(two answers) Which TWO considerations must be validated before proposing a storage migration to HPE Alletra?

Before proposing a migration to HPE Alletra, a thorough assessment of the customer's environment is mandatory. This assessment must focus on two primary pillars: performance and capacity. Validating the latency and IOPS requirements of critical workloads (A) ensures the proposed Alletra system is configured to meet or exceed the service level agreements (SLAs) for business-critical applications. Simultaneously, understanding the storage growth projection for the next 3–5 years (B) is essential for right-sizing the initial deployment and planning for future, non-disruptive scalability, ensuring the solution provides long-term value and avoids premature capacity constraints.

The office cafeteria upgrade plans (C) are entirely unrelated to IT infrastructure planning and have no bearing on a storage migration project.

PDU color coding (D) is a minor, site-specific data center operational detail, not a strategic consideration for sizing and proposing a storage solution.

1. HPE Alletra 9000 Architecture Technical White Paper (a00108319enw): Page 4, Section "No-compromise performance," discusses the architecture's design to deliver ultra-low latency and high IOPS, highlighting why understanding workload performance requirements is critical. Page 5, Section "Efficient scaling," details the ability to scale capacity and performance independently, underscoring the need for growth projection analysis.

2. HPE GreenLake for Block Storage with HPE Alletra Storage MP Solution Brief (a50006483enw): Page 2, under "Benefits," states the solution helps "Meet any SLA for any workload" and "Run any workload without compromise," which directly relates to assessing IOPS and latency. The benefit "Scale on-demand" relates directly to planning for future growth.

3. HPE Education Services, Courseware for HPE7-A01 (HPE Presales - Storage Solutions): Module 2, "Gathering Customer Requirements," emphasizes that the foundational elements of any storage solution design are understanding the customer's performance (IOPS, latency, throughput) and capacity (current usage, growth rate) requirements. These principles are directly applicable to proposing an HPE Alletra solution.