Tech Training Jeopardy

Storage

100

Minimum number of drives for PowerStore and Unity XT

6

200

How many capacity drives can a PowerStore have in the base enclosure?

21

300

Name at least 3 reasons why you would position Unity XT over PowerStore

Advanced File Requirements, Networking, Power, Replication, FIPS

400

How does PowerStore's encryption work vs Unity XT's?

PowerStore uses SEDs while Unity XT uses controller based

500

What are PowerStore's networking requirements?

10gig ethernet with TWO qualified enterprise grade ToR switches, unless they are planning on use FC only

HCI

100

What is the Data Reduction Guarantee ratio for VxRail?

None

200

What is the difference between vCenter and vSphere Client and ESXi

All the components running that enables the management of the virtual environment vs the interface vs the hypervisor

300

What is the better HCI solution and why: VxRail or vSAN Ready Nodes?

VxRail and Life Cycle Management

400

What are some differences between VxRail and PowerOne?

Software defined vs data center in a box

500

What vSAN licensing tier is recommended for an all flash VxRail cluster?

Advanced, unless D@RE or Stretched Cluster then Enterprise is required

Competitive

100

What is Pure's Anytime Upgrade Program called?

Evergreen

200

What competitor's storage arrays also supports Apps On?

None! It is an industry differentiator

300

When comparing HCI vendors, why is vSAN more efficient in terms of managing storage resources?

vSAN runs in kernel, making it more efficient

400

Future Proof Program Messaging

3 year satisfaction guarantee, clear price maintenance, tech refresh and recycle, all inclusive licensing, storage data reduction guarantee

500

How would you position VxRail vs Nutanix?

Better LCM, In kernel vSAN, deeper integration with VMware, VxRail is built on the best of breed PowerEdge line of servers

Misc

100

Difference between Fibre and Fiber

Fibre is the Fibre Channel protocol and Fiber is for the optical cable

200

Describe the difference between SAS/SATA based SSDs and NVMe SSDs

Speed, latency, future proofing, different protocol, bandwidth(one lane vs many lanes on the highway)

300

What is the new DTA?

You tell us!

400

Describe the difference between native file vs virtualized file?

Host based NAS server vs storage array based NAS server

500

What does vSphere's DRS do?

Automatically vMotion VMs between nodes based on performance needs. Load balancing

Cloud

100

Can you run Live Optics on AWS?

Yes!

200

If the customer is going to the public cloud, how do you respond?

Costs, egress fees, rearchitecting applications, performance requirements, backup, many others

300

What kind of cloud integration does PowerStore have?

Only with the PowerStore X running VCF or servers attached to a PowerStore T also running VCF. There is no cloud tiering for PowerStore yet, unlike Unity XT.

400

Where does the APEX Storage As A Service cloud reside?

In the customer's data center or in a colo

500

What is the difference between hybrid cloud and multi cloud?

Hybrid is between on prem and the cloud vs multi cloud is many cloud providers