A hospital has recently contacted you about a major environment upgrade. Due to funding issues
and frequently changing management, they have allowed their infrastructure to age to a point that
it is experiencing failures that impact patient care. The new CIO still has funding concerns, but the
board has realized that they must spend money to stay in business and grow their patient base.
This hospital has similar concerns to that of other medical facilities. They must meet HIPAA
[Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) requirements (how data security is handled)
and be able to provide 7×24 support for all patient care systems.
The hospital has approximately 400 servers. They have one mainframe, four HP-UX servers
supporting Oracle databases, one AIX system supporting DB2, and all other systems are aging
ProLiants running Windows 2003 or 2008. The mainframe has dedicated storage and there are
three EMC CLARiiON systems that have been experiencing both performance and availability
problems. Between the four storage islands, the hospital has approximately 450TB of data stored
on approximately 720TB of storage hardware. Most backups are being performed by Symantec
NetBackup to an older StorageTek library with LT02 technology.

They plan to consolidate their storage environment and as many of their Windows servers as
possible using VMware on blade technology. They have asked that you assist in designing a
storage environment that provides similar consolidation benefits and meets 5 9 availability
requirements. They are growing their storage environment at approximately 15% per year. There
is no requirement for tape, but assurance that backups are performed and offsite is necessary.
If the hospital chooses to exclude the mainframe storage from their consolidation efforts, which
storage solution will best meet their needs?

A.
P6300

B.
3PAR T400

C.
X9720

D.
3PAR T800

Explanation: