Nimble Customer Scenario

Customer Scenario – HLR Telecommunications

HLR Telco is a small telecoms company which operates 4G and 5G services in parts of northwestern Europe. The company has been experiencing rapid growth in its core business as well as in short-term marketing projects. It adheres strictly to ITIL processes and most of the infrastructure is virtualised and housed within five datacentres.

The company’s current IT infrastructure supports core business activities (such as email, database, data warehouse, office worker apps, and smaller, dynamic projects that promote new business products and produce additional revenue. Both areas demand high levels of availability and data security.

HLR has purchased a new HPE Nimble Storage HF40 array for an offshore team in Ireland. The requirements from the customer are given below.

1. Create Nimble data volumes which meet the customer requirements given below.

2. The customer is expecting to move the Microsoft Exchange server into the production environment in one month’s time. How might they improve data protection, performance and security?

3. How could the customer easily and simply limit capacity and performance for all low priority volumes?

4. Increase the level of security on the array:

• Ensure that the array has strict user password requirements.
• Volumes which are encrypted can only be accessed using a passphrase.
• Ensure that the array Login Banner must be accepted by all users before they can access the array.

5.  Record the changes you have made by using the Nimble cli and copying the output to a text file.