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You are a presales consultant for a medium-sized pharmaceutical company. The environment consists of an HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure with a vSphere 5.1 infrastructure cluster and iSCSI as the main…

The correct answer is D. HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager E. redundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules. To achieve full redundancy and online firmware updates without downtime in an HP BladeSystem c3000 with iSCSI, redundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules and HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager are the required components.

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You are a presales consultant for a medium-sized pharmaceutical company. The environment consists of an HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure with a vSphere 5.1 infrastructure cluster and iSCSI as the main topology. The new SLA requirements state that the infrastructure must be fully redundant. The customer advises you that firmware updates should be implemented online without experiencing any downtime. When designing the environment, which components should you recommend to meet the customer requirements? (Select two.)

Options

  • Aadditional Host Bus Adapter mezzanine cards
  • BHP Insight Control and SUM licenses
  • Credundant Onboard Administrator modules
  • DHP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager
  • Eredundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules

How the community answered

(22 responses)
  • A
    14% (3)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • C
    9% (2)
  • D
    73% (16)

Why each option

To achieve full redundancy and online firmware updates without downtime in an HP BladeSystem c3000 with iSCSI, redundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules and HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager are the required components.

Aadditional Host Bus Adapter mezzanine cards

Additional HBA mezzanine cards add connectivity options but do not address the online firmware update requirement or provide the structured, managed redundancy delivered by Virtual Connect modules.

BHP Insight Control and SUM licenses

HP Insight Control and SUM licenses support general server management and OS-level patching but are not the specific tools required for non-disruptive Virtual Connect firmware updates in a blade environment.

Credundant Onboard Administrator modules

Redundant Onboard Administrator modules provide enclosure management path redundancy but do not address network and iSCSI storage path redundancy or online Virtual Connect firmware update capabilities.

DHP Virtual Connect Enterprise ManagerCorrect

HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM) provides centralized management of Virtual Connect domains and enables rolling, non-disruptive firmware updates across blade interconnects without taking the environment offline, directly satisfying the no-downtime firmware update requirement.

Eredundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modulesCorrect

Redundant Virtual Connect Flex-10 modules provide both network and iSCSI storage path redundancy within the c3000 enclosure, eliminating single points of failure in connectivity and fulfilling the fully redundant infrastructure SLA requirement.

Concept tested: HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect redundancy and online firmware updates

Source: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=c03113892

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#HP Virtual Connect#firmware updates online#BladeSystem redundancy#iSCSI HA design

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