Scenario: The customer is a university with 20,000 students and 3,500 staff. They have been directed
to reduc their overall IT spending for the next 3 years by 30%. A major issue is that most of the
university’s server and storage infrastructure is now over 3 years old and they need to show substantial
returr on investment before new hardware can be purchased.
Their environment consists of HP BladeSystem c7000, with sixteen BL685c servers, a mixture of
twelve Gl and four G5 servers. The G5 servers are the newest (less than a year old) while the Gl
servers are now more than three years old. Most equipment was installed three years earlier, The
interconnect modules in the C7000 Blade Enclosure for both the Ethernet and fibre connections are
Pass Thru Modules.The storage is an EVA8000 with 50TB of disk, 30TE of Fibre Channel disk and
20TB of FATA disk. This too is over 3 years old. Connecting all the fibre components are two HP
MDS9216i SAN Switches.
Their entire server base is virtualized using ESX 3.5 utilizing VMware High Availability (HA) and
DRS. All of the university’s critical systems run on the BL685c Gl servers. The university requires a

24 x 7 uptime on all e-Learning systems including email. The university does not utilize any
additional software tools to manage their systems other than VMware vCentre and HP
CommandView.
The customer believes they need a scale out storage array rather than a scale up array. Which possible
replacement solution should be suggested to the customer and what is the advantage of this solution?

A.
HP StorageWorks P2000, which has a lower cost point that will reduce their IT budget spend
considerably while maintaining Fibre Channel connectivity

B.
HP StorageWorks EVA8400 to allow them to replace their existing array without the need to retrain their storage administrators

C.
HP StorageWorks P4000 because it provides simplicity and flexibility of a SAN solution
implemented through mature target software built into the system

D.
HP StorageWorks XP24000 to give scalable performance and expandability and flexibility in a
single chassis