A retail customer's real-time analytics application requires the fastest possible data access and over 768GB of database capacity. Their current HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 servers are not meeting the…

Question

Options

• AiLO5 Advanced licenses
• BHPE Scalable Persistent Memory
• CHPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers
• DPCle Workload Accelerator

• A
  22% (6)
• B
  7% (2)
• C
  70% (19)

Explanation

Upgrading to HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers (C) provides the modern platform foundation needed - Gen10 delivers improved CPU performance, faster DDR4 memory, and better PCIe throughput that Gen9 simply cannot match. Adding PCIe Workload Accelerators (D) addresses both requirements simultaneously: they mount NVMe flash storage directly on the PCIe bus for near-memory-speed data access, and modern NVMe cards can deliver well over 768GB of capacity in a single card or pair.

Option A (iLO5 Advanced licenses) is wrong because iLO is a remote management interface - it has zero impact on database throughput or storage capacity. Option B (HPE Scalable Persistent Memory) sounds tempting for speed, but that technology (NVDIMM-based) has per-DIMM capacity limits in the Gen9/Gen10 era, making it impractical and cost-prohibitive for a 768GB+ requirement; it's designed for small, ultra-hot working sets, not large databases.

Memory tip: Two requirements = two answers: the platform (Gen10 = new foundation) + the accelerator (PCIe NVMe = fastest path to storage). When a question pairs "fastest access" with "large capacity," NVMe over PCIe is almost always the right storage play - iLO and persistent memory are distractors that address management and tiny hot-data scenarios respectively.

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