Course number HG813S

Delivery method
Instructor-led training (ILT)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)

Special notes
Customers will perform Hands-on and Installation labs on the actual HP BladeSystem equipment in the classroom.

Prerequisites
Basic computer hardware and site setup experience

Audience
Hardware installers and initial site setup engineers responsible for HP c-Class BladeSystem hardware installation and initialization.

Course objectives
Students completing this course will be prepared to:

• Identify the components of an HP c-Class BladeSystem and their function in the system
• Locate detailed specifications and configuration tools for HP c-Class BladeSystems and their components online
• Identify proper physical placement of a HP c-Class BladeSystem enclosure and rack related to power and cooling
• Install all HP BladeSystem components properly and securely, observing safety regulations for personnel and equipment
• Power up an HP BladeSystem and determine status of all components based on states of indicators and locally-accessed components such as the Insight Display
• Perform initial configuration of HP c-Class BladeSystem components such as the enclosure name and network addressing for the Onboard Administrator and c-Class server blade iLOs locally using the Insight Display
• Perform initial configuration of c-Class interconnects when locally connected to the interconnect itself
• Configure/license advanced features for power and thermal management
• Follow the procedure to update firmware in HP c-Class BladeSystem components

Next steps

• HP BladeSystem Administration (HE646S)
• Insight control environment foundation (HE643S)
• Managing and Monitoring the Insight Control Environment using HP SIM (HE644S)
• Deploying and Updating Insight Control Environment using RDP (HE645S)

Benefits to you
Successful completion of this course provides students the knowledge and information needed to install and perform initial local configuration of HP c-Class BladeSystem hardware at a customer site

Course outline

c-Class BladeSystem Overview

• Identify c-Class BladeSystem hardware components by sight and function, including enclosures, blades, interconnects, power supplies and fans

c-Class BladeSystem Enclosures

• Compare the features of different BladeSystem enclosures
• Identify enclosure installation options
• Locate power bays, fan bays, device bays and interconnect bays within different types of c-Class enclosures
• Identify c-Class enclosure bay numbering
• Identify mapping between c-Class blade bay ports and interconnect bay ports
• Configure enclosures for full-height and half-height c-Class blades
• Configure c-Class enclosures for double-width interconnect modules
• Update enclosure-based firmware

c-Class Power and Cooling

• Identify the differences between single-phase and three-phase enclosure power configurations
• Configure power supply requirements based on blade power requirements and device bay population
• Configure power supplies with and without redundancy
• Correlate power supplies with device bay zones
• Configure power supply behavior with Power Manager
• Identify the features of different cooling technologies available for BladeSystems
• Correlate cooling zones with device bay zones
• List the features of Thermal Dynamics

c-Class Components Overview

• Compare features of available c-Class server blades
• Differentiate among different models of server blades by sight
• Compare features of available c-Class storage blades, including disk blades and tape blades
• Compare features of available c-Class interconnect modules, including Ethernet, fibre channel, virtual connect and pass-through modules
• Identify the proper installation configuration of server blades and storage blades
• Identify operational, selection and power status based on physical LED behaviors on different types of enclosure components
• Update component-specific firmware

c-Class Physical Installation

• Complete an enclosure diagram including the proper power and cooling required to support server and storage blades
• Install a mezzanine card on a server blade
• Install blades, power supplies, cooling fans and interconnects to conform to given customer and BladeSystem requirements
• Correlate interconnect cable connectors to interconnect and server blade ports
• Power up the enclosure and take appropriate reconfiguration actions based on LED behaviors on the enclosure and all components

The Insight Display

• Access the Main Menu of the Insight Display on the physical enclosure
• Identify enclosure aggregate status from the Insight Display
• Configure initial enclosure configuration from the Insight Display
• Perform initial network configuration to the Onboard Administrator and server blade iLOs from the Insight Display
• Display status and initialization information about the enclosure and its components from the Insight Display
• Identify enclosure uplink/downlink connections

The Onboard Administrator

• Connect to the Onboard Administrator from a local/direct connection
• Access administrative functions of the Onboard Administrator from the local/direct connection to perform initial configurations and display status and logs

Integrated Lights Out 2 (iLO 2)

• Establish a local/direct connection to the iLO 2 of a server blade
• Access the iLO 2 of a server blade from a local/direct connection as an administrator to perform initial configuration of the iLO for network access

Initializing Interconnects

• Establish a local/direct connection to an interconnect Ethernet switch module and perform initial configuration
• Establish a local/direct connection to a fibre channel switch module and perform initial configuration
• Establish a local/direct connection to a virtual connect module and perform initial configuration

Installation Verification

• From a network connection, verify that all network-accessible components of the enclosure can be reached
• From a network connection, display status and configuration information for blades, fans, power supplies and logs from the Onboard Administrator and iLO 2
• Perform firmware updates/upgrades

• Upis u radnu knjižicu: ne
• Certifikat: ne
• Uvjerenje: ne
• In-house: ne
• Svjedodžba: ne
• Diploma: ne