A startup company is considering an HPE Nimble solution. They have a small IT budget, and they need to be future-proof for changing performance requirements.
How does the Nimble architecture meet the company needs? (Select two.)
- A . native support for block and file services
- B . minimal downtime technology refresh
- C . Support for FCoE
- D . non-disruptive technology refresh
- E . ability to mix-and-match All flash and hybrid nodes
You are designing an HPE 3PAR replication solution for a customer in a metropolitan area that includes two main sites and a third disaster recovery site. The main sites will be in synchronous replication. The disaster recovery site can be asynchronously replicated.
What are two points you should highlight to the customer? (Select two.)
- A . Tertiary site volume paths are active/read only
- B . Quorum Witness at the third site enables automatic failover to tertiary site
- C . Secondary site volumes paths are active/optimized read/write
- D . Quorum Witness at the third site enables automatic failover to the secondary site
- E . Primary site volumes paths are standby read/write
A customer has an HPE Nimble Storage array. They plan to add a second HPE Nimble Storage array to their existing group.
What is the expected write behavior to a volume once the new array is added to the same pool as the existing array?
- A . Data will be written to the new array until it is the same percent full as the original array
- B . Data will immediately start to alternate writes between the two arrays
- C . Data will continue to write to the first array until there is 40% free space available, and then alternate writes between the two arrays
- D . Data will be stripped and automatically re-balanced across the two arrays
A customer has three 4-node HPE 3PAR arrays. Two of the arrays are deployed at a primary site, and the third array is deployed at a disaster recovery site. Both arrays at the primary site are replicated to the single array at the disaster recovery site.
All replication is asynchronous periodic. All arrays are utilizing 4 RCIP links for replication.
The customer needs to add a third array at the primary site. They would like to use the existing array at the disaster recovery site as a replication target for this additional array.
What must the architect consider to meet this customer requirement?
- A . A single pair of RCIP ports on one array can have a Remote Copy relationship with up to two other arrays
- B . Remote Copy fan-in ratios of greater than 2:1 are only supported with RCIP when using 10 Gb Ethernet links
- C . Arrays involved in a Remote Copy relationship must have the same number of node pairs
- D . Asynchronous streaming replication must be used for Remote Copy fan-in ratios greater than 2:1
A customer needs to setup specific replication bandwidth requirements to limit the bandwidth between HPE Nimble Storage replication partners, which is different than the bandwidth requirements to another Replication Partner.
Which Bandwidth parameter should the customer use?
- A . Array-to-array Limit
- B . Per-partner limit
- C . Partner Maximum limit
- D . Overall limit policy
You have chosen to utilize HPE 3PAR synchronous replication in order to meet the customer stated
requirement of RPO=0.
What is a key consideration you need to explain to the customer?
- A . Host write latencies will decrease
- B . Host write latencies will increase
- C . Host writes can be committed to either primary or backup storage before host acknowledgment
- D . RC sync can only be deployed over FC links
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_naa00057870en_us&docLocale=en_US(p.17)
You are proposing a replication solution to a customer. A competitor offers a solution based on storage
virtualization appliances.
What should you stress about an HPE 3PAR replication solution in regard to the competitor’s proposal?
- A . It will add on-the-fly encryption and compression to data being replicated outside the customer’s DC
- B . It means less overhead for management and monitoring
- C . It offers best-in-class backup and restore capabilities
- D . It offers superior virtualization of 3rd party storage arrays
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer has the environment shown. They currently perform application-consistent daily full backups via Veeam backup to an HPE StoreOnce device. These backups are then replicated to an alternate device using Catalyst copy.
Changing business requirements have mandated the RPO and RTO for the customer’s SQL databases be reduced to 15 minutes. Due to the size of the databases, it is not possible to meet this requirement with their existing backout application.
What should you recommend the customer implement in order to meet their new requirement?
- A . HPE 3PAR Remote Copy in Synchronous Mode
- B . HPE RMC Express Protect
- C . SPE StoreOnce Cloud Bank
- D . HPE 3PAR Remote Copy in Asynchronous Streaming Mode
Which advantage is provided by HPE 3PAR Remote Copy across all replication modes?
- A . support of all Remote Copy topologies
- B . automatic recovery of array failure independent of Remote copy topology
- C . Remote Copy support up to 100ms latency over all transport layers
- D . all Remote Copy topologies yield identical RPO and RTO
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://manuals.directutor.com/3COM/4AA6-2851ENW/index.html?page=9
DRAG DROP
Click and drag the steps on the left into the appropriate order on the right to set up an HPE 3PAR array in InfoSight.
