Designing HP Enterprise Storage Solutions

A customer needs to refresh a mission-critical Fibre Channel block storage solution. They need a budgetary quote by end of the week.

Which key initial information should you gather to design an appropriate high-level HP Storage solution?

Which HP 3PAR InForm Operating System feature allows you to create point-in-time clones with independent service-level parameters?

A medium-sized company with 300 users has a Fibre Channel-based storage infrastructure with two HP StoreServ 7000 storage arrays. Their user data is distributed on three HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers with local-attached storage.

They have asked for a solution to increase the availability of their File Service that will fit into their limited IT budged Which solution you recommend in your proposal?

Which tool allows the provision of storage volumes directly from within the VMware vCenter Management Console?

Scenario
Following the merger of two financial companies, management is considering combining the two distinct customer call centers into a single physical location. In addition to the overall call center headcount increasing by 30%, the support for two distinct customer bases presents the potential of having two different desktop PCs on the desk of each call center employee. Instead of correspondingly increasing IT support headcount to manage the single, larger call center and call center infrastructure, management believes they can reduce the required time to support call center operations by 40% if they employ virtual desktop technology.

An initial assessment has identified the need for a centralized storage solution that could support 500 virtual desktops running a variety of applications that can scale quickly to accommodate an expected increase in call center staff. The customer is already an HP Blade System customer using HP Virtual Connect Flex-10.

Some of the additional business criteria identified in customer planning interviews includes:

Use client virtualization for the desktops.
Achieve the highest possible density and performance for the virtual desktops, but keep the virtual desktop storage traffic off the network due to a current, existing limitation of only 1GbE.
Do not use standalone, network-attached storage.
Limit the impact of additional rack space.
Minimize the risk of additional help-desk tickets.
Present multiple solutions, prioritized with a recommendation.

Refer to the scenario.

Select the HP MSA configuration with SAS + SSD drives that will satisfy the customer requirements.

How can server performance degradation be avoided during backup in a large virtualized environment with HP Data Protector?

A company is running their parts inventory applications on an HP 3PAR F400 storage system with NearLine (SATA) disk drives. These applications are currently using LUN utilizing a Raid 5 (7+1) NL CPG.
They are having performance issues while compiling their monthly reports in a timely manner. HP 3PAR

System Reporter indicates several high write I/O volumes during production runs.

What should the design team recommend to improve this performance?

The IT director for a packaged foods corporation is soliciting design concepts from vendors for a new call

center infrastructure. The IT director's objectives are to use up to 16 state-of-the-art virtualized blade servers and easy-to-implement Fibre Channel storage.

Backup architecture is already provided by the IT director's team. After reviewing the customer needs, you begin to develop asolution. You show the IT director an illustration of the design. (Refer to the exhibit.)

Which benefit of the Flat SAN feature matches the customer needs?

A customer wants to integrate a data deduplication solution into an online storage environment.

Which HP solution should be integrated into the design to meet the customer requirements?

You have a conversation with the IT manage, of a large university about HP StoreVirtual Adaptive Optimization. Some of the university storage volumes are accessed more frequently than other. The IT manager is concerned that less frequently accessed volumes will cause StoreVirtual Optimization to slow down.

What should be recommended lo address the concern?