Covers the HPE storage portfolio and GreenLake basics, comparing DAS, NAS, and SAN implementations, HPE MSA and Alletra storage arrays, and data protection with StoreOnce and tape.
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A customer wants to transition their on-premises storage to a pay-per-use model to align expenses with actual usage. Which HPE offering provides this consumption-based model for on-premises infrastructure?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
HPE GreenLake is HPE's portfolio of cloud and as-a-service solutions, delivering cloud-like experiences and a pay-per-use financial model for on-premises, edge, and colocation infrastructure. InfoSight is an AIOps tool, StoreOnce is a backup appliance, and SimpliVity is a hyperconverged infrastructure.
Question 2
Intermediate
Identify HPE Storage Products and tools · Locate and use available tools and resources for HPE Storage
A storage administrator needs to analyze their existing multi-vendor virtualized environment to right-size a new HPE storage solution. Which HPE tool is best suited for collecting workload telemetry to assist in sizing?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C
HPE CloudPhysics is a SaaS-based tool that continuously monitors and analyzes IT infrastructures (including multi-vendor environments) to provide data-driven insights for right-sizing, upgrading, and migrating to HPE solutions. InfoSight focuses on predictive analytics for existing HPE environments.
Question 3
Advanced
Identify HPE Storage Products and tools · Evaluate different customer requirements
A financial enterprise is planning a technology refresh for their core banking application and unstructured data archives.
The current environment suffers from unpredictable performance spikes, leading to application timeouts during end-of-month processing. They have a strict requirement for 100% data availability for the core banking database.
For their unstructured data, they need a scalable repository that can grow to several petabytes over the next three years, primarily accessed via S3-compatible APIs.
The CIO wants to shift from a CAPEX model to an OPEX model, paying only for the storage they consume while keeping all data within their own data center due to regulatory compliance.
Based on these requirements, which combination of HPE solutions optimally addresses the customer's needs?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 is designed for mission-critical block workloads and offers a 100% data availability guarantee. The X10000 is designed for scalable object storage (S3). HPE GreenLake satisfies the requirement for an OPEX, pay-per-use model while keeping data on-premises.
Question 4
IntermediateMultiple answers
Identify HPE Storage Products and tools · Describe the HPE storage portfolio
Which TWO of the following products are specifically designed as data protection solutions within the HPE storage portfolio? (Select TWO)
Answer and explanation
Correct answers: D, E
HPE StoreEver represents HPE's tape storage portfolio, used for long-term retention and air-gapped data protection.
HPE StoreOnce is a purpose-built backup appliance providing data deduplication. HPE StoreEver represents HPE's tape storage portfolio, used for long-term retention and air-gapped data protection. Alletra, MSA, and SimpliVity are primary storage or hyperconverged platforms.
True or False: HPE GreenLake requires customers to migrate their data and workloads to a public cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
False. HPE GreenLake brings the cloud experience to apps and data wherever they reside, including on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, and the edge. It does not require migrating to a public cloud.
Question 6
Intermediate
Identify HPE Storage Products and tools · Locate and use available tools and resources for HPE Storage
Which HPE tool utilizes cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict and prevent infrastructure problems before they impact the business?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D
HPE InfoSight is an industry-leading AIOps platform that uses predictive analytics and machine learning to resolve issues proactively across the HPE storage and compute stack.
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