Unity
What is the max File System size on Unity?
256TB
How do we cluster multiple arrays.
Federation.
What is the management platform?
OneFS
What components make up a disk group.
At least one cache drive. At least one capacity drive.
What is the new media type that utilizes NVMe protocol?
SCM.
What are the main differences between the Unity XT 380 and the rest of the XT line?
Single proc vs dual proc, and scalability in terms of memory and drive count.
This feature allows for disaster recovery.
Live volume.
How does it scale?
Scale out.
What are the set of rules that determine a VM's protection settings?
Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
What is the starting size of a brick?
10U
This software allows users to pin specific workloads to a certain tier?
FAST VP
What is RAID tiering?
Can move data between different RAID groups within the same drives.
What feature allows for automated tiering?
SmartPools.
What is the software that pools the storage resources of all the nodes in a single cluster.
vSAN
What are the two licensing models?
Essentials and Pro.
This software feature creates a copy of data to help with spinning disk performance?
FAST Cache
The two pieces of equipment needed to enable D@RE.
What is WORM?
Write once, read many.
What balances workloads across a cluster?
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Name all of the SLA categories that allow a workload to see a dedicated response time.
Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, *Optimized
Explain Dynamic Pooling.
Scale by 1 drive at a time. No hot spare. Faster rebuild times.
Explain distributed sparing. And how is it different on SC than with Unity.
Scale by 1 drive at a time. No hot spare. Faster rebuild times. Can do it on hybrid arrays.
Explain how ECS can be used in conjunction with Isilon?
Leverage Isilon for data and workloads that require greater performance, then tier colder data to ECS for long term retention.
Explain the difference between vSAN ready nodes and VxRail.
vSan ready nodes do not have the lifecycle management that comes with VxRail Manager. vSan ready nodes have flexibility in hardware choice.
Explain the value of NVMe over fabric.
Brings NVMe protocol to the network. Allows a host to access shared storage with the same performance as if it were a local drive on the host.