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.slideshare.net/CalvinZito/hpe-hpe-infosight-for-3par-quickstart-v14
A customer has started to load their HPE 3PAR 8450 with data, but are not sure what data reduction they are achieving. They ask you to run analysis and estimate the deduplication ratio of data currently on a virtual volume (VV).
Which CLI command should you use to understand data reduction ratios?
- A . showvv
- B . tunevv
- C . convertvv
- D . checkvv
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://manualzz.com/doc/34471724/hpe-3par-adaptive-data-reduction
A customer needs to new storage solution, including replication. The replication solution does not need to provide an RTO or RPO of zero.
The customer suffers from severe VM sprawl and has experienced unidentified storage service-level degradations.
What should you point out during your presentation of the solution?
- A . Hardware-assisted parity generation and deduplication mitigate the changing performance requirements
- B . VMs are always individually visible to the array with automatic enablement of VVOL technology
- C . InfoSight and VM details would help in identifying misbehaving VMs putting a high load on the array
- D . When a storage system is being overloaded, the replication software will automatically move the workload
A customer has HPE B-series switches and is not interested in Extended Fabric licenses for edge switches.
They have sites over 10km apart.
Which SAN extension technology should you recommend?
- A . FC over DWDM
- B . FC over CWDM
- C . FCoE
- D . FCIP
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04499584.pdf
How does the HPE Nimble Storage product strategy support a customer’s investment protection requirements for today and the future?
- A . by supporting replication with arrays from other vendors
- B . by supporting the implementation of third party cache, spinning media, and flash media
- C . by supporting replication between current and previous-generation array models
- D . by supporting the repurposing of obsolete array controllers as high-density servers
A customer has a pair of HPE 3PAR arrays with Synchronous Replication enabled. They need recommendations for deploying the Quorum Witness when implementing Peer Persistence.
What should you recommend to the customer?
- A . The Quorum Witness should be in the secondary data center, with IP connectivity to the HPE 3PAR there
- B . The Quorum Witness should be in a third data center, with FC connectivity to both HPE 3PARs
- C . The Quorum Witness should be in the primary data center, with FC connectivity to the HPE 3PAR there
- D . The Quorum Witness should be in a third data center, with IP connectivity to both HPE 3PARs
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA5-8914ENW.pdf
A customer has recently acquired another company that is located less than 3 km from their current main location. Both locations use HPE B-Series products in their storage environment.
The customer needs to merge the 2 locations together while still using the current WAN and networking
infrastructure at both locations. They need to keep their initial cost down until they are able to redesign both networking infrastructures.
Which protocol should be incorporated when providing a proposal to meet the customer needs?
- A . ISCSI
- B . CWDM
- C . DWDM
- D . FCIP
Refer to the exhibit, which reflects the Bill of Materials (BOM) configuration for one datacenter.
A customer needs a new storage solution of two HPE 3PAR 8440 arrays. The customer’s environment consists of eight physical servers in each data center attached to the SAN and one StoreOnce 3540 system with two FC I/O cards. The distance between data centers is less than 75 meters.
What should you add the BOM to meet the customer needs?
- A . one HPE 25m Mini SAS High Density Active Optical Cable for each HPE 3PAR 8440
- B . one HPR 3PAR StoreServ AC RPS Service Processor
- C . one HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 Direct Connect Cabling Option for Drive Enclosure for each HPE 3PAR 8440
- D . one HPE SN3000B SAN Switch 12-port Upgrade E-LTU per switch, appropriate number of SFPs and
cables
A customer has two sites within a short distance. They require a primary storage solution which supports automatic failover for their block storage, SMB shares, and NFS home directories.
Which HPE solution best fits the customer’s requirements?
- A . HPE 3PAR
- B . HPE Nimble
- C . HPE Simplivity
- D . HPE StoreOnce
A customer needs to upgrade their existing HPE 3PAR environment. They ask you to present a solution to gather data from all 200 of their HPE 3PARs arrays, which are spread across the globe. The arrays consist of various generations and OS levels, and they are managed by regional instances of SSMC.
What should you present to the customer as a solution?
- A . using an HPE 3PAR CLI script with the checkupgrade command
- B . using a script based on the HPE 3PAR Web Services API
- C . using the upgrade report tool in HPE InfoSight
- D . using the SSMC array configuration reports
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c05243943
A customer has an aging Fibre Channel SAN from one vendor and a separate iSCSI SAN from another vendor. The customer wants to upgrade to a single vendor that will allow them to manage the SAN through a single vendor management console.
