Fundamentals
Scale Up vs. Scale Out?
Scale up- adding capacity (adding drives)
Scale out- Adding capacity and compute (more controllers to 1 system)
What is PowerStore's DRR?
4:1
How many PowerStore appliances can you scale out to?
4
How many appliances can you scale a Unity 680F to?
NONE
What is Cotters daughter's name?
Gracie
What is DAS? What are the drawbacks of DAS?
Direct attached storage. Failure- one point of failure, limited scale, can’t access data until server is turned back on
What is an All Flash Unity XT's DRR?
3:1
True/ False, you can upgrade from a Powerstore 7000 to Powerstore 7200 when you are a anytime upgrade customer?
False
There is no Powerstore 7200- customer will go from a 7000 to 9200.
Can you add one drive at a time to a Unity 480?
NO
What weekend did Kevin propose?
4th of July!!!!
How do we measure technology?
1U= 1.75 inches in height, $1000 per U, per year to operate Technology
What is DIA? What is its value to customers?
What is the value of the containerized operating system?
Isolates the services so you don’t have to update your whole system
Roll out new features much quicker without impacting the whole system
What is the maximum number of nodes you can scale a VxRail to?
64
What is BKs dogs name?
Lucy
What are the 3 Application requirements or 3 workload requirements?
(Daily Double)
Capacity- how much information a company can retain
Availability- Are the applications up and running for end users
Performance- How quickly is the application running
Why they matter- Make sure our end users are happy and drive revenue
Describe IDPAs architecture and how it scales.
HW and SW, 2U form factor, 65:1 de-dupe, unlocking licensing key, paying for what you need, tier to the cloud, scale by 4 or 12TB up to 96TB and 192TB in the cloud tiers to the cloud for long term retention and disaster recovery
What are the 3 pillars of Powerstore?
Data Centric- Can handle any workload
Intelligent- programmable infrastructure, autonomous appliance, cloud IQ
Adaptable- anytime upgrade program, flexible deployment, flexible consumption
What is your Build v Buy message?
Build vs Buy:
Challenges:
Multiple POM
Multiple Maint
Multiple Vendors
Multiple GUI
Benefits:
1 POM
1 Maint
1 Vendor
1 Interface
1 click upgrades
Dells HCI (VxRail)
SWD (Vsan)
Node based architecture: 2-64 - 1 at a time (scalability)
Turnkey (plug & play)- pre integrated/ pretested (simplicity)
Co-Engineered with Vmware (simplicity)
Node types (Performance)
Where did JOD go to college?
Describe the 70/30?
70% of IT's budget is keeping the lights on, unplanned outages, changes, IT projects, running and maintaining company (capacity upgrades, migrations)
30% creating new ways to propel business to go forward, business projects (Revenue generating)
Goal is to flip to 70/30%
What is Dell EMCs “Nirvana” message regarding Disaster recovery?
Projection at both sites, replicating data, with zero down time, meet any RPO/RTO requirements. 2 sites with best of bread infrastructure. All DELL infrastructure at site A and site B
What is metro node?
New native software feature from 3.0 that allow synchronous replication of two powerstores, with no additional hardware or software purchase needed
How many drives can you scale a Unity 880F to?
1500
Which customer of Jojo's asked for Lady Gaga tickets
Troy from Plymouth Rock