Scenario:
A large financial brokerage firm transacts about 32% of trades in the SouthAmerican
market.It offers brokerage services, investment banking, and financial advisory servicesto
corporations and individuals Recent expansions into other worldwide markets have led to
delays mprocessing trading datainto usablereports that are timely enough for consumption
by traders.The companyis seeking a way to give traders much closer real-time data touse
when making decisionson trades, ultimately translating intohigher results for its customers
and higher competitive advantage for the firmcompany is projecting 100% data growth rates
annually for the foreseeablefuture.A recentpower outage at the productiondata center that
lasted 24 hours resulted in significant data loss.The production data center:
All rack-mount servers
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
HP ProLiant DL385 servers
Two HP Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 SANs
Heterogeneous SAN environment consisting of HP B-series and HP C-series
SANs
The on campus Disaster Recovery Center is newly constructed and has not been configured
or brought on line:
BladeSystem environment
Core edge design
All HP B-series
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System
The company pulls all of its trading information and data into a warehouse and then runs
reports on the data internal reports determine whether to update asset allocation. Customer
reports detail current holding and earnings of the firm’s funds. The most complex reports
takes 36 hours to run an can only be run over the weekend to prevent disruption to
operations; this results in traders receiving updated information only per week.There is also
an option for customers to access web-based reports, and there is a need to update these
reports more frequently as well. Some of the additional business criteria identifiedin
customerplanning interviews includes:
Produce daily reports rather than weekly
Close to real time reporting to customers
Scalable solution for further growth and without interruption
Ability to add additional reports or analyze in new ways as the need arises
Reduced IT overtime
Concerned about application disruptions when adding or removing SAN devices
Manage multiple fiber Channel ports as one switch resource
Move from 4GB SAN to an 8GB Fibre Channel SAN.
Looking for optional performance, less downtime, non-disruption expansion, and a
Low price per port on the FC Switch deployment
Consolidation of SANs for seamless sharing of server storage resources
Multiple solutions, prioritized with recommendation
Refer to the scenario.
One proposed solution is to replace all 4Gb SAN swithces with 8Gb SAN switches. Which
change to the proposal will provide investment protection and still meet all of the financial
brokerage firm requirements?
A.
Replace all 4Gb switches with a single 8Gb director.
B.
Keep the 4Gb switches, and add ISLs and a trunking license.
C.
Propose 16Gb SAN switches with 8Gb optics in ports currently needed.
D.
Replace half of the 4Gb switches new, and wait for the price of 8 Gb switches to drop.