Which solution should you recommend?
- A . one HPE Nimble iSCSI group federated to an HPE 3PAR for Fibre Channel
- B . one HPE Nimble Storage Fibre Channel Group and one HPE Nimble Storage iSCSI Group
- C . one HPE Nimble Fibre Channel group federated to an HPE 3PAR for iSCSI
- D . one HPE Nimble Storage Group that has a Fibre Channel port and a ISCSI pool
A customer with an existing StoreOnce 5100 appliance needs guidance on determining long-term expected growth of the storage utilization based on actual usage.
However, the customer’s ISV backup software only shows 30 days of historical data.
Which step should be performed to check the StoreOnce 5100 for best practices and allow for growth planning?
- A . Run the DD Analyzer Sizing Tool
- B . Run the HPE Storage Sizer tool
- C . Perform an HPE NinjaProtected+ assessment
- D . Register StoreOnce 5100 in the InfoSight portal
A customer needs a new replication solution that makes use of capacity efficiency technologies, even though data is being replicated to another array.
You have been developing a solution that includes two HPE 3PAR arrays.
What should you emphasize in your proposal?
- A . The arrays share deduplication hash tables, and the target array only needs to compress the replicated
data from the source array - B . Compression technologies increase the effective bandwidth being available for replication and disaster
recovery - C . Thin Technologies, deduplication, and compression can be used on both sides with volumes in Remote Copy groups
- D . The data being replicated will travel the connection between the arrays fully compressed and deduplicated
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer is looking to replace the backup environment shown.
Which HPE Storage Tool should you use to assess their backup environment?
- A . HPE NinjaProtected+
- B . HPE Storage Sizer
- C . HPE NinjaCrawler
- D . DD Analyzer
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://uk.cdw.com/about/partners/protecting-data-growth-hpe-ninjaprotected-backupassessments/
A customer experiences a performance issues and blames the HPE 3PAR array. However, you suspect it is caused by a noisy neighbor situation in the VMware environment.
Which approach should you use to find and prove a root cause?
- A . Use Brocade Network Advisor to gather data for analysis
- B . Use the advanced performance reports in SSMC
- C . Use HPE SAF Collect to gather data for SAF Analyze
- D . Use HPE InfoSight Cross Stack Analytics
A customer is experiencing high utilization on their VMware ESXi server NICs when they backup virtual machines stored on an HPE 3PAR 8200.
Which technology is available on a StoreOnce VSA to reduce the network utilization?
- A . Catalyst target-side deduplication
- B . Transportable shadow copies
- C . Backup from storage snapshots
- D . Adaptive Data Reduction
A customer requires an all-flash solution that will scale out, with multiple arrays for replication. The customer also needs the solution to provide more data per terabyte of flash storage than competing solutions.
Which HPE program should you leverage in your solution to help meet the customer’s requirements?
- A . HPE Store More Guarantee
- B . HPE Nimble Timeless Storage
- C . HPE Get Thin Guarantee
- D . HPE Get 6-Nines Guarantee
A
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.hpe.com/emea_europe/en/storage/nimble.html
A customer needs to analyze performance and capacity of their storage environment. Their environment consists of HPE 3PAR, EMC VNX, and Pure Systems.
Which tool should you use to begin your assessment of their environment?
- A . HPE Infosight
- B . DD Analyzer
- C . NinjaCrawler
- D . SAF Collect
A customer has a requirement to provide Disaster Recovery for an application that is very sensitive to IO latency.
The customer has specified an RPO of less than 3 minutes for this application.
How can HPE 3PAR Remote Copy help meet the customers specified requirements?
- A . by using Asynchronous Streaming Replication
- B . by using Synchronous Replication
- C . by using Synchronous Long Distance Mode
- D . by using Periodic Asynchronous Replication with an interval of 3 mins
A customer has two sites. The link between sites is Fibre Channel, and the distance between sites is less than 1km. The link latencies are within HPE recommended tolerances.
The customer asks you to design a Peer Persistent solution using HPE servers running physical Windows
2016 servers and HPE 3PAR storage.
What are characteristics of the Quorum Witness? (Select two.)
- A . A virtual implementation of the Peer Persistence Quorum Witness is required on a third site
- B . A Peer Persistence Quorum Witness is required for normal HPE 3PAR Peer Persistence operation
- C . The Quorum Witness initiates the fail-over, passing control to the standby array
- D . A physical implementation of the Peer Persistence Quorum Witness is required on a third site
- E . Quorum Witness becomes relevant only during 3PAR Peer Persistence failover
You want to use FCAP authentication in an environment with FOS 7.3 running switches with no extra licenses.
