Designing HP SAN Networking Solutions Set 1

When connecting an HP Proliant BL460c Gen8 server with an 8Gb Emulex HBA installed, what is the recommended SAN switch port speed setting for a B-Series 8/24 SAN switch?

Which information resource should you utilize lo find late-breaking and supplemental information for a specific version of a product?

A customer has bought another company and wants to merge both SANs_ Both SANs are B-Series based and were modernized a year ago. You are asked to plan the new consolidated SAN and to propose a migration strategy. In this scenario, what else should you recommend t o the customer in advance of the merger?

When considering a SAN design for a customer what benefit is achieved by minimizing the number of hops between switches where many devices share a single-switch ISL?

Your customer is an internet company which develops software far business platforms. Since they have high standards far the quality of their products, they have a separate test environment They have modernized their production SAN environment and they want to re-use their old switches to implement a core-edge topology far the test environment As a core switch they will use an HP 8/80 SAN Switch, and they have three HP StorageWorks 4/64 SAN Switches as edge switches. They have 150 test servers, two storage arrays and two small tape libraries in their test environment They are asking you how many ISLs they should use far the connection of one edge switch to the core switch. Based on HP best practices, how many ISLs do you recommend?

A customer wants lo migrate their servers from a network-based solution to a SAN-based solution. During your investigation of needed switch ports you discover the customer has approximately 400 servers and expects to grow to 1000 servers within the next five years. In the proposal, the customer wants redundant connections far each server to the SAN. Which switch series should you consider in your proposal?

Which protocol is used when configuring network monitoring on an HP B-series SAN Switch in Access Gateway

You are presenting the value of the HP Converged Network strategy to the CEO of a company that has a remote-office, branch-office business, the company is consolidation desktop using virtualization and is planning to expand the business into new market with the new solution. Vendor proposition for the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric solution is most appropriate to presented to the CEO?

Customer has made the decision to expand their SAN.The customer does not want to merge the existing SAN with the new SAN, but does want the two SANs to interoperate. The customer wants a no-cost management tool that will work with the new SAN switches and their existing HBAs. Which HP SAN switch should you recommend to the customer?

What is a design consideration when adding an HPUX-based server to a current Brocade fibre solution.