A customer is experiencing high disk latency in an Apollo r2200 Gen9 SFF system. They want to upgrade performance with new units. Which servers in the Apollo line will increase performance while…

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Options

• AApollo 6000 Gen10
• BApollo r2800 Gen10
• CApollo 4510 Gen10
• DApollo r2200 Gen10
• EApollo r2600 Gen10

• A
  15% (6)
• B
  75% (30)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Upgrading from an Apollo r2200 Gen9 means staying within HPE's "r" (rack-dense storage) series to preserve the architectural similarity - and both the r2800 Gen10 (B) and r2600 Gen10 (E) are higher-tier members of that same r-series, offering greater storage throughput and I/O performance than the r2200 while sharing the same dense, scale-out storage design philosophy.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Apollo 6000 Gen10): Different architecture - the 6000 is a chassis-based platform designed for compute density, not the same rack-dense storage model.
• C (Apollo 4510 Gen10): Also a storage-dense server, but it belongs to a separate product line with a different architecture and form factor.
• D (Apollo r2200 Gen10): Same model, just a generation refresh - it won't provide a meaningful performance upgrade beyond incremental gains, and the question asks for servers that increase performance beyond the r2200's capability level.

Memory tip: Focus on the "r" prefix - it marks HPE's rack-dense storage server family. When the question says "maintain similar architecture," that's your signal to stay within the same product sub-family (r-series), then pick the higher-numbered models (r2600, r2800) which sit above the r2200 in the performance hierarchy.

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