After completing this course, you should be able to do the following:
• Describe HPE server technologies
• Identify HPE products and add-ons
• Describe HPE market positions
• Explain how HPE servers meet data center challenges
• Explain how HPE servers are managed

Module 1: Transforming IT Strategy
• Identify how the approach to IT strategy is changing in the idea economy
• Describe the HPE Composable Infrastructure strategy
• Explain how HPE Transformation Areas reflect what customers consider most important

Module 2: HPE Server Technologies
• Explain how HPE ProLiant server features can help customers manage growth
• Identify the design technologies embedded in ProLiant servers
• Describe HPE infrastructure management solutions, including on-system, on-premise, and on-cloud management offerings

Module 3: HPE ProLiant Tower Servers
• Describe the high-level features of the following HPE servers:
– ProLiant ML10 Gen9
– ProLiant ML30 Gen9
– ProLiant ML110 Gen9
– ProLiant ML150 Gen9
– ProLiant ML350 Gen9

Module 4: HPE Rack Server Solutions
• Describe, at a high level, the features and market positions of HPE ProLiant DL servers
• Describe, at a high level, the features and functions of HPE Intelligent Series Racks

Module 5: HPE BladeSystem Solutions
• Explain how HPE BladeSystem solutions meet data center challenges
• Provide an overview of the currently shipping HPE ProLiant server blades
• Describe, at a high level, BladeSystem enclosures and their components, including:
– HPE Onboard Administrator (OA)
– Insight Display
– Interconnect options
– Storage blades

Module 6: HPE Synergy
• Provide a high-level overview of HPE Synergy
• List and describe the Synergy components and their functions, including:
– Composer
– Compute modules
– Frames
– Storage modules
– Fabric
• Describe the Synergy management subsystem and HPE OneView support

Module 7: Managing the infrastructure
• Explain how to prepare a HPE ProLiant server system for deployment
• Name the tools used during the ProLiant boot process and server configuration
– System Utilities
– BIOS/Platform Configuration
• Name the HPE on-system management tools used to prepare a ProLiant system for deployment
– iLO 4
– Intelligent Provisioning
– Smart Update Manager (SUM)/Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP)
– RESTful interface tool
– Agentless Management
• Compare the HPE Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) with its predecessor, the Array Configuration

Module 8: HPE on-premise and on-cloud management
• Explain the HPE OneView approach to infrastructure lifecycle management
• Describe the architecture of HPE OneView
• Explain how HPE OneView integrates with partner products such as:
– HPE OneView for VMware® vCenter™
– HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center
– HPE OneView for Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization
• Explain how HPE OneView integrates with HPE Insight Control server provisioning (ICsp)
• Explain how to perform remote management with HPE on-premise and on-cloud management tools
– HPE iLO Advanced
– HPE Insight Online
– HPE Insight Remote Support