Insight Orchestration and HP BladeMatrix solutions in an effective way.

This FastTrack is the ideal track for students who want to achieve the HP AIS - Converged Infrastructure Integration [2011] certification.
prerequisites: AIS Bladesystems [2010] or equivalent. Please contact LAI for detailed information.
target audience: Systems Engineers, System Administrators
subjects: Overview of network types and networking techniques
Strategies for network management
Concepts of Layer 2 of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model:
  • VLANs
  • Link aggregation
  • Trunking
  • Spanning Tree Protocols

Concepts of Layer 3 of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model:
  • Switching
  • Routing
  • Forwarding

Strategies for providing network security
How to attain network quality of service (QoS)
Virtual switching concepts
Features and benefits of the HP Virtual Connect module
  • Virtual Connect Manager
  • Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

Fibre Channel concepts
  • World Wide Names
  • N_Port ID Virtualization
  • Dynamic login load balancing and failover

    Features and benefits of Virtual Connect for Ethernet solutions
    Networking concepts associated with Virtual Connect for Ethernet
    Flex-10 technology and networking strategies
    VMware functions and networking methods

    Current infrastructure management challenges of HP customers
    HP Converged Infrastructure concept
    HP Converged Infrastructure components
    HP Matrix Operating Environment (Matrix OE - Insight Dynamics) infrastructure orchestration
    How orchestration helps to automate the deployment of infrastructure services
    HP Matrix Operating Environment (OE) infrastructure orchestration
    Configure users
    Configure infrastructure orchestration resources
    • Networking
    • Storage pools
    • Server pools
    • Application pools

    Configure infrastructure orchestration provisioning
    • Virtual
    • Physical

    Operations Orchestration Studio
    IO Designer tool
    IO user interfaces and their uses
    User request lifecycle
    Identify IO user tasks
    Explain how to create and manage workflows
    Describe the layers of troubleshooting for HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration
    Requests tab in the IO Administrative Console
    Tabs in the self-service portal that provide diagnostic information
    IO operational properties contained in the hpio.properties configuration file
    Correct a failed IO server deployment
    Solutions for common issues
    Configuration of the Central Management Server (CMS)
    Sbapi & Ismutil utility to help troubleshoot IO
  • length: 5 days
    price: € 3375 excluding VAT
    agenda:
    language: English/Dutch
    7-5-2012 9h30 - 16h30 in Schiedam
    8-5-2012 9h30 - 16h30 in Schiedam
    9-5-2012 9h30 - 16h30 in Schiedam
    10-5-2012 9h30 - 16h30 in Schiedam
    11-5-2012 9h30 - 16h30 in Schiedam