Your SMB customer needs a new storage solution. You want to know if the customer is a good fit for a business analytics and database support use case. Which question would help you qualify the customer for this use case?

A. What technologies and software are you using to back up your data?

B. How do you address unplanned downtime?

C. What are your biggest challenges in gaining insights from your data?

D. How virtualized is your environment?

A customer with a highly virtualized environment is interested in HPE SimpliVity. However, the customer tells you she does not want to retain the IT staff to learn another management tool.

How should you respond?

A. HPE SimpliVity provides GUI plugins for both VMware vCenter and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

B. The HPE SimpliVity management interface takes only minutes to learn so extensive retraining is not required.

C. Customers using VMware vCenter can continue to use that management interface, but Hyper-V customers will have a small learning curve to learn the SimpliVity management interface.

D. The benefits of HPE SimpliVity far outweigh the minimal effort to retrain some IT staff to use a new management interface.

You are explaining the HPE SimpliVity HyperGuarantee to a customer. How can you describe the Hyper Protected part of this guarantee?

A. HPE SimpliVity is protected against hardware defects, ensuring customers receive replacement parts within 1 business day.

B. Customers can quickly back up or restore large amounts of data, such as 1 TB virtual machine in less than one minute.

C. Customers receive a one-year subscription of malware detection software when purchasing HPE SimpliVity.

D. HPE SimpliVity includes a stateful firewall, which enables policy-based management.

Which challenge might you face when discussing server solutions with your SMB?

A. A majority of SMBs do not plan to upgrade their infrastructure over the next two years.

B. They think "one size fits all," meaning that vendors offer one server that meets the needs of 90% of SMBs.

C. They are not very concerned about cyber attacks so security is not a top priority for them.

D. SMBs with few IT resources may be considering public cloud solutions.

Who is an ideal customer for HPE MSA?

A. A small company that is looking for an entry-level flash solution to be deployed in a SAN solution.

B. A mid-sized company that wants a direct-attached storage solution.

C. A mid-sized company that has mission-critical applications and requires 99.9999% availability.

D. A small customer that is looking for a backup and data protection solution.