HP Architecting Multi-site HP Storage Solutions Sample Questions:

1. A retail customer has primary data centers, distribution centers, and retail stores. The retail locations are smaller sites that have less than 2 TB of data that need to be highly available. Each location is consolidating between six and twelve physical servers into a virtual cluster running on two HP ProLiant DL380 Gen8 servers.
The customer needs a low-cost storage solution that they can use at each retail location and can scale using similar technology for the distribution centers. The solution also needs to integrate with VMware and provide future replication with no additional cost.
Which HP Storage solution should you recommend?

A) HP MSA
B) HP StoreVirtual
C) HP EVA
D) HP 3PAR StoreServ

2. A leading automotive technology company wants to increase the performance and capacity of the storage infrastructure that supports the design and manufacture of its line of Formula 1 racing cars. The company is also interested in safe-guarding its mission-critical data and eliminating the threat of business disruption.
Due to the massive engineering and technical effort required to create a new race car design and to enable regular delivery of upgraded parts to the race track while maintaining a competitive edge, it is necessary to have advanced applications running on a high-performance IT infrastructure. The company operates out of two data centers. The centers support a Plant Lifecycle Management database, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and various trackside systems to set up the race car and aid race strategy. In addition, the centers run applications for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) packages.
The company as deployed Oracle and SQL databases, VMware virtual machines, email, and all other applications on an HP 6400 Enterprise virtual Array (EVA). The EVAs automatically replicate between the two data centers to guard against failure. The EVAs are aging, applications are more sophisticated, data volumes have grown exponentially, and bottlenecks in the storage system are now having a significant effect on the performance of the simulation and analysis tools that are vital to the company's competitive position. The data storage problem has reached a point where the company is forced to store primary data at the secondary site causing the loss of their disaster recovery capability.
The company's top five IT Improvement goa's are:
-Reduce compiaints about storage system availabiiity.
-increase support for sophisticated design and manufacturing applications.
-Provide a robust repication capability between data centers.
-increase storage utilzation while depioying additional capacity.
-Simplify operatons during peak workloads.
Moreover, the company's top three business benefit goals are:
-Ensure rapid data retrieval to aid in quick decision making.
-Protect mission-critical data and ensure business continuity.
-Recover costs from existing infrastructure, thus providing increased IT funds for additional projects.
You are proposing HP 3PAR StoreSe|v 7400s for the two data centers, and the HP 6400 Enterprise Virtual
Arrays must be retired in three months.
Which feature of your proposal allows data migration to the new storage array?

A) HP Online Import
B) HP MPX200 Router
C) HP Remote Copy
D) HP Peer Motion

3. After proposing an HP 3PAR SToreServ 7000 Storage System solution, a customer asks about the benefits of future disk drive expansion. What are the primary performance and capacity differentiators for existing or new volumes when adding disk drives? (Select two)

A) Performance is available only to new volumes
B) Capacity is available to existing or new volumes
C) Performance is available only to existing volumes
D) Performance is available to existing or new volumes
E) Capacity is available only to new volumes
F) Capacity is available only to existing volumes

4. You are sizing a solution based on performance requirements.
How do you calculate the number of front-end I/ Os versus back-end I/O when doing single writes? (Select three.)

A) On RAID 5, a single front-end I/O results in 4 back-end I/Os
B) On RAID 6, a single front-end I/O results in 6 back-end l/Os
C) On RAID 1, a single front-end I/0 results in 1 back-end I/O
D) On RAID 1, a single front-end I/O results in 2 back-end I/Os
E) On RAID 6, a single front-end I/O results in 4 back-end I/Os
F) On RAID 5, asingefront-end I/0 results in 3 back-end I/Os

5. At a customer meeting with the CEO and CFO, you present a storage solution consisting of several HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 systems for their long-term storage strategy. While elaborating on the storage system performance directly related to the number of disks and linear scalability in your proposed solution, you realize that the attention of your audience has started to decline.
What has gone wrong?

A) The CxOs of the customer are more interested in future firmware features.
B) These CxOs would have liked you to inform them about improved infrastructure requirements.
C) Rather than stating the obvious, you should have focused more on disk technology.
D) This is not the correct audience for storage system performance scalability.

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