A customer finishes a proof of concept (PoC) evaluation of a DL380 Gen10 system and needs to securely overwrite all internal system storage and attached hard disks by applying random patterns in a…

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Options

• AOneView
• BSmart Storage Administrator
• CImage Streamer
• DIntelligent Provisioning

• B
  4% (1)
• C
  9% (2)
• D
  87% (20)

Explanation

Intelligent Provisioning is correct because it includes a built-in Erase Utility specifically designed for secure storage sanitization - it supports multi-pass overwrite patterns (including 3-pass random overwrite) that meet security standards like DoD 5220.22-M and NIST 800-88, making it the right tool before redeploying a server after a PoC.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. OneView is an infrastructure lifecycle management platform for data centers - it manages servers at scale but cannot perform low-level disk sanitization.
• B. Smart Storage Administrator (SSA) manages RAID configurations and Smart Array controllers; it can initialize arrays but does not perform security-compliant multi-pass overwrite routines.
• C. Image Streamer is a Synergy-specific tool for capturing and deploying OS images across composable infrastructure - it provisions, it does not erase.

Memory tip: Think of Intelligent Provisioning as bookending the server lifecycle - it handles both Day 1 (initial OS install and hardware setup) and Day Last (secure erase before redeployment). If the question mentions "secure erase," "overwrite passes," or "sanitize before redeploy" on a standalone ProLiant, go straight to Intelligent Provisioning.

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