A regional market leader in direct financial services run several call centers across the United
States and is opening a number of new call centers in the near future. The client uses Windows
XP on dedicated workstations. The IT infrastructure consists of numerous HP ProLiant DL 360 G5
and HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers running VMware ESX or SUSE Linux for the database server,
direct attached storage, and HP Ultimatum tape drives. They want to consolidate the
infrastructure.

Which drawback of his environment can be eliminated when designing an HP StoreVirtual 4000
Storage solution?

A.
Unexpected downtime caused by a site failure

B.
Performance bottlenecks caused by mixed workloads

C.
Inconsistent Oracle data caused by array snapshots

D.
Capacity bottlenecks caused by duplicated data blocks

Explanation:
SmartClone technology is based on the space-efficient LeftHand Thin Provisioning architecture,
and the volume clones can be used without limitation along with all other LeftHand OS features
like Network RAID, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot, and Remote Copy. The feature works by taking
any volume or snapshot and making one or many clones in an instant. The cloning function makes
a permanent, read/write volume on the array, pointing back to the original volume’s blocks instead
of duplicating the blocks. By managing each clone as a pervasive volume, SmartClone eliminates
any requirement for a volume, snapshot, or any of its predecessors to exist after the clone has
been created, and also eliminates the need to run de-duplication software, because there are no
duplicate blocks. The clone shares the original volume’s blocks and uses copyon-write semantics.
SmartClone technology reduces storage costs and increases overall storage efficiency.
Administrators can store “gold-master” system images on the array for virtual desktop and bootfrom-SAN implementations, and quickly provision test environments using real production data. To
simplify management, administrators can view all of the relationships between clones, volumes,
and snapshots graphically in the Control Management Console.
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