HPE0-V26 Sample Questions Answers

HPE GreenLake Central is a self-service platform that gives customers a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data, across edges, colocations, and data centers. Some of the features of HPE GreenLake Central include:

• Easily monitor cloud costs and usage: HPE GreenLake Central provides customers with visibility and control over their cloud spending and consumption across hybrid environments. Customers can view their usage and costs by service, location, application, or business unit. They can also set budgets, alerts, and policies to optimize their cloud resources and expenses.
• Grow resources as needed: HPE GreenLake Central enables customers to scale up or down their cloud services and resources as their business needs change. Customers can access a catalog of cloud services from HPE and partners through a self-service portal and order them with a few clicks. They can also leverage buffer capacity that is ready to use in minutes, not months.

• Managed by HPE and HPE Partners: Allows customer IT employees to be more productive within an organization
• Pay-per-use: Provides financial flexibility for customers, frees up capital, and provides better control costs
• Scale up and down: Manages capacity ahead of demand and allows customers to easily add resources when they are needed
• Self-service: Provides customers with a simple point-and-click automated provisioning

• https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00029675enw?jumpid=in_lit-psnow-red
• https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/feature/What-is-HPE-GreenLake-and-how-does-it-work
• https://www.turn-keytechnologies.com/blog/article/how-hpe-greenlakes-consumption-model-is-transforming-networks/

According to HPE, HPE InfoSight is a cloud-based AI platform that delivers global visibility and insights into the health, performance, and capacity of your HPE storage and servers. It can also centralize the monitoring and lifecycle management of multiple HPE ProLiant servers deployed in remote sites using a single dashboard1. With HPE InfoSight, you can demonstrate how to simplify and optimize your customer’s IT operations from edge to cloud.

This is a tool that helps you estimate power consumption and thermal output for HPE servers, storage, and networking products. You can use it to design new server environments or validate existing ones by selecting the products and configurations you want and generating a detailed report that shows the power and cooling requirements at the unit and rack level.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
• https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/tutorial/Network-cable-history-and-fundamentals-Cabling-tips-for-network-professionals-lesson-1
• https://fibrechannel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Fibre_Channel_Connectivity_White_Paper_04-06-16.pdf

This is because single-mode fiber optic cable has a small core diameter that allows only one mode of light to propagate. This reduces signal attenuation and enables longer transmission distances than multimode fiber optic cable, which has a larger core diameter that allows multiple modes of light to propagate. Single-mode fiber optic cable can support distances up to 40 kilometers for Fibre Channel applications.

To set the email notification option, you need to go to the “Administration” tab and select the “Management” option. Then you need to enter the email address and SMTP server information in the “AlertMail” section and enable the “AlertMail” feature. You can also specify which events you want to receive emails for by selecting the appropriate severity level.

• NAS: c) Sharing files over industry standard protocols such as NFSv4 or SMB.
• SAN: a) Block access using a FC protocol. or b) Block access using FCoE protocol or d) Block access using the iSCSI protocol.

According to the HPE website, NAS stands for Network Attached Storage and is a storage system that provides file-level access to data over a network. NAS devices use protocols such as NFSv4 or SMB to share files with clients. NAS devices typically have their own file system and operating system and can support multiple users and applications.

SAN stands for Storage Area Network and is a network that provides block-level access to data over a dedicated network. SAN devices use protocols such as FC, FCoE, or iSCSI to transfer blocks of data to servers. SAN devices do not have their own file system and rely on the servers to manage the data. SAN devices typically provide high performance and availability for mission-critical applications.

Core Boosting technology uses a relaxed and optimized turbo profile that adapts the processor to specific use cases, configurations, and environments. Core Boosting processors take advantage of extra server power and thermal headroom provided by an innovative HPE voltage regulator design and by cooling technologies. Consequently, systems that have Core Boosting processors can alleviate common setbacks and maximize processor computing power.

However, Core Boosting option is only supported in ProLiant Gen10 servers with certain Intel processors1. The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server data sheet2 lists the supported processors for Core Boosting as:

• Intel Xeon Gold 6148 Processor (20 core, 2.4 GHz, 27.5 MB L3 cache)
• Intel Xeon Gold 6154 Processor (18 core, 3.0 GHz, 24.75 MB L3 cache)
• Intel Xeon Gold 6152 Processor (22 core, 2.1 GHz, 30.25 MB L3 cache)
• Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 Processor (24 core, 2.7 GHz, 33 MB L3 cache)

Therefore, if your customer’s DL380 Gen10 servers are running workloads on more active cores at higher clock frequencies, they can benefit from Core Boosting technology if they have one of these supported Intel processors.

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server is a versatile 2U rack server that delivers world-class performance and security for a wide range of workloads. The server supports up to two Intel Xeon Scalable processors with up to 28 cores per processor and up to 3 TB of memory. The server also offers a range of management, expansion, and security features, such as:

• HPE iLO 5 software for remote management and monitoring
• HPE Smart Array controllers for RAID configuration and data protection
• HPE SmartMemory for enhanced performance and reliability
• HPE Flexible Slot power supplies for efficiency and redundancy
• HPE FlexibleLOM adapters for network connectivity options
• HPE Persistent Memory for fast data access and analytics
• HPE Secure Boot and Secure Start for firmware validation and protection

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

Containers solutions -> Simplify acquisition and deployment of complex systems1 Data Management and Analytics solutions -> Accelerate time to value from insights2 Hybrid Cloud solutions -> Unify operations and management3 

Transcoding & Visualization solutions -> Provide stability to scale anywhere VDI solutions -> Improve user experience while managing costs

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.

This is because HPE Remote Support is a service that provides proactive and reactive support for HPE servers, storage, and networking products. It enables automatic fault detection and diagnosis, remote troubleshooting, and case creation and management. To use this service, the server must be connected to an HPE Remote Support Host Server, which is a server that runs the HPE Remote Support software and communicates with the HPE Support Center

• 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.

HPE GreenLake for storage is a storage-as-a-service solution that provides a cloud-like experience for on-premises storage. The solution offers:

• Workload-optimized data services for file, block, backup, and disaster recovery
• A cloud-based management console for simplified operations and provisioning
• A consumption-based model that aligns costs with usage
• A buffer capacity that is installed but not activated until needed
• A pay-per-use billing that only charges for the capacity used above the reserve level

By migrating to HPE GreenLake for storage, the customer can avoid running out of storage on their virtual environment by using the buffer capacity as needed and only paying for what they use. The customer can also benefit from the flexibility, scalability, and performance of the storage services offered by HPE GreenLake.