A customer has a ProLiant DL based Gen10 server solution hosting an I/O intensive 2TB database. The customer needs to dramatically increase the performance of their existing system. Which solution…

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Options

• AInstall HPE Scalable Persistent Memory
• BMove the OS to an M.2 SSD drive
• CUpgrade the current processor to a Xeon-Platinum
• DInstall DD4 Smart Memory

• A
  70% (14)
• B
  15% (3)
• C
  5% (1)
• D
  10% (2)

Explanation

HPE Scalable Persistent Memory (SCPM) - using technologies like Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory - sits in the DIMM slots and operates at near-DRAM speeds while retaining data through power loss, directly eliminating the storage I/O bottleneck that throttles an I/O-intensive database. This is the only option that fundamentally transforms the storage tier rather than making incremental improvements elsewhere.

Why the distractors fail:

• B (M.2 SSD for OS): Offloading the OS frees up some storage bandwidth but leaves database data on the same slow storage - a negligible gain for a 2TB I/O-heavy workload.
• C (Xeon-Platinum CPU): The bottleneck is I/O, not compute; a faster processor sits idle waiting for storage anyway, so this doesn't address the root constraint.
• D (DDR4 Smart Memory): Standard DDR4 - even HPE-certified "Smart Memory" - is volatile and already present; adding more RAM may help caching but won't dramatically increase performance the way persistent memory does.

Memory tip: When a question pairs "I/O intensive" with "maximum performance," look for the answer that collapses the gap between storage and memory - Scalable Persistent Memory does exactly that by putting near-DRAM-speed persistent storage directly on the memory bus.

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