Your customer is a New York based law firm, operating a single office, with 300 attorneys. It offers
a complete business law service across the full range of legal specialization to both US-based and
international clients, with cases often spanning many jurisdictions.
The law firm has implemented HP servers and storage solution at its primary and disaster
recovery sites for several years. With the increased volume of cases handled by the firm, data
volumes are reaching their maximum capacity.
The primary site consists of HP BladeSystem with ProLiant server blades an dHP Storage 4000
EVA, approximately 5 TB of tier one data and 11 TB of tier two data. The secondary site has
similar servers, but direct-attached storage. The network infrastructure consists of HP and thirdparty switches and routers.
The existing server environment lacks the performance and scalability to support existing and new
applications. Furthermore, the primary site doesn’t have the space to accommodate additional
load. The future decision requires automating the complete operational lifecycle of the entire
infrastructure.
Refer to the scenario.
The law firm wants to:
Enhance thestorage capacity at itsprimary site to12 TB for tier 1 and 20 TB for Tiertwo
Implement asynchronousdata replication between those sites for acomprehensive
disasterrecovery capability
Standardizeon storage technology between its two sites
Enable a future moveto cloud computing
What is the most cost effective storage solution to achieve this?
A.
Replace the direct attach storage at the secondary site with an HP P4000 G2 storage solution
and implement HP Continuous Access between the sites.
B.
Transfer the EVA4400 from the primary site to the secondary site to replace the Direct-Attach
storage, purchase the HP 3PAR T400 for the primary site, and implement HP Continuous Access
between the sites.
C.
Replace the existing storage solutions at the both sites with HP Storage solutions at the both
sites with HP Storage MDS 600 solutions and implement the HP Matrix Operating Environment
Recovery management between the sites.
D.
Transfer the EVA4400 from the primary site to the secondary site to replace the direct-attach
storage, purchase EVA6300 for the primary site, and implement HP Continuous Access between
the sites.