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Storage
Networking
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100

What generation of Intel processors is Gen 12 ProLiant aligned to?

Intel Xeon 6 Processors

100

What is HPE's entry level SAN solution? 

MSA 

100

What are the main questions you should ask regarding a customers networking? (3 answers) 

1. Number of ports

2. Networking Speeds (10, 25, 100 Gb) 

3. What are you connecting out to? 

100

What is the name of Dells ILO card?

iDrac

200

What generation is the iLO chip installed in Gen 12 ProLiant servers? 

iLO 7

200

What is iSCSI used for? 

iSCSI is a protocol for mapping of block oriented storage data over TCP/IP network Protocols 

200

What speeds do Fibre Channel Protocols run at?

16Gb, 32Gb, 64 Gb

200

What is the name of HPE's disaster recovery software?

Zerto

300

What is the minimum number of compute nodes required for PCBE?

3 compute nodes

300

What RAID does the Alletra Storage MP B10000 have auto configured? Describe the RAID.  

RAID 6, double parity is distributed across all drives.  4 drives minimum, can tolerate a 2 drive failure.  

300

What is the name of switches that HPE sells for FC? 

Brocade (B-Series)

300

What is the name of the tool used to validate storage networking configurations?

SPOCK (Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge) 

400

How many OCP Slots are in a server?

2 OCP Slots

400

What is the name of the software that runs on the controllers of the Alletra MP B1000

Arcus OS

400

What form factor is used for 25 GbE?

SFP28

400

What is the purpose of the NS204i?

This is a card that dedicates two NVMe drives (480 & 960 GB) specifically to booting your operating system. There are preconfigured with RAID 1. 

500

How many frames can a single composer 2 manage? 

21 frames

500

What Protocols are used for File Storage?

NFS, SMB, CIFS

500

A fully available production server with redundant networking to production switching, management switching and storage SAN has how many ports?

6 Ports:

- 2 to production

- 2 to Management

- 2 to storage traffic

500

What hypervisor would you propose if a customer has a virtualized environment with Kubernetes applications and DR in the cloud? 

HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software

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