Designing HP SAN Networking Solutions

Scenario:
A large financial brokerage firm transacts about 32% of trades in the South American market. It offers brokerage services, investment banking, and financial advisory services to corporations and individuals Recent expansions into other worldwide markets have led to delays m processing trading data into usable reports that are timely enough for consumption by traders. The company is seeking a way to give traders much closer real-time data to use when making decisions on trades, ultimately translating into higher results for its customers and higher competitive advantage for the firm company is projecting 100% data growth rates annually for the foreseeable future. A recent power outage at the production data center that lasted 24 hours resulted in significant data loss. The production data center:
- All rack-mount servers
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- HP ProLiant DL385 servers
- Two HP Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 SANs
- Heterogeneous SAN environment consisting of HP B-series and HP C-series SANs

The on campus Disaster Recovery Center is newly constructed and has not been configured or brought on line:
- BladeSystem environment
- Core edge design
- All HP B-series
- HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System

The company pulls all of its trading information and data into a warehouse and then runs reports on the data internal reports determine whether to update asset allocation. Customer reports detail current holding and earnings of the firm's funds. The most complex reports takes 36 hours to run an can only be run over
the weekend to prevent disruption to operations; this results in traders receiving updated information only
per week. There is also an option for customers to access web-based reports, and there is a need to update these reports more frequently as well.

Some of the additional business criteria identified in customer planning interviews includes:
- Produce daily reports rather than weekly
- Close to real time reporting to customers
- Scalable solution for further growth and without interruption
- Ability to add additional reports or analyze in new ways as the need arises
- Reduced IT overtime
- Concerned about application disruptions when adding or removing SAN devices
- Manage multiple fiber Channel ports as one switch resource
- Move from 4GB SAN to an 8GB Fibre Channel SAN.
- Looking for optional performance, less downtime, non-disruption expansion, and a Low price per port on
the FC Switch deployment
- Consolidation of SANs for seamless sharing of server storage resources
- Multiple solutions, prioritized with recommendation

Refer to the scenario.

Which network solution should you propose for the primary data center to meet the stated requirements?

A customer has bought another company and wants to merge both SANs. Both SANs are B- Series based and were modernized a year ago. You are asked to plan the new consolidated SAN and to propose a migration strategy.

In this scenario, what else should you recommend to the customer in advance of the merger?

What does Remote Support Pack (RSP) provides?

Which statement is true about the HP Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS)?

What should you do to give multiple servers exclusive access to units on a storage subsystem in a SAN?

Which three infrastructure components are supported from multiple vendors in an HP Open heterogenous SAN? (Choose three.)

Why should you use Cisco VSANs and IVR rather than merge fabrics?

Which statements are true about the 8/20q Fibre Channel switch? (Select two.)

Prior to installing new equipment into an existing environment, you want to find out the current levels of firmware and drivers of HBA and SAN switches.

Which HP tool can help you to achieve this quickly?

Which feature must be supported in the Brocade 4GB SAN Switch for the HP c-Class BladeSystem to support port aggregation using N_Port_ID virtualization (NPIV) in the blade server environment?