A very large application service provider (ASP) is going through a major virtualization effort. After
the initial meeting with the ASP team, your notes are:
– Customer objective is to virtualize their environment. Modernize and simplify their infrastructure
– All servers are on HP BladeSystem c7000 Virtual Connect 1/10-F and Virtual Connect FC
modules, G5 physical blade servers. Lease is up.
– 48 blades require virtualization and NFS connections. Existing filer is third party Lease is up to
Need more I/O and Scale.

– 12 blades are Clustered SQL Server. No virtualization on these blades required. Storage today is
on new FC-based HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
– 16 new virtualized servers are targeted to be connected to the existing HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
FC
As you develop a proposal, what should be part of the design to meet the customer goals? (Select
two)

Which HP Storage solution aligns with the HP federated storage approach?

A customer has a B-Series SAN and wants to add an H-Series switch. Which feature and protocol
achieve this?

A customer has an HP StoreVirtual six node cluster. The HP StoreVirtual system is presenting 30
Network RAID 10 LUNs to an application server. The application server has HP DSM for MPIO
and HP Application Aware Snapshot Manager installed. The customer wants to add four more
nodes to the cluster.
What must be considered when adding the four additional nodes?

Your customer is rapidly expanding and wants to migrate from direct-attached storage to an arraybased storage platform. Which benefit can be achieved by moving to the HP 3PAR StoreServ
platform?

You are working with a city government on a storage refresh. They are interested in consolidating
divisions that have previously had separate arrays and management. The political environment will
now allow for combined budgets, but managing the storage still needs to be kept separate for

varied security reasons. Budgets are very constrained, so cost will be an issue.
Which storage array should you recommend to meet their needs?

A solution architect from an HP authorized reseller calls you with a need to configure HP
BladeSystem and an HP StoreServ 7400 Storage System. He needs a bill of materials and a
budgetary quote (List Price) for his colleague.
Which tool do you recommend he use?

Which statement is accurate when an HP BladeSystem customer is interested in the HP Virtual
Connect FlexFabric Flat SAN feature?

A company currently has 800 virtual machines with 300 TB data. Seventy percent of the servers
are at 85% idle. The customer needs to reduce the overall cost of present and future storage
upgrade requirements by at least 25% while reducing power and cooling costs.
What should be done to properly size each tier in an HP StoreServ Adaptive Optimization multi-tier
solution?

You are responding to a request for proposal (RFP) for a new HP 3PAR StoreServ array. The

company decision-maker has asked you to justify the cost of the array.
Which benefits of the Alinean ROI Analyst should be included in the business case to justify the
cost of the array? (Select three.)