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100

What server is HPE's 2U, 1P AMD server offering? 

Gen 12 ProLiant DL345

100
What is HPE's entry level SAN solution? 

MSA 

100

In what year did HPE officially split from HP?

2015

100

What are the two main cooling options for HPE servers? 

Air cooled & Direct Liquid Cooling 

100

What is the name of Dells ILO card?

iDrac

200

What is the server management platform used to manage Synergy ? (Bladed Infrastructure) 

One View 

200

What is HPE's disk based backup appliance?

StoreOnce 

200

Who was the first CEO of HPE?

Meg Whitman

200

What is the name of the new AMD GPU? 

AMD Instinct ML350P

200

What company manufactures the EPYC processors used in HPE ProLiant servers?

AMD

300

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

Intel Xeon 6 processors 

300

What is the name of the management platform for HPE storage solutions?

Data Services Cloud Console 

300

What major networking company did HPE acquire in July 2025?

Juniper Networks

300

What are 3 questions you should ask when a customer mentions interest in AI? 

1. Are you currently running AI in your environment?
2. What workloads are you running? 

3. What are your AI goals? 

300

What is the name of Dell's hyperconverged infrastructure solution that competes with HPE SimpliVity?

Dell VxRail

400

What are the names of the two slots you can place NICs in within a server?

PCIe and OCP

400

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

Zerto 

400

What was the name of HPE's first supercomputer acquisition?

Cray 

400

How many GPUs can you fit in a Gen12 DL380a?

8-10 DW GPUs, 16 SW 
400

What is the name of Cisco's server and computing platform that competes with HPE ProLiant?

Cisco UCS

500

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.

(You should know if this because it is a much more cost effective solution, and had a dedicated spot in Gen12 servers)

500

What is the minimum number of compute nodes required for a PCBE/PC3000 solution?

3 servers 

500

What storage company did HPE acquire in 2017 to expand its all-flash storage portfolio?

Nimble Storage

500

What is the name of HPE's Intel based Cray server with 8 x B300 GPUs?

Cray XD 690

500

Which competitor manufactures the FlashArray and FlashBlade enterprise storage platforms?

Pure Storage