HPE GreenLake provides a unified management platform, HPE GreenLake Central, which offers detailed metering, cost control, and governance capabilities. For a regulated customer, this is critical for audit readiness as it provides a transparent, data-driven view of resource consumption, user access, and policy enforcement across their hybrid IT estate. The platform's ability to generate reports and provide a clear audit trail of usage and compliance status directly supports the stringent requirements of regulated industries.

B. Tape-only refresh: This addresses only one specific aspect of data management (long-term retention/archiving) and lacks the comprehensive oversight, metering, and governance required for overall compliance.

C. Rack faceplate replacement: This is a cosmetic change with no functional impact on IT operations, security, compliance, or audit readiness.

D. Edge Wi-Fi refresh: While a network upgrade can improve security at the edge, it does not provide the centralized, holistic governance and detailed reporting across the entire IT environment needed for broad compliance.

1. HPE GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise Solution Brief: "Gain cost and compliance control: View and optimize costs, capacity, security, and compliance across your hybrid estate from a single SaaS-based interface... Set and enforce policies for cost, data sovereignty, and security." (Document ID: a00118115enw, Page 2). This directly links the platform's features to compliance control.

2. HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform Data Sheet: "HPE GreenLake Central gives you a unified view and single point of access to manage your entire hybrid estate... It provides a consistent cloud experience and operating model for your apps and data everywhere, with tools to optimize cost, utilization, security, and compliance." (Document ID: a00100086enw, Page 2). This highlights the platform's role in managing compliance from a single interface.

3. HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions At-a-Glance: "HPE GreenLake Central... provides customers with a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data, through an online portal and a set of operational and management services... including monitoring of usage, cost, security, compliance, and performance." (Document ID: a00094732enw, Page 2). This explicitly lists compliance monitoring as a core service.