This lab is intended to give you an overview of HPE Private Cloud AI, HPE's turnkey solution for on-prem AI workloads. HPE has paired with NVIDIA's AI Enterprise software giving customers a scalable on-prem solution that can handle multiple different AI workloads from Inference, RAG, model fine-tuning, and model training.

This lab will enable a student to build a basic Multi-Site fabric using Apstra for complete end-to-end connectivity.

This Lab will focus on the Aruba ECS (SilverPeak) appliance, which is a solution designed to enhance advanced SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) functionality. These appliances optimize and secure enterprise WAN traffic, delivering improved connectivity, streamlined management, and enhanced performance across distributed networks.

This Lab will focus on Aruba CX Switching. The Aruba CX switch series is built on a modern, fully programmable AOS-CX operating system. Core Switch configuration with OSPF, VSX and Access Switch configuration with OSPF. The Lab will also feature Aruba Central which is Aruba's cloud-based network management platform designed to simplify the deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of wireless, wired, and SD-WAN networks. There will also be a focus on Aruba WLAN configuration in Central which is the process of setting up and managing Wi-Fi networks Aruba APs. Aruba Central provides a cloud-based interface for easily configuring WLANs, applying security policies, and optimizing performance across multiple locations.

In this lab you will interact with HPE VM Essentials. You will be able to log into a running VME cluster, deploy VME Manager, and get a look and feel for the virtualization software that helps deliver HPE Private Cloud AI.

In this lab, customers will deploy the Intelligent Resource Optimizer on the HPE Private Cloud AI instance in the ATC. Built using the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and powered by Open AI OSS NIMs, this solution moves beyond static analysis to proactive infrastructure management. By integrating a specialized Time Series model, the Intelligent Resource Optimizer analyzes historical system utilization to accurately forecast future resource demands. This allows IT Operations teams to receive data-driven recommendations for scaling and optimization, ensuring peak performance and cost-efficiency across the environment.

Service providers and other large organizations rely on MPLS quite often on multiple platforms to deliver mission critical applications and services. Segment Routing is the next generation technology that replaces MPLS, and here we look at implementing L3VPN's with Segmenting Routing on both Cisco and Juniper Routers.

In this lab a customer will deploy the Incident Knowledge Assistant on the HPE Private Cloud AI instance in the ATC. This Assistant is built on top of the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit and leverages Open AI OSS NIMs under the hood. Leveraging representative data from an IT Service Management Platform, the Incident Knowledge Assistant identifies the most relevant information from Incident, Change and Problem Management as well as the Knowledge Base to provide fast targeted guidance for IT Operations specialists.