A customer wants to embrace software-defined networking (SDN). But the customer is also concerned about managing both an SDN and traditional network as the company makes a gradual shift. What is one valid way to address this customer concern?

• A. Explain that HP Intelligent Management Center (IMC) offers the ability to manage traditional and SDN networks from a single-pane-of-glass.
• B. Explain that HP encourages companies to move immediately to a pure SDN environment, so the customer should no longer have a traditional network.
• C. Explain that IT staff can continue to use manual processes to manage the SDN and traditional networks without becoming overburdened.
• D. Explain that an HP SDN solution does not require any management because it uses a distributed control model

You are proposing HP 3800 Switch Series switches to a customer, and you want to explain the business benefits of these switches. What is a valid statement?

• A. These switches enable the data center core to scale twice as much as competing vendor products.
• B. These switches make it easy for IT admins to deploy plug-and-play services, such as virtualized machines (VMs). to branch offices.
• C. These switches are easy to manage because they do not offer Layer 3 features or OpenFlow support.
• D. These switches make the network simpler, more scalable, and more resilient by using features such as stacking.

Scenario
Brownlow Communications is an enterprise that has been expanding rapidly by acquiring a number of smaller agencies. As a result of these acquisitions, the company has several data centers, which are managed separately. Both the data center and campus networks are out-of-date and preventing the company from achieving its goals. The company is looking for a network refresh that will:
Make it easier and faster to deploy new applications In tne virtualized data centers
Help the company to innovate and implement new business initiatives now and in the future, without constant major upgrades
Ensure that services are always available for employees and customers; critical data center applications, in particular, should experience minimal downtime
Support security initiatives and regulatory compliance
Improve performance for. and decrease user complaints about, the company's Microsoft Lync solution and other multimedia applications
Enable users to connect their own devices to the network without burdening IT staff or introducing security issues
Make it simpler for the company to expand to new branches and to handle new acquisitions
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The Brownlow CIO explains that the company will begin hosting some new customer services. To comply with regulations, the CIO needs to set up a secure multi-tenant environment in the data center. What is a value of an HP data center networking solution for this customer initiative?

• A. HP data center solutions help companies to make their processes more manual, which makes the processes easier to audit for regulatory compliance
• B. HP offers different management solutions for different networking products, making HP ideal for a multi-tenant environment.
• C. HP data center solutions can isolate multi-tenant traffic securely and provide up to 75 percent reduction in devices and cost.
• D. HP partners with VMware to ensure that network administrators cannot monitor sensitive virtual traffic.

A customer has a multivendor environment and wants to purchase support services that would provide a single point of contact for all vendor solutions. Which HP Technology Service would you offer this customer?

• A. Flexible Capacity for Channel
• B. Lifecycle Event Services
• C. Foundation Care
• D. DatacenterCare