HPE2-K45 Exam Dumps - Using HPE SimpliVity

Hyper Protected is one of the four pillars of HPE SimpliVity’s value proposition, along with Hyper Simple, Hyper Efficient, and Hyper Manageable. Hyper Protected refers to the ability of HPE SimpliVity to provide built-in data protection and disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs) with unprecedented speed and efficiency. HPE SimpliVity can backup or restore 1TB VM in less than 1 minute, thanks to its unique data architecture that deduplicates, compresses, and optimizes data at inception, and its global federated management that enables policy-based automation across multiple sites. Restoring individual files from a VM backup, defining a storage policy using RAID 6 or RAID 60 to protect the VM, and integrating with Veeam to provide an external backup solution are not specific to HPE SimpliVity’s Hyper Protected capability, and can be done by other solutions as well. References: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide, page 11, section 1.2. SimpliVity Hyperconverged, section “Hyper Protected”. HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Node, section “Features”. SimpliVity HyperGuarantee, section “Remain online and recoverable — always”.

HPE SimpliVity 2600 is a compact solution optimized for edge and remote office, branch office (ROBO) environments. It is available on HPE Apollo 2000 servers, which are designed for high-density computing and can fit up to four nodes in a 2U chassis. HPE SimpliVity 2600 provides enterprise-grade data protection and resiliency for virtualized workloads, as well as simplified management and scalability. It is ideal for customers who have very limited rack space and need a hyperconverged solution that can deliver high performance and efficiency. References: HPE SimpliVity 2600 - Product Information Reference, HPE SimpliVity 2600 | HPE Store US, Introducing Our New High-Density Hyperconverged Solution: HPE SimpliVity 2600

According to the HPE SimpliVity Administration Guide1, one of the possible solutions to avoid the potential problem of CPU intensive applications impacting the performance of other virtual machines is to deploy the CPU intensive virtual machines on HPE SimpliVity, and configure for them CPU affinity parameter. This parameter allows you to specify which physical CPU cores are used by a virtual machine, and thus isolate the CPU intensive workloads from the rest of the virtual machines. This way, you can still leverage the HPE SimpliVity features, such as data efficiency, backup and restore, and federation management, for these virtual machines. The other options are not correct because:

• Presenting HPE SimpliVity datastores to external ESXi system that will house the CPU intensive virtual machines is not a recommended solution, as it will reduce the data efficiency and availability benefits of HPE SimpliVity, and introduce additional complexity and overhead in managing the external ESXi system1.
• Adding an external ESXi cluster to HPE SimpliVity Federation, and enabling Intelligent Workload Optimizer is not a recommended solution, as it will require additional hardware and software costs, and may not guarantee the optimal performance of the CPU intensive virtual machines, as the Intelligent Workload Optimizer is based on heuristics and not on strict rules2.
• Adding an external ESXi system to HPE SimpliVity cluster, and enabling DRS functionality for CPU intensive virtual machines is not a recommended solution, as it will violate the HPE SimpliVity cluster requirements, and may cause issues with the HPE SimpliVity federation and data protection features1. References: 1: HPE SimpliVity Administration Guide (A00019350ENW), pages 23, 25, 28, 32, 342: HPE SimpliVity Intelligent Workload Optimizer User Guide (A00019354ENW), pages 5, 7, 9.

The Intelligent Workload Optimizer is a feature of HPE SimpliVity that automatically balances the virtual machine workloads across the nodes in a cluster, based on the CPU, memory, and storage utilization1. This feature helps to improve the performance and efficiency of the cluster, and to avoid hotspots and bottlenecks. The Intelligent Workload Optimizer can be configured to run periodically or on demand, and it can also take into account the affinity and anti-affinity rules for the virtual machines2. The Resource Balancer (option A) is a feature of HPE SimpliVity that automatically balances the storage capacity across the nodes in a cluster, based on the free space and deduplication ratio3. This feature helps to optimize the storage utilization and availability of the cluster, and to avoid capacity issues and data loss. The Resource Balancer does not balance the virtual machine workloads or the I/O traffic. The Management Virtual Appliance (option B) is a component of HPE SimpliVity that provides the management interface and functionality for the cluster, such as backup, restore, clone, move, and federation operations4. The Management Virtual Appliance does not balance the virtual machine workloads or the I/O traffic. The Arbiter (option C) is a component of HPE SimpliVity that provides the quorum service for the cluster, ensuring data consistency and availability in the event of a node or site failure5. The Arbiter does not balance the virtual machine workloads or the I/O traffic. References:

• 1: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide (HPE2-K45), HPE Press, 2019, p. 83.
• 2: HPE SimpliVity 380 Gen10 Node Data sheet, HPE, 2019, p. 4.
• 3: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide (HPE2-K45), HPE Press, 2019, p. 84.
• 4: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide (HPE2-K45), HPE Press, 2019, p. 81.
• 5: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide (HPE2-K45), HPE Press, 2019, p. 82.

You can apply a backup policy at the datastore level, as this is the level at which HPE SimpliVity manages the virtual machines and their backups1. A backup policy consists of one or more rules that specify the destination, frequency, and retention of the backups. You can assign a backup policy to a datastore, and all the virtual machines in that datastore will inherit the backup policy. You can also override the backup policy for individual virtual machines, if needed2. Applying a backup policy at the cluster level (option A), the datacenter level (option B), or the vCenter Server level (option C) is not possible, as these are not the levels at which HPE SimpliVity manages the virtual machines and their backups. These levels are used for organizing and managing the ESXi hosts and the HPE SimpliVity nodes, but not for applying backup policies. References:

• 1: Using HPE SimpliVity Official Certification Study Guide (HPE2-K45), HPE Press, 2019, p. 28.
• 2: HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Interoperability Guide 4.2.0, HPE, 2021, p. 8.