A customer has bought another company and wants to merge both SANs. Both SANs are BSeries based and were modernized a year ago. You are asked to plan the new consolidated
SAN and to propose a migration strategy.
In this scenario, what else should you recommend to the customer in advance of the
merger?

When considering a SAN design for a customer what benefit is achieved by minimizing the
number of hops between switches where many devices share a single-switch ISL?

Your customer is an internet company which develops software for business platforms.
Since they have high standards for the quality of their products, they have a separate test
environment. They have modernized their production SAN environment and they want to reuse their old switches to implement a core-edge topology for the test environment. As a core
switch they will use an HP 8/80 SAN Switch, and they have three HP StorageWorks 4/64
SAN Switches as edge switches. They have 150 test servers, two storage arrays and two
small tape libraries in their test environment. They are asking you how many ISLs they
should use for the connection of one edge switch to the core switch. Based on HP best
practices, how many ISLs do you recommend?

A customer wants to migrate their servers from a network-based solution to a SAN-based
solution. During your investigation of needed switch ports you discover the customer has
approximately 400 servers and expects to grow to 1000 servers within the next five years. In
the proposal, the customer wants redundant connections for each server to the SAN. Which
switch series should you consider in your proposal?

Which protocol is used when configuring network monitoring on an HP B-series SAN
Switch in Access Gateway?

You are presenting the value of the HP Converged Network strategy to the CEO of a
company that has a remote-office, branch-office business, the company is consolidation
desktop using virtualization and is planning to expand the business into new market with the
new solution. Vendor proposition for the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric solution is most
appropriate to presented to the CEO?

A company is reviewing proposals to upgrade their existing Fibre Channel SAN to a new
core-edge design based on HP B-series switches proposal is HP SAN Network Advisor
Enterprise Software.
How can this product simplify the administration of the B-series SAN? (Select two)

Customer has made the decision to expand their SAN.The customer does not want to merge
the existing SANwith the new SAN, but does want the two SANs to interoperate.
The customer wants a no-cost managementtool that will work with the new SAN switches
and their existing HBAs.
Which HP SAN switch should you recommend to the customer?

What is a design consideration when adding an HPUX-based server to a current Brocade
fibresolution?

You are designing an HP SAN networking solution for a local government, The network
security policies forbid the use of certain communication the design phase. You must create
a list of protocols to use in the proposed environment. Which protocol is used when the HP
B-series SAN Network Advisor is configured to monitor FCIP statistics?