What is an advantage of a meshed FC SAN topology when compared to a cascaded topology?
A. faster firmware upgrade procedures
B. large number of available switch ports
C. multiple paths for internal fabric resiliency
D. cost efficiency
A customer is considering an upgrade of rotational drives to solid state disks.
What is the typical increase of random read IOPS per drive with 15K drives compared to enterprise performance SSD?
A. 10x
B. 100x
C. 1000X
D. 10000x
Which features are part of the Advanced Data Services Software Suite on the HPE MSA 2052? (Choose two.)
A. flash cache
B. automatic tiering
C. RAID Level 6
D. data encryption
E. 512 snapshots
A customer needs to deploy a storage solution for a new application that requires long-term data protection, retention, immutability, and encryption with write once, read many (WORM) data access policies.
Which product would you recommend?
A. Double Take
B. HPE StoreEasy
C. HPE StoreOnce
D. iTernity iCAS
A customer needs a storage device to be used as an NFS file server. It must provide deduplication for greater efficiency. The storage device will also be used as a backup target.
Which HPE Storage system meets this requirement?
A. HPE StoreOnce VSA
B. HPE StoreEasy
C. HPE Nimble
D. HPE MSA
When configuring volume access on a Nimble storage array, in which scenario would an administrator select multiple initiators to access a volume?
A. The server administrator has requested MPIO access for the host.
B. The volume will be used as a CIFS storage volume by a gateway device.
C. The server administrator has requested a high performance volume.
D. The volume will be used as a datastore for a virtualization cluster.
A customer has a Windows 2016 SQL Cluster running on HPE StoreEasy 1450 storage and needs to ensure that combined throughput of all network adapters is used on all cluster nodes together.
Which HPE StoreEasy system feature helps the customer meet this requirement?
A. Multibus failover and node fault tolerance
B. Smart Pathing
C. SMB Multichannel
D. Windows Native MPIO
A customer wants to replace an existing third-party array with an HPE 3PAR StoreServ system. He asks to get an estimate of the expected deduplication ratio on the new HPE 3PAR StoreServ system.
Which tool will you use to deliver this information?
A. HPE InfoSight
B. NinjaStars
C. HPE OneView
D. NinjaCrawler
What task can be performed with Library and Tape Tools?
A. Verifying backup application compatibility
B. Creating a support ticket
C. Managing backup encryption keys
D. Verifying backup schedules and backup windows
A customer has the following backup strategy:
Sunday to Thursday: Daily Incremental Friday: Weekly Full No backup is run on a Saturday Backup window is 22:00 - 04:00
They suffer a catastrophic failure on Thursday at 05:30.
Which backup sets are required to restore the failed system to the most recent state?
A. last incremental backup only
B. last full backup plus all incremental backups
C. last full backup plus the last incremental backup
D. last full backup only
A customer needs firmware and driver recommendations for their existing SAN environment.
Which tool will you use to validate this information?
A. HPE Smart Update Manager
B. SPOCK
C. HPE InfoSight for 3PAR
D. HPE OneView
You have sized and designed a new HPE 3PAR StoreServ system for a customer.
Which tool will help you configure and provide initial pricing?
A. HPE OneConfig Advanced
B. HPE ActiveAnswers
C. HPE NinjaStars
D. HPE Storage Sizer
A customer needs a new, high-performance storage solution dedicated to a 4-node, HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 SQL Cluster:
fully redundant SAS connectivity dual controller architecture mixed drive support 4 ports per controller SSD drive support
Which storage solution meets the customer requirements?
A. HPE 3PAR 8200
B. HPE MSA 2052
C. HPE D3700
D. HPE MSA 1040
Which resource allows you to determine valid storage connectivity configurations with HPE 3PAR StoreServ?
A. HPE NinjaSTARS
B. HPE SPOCK
C. HPE One Config Advanced
D. HPE OneView
What is a benefit of the HPE MSA architecture?
A. offers ASIC-based hardware acceleration of thin technologies
B. supports direct SAS connection for up to four servers per controller
C. uses HPE ProLiant Gen10 server technology
D. offers in-line data deduplication and compression