What should you do to use this feature?
- A . Switches must be upgraded to FOS 7.4 or higher
- B . Certificates must be obtained from Brocade
- C . A Secure Fabric license must be added to all switches in the fabric
- D . Certificates must be obtained from a third-party vendor
A customer has standardized on Windows Server. They need to ensure that application and storage will move between sites as one during automated or manual failover.
Which HPE 3PAR integrated solution should you recommend to the customer as a preventative measure?
- A . Peer Persistence
- B . Serviceguard Metrocluster
- C . Cluster Extension (CLX)
- D . Site Recovery Manager
B
Explanation:
Reference: https://tdhpe.techdatA.eu/Documents/TDAS-Integrated%20Systems/Technical%20White%20Paper_HPE%20ConvergedSystem%20700.pdf?epslanguage=en
A customer has a requirement to provide disaster recovery for an application. The application has an RPO of 30 mins, with an RTO of 15 mins.
How can HPE 3PAR Remote Copy help meet the customer’s specified
requirements in the most cost effective manner?
- A . by using Periodic Asynchronous Replication with an interval of 15 minutes
- B . by using Synchronous Long Distance Mode
- C . by using Synchronous Replication
- D . by using Streaming Asynchronous replication with an interval of 15 minutes
A customer has two data centers in a metropolitan areA. The link between the data centers is IP-based and satisfies the bandwidth and latency requirements.
They have the following requirements:
・ Transparently and automatically failover and fall back between sites
・ Provide block and file access
・ Block access must provide connectivity for fibre channel and iSCSi hosts
・ All-Flash storage solution
You plan to propose a design based on HPE 3PAR storage arrays.
What would be the most cost-effective model that meets the customer needs?
- A . HPE 3PAR 9450
- B . HPE 3PAR 20850
- C . HPE 3PAR 20450
- D . HPE 3PAR 8450
A customer needs to replicate the data on their HPE 3PAR arrays between their datacenters. Their
datacenters are 250km apart. The link between the sites has an RTO of 100 ms, and they have an RPO of 3 minutes.
Which replication method should you recommend to meet the customer needs?
- A . RCIP is Synchronous mode
- B . RCFC is Synchronous mode
- C . RCIP in Asynchronous Streaming mode
- D . RCFC in Asynchronous Periodic Mode
A customer needs a data recovery solution for their HPE 3PAR array.
They have the following requirements:
・ RPO needs to be within three hours
・ RTO needs to be within three hours
・ There is no need for offsite data archive
・ They will have a limited maintenance window
Which solution meets all of the customer needs?
- A . HPE 3PAR StoreServ with RMC
- B . HPE StoreOnce
- C . HPE StoreAll
- D . HPE StoreEver
A customer has a solution from another vendor. The customer ran into issues of a disproportionally high failure rate of media keeping logfile datA. The issue also appeared in the second array, to which the data is being replicated.
The customer specifically asks you for a solution that will not have this same issue.
Which feature of HPE 3PAR arrays should you emphasize?
- A . creating snapshots on different physical disks
- B . wide striping data across controllers and disks
- C . ASIC accelerated thin provisioning
- D . inline compression and data packing
A customer needs to replace outdated storage arrays.
Which resource provides the necessary information to properly size a solution?
- A . HPE NinjaCrawler
- B . HPE Ninja Stars for Nimble
- C . HPE Storage Sizer
- D . HPE Storage Assessment Foundry
A customer has two HPE Nimble arrays that are replication partners. The customer suffers a complete outage on the source array.
What does the administrator need to do to make the most recent snapshot available?
- A . Verify the automatic failover occurred
- B . Promote the target snapshot
- C . Demote the source snapshot
- D . Perform a handover between the arrays
Refer to the exhibit.
A customer is considering a new HPE 3PAR for the purpose of implementing deduplication and compression.
Based on the output returned from the NinjaCrawler tool, what do you know about the customer data?
- A . This data is a good candidate for HPE 3PAR deduplication
- B . This data has a video data workload profile
- C . This data is from an HP-UX system
- D . This data has a block size which is not optimal for HPE 3PAR
Refer to the Exhibit.
A customer with an existing HPE Nimble installation sends you the output shown. The administrator who initially set up the replication has left the company.
They ask you what the current RPO level for their replication is.
How should you respond?
- A . They need to verify the RPO level from the host vc-ms-fileserver
- B . They have an RPO of four minutes
- C . They need to send a screenshot of the volumes tab
- D . They have an RPO of two minutes