A customer with workloads spread across edge sites, its data centre and a public cloud says it cannot tell where its capacity is being consumed, and wants to reduce waste. What should be addressed first?
A.
Establishing a single view of what is consumed across all three locations.
B.
Renegotiating the commercial terms at each of the three locations.
C.
Consolidating the workloads into whichever location currently has the lowest unit cost.
D.
Reducing the capacity at each location by an agreed percentage.
Option A is correct. Waste cannot be eliminated responsibly without visibility into resource use across sites and clouds. Build a single usage baseline and attribute consumption before rightsizing, moving workloads or renegotiating contracts. Edge-to-Cloud management coordinates visibility and governance across sites with very different connectivity, staffing and infrastructure characteristics. A common management view does not remove physical maintenance requirements or grant control over the cloud provider’s underlying hardware. None of the other options supplies the same direct response to the stated constraint; each would require separate justification before becoming a valid design decision. The recommendation should therefore be recorded as a requirement-led technical decision with measurable success conditions. Any proposed deviation or dependency must be resolved through customer-approved change management before the solution is declared complete. Hybrid operations benefit from consistent monitoring, event handling, automation and policy application. HPE OpsRamp and related management offerings can support heterogenous estates, provided the actual deployment, permissions, integrations and local operational coverage are designed appropriately.
Study Guide Reference: HPE Edge-to-Cloud Fundamentals — Edge-to-Cloud Solutions Management; Hybrid Infrastructure Monitoring and Governance; HPE OpsRamp Software.
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