HPE GreenLake Administration

Tenant Administrators of HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud.

After completing this course, students should to be able to:

• Describe the purpose of GreenLake Central Platform modules, such as Continuous Compliance, Consumption Analytics, HPE GreenLake Private Cloud Virtual Machines as a Service, Containers as a Service and Machine Learning Operations.
• Describe the role-based access control concepts of GreenLake Central and working with HPE support to add users and assign roles.
• Connect AWS and Azure cloud subscriptions with Continuous Compliance and Consumption Analytics.
• Set up Continuous Compliance assessment schedules, audits and monitors.
• Use SmartTags to improve Consumption Analytics reports.
• Describe the provisioning, library and networking concepts of the HPE GreenLake Private Cloud service.
• In the HPE GreenLake Private Cloud:

           – create and manage provisioning resources instance types, layouts, and node types.

           – create and manage instance customization resources scripts, file templates and attach them to node types.

           – create and manage option types and attach them to instance types.

           – describe automation concepts apps and blueprints.

           – create their own virtual machine images and upload them to the cloud.

           – create virtual networks and connect them to the outside world.

           – create and manage networks, load balancers and firewalls.

           – work with HPE support to create routers.

           – describe the policy and power schedule concept and configure policies and power schedules.

           – describe how to backup and restore instances.

• Create, scale, upgrade and view details of Kubernetes clusters using HPE GreenLake Containers as a Service.
• Create and view details of machine learning projects using HPE GreenLake Machine Learning Operations.

Module 1: Introduction to HPE GreenLake Central and its Administration

• Review of the HPE Greenlake hybrid cloud and its add-on services
• The tenant user, tenant contributor and tenant administrator roles and their interaction with HPE
• How to view the global status of HPE GreenLake

Module 2: HPE GreenLake Central Administration of Basic Services

• Viewing Identity and Access Management details

            – Identity and Access Management Concepts

            – Using Identity and Access Management

• Trial Offers and Pricing Estimates

            – Service Trials

            – Pricing Estimates and Quotes

• Continuous Compliance

            – Continuous Compliance Concepts

            – User Interface and Workflows for Administrative Tasks

            – Creating schedules, audits and monitors

• Connection Cloud Providers AWS and Azure

            – Consumption Analytics

            – Connecting Cloud Providers AWS and Azure

            – Resource Tagging and SmartTags

Module 3: Virtual Machines as a Service Administration

• Overview of Administrative Tasks
• Provisioning

            – Concepts

            – Instance Provisioning Workflow

• Images and Library Management

            – Library Objects For Provisioning Instances

            – Library Objects For Configuring Instances

            – Automation

            – Adding and Deleting Images

• Networks

            – The Big Picture

            – Managing IP Pools and Networks

            – Load Balancers: Concepts and Workflows

            – Firewalls: Concepts and Workflows

• Other Administrative Tasks

            – Power Schedules

            – Policies

            – Virtual Machine Backup and Restore

            – Environment Tags

Module 4: Containers as a Service (CaaS)

• CaaS Overview and Roles
• Creating a Kubernetes Cluster in CaaS
• The Ezmeral Dashboard

Module 5: ML/Ops Administration

• Project Access Permissions and Roles
• Creating a New ML Ops Project

HPE recommends that students attain the following credentials or levels of experience before taking this course:

• Completion of HPE GreenLake Fundamentals (HQ717S)