HP0-J67 Question #150: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Scenario 3: A leading automotive technology company wants to increase the performance and capacity of the storage infrastructure that supports the design and manufacture of its line of Formula 1 racing cars. The company is also interested in safe-guarding its mission-critical data and eliminating the threat of business disruption. Due to the massive engineering and technical effort required to create a new race car design and to enable regular delivery of upgraded parts to the race track while maintaining a competitive edge, it is necessary to have advanced applications running on a high-performance IT infrastructure. The company operates out of two data centers. The centers support a Plant Lifecycle Management database, an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and various trackside systems to set up the race car and aid race strategy. In addition, the centers run applications for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM), and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) packages. The company has deployed Oracle and SQL databases, VMware virtual machines, email, and all other applications on an HP 6400 Enterprise virtual Array (EVA). The EVAs automatically replicate between the two data centers to guard against failure. The EVAs are aging, applications are more sophisticated, data volumes have grown exponentiaily, and bottlenecks in the storage system are now having a significant effect on the performance of the simulation and analysis tools that are vital to the company's competitive position. The data storage problem has reached a point where the company is forced to store primary data at the secondary site causing the loss of their disaster recovery capability. The company's top five IT Improvement goa's are: - Reduce compiaints about storage system availabiiity. - increase support for sophisticated design and manufacturing applications. - Provide a robust repication capability between data centers. - increase storage utilzation while depioying additional capacity. - Simplify operatons during peak workloads. Moreover, the company's top three business benefit goals are: - Ensure rapid data retrieval to aid in quick decision making. - Protect mission-critical data and ensure business continuity. - Recover costs from existing infrastructure, thus providing increased IT funds for additional projects. The company has asked that you create multiple solution proposals and prioritize one when you return for a presentation. Refer to the scenario. Further investigation reveals that the data centers are 175 meters apart with two diversely-routed 50 micron multi-mode fiber optic cables. The solution requires 16 Gbs of bandwidth between sites. Which additional information is needed from your customer to ensure their interconnect goals are met?