The HPE Aruba Networking switch selector is a pre-sales and solution design tool. It is accessible through two primary channels for partners and sales engineers. The first is the HPE PSNow (Partner Sales Now) portal, which is a suite of sales enablement tools for HPE partners. The second is the Intangi IRIS design tool, an HPE platform used for network design, validation, and quoting. IRIS integrates product selection capabilities to help architects and engineers build a valid Bill of Materials (BOM) for a proposed solution. Both platforms are key resources in the pre-sales and solution architecture phase.

B. Aruba Support Portal: This portal is for post-sales activities like technical support, software downloads, and license management, not for pre-sales product selection.

D. From NetEdit management tool: NetEdit is a network automation and configuration management platform for existing, deployed devices; it does not include pre-sales or hardware selection tools.

1. HPE Partner Ready Portal Documentation: The HPE PSNow (Partner Sales Now) toolset

accessible via the HPE Partner Ready Portal

includes various sales and quoting tools

among which are product selectors and configurators for building customer solutions. (Reference: "HPE Partner Ready Portal Sales Tools Overview"

specific internal partner documentation).

2. HPE Intangi IRIS Official Documentation: The Intangi IRIS platform is explicitly designed for "network design

validation

and quoting." A core function of this process is the selection of appropriate hardware

such as switches

from a built-in

updated product catalog to generate a Bill of Materials (BOM). (Reference: "HPE Intangi IRIS Datasheet"

Section: Features and Benefits).