HP Cloud Solutions & Hybrid Infrastructure 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which HPE networking product family is purpose-built for cloud-native data centers and supports EVPN-VXLAN as its primary underlay/overlay fabric?
- HPE OfficeConnect 1920S
- HPE Aruba CX Series (Correct answer)
- HPE ProCurve 2910al
- HPE FlexFabric 5700
Correct answer: HPE Aruba CX Series
HPE Aruba CX switches are designed for modern data centers and natively support EVPN-VXLAN fabrics for scalable multi-tenant overlay networking.
Question 2: A hybrid cloud design uses HPE Composable Fabric. What is the primary architectural benefit of this technology?
- It provides dedicated 10GbE uplinks per server at reduced cost
- It creates software-defined, point-to-point connections between any endpoints without manual recabling (Correct answer)
- It replaces Fibre Channel with iSCSI transparently
- It aggregates WAN links for site-to-site VPN tunnels
Correct answer: It creates software-defined, point-to-point connections between any endpoints without manual recabling
HPE Composable Fabric uses software-defined networking to dynamically create direct connections between compute, storage, and networking resources without physical recabling.
Question 3: In HPE GreenLake, what does the 'buffer capacity' concept mean for a customer?
- Extra bandwidth reserved on the WAN uplink
- Pre-provisioned on-site hardware headroom that is metered only when consumed (Correct answer)
- A secondary datacenter that activates during failover
- Cached read data stored in DRAM on Nimble arrays
Correct answer: Pre-provisioned on-site hardware headroom that is metered only when consumed
HPE GreenLake pre-installs buffer capacity on-site so customers can scale instantly; they are only billed when they actually consume that capacity.
Question 4: Which HP tool automates firmware and driver updates across heterogeneous HPE server fleets in a hybrid environment?
- HPE OneView Global Dashboard
- HPE Smart Update Manager (SUM) (Correct answer)
- HPE Insight Control
- HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
Correct answer: HPE Smart Update Manager (SUM)
HPE Smart Update Manager orchestrates firmware and driver updates across HPE servers, ensuring consistency and minimizing manual intervention in large hybrid fleets.
Question 5: When deploying HPE Primera storage in an active-active stretched cluster, what technology synchronizes data between sites with zero RPO?
- HPE StoreOnce Catalyst copies
- HPE Peer Persistence with Quorum Witness (Correct answer)
- HPE Cloud Volumes snapshot replication
- HPE RMC asynchronous mirroring
Correct answer: HPE Peer Persistence with Quorum Witness
HPE Peer Persistence provides synchronous replication between two Primera arrays with a Quorum Witness server, enabling transparent failover with zero data loss (RPO=0).
Question 6: Which HPE service is used to onboard and manage HPE GreenLake cloud services, view consumption dashboards, and place orders?
- HPE Support Center
- HPE GreenLake Central (Correct answer)
- HP QuickSpecs
- HPE InfoSight
Correct answer: HPE GreenLake Central
HPE GreenLake Central is the SaaS portal for managing all GreenLake services, viewing metered consumption, ordering capacity, and monitoring infrastructure health.
Question 7: A customer needs to run SAP HANA on HPE infrastructure with predictive analytics to prevent downtime. Which HP capability addresses this requirement?
- HPE Intelligent Provisioning BIOS optimizer
- HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics with SAP HANA integration (Correct answer)
- HPE iLO Advanced BIOS tuning profiles
- HPE Nimble HF-series all-flash arrays only
Correct answer: HPE InfoSight cross-stack analytics with SAP HANA integration
HPE InfoSight uses AI-driven predictive analytics across the infrastructure stack and has SAP HANA-specific integrations to predict and prevent performance and availability issues.
HP Cloud Solutions & Hybrid Infrastructure 3
Which HPE networking product family is purpose-built for cloud-native data centers and supports EVPN-VXLAN as its primary underlay/overlay fabric?