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
Further investigation reveals the university’s desire to simplify and reduce the SAN and LAN cabling
in a future project that is yet to be finalized. Which areas should be addressed with the university?
(Select two.)

A medium-sized enterprise plans to replace its current SAN Switch infrastructure through an efficient,
scalable SAN architecture with built in high-performance stacking. Which mid-range SAN switch
product should you include in your new design?

What is an interconnected network of independent fabrics for B-Series switches?