HP HPE0-V26 Delta - HPE Hybrid Cloud Solutions Exam Practice Test

HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen10 Server is a high-density, 4P server with high performance, scalability and reliability. It supports up to 6 TB of memory with 48 DIMM slots and up to 12 TB of memory with 96 DIMM slots when using HPE Persistent Memory2. This means that it can support a database of 5 TB to run in memory.

This is because the HPE MSA 2060 Storage solution supports a mixture of 3.5 inch LFF and 2.5 inch SFF expansion enclosures for a maximum of 9 enclosures (10 total including the array). You can start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSDs, Enterprise SAS or MidLine SAS HDDs12.

HPE GreenLake is a cloud services platform that delivers on-demand capacity and planning, combining the agility and economics of the public cloud with the security and performance of on-premises IT. Some of the benefits of HPE GreenLake include:

• Customers can control costs since advanced metering allows them to only pay for what is used: HPE GreenLake offers a pay-per-use model that aligns costs with actual usage, reducing overprovisioning and improving cash flow. Customers can also scale up or down as needed and only pay for what they use.
• HPE actively monitors, manages, and deploys capacity ahead of demand so the customer can scale with ease within an installed buffer: HPE GreenLake provides customers with buffer capacity that is ready to use in minutes, not months, enabling them to respond quickly to changing business needs. Customers can also access a range of cloud services from HPE and partners through a self-service portal.

HPE workload profile is one of the HPE Intelligent System Tuning (IST) features and allows you to tune the resources in your HPE ProLiant server by choosing a preconfigured workload profile. The server will automatically configure the BIOS settings to match the selected workload12.

According to the information I found on the web, here is how you can match the preconfigured HPE workload profile with its definition:

• General power efficient compute: This is a default out-of-the-box profile that uses the most common performance settings seen across most application workloads. It also enables power management settings that have minimal impact to overall performance. This profile is recommended for customers that do not typically tune their BIOS for their workload1.
• IO throughput: This profile is intended for configurations that depend on maximum throughput between IO and memory. It disables power management settings that are known to have impact on maximum achievable bandwidth. It also applies settings that benefit NUMA awareness, as best throughput is achieved when the workload is also NUMA aware and optimized1.
• Graphics processing: This profile is intended for configurations that use GPUs and depend on maximum bandwidth between IO and memory. It disables power management settings that are known to have impact on maximum achievable bandwidth. It also applies settings that benefit NUMA awareness, as best throughput is achieved when the workload is also NUMA aware and optimized1.
• Virtualization —Max Performance: This profile setting will ensure that all available virtualization technologies are enabled and configured for maximum performance. It disables power management settings in favor of delivering maximum performance. Certain virtualization technologies can have possible performance impacts to nonvirtualized environments and can be disabled in other profiles

This is because HPE GreenLake Central is an online portal that enables customers to manage and optimize their hybrid cloud environments. It provides a unified view of the costs, capacity, consumption and compliance of their on-premises GreenLake systems and their public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. It also offers insights and recommendations to help customers improve their IT performance, ROI and data protection.123

According to IBM, a SAN is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage1. A SAN allows multiple servers to access shared pools of storage devices, such as disk arrays or tape libraries1. A SAN can help your customer consolidate data and add additional block-based storage to their main document management application.

According to HPE, SmartSSD Wear Gauge is a feature that provides an estimate of the remaining useful life of an SSD drive based on its usage patterns1. It can help you monitor the health and performance of your SSD drives and plan for replacement or upgrade when needed1.

• RAID 1: any single drive
• RAID 1 ADM: any two drives
• RAID 5: any single drive
• RAID 6: any two drives

• RAID 1: This is a level of RAID that uses mirroring to create an exact copy of data on two or more disks. It can tolerate the failure of any single drive without losing data, as long as the other drive is still functional.
• RAID 1 ADM: This is a level of RAID that uses advanced data mirroring to create two copies of data on three disks. It can tolerate the failure of any two drives without losing data, as long as the third drive is still functional.
• RAID 5: This is a level of RAID that uses striping with parity to distribute data and parity information across three or more disks. It can tolerate the failure of any single drive without losing data, as long as the other drives can reconstruct the data from the parity information.
• RAID 6: This is a level of RAID that uses striping with double parity to distribute data and two sets of parity information across four or more disks. It can tolerate the failure of any two drives without losing data, as long as the other drives can reconstruct the data from the double parity information.

• MSA 2062: A customer needs a low cost entry-level storage appliance with automatic tiering for their Fibre Channel environment
• MSL2024: A hospital wants to store air-gapped copies of their medical imaging to protect against ransomware attacks and natural disasters
• StoreEasy 1560: A small software development company needs a solution for their growing file shares in their Microsoft environment
• StoreOnce VSA: Customer wants to backup and quickly recover their Hyper-V environment in a remote site with an option to backup to the cloud

This is because:

• MSA 2062: This is a flash-enabled storage appliance that supports Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS connectivity. It offers automatic tiering that optimizes performance and cost by moving data between SSDs and HDDs based on usage patterns.
• MSL2024: This is a tape library that supports up to 24 LTO tape cartridges and one or two tape drives. It provides offline data protection and long-term retention for compliance and disaster recovery purposes. It can also create air-gapped copies of data that are isolated from network threats such as ransomware.
• StoreEasy 1560: This is a file storage appliance that supports SMB, NFS and FTP protocols. It is optimized for Microsoft environments and integrates with Active Directory, BitLocker encryption, Windows Storage Server and Windows Server Backup. It can scale up to 16 TB of internal capacity and 280 TB of external capacity.
• StoreOnce VSA: This is a virtual storage appliance that provides backup and recovery for virtualized environments. It supports Hyper-V, VMware and KVM hypervisors and integrates with backup applications such as HPE Data Protector and Veeam. It can also deduplicate data and replicate it to another StoreOnce system or to the cloud.

According to Simplilearn, big data storage is a new technology that allows you to store large amounts of data that exceed the capacity of typical database software tools1. Big data storage can handle various types of data, such as structured, unstructured, or semi-structured data, and provide fast and scalable access to it1.

CloudPhysics is a tool that provides a comprehensive assessment of VMware environments and helps identify opportunities for optimization and modernization. CloudPhysics can also generate a ready-to-order bill of materials for HPE solutions based on the customer’s workload requirements.

The other options do not seem to be suitable for performing an assessment of a VMware environment. OneView is a tool for managing HPE servers, storage, and networking2. GreenLake Quick Quote is a tool for creating quotes for HPE GreenLake services3. InfoSight is a tool for monitoring and managing HPE storage systems.

Solution Sales Enablement Tool (SSET) is a tool that helps you design and validate HPE solutions based on reference architectures. The SSET can translate customer requirements into a validated configuration that meets their needs and budget. The SSET can also generate a bill of materials, a quote, and a proposal for the solution.

the HPE Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) is a web-based application that helps you configure, manage, diagnose, and monitor HPE ProLiant Smart Array Controllers and now other storage devices as well, such as host bus adapters (HBAs), HPE Storage controllers, and future devices such as SCSI Express drives, and SAS switch devices.

Some of the features of the HPE SSA include:

• Creating a bootable logical drive
• Checking online drive firmware activation readiness
• Managing device identification LEDs
• Configuring drive erase
• Creating and managing arrays and logical drives
• Viewing controller and drive status and health information
• Updating controller firmware

 one of the topics covered in the module 4 of the Implementing HPE MSA Storage Solutions course is “Explain the firmware update process on MSA”. This suggests that the firmware update is a maintenance task that can be performed with the Storage Management utility v4.

• Scale-out: Add more servers to do the workload
• Scale-up: Add more resources (such as processors and memory) to existing servers
• Scale-out: Add an additional two-socket system to an existing VMware Cluster
• Scale-up: Add two additional processors to a four-socket system currently equipped with only two processors

This is because:

• Scale-out: This is a scaling approach that involves adding more servers or nodes to a system to increase its capacity and performance. It is also known as horizontal scaling. It can help distribute the workload across multiple servers and improve availability and fault tolerance.
• Scale-up: This is a scaling approach that involves adding more resources (such as processors, memory, storage or network) to an existing server or node to increase its capacity and performance. It is also known as vertical scaling. It can help improve the performance of a single server and reduce the complexity of managing multiple servers.

 According to Database Design Resource, fault-tolerant memory is a type of memory that can detect and correct errors without affecting the performance or availability of the database server1. Fault-tolerant memory can help prevent data corruption and loss, which are critical issues for database servers1.

This is because the traceroute command is a network diagnostic tool that traces the route of packets across an IP network. It shows the path that packets take from the source device to the destination device and displays information such as the IP addresses of routers and switches along the path, the round-trip times of packets, and any packet loss or errors.1 It can help troubleshoot a Layer 3 network routing issue by identifying where the packets are dropped or delayed.